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The In the Media Section contains links to a number of Media Releases and media stories. For ease of access we have provided links to some of them here.

Once-bullied Sartor grows up and becomes a bully

IT'S that dumb-and-dumber feeling you get when someone grabs your hand and makes you slap yourself, hard, in the face. It's how the City of Sydney council must be feeling right now - writes Elizabeth Farrelly on the CUB site in the Sydney Morning Herald June 14, 2006.

URGENT MEETING ON CUB SITE

The City is holding an urgent meeting to discuss events surrounding the Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale. Join Clover Moore 7.30 pm Thursday 15 June 2006, Medina Executive Sydney Central, 2 Lee Street Sydney (adjacent to Central Station). Update from Clover's E-News No 300 of 10 June 2006.

Slum city fears as Sartor grabs massive project - 9 June 2006

THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city's biggest residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks that will become Sydney's future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.

Minister Steers Government Toward Another Cross City Tunnel Disaster - 9 June 2006

Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP in a Media release of 9 JUne 2006 called on the Minister for Planning to come clean on just how much money the State Government was planning to take from the CUB site, and to give assurances about how this money would be spent.

Slum city fears as Sartor grabs massive project - 9 June 2006 – SMH 9 June 2006

THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city's biggest residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks that will become Sydney's future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.

Frank Sartors comments on CUB to Adam Spencer on 702 ABC - 9 June 2006

The following is a transcript of Minister Sartor's comments about the CUB site following a discussion about changes to Basix for high rise buildings.

Carlton & United Breweries Site Heritage Under Threat from Minister:

The following media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage Institute Inc. - an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the RWA, for which Minister Sartor is also the Minister, gets the Affordable Housing levy from the CUB Site.

Sartor slammed over CUB - The Australian June 03, 2006.

SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a multi-million-dollar "cash grab" yesterday by contemplating higher density at Foster's Group's $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney's Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Paddy Manning in The Australian June 03, 2006.

State Government Action Threatens CUB Site - 2 June 2006

An eleventh hour grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media statement.