{"id":3263,"date":"2014-04-06T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2014-04-06T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T02:49:34","slug":"sydney-alliance-march-town-hall-meeting-bridging-sydney-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Alliance March Town Hall meeting, Bridging Sydney 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div><table border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">(Text taken from the pamphlet distributed by Sydney Alliance on the evening of the meeting).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/\"><b>Sydney Alliance Agenda for the Common Good March 2014 &#8211; June 2015<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jobs for the Common Good (WorkingStart!)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">Supporting disadvantaged communities with good jobs that change lives. We&#8217;ll start with a specific ask in Glebe, that once evaluated, can be taken to all parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">We&#8217;ll ask the Minister for Citizenship and Communities, and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Victor Dominello to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">\n<li><b>Fund\u00a0<\/b>a pilot of an Employment Support Worker to work in Glebe and surrounding suburbs for three years- at a cost of approximately $150,000 per year;<\/li>\n<li><b>Contribute\u00a0<\/b>funding to an evaluation of this innovation at a one off cost of approximately $50,000; and<\/li>\n<li><b>Facilitate\u00a0<\/b>a cross portfolio expansion of this innovation so the role can be expanded to other communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">For more:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/workingstart\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/workingstart<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">T<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">r<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ansport for the Common Good<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following three issues are time-specific, concrete, affordable and achievable over the next term of government. Each is about better&#8217; using the infrastructure we already have. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">We&#8217;ll ask the Premier Barry O&#8217;Farrell to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">\n<li><b>Remove\u00a0<\/b>the extra station access fees charged to people who use the airport train stations, to make public transport to the airport affordable for all. For more:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/airportlink\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/airportlink<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">We&#8217;ll ask the Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">\n<li><b>Commission\u00a0<\/b>a public feasibility study into the construction of a park-and-ride interchange on the Olympic Park line, to enable an express train service from the end of the M4 to Central Station. For more:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/m4\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/m4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Answer\u00a0<\/b>why the NSW Government is behind in their program to upgrade train stations across the City, and what they are doing to get things back on track &#8230; starting with installing a lift at Arncliffe Station.<\/li>\n<li><b>Make public\u00a0<\/b>the outcome of the evaluation process for access up\u00adgrades and to ensure that all train stations are fully accessible by 2020. For more:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/stationaccess\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/stationaccess<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" href=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Sydney Alliance Transport Proposal\" src=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-300x171.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3266\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3266\" alt=\"Example\" src=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2-300x169.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2-400x226.png 400w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Sydney-Alliance-Transport-proposal-2.png 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: #f3f3f3; text-align: center; line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3264\" title=\"Sydney Alliance representatives from the Diocese of Broken Bay, March 26th, 2014\" alt=\"20140326_203532 (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140326_203532-3.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_3264\" style=\"width: 394px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Sydney Alliance representatives from the Diocese of Broken Bay, March 26th, 2014<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><b>Af<\/b><b>f<\/b><b>ordable Housing for the Common Good<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll ask the Minister for Community Services and Women, Pru Goward to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Commit\u00a0<\/b>to a formal plan, with numerical targets, to increase the supply of social and affordable housing in NSW over the next four years? For more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/housingtargets\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/housingtargets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Establish\u00a0<\/b>a quality, permanent, affordable shared equity scheme. For more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/sharedequity\">www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/sharedequity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll ask the Premier Barry O&#8217;Farrell to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Remove\u00a0<\/b>stamp duty on new and existing dwellings for first home\u00adbuyers<\/li>\n<li><b>Or replace\u00a0<\/b>up front stamp duty with a no interest delayed pay\u00adment scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>and<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Re-extend\u00a0<\/b>the First Home Owners Grant to purchases of pre-existing dwellings For more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.sydneyalliance.org.au\/issues\/2014\/03\/12\/housing\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>TABLE TALKS COMMITMENT<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>During the assembly you will be asked to host a table talk.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>If you are an individual without an organisation or your organisation is\u00a0not\u00a0a partner of the Sydney Alliance please txt your name and suburb to 0416028001.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">(Text taken from the pamphlet distributed by Sydney Alliance on the evening of the meeting).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">Sydney Alliance Agenda for the Common Good March 2014 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-our-friends","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}