Talk:Kristina Keneally

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[edit] Worth mentioning?

• Opposed embryonic stem cell research and has voted to block it in New South Wales^[1].

1. ^ Stem cell vote passes The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2007

I've removed this because I don't think that it had much play in the electorate, or that Kristina's part in it was quite as significant as in the other issues. If I'm wrong, we should explain. Politicians vote for and against lots of things all the time. Regards, Ben Aveling 10:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Off topic

I've removed the following not because it is or isn't true, but because it is off topic. It's worth a mention, but that's all. Regards, Ben Aveling 22:19, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Faced strong opposition from the community about her support of the NSW government's proposal to expand Port Botany by creating a 60 ha third terminal by dredging 7.5 million cubic metres of Botany Bay seabed that will have a major impact on the Bay's ecology and surrounding environment. The Iemma Government approved the expansion and has decided to make it twice the size of that recommended by the Independent Commission of Enquiry (COI) which recommended a maximum 30-35 ha expansion.

The Iemma Government's decision to concentrate the bulk of NSW's container trade at Port Botany will see a tripling of containers being processed, and although there are plans to double the current percentage of containers being transported by freight rail from 20% to 40%, there will still be a 200% increase in container trucks on Sydney's roads.

Due to the lack of appropriate road and rail infrastructure to support the current levels of containers being transported, the decision to expand Port Botany and concentrate all the container processing through Sydney is going to have a long-term detrimental impact on traffic congestion. These extra 3000 container trucks per day will be spewing out carcinogenic fine diesel particles across Sydney. Port Botany is a sleeping giant that will eventually strangle Sydney's already choking roads and the Iemma Government's decision to expand Port Botany follows on the back of the controversial infrastructure developments including the Cross City Tunnel, the Sydney Airport to Central rail link, the totally inadequate M5 to name a few.

Botany Beach (aka Foreshore Beach), Which is enjoyed by a wide range of people from all over Sydney, including families, anglers, sail board riders, jet skiers etc. and which is one of the very few Sydney beaches where dogs are allowed, was to remain a sandy public beach as part of the port expansion, however, that NSW government has changed the design after the approval and now plans to build a rock seawall along 80% of the beach making it unusable. Taking a beach away is considered totally un-Australian!

Botany Bay is seen as the birthplace of European Australia where Captain Cook and the first Fleet arrived. Unfortunately, after 200 years, competing interests by government and industry has seen the Bay treated as a toilet. Now the Iemma Government is planning to develop a desalination plant where the salt from the desalination will be discharged into the Bay and the water pipes will be running across the bay and through a number of Sydney suburbs.

[edit] Suggestion

Would be good to have references/links for the other 'important local issues'. Ben Aveling 22:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)