On Monday 19th March “Lift Redfern” rolled out a month long
signature collection campaign with the launch of their first social media
campaign entitled “Platforms and Carriages Week”.
This social media campaign encourages people to download and print a
petition to collect signatures particularly on platforms and in carriages as
they travel the rail network during the course of their day.
You can download a copy of the petition at www.liftredfernstation.
wordpress.com or visit my office at Shop 117/747 Botany Road, Rosebery to
support this local initiative.
Redfern Station is a major key station on the rail network as all
lines, bar the airport line, run through it. With 12 platforms, Redfern Station
is second to Central Station for inter-change possibilities. Since 2006
entrances and exits at Redfern Station have increased from 31,000 to over
42,000 in 2011 – from tenth busiest station in the network to sixth. Growth is expected
to increase. Redfern Station services major educational facilities including a
leading global university, significant national Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander institutions, and, with the creation of CarriageWorks, a major new
cultural hub for the City and the Inner West. People with disabilities, older
people, parents with young children, pregnant women, people with short term
mobility issues through illness or injury, and people with luggage or shopping
have great difficulty in accessing or cannot access the Station as there are no
lifts to any platform.
I will be presenting the final petition in Parliament for debate. I
urge everyone to get behind the “Lift Redfern” campaign and sign the
petition supporting the upgrade of Redfern Railway Station.
I would also like to mention my annual NSW Housing Forums; each forum
is attended by me, staff members from my office, Police and Housing NSW
employees. The forums are a place where you can find out the latest information
about what is happening in your area and voice any concerns or ideas you have
for where you live.
The dates for 2012 are:
REDFERN
Our Place Community Centre, Poets Corner, 45 Moorehead Street
2-4pm Friday 30 March
2-4pm Friday 7 September
WATERLOO
The Factory, 67 Raglan Street
2-3.30pm Friday 11 May
2-3.30pm Friday 19 October
Kind Regards Kristina Keneally, MP
Kristina Keneally MP
Member for Heffron
Phone: 9699 8166
Email: heffron@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Mail: Shop 117/747 Botany Road, Rosebery NSW 2018
Source: The South Sydney Herald April 2012 – www.southsydneyherald.com.au