A Liveable City

What is a liveable City? Some suggest it is accessibility, equity and participation which give substance to the concepts of liveability.

The Quality of life experienced by the citizens living in a city is tied to their ability to access infrastructure, food, affordable housing, meaningful employment, green space and parks.

 I believe a liveable City is quality of life, a standard that meets our expectations, an environment where we successfully mix our cultures and share our experiences, a safe place of which we our proud.

Now Parramatta can be such a City, with its amazing history, diverse culture and smorgasbord of cuisines, entertainment and lifestyle activities. A City which in many ways though is immature; well overdue for an injection of fine arts, appropriate infrastructure linking the growth areas of Western Sydney and an entertainment precinct that give far more diversity and depth utilising areas such as our River Banks, Parklands and historical sites.

I believe the time is now for our State and Federal Governments to take a good long look at Parramatta our second largest CBD, the gateway to Sydney and the hub of Western Sydney. We have an opportunity to place NSW at the very forefront of the Australian economy and a model for quality of life; the government that leads us on that path will be considered the true creators of tomorrow. They will find the people, business and community organisations ready and willing to support such initiatives.