Sure, it will be vocal enough, but the people of Dapto will soon be asked to show their disgust at the ongoing poor treatment they get from Wollongong City Council with a march through the business heart of their suburb.
It will be organised by the recently formed North–South Alliance, a body set up to represent disgruntled city ratepayers on a range of issues.
Already the Reed Park Users Group and an East Dapto ratepayers body are represented on the Alliance and will be part of the organising committee for the big day.
Those at the most recent Alliance meeting were unanimous in their belief that Dapto was being shabbily treated, particularly over the extra delays in starting much promised work on the controversial Fowlers Rd bridge extension.
I understand those at the meeting questioned the need for any rush to introduce what is expected to cost $48 million, the Blue Mile project.
Generally speaking, the meeting echoed what we are reading almost daily now in letters to the editor in our local daily from ratepayers who question the true benefit of the Blue Mile proposal as a boon for all the residents of the city.
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We seem to have become the city to come to for a bit of a Friday/Saturday night biffo.
Maybe those in our community who continue to spruik tourism should get an interview with a few of these bashed up rugby league players and see what attracts them here.
And maybe we should be dropping the over use of the word tourism from our language and replacing it with locals. For after all, isn’t it their monies that mainly help to keep the city council alive?
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There I was, catching the end of the A-League finals game, and blow me down if the kid from Cringila, Sasho Petrovski, doesn’t kick a screamer goal.
Then he repeats the effort.
It made me feel sad to recall when as a boy he made his debut for the Wollongong Wolves at a time when that team was among the best in the land.
Never mind, the Hawks are still around, even if only just.
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And getting back to PM Kevin’s talkfest, a supposed gathering of our nation’s top movers, shakers and thinkers, I wonder who’ll get named to take part from our fair city?
Off the cuff I could suggest our university guru Professor Gerard Sutton, forward thinking businessman David Williams, successful young IT operator here and abroad Geoff McQueen, someone from the mining industry and a member of the highly imaginative and successful Unanderra business Leussinks.
What’s that, you say? I haven’t mentioned our deputy mayor Kiril Jonovski.
But I didn’t mention our mayor Alex Darling either, so I thought that if Alex wasn’t involved Kiril could also be left at home.
I’m sure there might be others there who could make a better input into how best to better shape the future.
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