• Footscray, Yarraville, Braybrook Star

By Charlene Gatt

9th February 2010 11:05:27 AM

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In Parliament last week, Mr Finn outlined the long-term troubles simmering between the council and traders over parking, and read out a letter from Footscray Asian Business Association president Binh Le and Bon Nguyen from the Vietnamese Community in Australia.

“I beg the Minister for Local Government to convene and chair a meeting between the Maribyrnong City Council and the Save Our Footscray committee because there is a strong feeling of revolt in the air in Footscray,” Mr Finn said.

“There is real anger among the traders in the Footscray area, and it is my very great concern that if the minister does not take some sort of action to convene such a meeting, we may well see a western suburb’s version of something akin to a modern-day Eureka Stockade.”

The council has issued over 30,000 parking fines since the cameras were installed last April.

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