No privatisation: keep the Powerhouse petition

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Dear Premier,

I am writing to strongly protest against the sale of the Powerhouse building in Ultimo to property developers. This building is an integral part of Sydney’s unique landscape and should be kept for the public to enjoy.

The Powerhouse Museum is an important part of the city’s cultural life, and to see the building converted into apartments and taken away from the community is a disaster for all Australians.

Nationally significant buildings should be kept in public hands to ensure their preservation and long-term public use, rather than sold off to the highest bidder.

Yours sincerely,

 

 

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  • Ranjith Evas
    signed 2015-06-13 20:28:47 +1000
  • Ben Baxter
    signed 2015-06-13 14:59:04 +1000
  • Judy Law
    signed 2015-06-11 13:55:51 +1000
    We need The PowerHouse Museum right where it is and why not build a 2nd in Parramatta as the museum has so much in storage it could come out for the public to see.
  • Steve Jensen
    signed 2015-06-11 12:45:45 +1000
  • Matthew Lloyd
    signed 2015-06-11 11:21:27 +1000
    It would not be good. It is great where it is. We can have a smaller version at Parramatta and retain the current site.
  • Alice Collins
    signed 2015-06-10 16:19:28 +1000
  • Patsy Asch
    signed 2015-06-10 11:04:25 +1000
    Coming from northern NSW, I look forward to visiting the Powerhouse Museum when I am in Sydney. If it has to be moved, I am strongly opposed to selling this iconic building. At least use it for public housing and keep it as a public asset. Too much of Sydney has been sold to developers .


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  • Lydia Lin
    posted about this on Facebook 2015-06-10 09:58:42 +1000
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  • Kristo Langker
    signed 2015-06-09 20:52:14 +1000
  • Janice Loquet Westlake
    signed 2015-06-09 16:45:29 +1000
  • Ben Fitzgerald
    signed 2015-06-09 16:30:54 +1000
  • Kate Fisher
    signed 2015-06-09 14:37:27 +1000
  • Thomas Stansfield
    signed 2015-06-09 12:25:04 +1000
    The Powerhouse Museum is a historical part of Sydney’s industrial history. If you knock that down why not knock down The Rocks, which the government almost had done at the time before people were against the idea. Why not scrap our historical steam locomotives, and please don’t, they offer some backdrop of our city’s industrial history. No matter what impact it made, the young generation would never get an opportunity to witness a part of Sydney’s past. If you take away historical things and replace them with modern stuff then you’re destroying living proof of the past.
  • Judith Raftery
    signed 2015-06-09 11:10:45 +1000
    The Powerhouse Museum is such an important part of the public estate, and the building itself and its site are integral to its outstanding value as a museum. It would be an act of venality and cultural vandalism to sacrifice it on the altar of ‘development’.
  • Bronwyn Fitzgerald
    signed 2015-06-09 11:05:29 +1000
    Visits to The Powerhouse figure happily in the childhood memories of my children and my grandchildren should be able to look forward to same unique pleasure. Houses can be anywhere. The Powerhouse is an integral part of the state and national heritage. What’s the matter with this country???
  • Jack McPherson
    signed 2015-06-09 09:30:28 +1000
  • Vanessa Bible
    signed 2015-06-09 09:16:55 +1000
  • Sam King
    signed 2015-06-09 08:45:24 +1000
  • Winnie Leung
    signed 2015-06-09 07:44:15 +1000
  • Dan Dona
    posted about this on Facebook 2015-06-08 22:25:07 +1000
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  • Cathy Jensen
    signed 2015-06-08 21:38:05 +1000
    The Powerhouse is my favourite museum in Sydney. We visit by train from Newcastle.
  • Andrew Phillips
    signed 2015-06-08 17:25:50 +1000
  • Alexander Phillips
    signed 2015-06-06 04:47:14 +1000
  • Ann Burleigh
    signed 2015-06-05 09:47:31 +1000
    With the influx of new residents in the city and inner urban area, it is imperative to maintain (and indeed expand) the current cultural landscape and amenity.
  • Ian Davidson
    signed via 2015-06-04 23:44:56 +1000
  • Sue Ellen Stansbury
    signed 2015-06-04 22:54:36 +1000
  • Lucy Lavery
    signed 2015-06-04 16:51:06 +1000
  • Jessica Meyers
    signed 2015-06-04 15:22:43 +1000
  • Alana Karas
    signed via 2015-06-04 14:28:22 +1000
  • Ben Gunsberger
    signed 2015-06-04 14:22:12 +1000