Electors of Liverpool City Council ..South Ward – By-Election April 18th..
A Presentation from Michael Byrne, aged 76, an Engaged Citizen, who is a Candidate in the By-Election.
Concerned for the Future of our Kids??..
You can vote to…. STOP the ROT
Vote 1 for Michael Byrne in the South Ward Liverpool By-Election.
What’s the Rot? The power processes that brought into existence the Moorebank Intermodal Freight Terminal…(MIFT).
Where excellence should have been sought, we saw perversion of planning processes reign … from arrogant industrialists, thuggish plotting self-serving and/or weak politicians, their appointment of inadequate senior public servants and amenable Planning Courts “Making It Happen”, pathetic local Councillors, and Council Management, whose loyalty to their local people was betrayed.
The Two Main Characters in this setting are:
Mr. Chris Corrigan, – Originator of Moorebank Precinct East (MPE) – 83 hectares. Corrigan is a retired Corporate Operator (Patrick Stevedores) who in 1998 acted, by sacking and locking out the Wharfie Workers to crush the Trade Union Control of the Melbourne Wharves – a massive daily visual, via the Nightly News, event of the time, AND
Mr. Anthony Albanese MP.. elected 1996, now Prime Minister, but as Infrastructure Minister in 2007 established the 220 hectare Moorebank Precinct West (MPW) site as a Government controlled Development that just happened to lay between Corrigan’s MPE and the Port Botany Freight Rail Line.
NOTE: From 2007, Corrigan’s developing MPE needed to cross the Albanese’s MPW lands for the Port Rail Access. Umm…
The presence of Corrigan in Moorebank, in 2007, saw Labor/Albanese seemingly, in the absence of any Objective Analysis, respond to Corrigan’s presence and his MPE Projects’s vulnerability in its access across Albanese’s MPW for its necessary foundational Rail Access.
If only Minister Albanese MP had talked to the locals, he would have been aware of the site’s severe constraints – severe traffic and degrading air and river basin environment – to let the development proceed.
The Rot started with them, to see a project advance that cannot attain its promised economic return to the public that is meant to flow from over $5 billion of public taxpayer expenditure to “Make It Happen” – This includes $billions of new road works to put noisy, dirty air, heavy vehicles through residential Liverpool areas.
What’s the Rot – extended?
———— The budgeted 15,000+ DAILY truck trips in and out of Moorebank in East Liverpool, with their Noise and Exhaust Pollution for it to attain any economic return for its Investors. Noise and dirty air emissions are hear to stay.
———— The loss of 220 hectare river side, river basin, open space and the long, long established Cumberland Plain Trees bush lands throughout.
What Corrigan, Albanese and the Labor Party and Liberal Party robbed us of for their Dirty Politics…
In the 1990’s of the local Latham era – the long term plan for these lands was a Technology College developed amidst the bushlands.
It had a rail station adjacent, a beautiful river setting for education.
A key infrastructure component also of the time was for Moorebank Avenue to be extended as a major road due south towards Ingleburn to carry the Macarthur District traffic. This would have greatly reduced the traffic congestion on the M5 Bridge at Moorebank, a site mentioned daily in the Radio Traffic Reports.
Moorebank is river bound; it is in a low lying Georges River basin at 18 metres above Sea Level.
From my personal experience, the 1st Tee at Barden Ridge Golf Course, at 125 metres, you can view at 10 O’Clock setting, from the front of the Tee, down, down, down to the darkened air laying still in the Georges River basin at Moorebank / Holsworthy.
Corrigan and Albanese’s 15,000 truck movements will only worsen it.
To “Make It Happen” more than $4 billion of taxpayer funds will be spent on new road works nearby. At the Back-end of housing at Glenfield. AND, plans show a new Road connecting the Hume Highway to Hoxton Park Road via open creek lands at the rear of housing.
We are getting new road works to ease our daily traffic jam at Moorebank; the $600 million funding of the works underway at the Moorebank M5 Bridge – that is just to improve the daily commuter traffic that needs to pass through Moorebank. BUT, the B-Doubles have to still merge into the through M5 traffic going West, … into which Corrigan and Albanese “dumped” the 15,000 truck movements.
The Moorebank Intermodal is a Public Fraud.
We Need a Loud Voice
to demand justice on Liverpool City Council
to Pursue Legal Challenge for the People.
STOP the ROT – Vote 1 – Michael Byrne for South Ward – April 18th 2026
Authorised by : Michael Byrne 151 Alfred Road CHIPPING NORTON NSW 2170