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Dwarf attacks councillor's property

 
Apr 13, 2012

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Evidence: a forensic police officer dusts for prints.

ONE of Snow White's seven dwarves removed a CCTV camera from outside Cr Greg Petty's house in Helensburgh last night, less than a week after a trailer-load of asbestos was dumped in his driveway.

The masked vandal was seen on security footage removing the camera with a screwdriver about 3.30am this morning.

Cr Petty had "no doubt" the two offences were linked but denied the incidents had led him to reconsider his career in politics.

Councillor wakes to asbestos hazard

 
Apr 05, 2012

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Targeted: Greg Petty with his 'boys', Oscar and Sootie.

A BOX trailer full of asbestos was dumped outside Wollongong City councilor Greg Petty’s house in Helensburgh last night, with police cordoning off the area as a “hot spot”.

Cr Petty’s home has been targeted before, with vandals smashing the windows and windscreen of his car last March.

He had no idea what the motivation was for last night’s dumping and couldn’t read any message into the “statement”.

Creek crossing dangerous: Petty

 
Nov 15, 2011

AN accident near the Gills Creek bridge in Helensburgh last Friday night has led Ward 1 councillor Greg Petty to call for road widening at the narrow crossing.

Cr Petty said the bridge was not wide enough for two cars to pass safely and drivers tended to give way to oncoming traffic. “It’s a fatality waiting to happen,” he said.

Candidates reject 7D planning proposal

 
Jul 05, 2011

INDEPENDENT Mayoral candidate Greg Petty and Ward 1 candidate Natasha Watson have called on Wollongong City Council to remove from tonight’s extraordinary council meeting a draft planning proposal for environmentally sensitive lands in the 2508 area.

Mr Petty said in a letter to the administrators and General Manager David Farmer that the report should not be tabled until an ICAC investigation into council’s conduct is re-opened.

“This report is inaccurate and does not disclose the full knowledge of council on these matters,” he wrote.

Petty enters Mayoral contest

 
Jun 30, 2011

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GREG Petty, the Helensburgh resident who stood on John Hatton’s Independents ticket at the recent state election, will run for Lord Mayor of Wollongong.

Mr Petty, the co-convenor of Neighbourhood Forum 1 and an active campaigner against coal seam gas mining, will stand as an independent at the September 3 elections.

“Wollongong deserves independent representation free of political influence and past council scandal,” he said.

Anti-CSG meetings intensify

 
Jun 16, 2011
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A MIX of government, environmental and local representatives will address a 2508 meeting on coal seam gas (CSG) mining next Thursday, June 23.

Otford Protection Society secretary Natasha Watson, who convened the meeting, said delegates from Apex Energy and Ormil Energy had been invited but their attendance had not been confirmed.

“It would be unwise of them not to make a comment,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for them to address the public.”

Among the speakers will be Jeff Angel from the Total Environment Centre and Sharyn Cullis from Rivers SOS as well as Neighbourhood Forum 1 convenors Greg Petty and Pauline Lacelles-Smith, who will chair the meeting.

Candidates barking up wrong pole

 
Mar 23, 2011

IF candidates are not ethical during an election, how can we trust them to be ethical in Parliament? Working with Greg Petty during this election campaign has been easy because at all times he has stood his ethical and moral ground and not deviated from that, but the level of frustration is very hard to take when other candidates so clearly and openly flaunt the law let alone the ethical and moral standing of the community. 

Paragraph from 2011 Handbook for Parties, Groups, Candidates and Scrutineers at Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council Elections: “Posters of any size are not to be displayed on, or in, any premises owned or occupied by the Crown or by any statutory body representing the Crown or any council with the only exception being at polling places on election day. However they may be exhibited at the office or committee room of a candidate or a political party or at the electoral office of a Member of Parliament.”

This is a simple wording of the requirement in the Act. To me, RailCorp, RTA, and even the electricity pole owners are “statutory body representing the Crown”. So how do other candidates not understand that putting posters on RailCorp fences, RTA fences and power poles are against the law? The law that, if they get elected, they are suppose to uphold.

Unethical in the election – how can they be ethical in Parliament?

Warwick Erwin
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Residents rally against CSG mining

 
Mar 14, 2011
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Jess Moore addresses the anti-CSG meeting in Thirroul

By HEATHER SMITH

MORE than 100 people attended the inaugural meeting of the Stop CSG mining group at Ryan’s Hotel in Thirroul yesterday (March 13).

The meeting, hosted by concerned local residents Rob Graham, Jess Moore (who is standing for the Upper House as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the upcoming State election) and Chris Williams, resolved to call for a moratorium on coal seam gas mining, a ban on fracking and to push for a Royal Commission into all aspects of CSG. (Fracking is when the coal seam is fractured through the injection of high-pressure water, sand and chemicals to capture the released gas.)

The politically independent group will meet fortnightly at the same time and venue, with attendees asked to donate their time and expertise to campaign against CSG mining.

Ms Moore said: “The most dangerous thing to a government doing dangerous things is for the community to be informed.”

Apex Energy has State Government approval for exploration licenses at 15 sites across the Illawarra between the escarpment and the Dwarwal State Conservation area.

“Exploration uses the exact same process as production,” Ms Moore said. “Once the exploration license has been granted, it means production.”

Hacking creek on the nose

 
Jan 21, 2011

Otford Protection Society secretary Natasha Watson wades into a stoush.

By HEATHER SMITH

Sydney Water has disputed claims by residents that sewage discharge has entered Hacking creek below the Otford Pumping Station.

Otford Protection Society secretary Natasha Watson, who lives on Lady Carrington Road, contacted Sydney Water on Monday after noticing scum on the surface of the creek and an odour.

“I had been photographing cabbage palms and noticed an odour from the south and then saw the froth,” she said. “I thought ‘What the hell’s this?’”

Woolies calls time

 
Jan 17, 2011

Independent candidate for Heathcote Greg Petty (left) and Centennial Heritage Cellars manager Peter Doak celebrate the news.

By HEATHER SMITH

Liquor giant BWS will not open a retail outlet in Helensburgh following concerted community opposition.

The Woolworths-owned Beer, Wine & Spirits was slated to occupy two shops in the redeveloped Worker’s Club in Walker Street however a campaign spearheaded by the town’s two bottle shop owners and the Independent candidate for Heathcote, Greg Petty, have stymied the plans.

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