The Focus is the Community:
We aim to address significant issues facing the peoples of Point Cook and Wynhdam. These being:
We aim to address significant issues facing the peoples of Point Cook and Wynhdam. These being:
- Lack of employment in the immediate area,
- Lack of access to roads / public transport,
- Concerns over planning for secondary education needs,
- Almost no regard given to the history of the region,
- Insufficient police presence in the area,
- Concerns over Emergency Service numbers,
- Little to no planning for recreational facilities, and
- Concerns over the design and development of the region.
Addressing these issues, from government sources, is a matter of years (pushing decades). In simple terms, it just looks like significant tax dollars are being spent in marginal seats. We are being left behind (relatively speaking) as we are part of "safe" seats.
There was a lack of forethought in Point Cook's early days. Roads, schools and basic services still play catch up. A suburb without its own actual Central Business District. A town with police numbers well below state average (although that might be because we are a good community minded people). Even today, there are still not enough schools despite the wave of kids coming. There is strong resistance at all levels of Government for a police station in the area. And most solutions are off the cards for a decade.
With the lack of a CBD, jobs are not concentrated in hubs, but instead scattered around the place like confetti. Which means the Shopping Centre acting as a CBD is able to monopolise its rentals, offices are often in light industrial precincts, meaning the critical mass needed to create further jobs in the area is hampered both economically and logistically.
Point Cook is an incredible community, but it still is lacking local Employment Opportunities, Police Presence, Secondary Schools, Recreational Facilities, and Transport Infrastructure. Not to mention issues with internet based telecommunications.
In short, government allowed the building of a suburb, without the basics a suburb would need. And, we as a community still made it a home. But the resilience we have demonstrated does not let the Government off the hook. Far from it.
In addition, we have little to no power to shape the character of our own suburb. With political representation not centralised in Point Cook, and unelected bodies determining the nature of our town, we have little choice but to issue a very big Cry for Help.
It is not an exaggeration to say Point Cook helped to shape the modern world. And it is our belief, that this heritage, the history, and the community that has come together, should be protected.
There was a lack of forethought in Point Cook's early days. Roads, schools and basic services still play catch up. A suburb without its own actual Central Business District. A town with police numbers well below state average (although that might be because we are a good community minded people). Even today, there are still not enough schools despite the wave of kids coming. There is strong resistance at all levels of Government for a police station in the area. And most solutions are off the cards for a decade.
With the lack of a CBD, jobs are not concentrated in hubs, but instead scattered around the place like confetti. Which means the Shopping Centre acting as a CBD is able to monopolise its rentals, offices are often in light industrial precincts, meaning the critical mass needed to create further jobs in the area is hampered both economically and logistically.
Point Cook is an incredible community, but it still is lacking local Employment Opportunities, Police Presence, Secondary Schools, Recreational Facilities, and Transport Infrastructure. Not to mention issues with internet based telecommunications.
In short, government allowed the building of a suburb, without the basics a suburb would need. And, we as a community still made it a home. But the resilience we have demonstrated does not let the Government off the hook. Far from it.
In addition, we have little to no power to shape the character of our own suburb. With political representation not centralised in Point Cook, and unelected bodies determining the nature of our town, we have little choice but to issue a very big Cry for Help.
It is not an exaggeration to say Point Cook helped to shape the modern world. And it is our belief, that this heritage, the history, and the community that has come together, should be protected.