The draft voluntary planning agreement for Harold Park, to be negotiated by City of Sydney Council shortly, looks set to be far too generous to the site’s owners, the Harness Racing Club (HRC) at the expense of the community.

Homebush might be the White Elephant of Sydney, but for sheer neglect, not much in this fair city beats Parramatta Road.

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October 15, 2010 DAILY TELEGRAPH
Plans for a giant harbourside carpark and road as part of the White Bay cruise ship terminal have angered Leichhardt Council and residents.

An eclectic vision will be exhibited for public comment, writes Josephine Tovey.

AN INNER-CITY farm, a skate park, new sporting fields and a range of services and accommodation for people with severe mental illness: that's the vision for one of Sydney's oldest and most fiercely protected stretches of waterfront.

Greens councillor Jamie Parker was elected to his third term as Leichhardt mayor last night, defeating the Liberal’s Gordon Weiss by nine votes to three.

Read more at the Balmain Village Voice

Harold Park Raceway will go on the market for development today, bringing Sydney's newest inner-city, high-density suburb one step closer.

The NSW Harness Racing Club will call for expressions of interest for the 11-hectare site after the club agreed to planning rules put forward by the City of Sydney and the Central Sydney Planning Committee.

September 13, 2010 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Jamie Parker, the mayor of Leichhardt, claimed the development was ''the wrong size, in the wrong place, with the wrong approach''. If it went ahead it would be ''a wound to the heart of Sydney."

read more at the Sydney Morning Herald

The success of the Greens in the federal election - nine senators by July 1 next year and a Green MP in the House of Representatives - has profound implications for the NSW election next March.

For example, based on the victory of Adam Bandt in the federal seat of Melbourne and Sam Byrne's savaging of the federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese's vote in the inner-Sydney seat of Grayndler, the Greens are on track to snatch two seats in the Legislative Assembly.

September 8, 2010 INNER WEST COURIER
Four inner city councils have vowed to continue their campaign against Lend Lease’s vision for Barangaroo right up until the state election in March.