DPP not ICAC
To those who seem to be a little mixed up about the ICAC investigation into corruption within Wollongong City Council.
It is not ICAC you are waiting on. The people involved have been found guilty of corruption from top management down and wherever the puppet strings reached.
What the entire population of the Illawarra is waiting for is the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to press charges to fit the guilty.
Remember, people were once shipped to this country for the term of their natural life for stealing a loaf of bread.
I would expect the corrupt to get a harsher sentence.
You can contact the DPP at Head Office, 265 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000 Locked Bag A8 Sydney South NSW 1232. Telephone: (02) 9285 8606 Fax:(02) 9285 8600.
Or Wollongong:
Level 2, 166 Keira Street, Wollongong, NSW 2500.
PO Box 606 Wollongong, NSW 2520.
Telephone: (02) 42247111 Fax:(02) 42247100.
Email: enquiries@odpp.nsw.gov.au
I’m sure they would be happy to hear anyone’s concern on when the charges will happen. Lest we forget.
Alan Bond Test for ICAC
In view of the proposed Vellar Mansions subdivision at Corrimal.
This is a test for the ICAC findings into Wollongong Council.
I strongly believe most people would readily agree that any companies associated with the corrupt should be placed on a listing of not being allowed to operate for at least 10 years. There is too much of a shadow of a doubt over such companies while being associated with the corrupt.
There are those who would not support such a thing, but that’s because they are usually developers or associated with developers themselves.
This land must go to E2 - Environmental Conservation. It must revert to the Illawarra Escarpment again, so that nature can envelope and repair.
By placing these companies on a banned from operating basis for a period, those that caused this placement by being corrupt can blame no-one but themselves for those that it affects.
Trying to push this Vellar subdivision through under the old LEP 1990, which apparently would permit such a subdivision while the new LEP 2009 would not, shows that those who are trying to stop this new LEP 2009, are extremely naïve at the best. It proves they are just so wrong.
The LEP 2009 may not be perfect, but it’s a foundation to work from.
Remember, the LEP 1990 had over 200 amendments, the LEP 2009 will eventually have the same.
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