City of Parramatta’s relationship with Dharug and the First Nations community has hit a new milestone with the official launch of the groundbreaking First Nations Strategy at the City’s meeting place, Parramatta Town Hall. The First Nations Strategy 2024-2029 will drive understanding, recognition, and respect of Dharug and other First Nations people across the City […]
Parramatta sports have shared in $4.4 million in NSW Government funding following the awarding of grants in the Local Sport Grant Program. The Program provides up to $20,000 to individual clubs and associations with $50,000 available in each electorate to increase participation in community sport with 579 projects awarded funding in this year’s program. 5 […]
Delhi- 29th April : President of Dashmesh Sewa Society (Regd) and former member of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Mr Inder Mohan Singh demanded that Takhat Sri Damdama Sahib located at Talwandi Sabo in Punjab State should immediately be included in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1971. He said that in this regard, an […]
City of Parramatta is inviting locals to have their say on proposed new controls for the future of the Church Street North Precinct. Council has prepared a draft development control plan (DCP) for the Precinct to support the NSW Government’s changes introduced through a State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) last year. The changes enable new […]
Dear Mutzi by Tess Scholfield-Peters Harry Peters—formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi—was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry’s parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps. Tess Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather’s story with three intertwining threads: a sketched-out history […]