Town and country.
In the CBD. For the past 100 years, Sydney has been blessed with a Public Library that would be the best in the Southern Hemisphere. To celebrate this centenary the magnificent group of buildings on Macquarie Street have been inviting the public to view their one hundred most unusual objects from the 15th Century in their collections. This includes our earliest diaries (by Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders and others), the first paintings of Antarctica and Australia, and the earliest correspondence from convicts sand colonialists, an unrivalled collection of some 40,000 books, 300 pictures and about 1400 manuscript volumes. My bedroom window each night Parliament is sitting looks out onto the floodlit Library and the Parliament. Down Macquarie Street centenary flags are flying. Visit the Library and marvel at the exhibits. The public own the Mitchell Library and are invited to join the free celebration.
On the Central Coast. All talk is about the rain of course. Dams are full and spirits are high. The Central Coast Bears, our main Rugby League team are in high spirits. Forget a second AFL team at Blacktown, the talk of the Coast is after a 100 year history, will the Bears be back in the NRL? The NRL support an application for the 2013 season. There are a million people between the original North Sydney ground and Lake Munmorah. There are 7000 young Rugby League players on the Central Coast looking for a senior team. Bluetongue Stadium at Gosford seats 20,000 and is among the finest stadiums in the nation for Rugby. This year a formal bid will be made. After water, this is the next big issue around the cafes and sporting clubs.
Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC