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McPickets To Hit Centennial Park


Developers of a proposed McDonalds franchise in the middle of Sydney public parkland face union Green Bans after unions answered the call from concerned local residents.

The Labor Council has recommended that the Building Trades Group of Unions impose the green bans on the McDonalds proposed to be built on Grand Drive between Moore Park and Centennial Park.

The Centennial Park Residents Association says the development is an "inappropriate commercial use of public parkland" in an area of national significance.

"It will degrade Moore Park's heritage, and work against the park's important function of providing active and passive recreation," they say.

The McDonalds franchise was approved in a secret deal by the former Coalition Government after writs had been issued for the 1995 election and the government was in caretaker mode.

Since then, Centennial Park trust has been granted $7.9 million in Federation fund money to transform Grand Drive into its 1880s vision of a grand boulevard at the birthplace of Federation. Residents say a McDonalds should not be part of this vision.

South Sydney Council is opposing the McDonalds development and the matter is now before the Land and Environment Court.

Labor Council secretary Michael Costa says it's appropriate that unions flagged their opposition to this "silly proposal".

"You would think that in this city there are enough McDonalds outlets - and if there isn't, public parkland is not the place for another one," Costa says.

If the green ban is approved, the developers will have to meet with residents and negotiate in good faith before any work will go ahead.

"This is not anti-McDonalds," Costa says, "but surely they can move their outlet further down Anzac Parade."


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Features
*  Interview: Strategic Responses
NSW Police Association president Mark Burgess has worked in the coal mines and the waterfront - now he�s the public face of NSW police
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*  Republic: Negative Campaigning
If the Republic fails, one of the main complaints which should be leveled against the ARM is its refusal to play dirty.
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*  Unions: Interpreter smooths the way for Kosovar Refugees
�The people really appreciate what Australia has done for them but they still want to go home," said Ariana Biba, a HREA member who has been worked recently as an interpreter assisting newly arrived refugees from Kosovo.
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*  Education: Count Yorga's Evil Plot
NTEU president Carolyn Allport looks at Kemp's brazen attack on univestities and warns the battle is not won yet.
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*  Safety: Death in the Snowy
Beyond the engineering achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, there is the tragic story of those workers killed or seriously injured in the construction of the project.
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*  International: Why Is the WTO So Anti-Labour?
Driving the cost of labour down appears to be the main priority of the World Trade Organisation
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*  History: The Importance of Tradition
Historical documents bring us into closer contact with the past and its concerns as this 1945 extract from the NSW Nurses Association journal, The Lamp, shows.
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*  Review: McLibel - The Mice That Roared
This documentary is the classic tale of the little guys against the system, a battle for the right to dissent.
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*  Satire: Government Privatises Numbers
Prime Minister John Howard released a new policy on numerals yesterday, to bring them in in line with the Liberal Party's plan to privatise �Pretty much everything before we lose office.�
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»  Revenge of the Working Sick
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»  McPickets To Hit Centennial Park
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»  AFL-CIO Computer Deal Keeps Union in Control
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»  Four Pillars Behind Westpac Cuts
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»  Labor MPs Asked to Stand Up and Be Counted
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»  Reith�s Second Wave Smokescreen
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»  Reith to Legalise Gay and Lesbian Discrimination
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»  Denham or Lace - Libs to Ravage Public Sector
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»  The Big Australian Swiftie - $19 Mill Entitlements at Risk
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»  Real Sweatshops: Ice Cubes To Cool Down
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»  Xanana Endorses APHEDA
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»  Tales from the Gender Battlefield
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»  It�s Time! Republic Goes Funky
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»  STOP PRESS: Combet Elected ACTU Secretary Unopposed
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Columns
»  Guest Report
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Piers Watch
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Letters to the editor
»  The Very Broad Picture
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»  Second Wave - Are We Playing To Win
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»  Don't Let Howard Take The Human Out Of Human Rights
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»  Tax Ideas Not in the Hunt
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»  Desperately Seeking Trevor Melksham
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