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 Newly minted Central Coast Mayor Lawrie McKinna’s first statement when he was elected Mayor was to say, “my focusDivision already will be on leading our new councillors  to work cohesively as a team as we determine important community matters.”If anyone can do it the very successful football coach had every reason to believe that he could. Unfortunately, he didn’t count on an unrepentant Labor Party and a CEN Independent councillor who led the previous Council into ban...

Its been a tortuous eight years since the election of the first Central Coast Council and a team of, mostly, activist councillors under the leadership of Mayor Jane Smith, hell bent on destroying the regional economy and using the environment to do so.Squirrel gliders and orchids were given absolute preference over the needs of people looking for somewhere to build a house and industrial zoned areas across the Coast have been put on hold in favour of supposed endangered species.Added to this ...

Readers will recall that in my July Editorial in respect to our Central Coast Council I referred to the ‘Eight lost years’. Firstly, with an elected council that plunged the organisation into massive debt and established an activist environmental culture.  And then, under Administration where the economic future of the region was and still is, of no consequence.Therefore  it is important that the newly elected Council has a focus on the economic future of our region.The timeline...

Eight lost years As the clock ticks down to the September 14 Local Government Elections that will see the end of eight years of chaotic management of Central Coast Council, ratepayers wait anxiously to hear who, and how many, people with the capacity to govern the second largest council in NSW, will stand for election. The first Central Coast Council was an outright disaster with all, but two Councillors totally taken up with their own self-serving agendas and quite happy to see the organis...

Central Coast Mariners bring community together An issue that divides the Central Coast community is the spread out nature of the region with suburbs and villages dispersed throughout.  Everyone has a different agenda and a different opinion.  However, sport has the potential to bring communities together and the Central Coast Mariners’ Grand Final win in late May proved beyond doubt that ‘Our Team’ did just that. For the first time ever the Industree Group Stad...