As Mayor of Penrith City, Todd Carney has overseen many plans created by Council to devise the future of the St. Marys Town Centre and where that fits as part of Penrith City generally. As the Minister for Western Sydney in the State government, Prue Car knows of the administrative scheme to break up Greater Sydney into three sub-cities, one based on Penrith, one based on Parramatta and one based on Sydney City. In the cosmology of things, each is aware of the inner workings of the Western Sydney airport development and its Aerotropolis.
Essentially, whatever is going on in Penrith City, these two know it. If there is another agenda operating behind the three cities scheme and the airport / Aerotropolis and the St. Marys Town Centre, they must know it, or they qualify for village-idiot awards.
As I door-knocked South St. Marys extensively during the 2025 Federal election campaign, I knew enough of the St. Marys Town Centre plan to discuss it with locals. What I found was surprising: most had it down pat, had their theory of it and weren’t afraid to say it. All of it, new cities, airports, rail-lines and town centres, was about flooding Penrith City with people not in Australia yet, migrants drawn from India and South East Asia; white people in crucial suburbs would get the boot.
Well readers, as an old hand in this subject, I thought exactly what the people thought. But since then, the weight of the information has become more toxic.
Misleading documents
As grounding for my campaign for Londonderry, I made an information request of Penrith City Council:
Re: application for Council information
I am requesting information. Should it be necessary to escalate this request to a GIPA application, I would be pleased to do so.
Background
The matter of interest is the St. Marys Town Centre project. As various Council documents describe, by 2041 the area could be home to some 22,500 persons.
Information sought
Reasonably, the Council has documents which explain how the population is to be grown from some 1350 currently to some 22500. This must involve some programs of recruitment, land sale, immigration and more besides. It may be the case some of the documentation originates from other agencies and organisations.
I seek to view these documents.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Jim Saleam
The Council replied (October 30):
I refer to your enquiry regarding the St Marys Town Centre Project. Please be advised, documents and relevant studies related to this project are available on Councils website – https://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/building-development/planning-zoning/vision-strategies-plans#quick-link-12
Regards
Olivia Nand
Right to Information Officer, Legal Services
So, I wrote again (November 2):
Re: Case Reference Number: P-1280042-V6H1
I went through all the links provided to me and I thank you for your attention to my request. This material was extensive.
However, I did not find what I was looking for.
In particular, my request said:
Information sought
Reasonably, the Council has documents which explain how the population is to be grown from some 1350 currently to some 22500. This must involve some programs of recruitment, land sale, immigration and more besides. It may be the case some of the documentation originates from other agencies and organisations.
The huge mass of material refers to “growth”, “population increase”, quotes figures about the increase down to 2041. It refers to “diversity” and so forth.
The material does not state explicitly who the people are likely to be, how they are being chosen, why they would choose to move to the St. Marys area or to Penrith in general, what authorities have consulted Penrith Council about such processes.
I must press the request.
Do you wish me to escalate the matter accordingly?
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Jim Saleam
So far, I have not been replied to. It is my view that the questions will not be answered and the matter will be kicked upstairs. There is something to hide!
What I can discern
Of course, I waded through the hundreds of pages of Council paperwork.
In the Cultural Strategy And Action Plan (2024 – 2026), I note:
The people of Penrith are also changing; in 20 years an additional 76,000 people will live in our City, growing the population from 219,000 in 2021, to 295,000 by 2041. Our community is more culturally diverse. We hear more languages spoken and increasingly more people identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. These diverse stories of Penrith weave together personal histories and cultural traditions with a shared connection to this place. (18)
So who are the extra 76,000 persons and why does that mean “changing”? Stop mixing present and future! Now, cut the crap about more people wanting to identify (sic) as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, just answer the question! Who are the people who will boost the population?
I come to St. Marys itself. In “The Western City District Plan”, 2018 (Greater Sydney Commission), we read:
In 2021, the St Marys Town Centre was estimated to have 3,700 people and 1,800 dwellings (Council estimate). This is forecasted to increase by 11,000 – 12,500 additional people and 4,800 – 5,400 additional dwellings by 2041, making the total population range 14,700 – 16,200 and total dwelling range 6,600 – 7,200 by 2041. Three recent employment forecasts for Penrith LGA were considered in the estimation of employment growth within the Study Area – Transport for NSW (TfNSW) TZP2019 forecasts, HillPDA forecasts developed for Council’s Employment Lands Strategy (2021) and REMPLAN population projections. In 2016, the St Marys Study Area accounted for 3,522 local jobs. A suggested job growth target for the St Marys Structure Plan by 2041 using these various sources would be between 2,100 and 5,600 new jobs, making the total job target range 5,600 – 9,100 jobs by 2041. (36)
Note this. In earlier documents, I have seen the St. Marys Town Centre population given as about 1200 and destined to rise to at the max, some 12500. So, who knows who is telling the truth? But clearly, if Penrith City is to gain 76,000 persons by 2041, more than 12500 of those will live in the St. Marys Town Centre?! Again, who are the people, in this case, moving into the St. Marys Town Centre?
Demolition of St. Marys
Essentially, the St. Marys Town Centre and beyond is scheduled for demolition. The Council has published plans. Everything bar a few buildings will be demolished from the Western Highway to the railway line, from South Creek to Glossop Street. A myriad of glass and concrete towers will be built.
In the Employment Lands Strategy (2022), Council says:
“Our main centres Penrith City Centre and St. Marys Town Centre are being revitalized. Continued investment in these centres will help attract … new businesses to be established locally.” (8)
Who? From where? There is a hint. The same document says:
“The NSW government is positioning Western Sydney to become the national capital for advanced manufacturing built around Western Sydney International Airport and the development of the Aerotropolis precinct..”(6)
Does that not explain the new railway station at St. Marys and the new metro line from the airport and the scheme to develop Dunhevid into a new economic zone and the new Town Centre?
Of course, we the people weren’t told all this, nor is there any vote (sic) on it, nor even an open BS election about it. It is imposed from above.
As “The Penrith Economic Strategy 2023 – 2031” says:
“Penrith is in global Sydney”
“The Western City District Plan” made it plain in detail:
This plan designates St Marys as a strategic centre, proposing to strengthen its role in the Western Parkland City as a gateway to the Western Sydney Airport and Aerotropolis. It lists the following actions: • Review and maximise opportunities from its location at the intersection of the north-south and east-west corridors • Support the role of St Marys as a centre by enabling a mix of land uses to encourage a diverse and active night time economy • Facilitate the attraction of a range of uses that contribute to an active and vibrant place • Improve transport connectivity and walkability within and to St Marys • Support greater housing diversity and densities • Activate primary and secondary streets and deliver contemporary urban public spaces • Support and demonstrate innovation. (36)
The mass of techno workers and business bosses and their families living in the St. Marys Town Centre would have all these supposed delights, as they buy the housing, as they agree to the contracts, as they set themselves up as a group apart, as they ride the metro to the airport to go overseas, as they deal with the new businesses in Dunhevid or the Aerotropolis. This has nothing to do with the Australian people’s Australia, but everything to do with globalist capitalism. It has everything to do with sub-national groups, special enclaves too large for multiculturalism, but who also have zero interest in Pauline Hanson’s multiracial monoculturalism.
The Cleansing Operation
Now I know, because I took the time to knock on doors and travel on foot the streets of the St. Marys and North St. Marys and Colyton, and in Penrith City and Kingswood, that a lot of people are often not as flash as others.
The Cultural Strategy And Action Plan (2024 – 2026) said of social housing in Penrith City:
The five areas with the highest percentages were: • North St Marys (14.7%) • Penrith (10.1%) • Kingswood (8.2%) • St Marys (7.1%) • Cranebrook (6.9%) The number of households renting social housing in Penrith LGA grew only very slightly by + 245 households in the five years from 2016 to 2021. (17)
The top 5 suburbs with the greatest proportion of households in the lowest household income quartile include: • Nth St Marys: 29% (390) • Penrith (suburb): 27% (2119) • St Marys: 24% (1149) • Kingswood: 23% (1133) • Colyton: 22% (648) (18)
Social housing and lower income are heaviest in areas about to be the subject of hyper development. So what happens to those folks? I cannot escape the conclusion that they are to be cleansed. Removed, gone. As supporters of my campaign have observed, as many social housing properties in some areas become vacant – they stay vacant.
The cleansing program has developed slowly over the last few years. It can only now intensify. We know the old workers’ cottages in St. Marys are going to go. Other gouses near Glossop Street will soon be demolished.
Fightback
The struggle against ethnic cleansing has simmered now for some time. It too will escalate.
This article, a part of a series, has accused Todd Carney and Prue Car of being instruments of this program.
We cannot wait for their comment – which will be silence! As a candidate for election, Prue Car will present a strange figure in that regard!. That tells us what the public needs to know.
