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Pre-Poll voting for Lane Cove, North Sydney & Willoughby Council Elections
There is no interstate or overseas voting at local government elections. Electors who cannot attend a polling place on election day may apply to vote before as either a postal voter or a pre-poll voter.
Postal votes may be posted to the returning officer or handed in at a polling place on election day.
Pre-poll votes are made by attending the returning officer’s office or other specified locations in the two weeks prior to election day.
To find out the location of prepolling venues for Lane Cove, North Sydney & Willoughby visit the NSW Electoral Commission website.
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Welcome to the Lower North Shore Greens website
The Lower North Shore Greens are an affiliated member group of The Greens NSW
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It is disappointing to see how run down Lane Cove is starting to look. Graffiti is worse, pedestrian alleyways are dark and dirty, shops are closing. Some have been empty for over a year.
Relying on the Market Square development to solve these problems is a lazy solution that is short sighted. Woolworths are already trying to persuade existing shops to move into their development, adding to the empty space outside of their shopping centre. Restrictive leases and predatory pricing will put yet more pressure on our local businesses.
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The Greens will stand candidates in 4 wards across the Lower North Shore at the 13 September Local Council elections. This is by far the largest local government campaign undertaken by The Greens on the Lower North Shore.
“This is a reflection of the growing support for the party and its policies across the local community” said Keith Mcilroy, candidate for Lane Cove, West Ward.
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Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 26 June this year Wendy Frew, Urban Affairs Editor, wrote "Reforms to NSW's political donations and campaign spending rules will not stop MPs and councillors who are members of political parties hiding the source of their campaign funding, critics say."
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Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, former Tasmanian Premier Doug Lowe and British TV personality 'Pommie botanist' Professor David Bellamy will join blockaders and campaigners from across Australia at Hobart's 25th anniversary celebration of the Franklin River being saved.
On 1 July 1983, the High Court of Australia ruled that the Hawke federal government had power to stop the Gray state government from destroying the World Heritage values of the Franklin and Gordon Rivers by building a 100 metre high rock fill dam across the lower Gordon gorge.
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Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today released a 12 point plan to stimulate ideas for the 2020 summit.
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Canberra, Friday 11 April 2008 Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, called on the Rudd Government to focus its Budget priorities on existing climate solutions such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, not offer up even greater subsidies to the hugely profitable coal sector.
Senator Milne said "Prime Minister Rudd's visit to a coal fired power plant in China instead of one of their world-leading solar or wind sites is yet another ominous indicator that his Government intends to protect the coal sector from real, competitive climate solutions.
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The NSW Greens have called for the Planning Minister Frank Sartor to be stood aside while there is an independent investigation into allegations, aired in Sydney newspapers and on last night's 4 Corners program on ABC TV, that planning decisions he has made were influenced by political donations and lobbying efforts by developers.
“In both the Tralee development near Queenbeyan and the Sweetwater development in the Hunter Valley Mr Sartor overrode independent planning advice in making decisions that delivered huge windfall financial gains to major donors to the Labor Party,” said NSW Greens Planning Spokesperson Sylvia Hale MLC.
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Greens Leader Bob Brown has called on the Rudd government to use all its diplomatic powers to have China resist a violent crackdown in Tibet. There are reports of serious riots in Tibet's capital Lhasa in a rebellion against Chinese military occupation of Tibet.
Senator Brown said, "history indicates the potential for a ruthless response from Beijing. He has called on PM Rudd to put pressure on President Hu Jintao to play a more peaceful role and to have talks with Tibetan leaders.
"The Dalai Lama would be a peace-maker if given an opportunity here", Senator Brown said.
The riots will flag worldwide concern for Tibet in the run to the Beijing Olympics later this year.
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The Lower North Shore Greens are extremely concerned with Lane Cove Council's Draft Local Environment Plan 2007 (DLEP) developed under the new template of the Department of Planning (DoP) because the DLEP lacks the necessary protection required by the natural environment.
The Department of Planning is changing the method in which LEPs are to be written. Many of the inclusions are based on the DoP's Metropolitan Strategy and in particular on the Inner North Subregional Strategy (July 2007). Lane Cove Council's new Draft Local Environment Plan 2007 (DLEP) is one of the first LEPs to reach the draft phase under the new template developed by the DoP, and as such will be scrutinised in depth by other Councils, the DoP and by many residents.
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Don't put Gunns before pensioners - Brown
As food prices soar, the Rudd government should increase the aged pension by at least $30 a week instead of handing out $31 billion in inflationary tax cuts, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
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The Rudd government has failed to remove discrimination against same-s*x couples in legislation introduced to Parliament, said Greens Senator Kerry Nettle.
"Amendments to Aged Care, Social Security, Veterans and Tax legislation identified as discriminatory by HREOC have all been introduced into Parliament by the new government without the discrimination removed.
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Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, has called on Prime Minister Rudd to follow expert advice and abandon tax cuts in favour of an ambitious project to retrofit Australia's 7.4 million homes with energy efficiency measures.
Senator Milne said "Taking a proportion of the billions allocated to tax cuts and investing them instead in the Greens' energy efficiency strategy would bring together the advice of leading economists, including Bernie Fraser today, and McKinsey and Co and the host of others who have advocated investing in energy efficiency.
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Statements from the AFP Commissioner Mr Mick Keelty in Senate Estimates hearings today show that the AFP has learnt nothing from the Haneef affair," Senator Nettle said on Monday.
"There is clearly an urgent need for a full judicial inquiry into the national security operations of the AFP and the Haneef case."
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Thousands of people gathered across Australia and on the lawns of Parliament House on Wednesday to witness the formal apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the federal Parliament.
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The Senate descended into climate chaos today in response to a motion moved by Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, calling on the Government to phase out perverse subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and reverse its decision to cut research funding into climate change science and renewable energy programs.
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· Vote Green in Lane Cove to save our run down village!
(Aug 19, 2008)
· GREENS LAUNCH LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ON NORTH SHORE
(Aug 14, 2008)
· Labor fails to clean up political donations in time for local council elections
(Aug 04, 2008)
· 25th Franklin River Anniversary
(Apr 23, 2008)
· Bob Brown's 12 point plan for the 2020 summit
(Apr 15, 2008)
· Federal Budget may offer coal industry bonanza
(Apr 15, 2008)
· Greens Call for Sartor to Be Stood Aside
(Apr 15, 2008)
· Greens call for Rudd to intervene on Tibet
(Mar 17, 2008)
· LNSG Oppose Lane Cove Council's Draft Local Environment Plan 2007
(Mar 17, 2008)
· Bob Brown calls on Government to scrap inflationary tax cuts & to increase aged pension
(Mar 11, 2008)
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