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Protests and Resident Action Groups

Rozelle Against WestConnex
​The Rozelle Against WestConnex group lobbies against WestConnex in general, but more specifically the Rozelle Interchange in the vicinity of the Rozelle Goods Yard, as well as the tunnels running below Denison and Darling Streets. This will involve acquisition and demolition of homes and businesses and creation of 12-metre high, unfiltered smoke stacks.

Save Dully
​The Save Dulwich Hill Community Group promotes issues related to the redevelopment of the suburbs and lobbies the government to preserve the heritage of suburb. Visit the Save Dully website to read more about their actions. Dulwich Hill experienced growth in the late 1800s following the introduction of the tram line, and as a result contains buildings with heritage architecture, particularly Federation architecture. The Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Strategy, encompasses the suburb of Dulwich Hill, rezoning for higher density and redevelopment of older buildings. Save Dully is lobbying to ensure that the historic and diverse nature of Dulwich Hill is preserved.

​Newtown WestConnex Action Group
The M4-M5 link tunnels will run underneath Newtown. Many Newtown business owners have begun protesting the development, worried that congestion and bottlenecks will negatively impact retail businesses, or alternatively that clearways along King St will kill business. The Newtown WestConnex Action Group has been formed. In Alexandria a new bridge is being constructed over the canal to allow movement of traffic from the St Peters interchange.

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Lesson Idea: Individual and community action​
Examine the ways that individuals and communities have contributed to the political process and discussions about the WestConnex project. Write a paragraph about 5 actions taken by individuals and communities. Do you think these have been effective? Do you think these actions are justified? What other actions could individuals or communities take?

Examine a video of a council meeting about West Connex (try a simple search on Youtube). Consider how the different groups and individuals perceive how WestConnex impacts their community and/or environment. Choose a persona from one of the following: local resident, local councilor, construction worker, urban planner. Write a series of tweets that you might compose to tell your feelings and opinions about the issue.

Take photographs of a site that will be or has been affected by WestConnex. You may use Google Street View if you are not close by to a relevant site. Annotate the photographs showing how features of the environment have changed or will change as a result of the WestConnex development.
Assess how the changes to the site will impact on its environmental quality.

Obtain aerial photographs of the Inner West of Sydney (these may be screen shots from Google Maps). Visually represent the changes that are taking place in the area. Annotate the aerial photographs showing locations affected by Planned Precincts, WestConnex and the Metroline. Include detail about the types of changes that are going to take place.


Fieldwork: Questionnaire
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Conduct a questionnaire on residents that live in the Inner West of Sydney. Design 8-10 questions to ask. Some examples:
  • Do you have concerns about the WestConnex development?
  • What might be the benefits of WestConnex?
Tabulate and analyse the results of your survey. What do the findings tell you about perceptions of WestConnex in the Inner West.
L. Swanson, Hsieteachers.com 
  • Urbanisation
    • Extended Response - Urbanisation
  • Settlement patterns
  • Migration
    • Causes of internal migration
    • International Migration
    • Australia's cultural diversity
  • Australia’s Urban Future
    • Australia's Population Growth >
      • Graphs and Stats: Population Growth
      • Visual Representations: Population
      • Visual Representations: Population Density
      • Graphs and Stats: Population pyramids
    • Future Growth and Sustainability >
      • What is sustainability?
      • Sydenham to Bankstown
      • Geographical Inquiry - Urban Change in the Inner West
      • Spatial Technologies - GIS
      • Fieldwork: Marrickville
    • Sustainable Urban Places >
      • Light Rail and Metroline
      • GreenWay
      • Fieldwork: Greenway
      • WestConnex
      • Maps: WestConnex
      • Visual Representations: WestConnex infographic
      • Deindustrialisation
      • Visual Representations: Land use change in Marrickville
      • Extended response - Sustainable Urban Places
    • Contributing to a Sustainable Urban Future >
      • Community Contributions to Sustainability
      • Protests and RAGs
      • Fieldwork: WestConnex community percpetions
      • Geographical Inquiry
  • HSIE Teachers Home