16 JUNE 2021
ISSUE 243
REAL INDEPENDENT LOCAL WEEKLY NEWS
Turning 100 hasn’t stopped Bernie Wykes
News
Major road work has started on a four-kilometre length of Wilfred Barrett Dr See page10
Out & About
More than 250 trees have been planted at the Porters Creek Landcare site as part of activities for World Environment Day...
To all who know Bernie Wykes, he is a wonderful enigma, as at 100 years of age, he hasn’t learnt to be old yet.
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Health
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Additional responsibilities seen as incredible opportunity for the Coast Shadow Minister for the Central Coast and Wyong MP, David Harris, has picked up another portfolio, Shadow Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism, in the recent NSW Labor Party re-shuffle. He also continues as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty. New Labor Leader, Chris Minns, announced his new Shadow Cabinet line-up on Friday, June 11, to challenge for government at the 2023 NSW elections. Swansea MP, Yasmin Catley, who lost her role as Deputy Leader in the front bench reshuffle, now becomes the Shadow Minister for the Hunter, Shadow Minister for Customer Service, Shadow Minister for
Wyong MP, David Harris, at the Colours of Country market run by Darkinjung artists, with Wendy Pawley and Dal Walters, both of Blue Haven
Digital. “I’m pleased to serve in these roles and look forward to advocating on behalf of businesses and individuals
who have been hit hard financially by COVID-19 to ensure that they get the support they need,” she said. Harris is more than happy to
take on the Jobs, Investment and Tourism portfolio, to build on work he already started as Shadow Minister for Central Coast.
“Obviously, in this fastgrowing region, we can’t keep building new houses and not create jobs to go with that, otherwise we just push more and more people on to the trains and freeway to commute out of the area for work. “My new portfolio gives me a stronger position to lobby for resources and to make sure that the Central Coast is recognised in its own right as a go-ahead tourism market, opening up more jobs,” he said. “I’ve already been working with a group that’s trying to get the Central Coast movie studios up at Tuggerah and I’ve also been working with a group that wants to get an indoor sports stadium on the Coast.
An interactive “magic table” is working wonders for patients at Wyong Hospital... See page 33
Sport
Two northern Central Coast surfers have come away with podium placements against some of the State’s best surfers 35 years and up... See page 37
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