Have Your Say on the Design of the Roe Highway Extension

The South Metro Connect team will be holding a workshop on Friday 19 February 2010 from 9am to 12 noon at the Willetton Sports Club, Burrendah Boulevard, Willetton to finalise the assessment criteria that will assist the decision making process for selecting the most favourable design for the proposed extension of Roe Highway.

Places are limited and registrations will close at 5pm on Monday 15 February.

I encourage you to register your interest by calling 1800 132 572. The meeting is part of the State Government's comprehensive community consultation process to establish the best environmentally sensitive functional design for the extension of this important highway.

If you are unable to attend the workshop but would like to participate in or to influence the design criteria discussion, I hope you will get involved via the online discussion forums. For further information on the forums or the project, log on to www.southmetroconnect.com.au or telephone 1800 132 172.

Australia Day 2010

I was very pleased to attend the Lions Club of Canning City's Aussie Breakfast on Australia Day at the City of Canning. The club's members cooked up a storm and it was an ideal opportunity to meet with many of the guests who were about to become Australian Citizens later that day, and to mingle with the members of the local community who also came along to enjoy the breakfast festivities. The City of Canning's Brass Band provided the musical entertainment for the event.

Afterwards, I visited the Rotary Club of Rossmoyne's popular Australia Day Breakfast on the Canning River foreshore at Shelley. A large crowd of people came along to this event to enjoy this annual event. The festivities included a variety of Holden cars on display to add to the atmosphere and displays of the Emergency Shelter Boxes that Rotary is providing to the victims of the Haiti earthquake and Rotary's Sustainable Cambodia program.

Both of these local events are very popular and later that night, I watched the City of Perth Skyworks with my wife and some friends to top off a very pleasant Australia Day 2010.

Recent Events That I Have Attended

I regularly attend local community events such as the Willetton Senior High School open day and Government events, often representing the Premier or other Ministers, such as the WA Fujian Association's celebration of its Performing Arts Group, the official opening of the new Bodhi Temple and the Soorya Perth Festival of India. To see a detailed listing of recent events I have attended, please click here.