The Pearl Beach Progress Association has announced plans to install a support centre at its Memorial Hall after receiving over $90,000 from a federal fund. The Association received a total…
Local groups and organisations have been encouraged to apply for grants to help plant trees across the Central Coast. The Planting Trees for the Queen’s Jubilee Program recognises the legacy…
Often one hears of remote areas of Australia dealing with poor mobile phone reception. Here at Killcare, part of Greater Sydney and a bushfire prone area where reliable mobile coverage…
There may be a glimmer of light for local commuters who are wondering about the location of a new commuter carpark at Woy Woy Station, with fences constructed recently at…
Local aged care organisations have welcomed the news that Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel will be able to support staff if work shortages intensify. No local organisations have received that…
Young locals will have a chance to have their say about the risks they face online as part of an extended inquiry into online safety. Federal Member for Robertson Lucy…
The Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA) has welcomed a Federal Government decision to upgrade the status of koalas from vulnerable to endangered but spokesperson Jake Cassar said the group was keen…
The Federal Government’s $2.2B University Research Commercialisation (URC) Action Plan will be a game changer for the Central Coast, according to Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks. The Plan, which places…
As the shortage of GPs on the Central Coast continues to be a problem, the Federal Labor Party had pledged to give the entire region DPA status if it comes…
The Federal Government announced last week it has taken the first steps towards cancelling the PEP-11 permit for offshore gas exploration over an 8,200 square metre area from Newcastle to…
Forum – What happened to Lucy Wicks’ “rock solid guarantee”, on behalf of the Morrison Government, that PEP11 gas development would not go ahead? The responsible Minister is now saying…
This is CCN’s weekly news 5@5, October 22: GAS and OIL drilling off the Coast comes a step closer this week as a bill in Federal Parliament designed to override…
At 11am in the Federal House of Representatives yesterday, (Thursday, October 20), the Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, rose to speak against a motion that would have paved the…
Forum – I note (an article) in the December 24 edition of Community Coast News. The article indicates that the Member for Robertson Lucy Wicks and the Communications Minister rode…
In reference to reader K. Woldring’s letter about Lucy Wicks’ professed support for the ABC (Issue 265), it is risible to think that she will actually do so. It is…
Forum – A few years ago, the Friends of the ABC had a market stall at the Avoca markets and Lucy Wicks, her husband and friends visited us. She had…
[Forum] The Member for Robertson’s full-page advertisement in edition 489 is a major turnaround from her election campaign in May 2019. A short list of probable reasons for this change…
[Monday March 23, 2020] MP Lucy Wicks has today released information from the Federal Government’s second COVID-19 economic response plan in relation to businesses and workers. The comprehensive announcements cover…
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has told the Member for Robertson Ms Lucy Wicks that it cannot act on the Peninsula’s inflated petrol prices. It would only be able…
Lucy Wicks, Federal MP for Robertson talks to Jackie Pearson in part 2 of this video interview.. Topics include the same-sex marriage vote, the Performing Arts Centre, road funding and…