Paying Respect To Former Mayor and Blacktown City Councillor ' Charlie Lowles'

For me, I pay my respects to Councilor Charlie Lowles OAM, former Mayor of Blacktown City Council and  Ward 5 Councillor, who passed away on Sunday 30th October 2016.

He was a great knowledgeable man, community man , local Labor Party man, Local Councillor for Ward 5, and  a  former mayor of Blacktown city Council that was sometimes nicknamed 'Mount Druitt Mayor'.

I have had many a conversations, some, where we had slight difference of opinion, yet there was that string believe we both shared and that was to get Mount Druitt off the front page of 'Bad News', in local news and  the wider press and replace 'Good News'.
We both knew this is a great place to live, we shared the common good of being proud of our Mount Druitt area.

Yet, admittedly, he spoke very fast sometimes. I found it hard to hear him at times. Maybe that was my fault for not being fast at listening. I have witnessed  Charlie Lowles being a Mayor and he ran it with such confidence and so fast. He knew how to run the Council Chamber.

He was instrumental in the upgrade of Emerton Pool, Mount Druitt hub library and the walkways in R.A.A.F. Memorial Park, Mount Druitt as well as many other community improvements. I remember our chats at Holy Family Church, Emerton, always wishing him well, to his family and thank him as to what he does as a Councillor.


I will pay my respects on Sunday 13th November, to him and  show how I  really appreciated, his tirelessly work as a Councillor on Blacktown City Council. To our community, I hope you can come down as well and pay your respects to him.

Click here for former details on services for Charlie Lowles  OAM

It is coming to a time, I would even like to suggest we name Ward 5 ' Lowles' Ward and, if we were able to change the Title of each ward by next election, I think it is better than having  numbers for memory  and I'm sure the majority of the community would agree as well.


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Former Blacktown City Councilor Running For The Federal Seat Of McMahon - Geoege Bilic!

Well surprise, surprise! Former Blacktown Liberal Councillor for Ward 4, George Bilic is running as a Liberal Federal candidate for McMahon - against well known Labor Member, Chris Bowen.

George, ran as a candidate for the NSW State Election in 2007 as liberal Party candidate against then member Richard Amery and here were his results:

	Labor	Richard Amery	25,317	64.0	-2.0
	Liberal	George Bilic	7,752	19.6	+1.6
	Christian Democrats	Dave Vincent	2,908	7.4	+1.5
	Greens	Debbie Robertson	2,040	5.2	+1.5
	AAFI	John Newton	1,523	3.9	+1.4
Total formal votes			39,540	95.5	0.0
Informal votes			1,877	4.5	0.0
Turnout			41,417	92.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Richard Amery	27,201	75.4	-1.4
	Liberal	George Bilic	8,892	24.6	+1.4
	Labor hold		Swing	-1.4

And here is his results for the  Blacktown 2008 Local Government Results:

10 candidates contesting 3 vacancies

Group	Candidate	Party	Election Night
			%	FP Votes
A	Group Votes		24	5,640
	BILIC, George	LP	3	728
	PRIEST, Venus	LP	1	145
	HOLMES, Mark	LP	0	51
B	Group Votes		52	12,211
	BALI, Stephen	ALP	3	656
	ATALLA, Edmond	ALP	1	152
	CLAPHAM, Peter	ALP	0	70
C	Group Votes		12	2,831
	NICOLAIDIS, George	IND	2	452
	DAY, Peter	IND	0	56
	WICKS, Graham	IND	0	28
Ungrouped
	McINTYRE, Joan	IND	1	256
Total Formal Votes Counted				23,276
Total Informal Votes				2,232
Progressive Total Ordinary Votes				25,508

STEPHEN BALI was declared elected to position 1 on 23 September 2008
GEORGE BILIC was declared elected to position 2 on 23 September 2008
EDMOND ATALLA was declared elected to position 3 on 23 September 2008