Developers Against The Rail Corridor

01/11/2019

Ah yes, the sweet smell of success. It only took us 30 years, countless brown paper bags, and substantive control over both halves of the political duopoly.

Get your bids in! This is prime harbourfront land without mine workings under it, investors!

The 4125 square-metre site has been renamed Rail Bridge Row in recognition of the AA Company Bridge that once crossed the site to take coal to the harbour.

10/11/2015

Fantastic news for developers!

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3483904/who-will-save-save-our-rail/?cs=303

31/03/2015

S**t. First Karen Howard loses because all the stoopid sheeple are too dumb to vote for her, and now this.

The Federal government has announced plans to quarantine the assets and income of people over a certain net worth using state-issued debit cards. The Platinum Welfare Card program will be rolled out across rich communities from mid-2017 in an effort to stop wealthy enclaves being ravaged by cocaine,…

18/02/2015

Bloody anti-progress heathen troglodytes. Who does this 'Farrelly' think she is?

It's amazing what people do when they think no one is watching. In Newcastle, under our averted gaze, the town's three vital systems: transport, built form and art have been chewed up. So this Saturday's Ward 3 byelection we should watch, like hawks watching the butterfly-shift that could yet save t…

25/12/2014

Bloody Save Our Rail! Ruining our plans and holding this city back! This is outrageous. Bloody anti progress heathen troglodytes.

Jacob Saulwick is awaiting the decision of a Sydney court over the Save Our Rail injunction to stop the government cutting the Newcastle rail line on Boxing Day. Follow his tweets.

09/11/2014

Whats wrong with the NSW government cutting the rail line so that its own property developing body (UrbanGrowth) can develop said parcel of land? They can tart up some blocks, get some DA's approved and then sell to the highest bidder. Boom!
Conflict of interest my eye! Its called smart business.

The people of Newcastle need to drop the fu***ng scrooge mentality and give us developers a nice fat christmas present. Bravo NSW Liberals, Bravo.

STATE development authority UrbanGrowth is urging the government to permit development on at least part of the Newcastle rail corridor that will be left vacant after the heavy rail is truncated, sources say.

17/08/2014

Jason Gordon, the mother Teresa of the Newcastle Herald. Well said Jason, Well said.

FOUR weeks ago, I pulled over on King Street in Newcastle. Right outside a bikie clubhouse where I watched black-hooded guys with ridiculous facial tatts wander in and out of a glass door obscured with black plastic.

12/08/2014

***DARC-BICS supports Fix Our City Meeting***
June 2010

Pro-developer group 'Developers Against the Rail Corridor- Building In the Corridor Soon' (DARC-BICS) held a rally enthusiastically supporting the 'Fix Our City' public meeting in Newcastle on June 3.
Four members of the group stood on the front steps of town hall and threw insults at the 'anti-progress heathen troglodytes' from Save Our Rail who had gathered across the street.
Chanting "the speculators, united, will never be defeated", the group declared that they were on 'developer strike' and would not improve the many vacant and run down buildings they own in the Hunter until their demand that the rail line be removed is met.
Spokesman for the group Paul McCoy said that ‘We have waited far too long for the NSW government to remove this train line so that we can build on it".
At one point Paul Murphy, Hilton Grugeon and Jeff McCloy from Fix Our City approached the four and commented that it was funny that "the unions were across the street protesting against their own government".
Extending upon the "three stooges" clever comedic ruse, the DARC-BICS GROUP said "yes, yes, Frank Sartor- He's a union man through and through! Jodi McKay, she is a unionist from way back" before breaking our stridently in their chant of the day "the speculators, united, will never be defeated".
DARC-BICS member Prunella Sidebottom said "we don't care about peak oil- we can afford $5 per litre petrol".
An article in the Newcastle Herald on June 4 erroneously linked the group to the community organisation Save Our Rail.
The group attended the FOC meeting and applauded loudly after each speaker finished their piece. Paul McCoy said that times were changing and member for Newcastle Jodi McKay needed to "wake up and smell the DARC-BICS".

Image depicts DARC-BICS members (from left to right): Corinne Howard, Prunella Sidebottom, and Paul McCoy

12/08/2014

"Give me liberty, or give me the freedom to bribe!"

Pierre Lemieux makes the argument that bribes to state officials can serve a purpose of permitting more freedom from oppression.

12/08/2014

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12/08/2014

Excellent article from Ed Crawford. Damn strait Eddie.

No link has been shown between ICAC evidence and plans for Newcastle, writes Edward Crawford.