Friday, 29th August
NS, NB
Netball Australia wants your help in calling for Netball to be included in the Olympic Games in Brisbane in 2032 and has an online petition going where you can add your name to the cause and spread the word to...
Thursday, 28th August
NB, PW
The opening of a BreastScreen permanent service in Mona Vale means that around 16,000 women aged 50-74 from the Upper Northern Beaches area now have access to the service within 20 minutes of their home. Around 1000 women have already had...
NB
Budget faces $151 million funding gap Council faces an ‘emerging financial sustainability issue’ which means it must consider raising rates, a budget document reveals. The document states that there is a $151 million funding gap for infrastructure, assets and other works over...
PW
Council launches campaign after hundreds of complaints Northern Beaches Police are cracking down on the illegal use of e-bikes, ‘with a focus on enforcement action in order to support increased public safety’. NB Police Area Command Superintendent Patrick Sharkey said that issues...
NS
Council confirms no return to paper issue North Sydney Council has the third-highest rate of digitally issued parking fines in Sydney, with no plans to return to hard copy fines. In 2023, council issued 51,251 digital fines which generated $8.6 million in...
NB
Cancellations and lengthy delays persist Davidson MP Matt Cross presented a petition signed by more than 1,300 disgruntled commuters to State Parliament earlier this month, lamenting ongoing issues with buses on the Beaches. Mr Cross also moved a motion on 19 March...
NB
Beware about parking breaches – fines have now gone digital so there will no longer be printed dockets on windshields for offences. Northern Beaches Council launched the scheme in March, already adopted by 48 out of 128 councils in NSW. From now...
NS, NBS
Improvements made to ‘worst-performing’ route Trial changes made to the ‘worst-performing’ bus route, the 160X Chatswood to Dee Why, have proved popular with passengers on the busy route. The route, which is one of few to connect Chatswood with the Northern Beaches,...
NB
Ratepayers on the Northern Beaches were out of pocket $39 million, or the equivalent of $379 per ratepayer, in the 2021/22 financial year due to cost shifting from the NSW Government. The cost shifting report reveals council paid the highest emergency...
NS
Federal politicians call for urgent action Zali Steggall has pleaded with the Federal Government to act immediately to address the ‘national catastrophe’ of domestic violence across Australia. The Warringah MP moved a motion on 12 February, seconded by fellow independent North Sydney...
NB
Mayor’s faction no longer biggest voting bloc Pittwater Ward councillor Michael Gencher is no longer an independent on Northern Beaches Council and has joined the Liberal Party, making the conservatives the largest voting bloc. Mr Gencher, who first ran for council in...
NS
Kylea Tink’s seat under redistribution threat The Federal seat of North Sydney could be carved up and renamed under a pending redistribution of seats in NSW, posing a threat to independent MP Kylea Tink at the next federal election. The Australian Electoral...