Speeches

Over the last few weeks and months, our state has been unspeakably impacted by severe rain and ongoing floods.

The Marrickville Marauders have been training fencers of all ages at Marrickville PCYC since 2009. This year, two of their wonderful athletes will be travelling to Dubai and representing Marrickville in the Australian National Men's Sabre and National Women's Sabre fencing teams.

As part of Inner West Council's Collab (Orate) initiative for International Women's Day 2022, Marrickville Legal Centre has transformed the Savvy Finance program from an online series of learning modules to in-person events.

The excellent team at the Haberfield Association have been busily working on a new flyer to welcome new residents to Haberfield.

Generations of young Marrickvilleans have been educated at Ferncourt and the school is as central to the South Marrickville community as ever.

Bakeries across the Inner West have been busily and generously fundraising to support communities in Ukraine.

Over the last week, our news feeds and TV screens have been flooded with the horror of the fatal boarding house fire on Albermarle Street, Newtown. 

Over the past few weeks of heavy rains, businesses and residents along Carrington Road, Marrickville, were again under water.

I am very proud to acknowledge the formal opening of Among The Trees, a new organisation that reclaims and recycles used timber in Marrickville.

Ashfield Public School is one of 210 schools across New South Wales designated as high progress, with students demonstrating above-average progress in literacy, numeracy and reading.