In the News
Australia Day 26 January 2015, our day to reflect on who we are as a nation and to celebrate the wonderful country we live in. (Photo from Castle Hill Heritage Park flag Raising Ceremony in 2013).
Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP, participated in the Think Big Shop Small campaign at the Nest Café, Beaumont Hills on Saturday, 29 November 2014.
“Evan Kalpaxis and Lena Sotiris are the owners of the Nest Café at Beaumont Hills, which is located within Kellyville Pets. It was a pleasure to support the Shop Small campaign at this friendly local business in the Hills district, said Alex Hawke.
Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP, calls for new places to be included on the National Heritage List.
National Heritage places are of outstanding heritage value to the nation and reveal the richness and diversity of Australia’s extraordinarily natural environment. Mitchell is no exception and is home to many of these iconic places.
“National Heritage places capture the diversity of stories that have helped to shape our great nation and inform our sense of self.
Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP, has confirmed the Norwest Child Care Centre as one of forty sites across Australia selected to take part in the Abbott Government’s trial of a second language in the year before school.
Alex Hawke says “the $9.8 million Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) trial aims to help generate an interest in language studies which can be built on in later years”.
Vale Warren Bowden, a true gentleman, who lived a significant life serving others.This morning local resident, Warren Robert Bowden, 84 was farewelled by over 200 people at Wesley Uniting Church, Castle Hill, said Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP.
Warren was well known in the community having spent his entire life serving the Hills initially as a preacher but later as a Rotarian with the Rotary Club of Castle Hill and with the Hills District Historical Society Inc and as Chairman of the Heritage Park Management Committee.