Come on Julia - honour all those Labor Party promises. Not just to restore some faith in the Labor voters draining away from your party, but because it is the right thing to do. People don't easily forget the big issues, and this is a big issue that has been going on for years now. For so many years now that elections have come and gone but the issue still remains. It still remains in the voter's minds as sure as politicians have come and gone, and sometimes those politicians have gone for no small part because of this issue. Some things the voting public don't forget. And some things we remember too. We remember Neville Wran for the NSW Rainforest World Heritage Listing. We remember Bob Hawke for the Daintree Wet Tropics. How about giving us something to remember for the future? As we'll surely forget you before the election if you give us nothing.

There has to be substance to all announcements. Whoever is in government after 21 August 2010 must commit to preserving viable populations of Western Sydney's flora and fauna, including Macrofauna. The Cumberland Conservation Corridor will achieve this. The drive to populate Australia on a big scale will destroy all but a few terrestrial fauna, a specified range of birds and a specified range of flora in Western Sydney. The government has to give conservation of our natural heritage at least, if not greater, status as development strategies. Government compulsorily acquires land for infrastructure. It must do likewise for the one last opportunity to preserve the natural heritage of Western Sydney. If voters of Western Sydney are concerned about the scale of population growth and its effect on our natural heritage they must cut through the headline, (but empty) statements of Julia Gillard & Co. They need to vote for a party or individual who does not want a 'big' Australia and who wants to preserve our natural heritage.

Dear ALP it is a major disgrace that $280M conservation funds are not being directed appropriately in the Cumberland Plains of Sydney's West. I strongly support the call on the major parties to commit $100 million funding towards the Cumberland Conservation Corridor. It is our last opportunity to protect in perpetuity a Western Sydney green belt. In the least Julia Gillard we ask you to fund it as a commitment to a sustainable Australia.

Please save our natural habitat..when its all gone you can never get it back...NOW is the only time the government can preserve our future for our children, grandchildren, our animals and their offspring and the generations thereafter of all living and native things....

Given that NSW Government is currently trying to rip $280 million of previously committed funding away from Western Sydney bushland corridor conservation, a request for $100 million is far from an ambit claim. In fact, it is peanuts. For 'sustainable Sydney' to be a commitment rather than the slogan it currently is, one of the major parties needs to get behind this commitment.

I grew up in the Western Suburbs in the 60's and 70's and one of our great loves was the wonderful bushland we were surrounded by, filled with a myriad of natural wonders for children to explore. Save this for our children and our grandchildren...........................................

We moved out to the western suburbs a few years ago from the over gentrified inner city. There were many losses and adjustments with this move , but the great advantage was the cleaner air, less traffic and more open space. Given that Penrith Council and local residents are now fighting the development of yet a further industrial dump site in our bush land I am deeply concerned that Peter Garrett has now climbed into bed with Tony Kelly. Was there a trade off or deal struck Mr Garrett ? Im curious what the deal was ?

With the 94% already gone, surely 6% of Cumberland Plain isn't too much to ask. I thought the Western Sydney Parklands would help but since it's formation degradation is actually increasing at a faster rate. I don't know about global warming or carbon emissions but it's plain to see a rare ecosystem is about to collapse from the death of a thousand cuts.

Green Belt? How can labour talk about a Green belt? Labour have aquired peoples land for the Western Sydney Parklands but then it has onsold to developers. The property owners get ripped off and the land is onsold to the Labour Buddies.

David Bradbury promised to save the site. I remember him bashing Jackie Kelly about the issue. David you owe the people of Lindsay whom you represent this last piece of the Cumberland plains. It's very disappointing David that you promised so much yet delivered so little. Perhaps the greens or liberals might assist. Please David do what's right