Content about Virginia Judge

Labor’s new leader Luke Foley lives at Concord West, and is well versed in the issues facing Inner West areas like Strathfield.

Within hours of taking up the reigns of party leadership, he announced a visit tio Strathfield with Labor contender Jodi McKay -  another indication that the Liberal-held seat is being targetted by the party.

Ironically, Mr Foley was touted as someone who might stand as Labor candidate for the Strathfield state seat once held by Labor minister Virginia Judge. Instead, he will contest neghbouring Auburn.

Ex-Strathfield MP and state minister Virginia Judge was last week preparing her CV for job agencies – “something I haven’t done for years”. 

Virginia Judge has not lost any of her feistiness even after conceeding defeat at Saturday's state election, which handed victory to Liberal Charles Casuscelli.

Judge lashed out at colleagues following the defeat - "people know who they are" - for the loss, saying they did not act ethicallty and responsibly.

Strathfield has cast aside Labor minister Virginia Judge as state MP, with voters handing Liberal Charles Casuscelli the seat with a swing of more than 16 per cent.

While the voters of our state appeared to have made up their minds early in the campaign between Kristina Keneally's tired Labor government and Barry O'Farrell's fresh-faced shadow ministry, the Strathfield electorate faced a harder choice.

In the red corner, a passionately active local member in Virginia Judge.  She has four times been Strathfield mayor. In eight years as State member she had certainly made her mark.

Member for Strathfield Virginia Judge has pledged $7,500 so the Tamil Resource Centre, are able to employ a community to work with socially isolated women from the Tamil community living in south-western Sydney.

“The Keneally government recognizes that many women in Sydney’s culturally and linguistically diverse community groups that can benefit from additional support,” she said.

Member for Strathfield Virginia Judge announced Centenary Drive in Strathfield will be undergoing a safety overhaul.

The NSW government will install 700 metres of wire rope safety barriers on Centenary Drive between Arthur Street and Weeroona Drive.

The safety work is part of the NSW Government’s $170 million five-year Road Toll Response Package which was announced in March 2010.

Policing the streets of Strathfield has emerged as a major issue in the State election – but no candidate can agree on how to tackle local crime.

Only Independent Mark Sharma was prepared to pledge the return of the municipality’s police station, though Liberal contender Charles Casuscelli said he would “fight for the re-establishment of a fully functioning police station in Strathfield”.

He said a state Liberal government would review all police station locations.

Mark Sharma,
 Independent candidate 
for Strathfield

“The public transport system has deteriorated a lot under the present Labor Government. The people in the Inner West and especially Strathfield have been the biggest losers of bad Labor policies. Labor blew $150 million on the failed Metro Project and another $150 million on duplication of the Iron Cove Bridge. None of this has produced any improvement whatsoever.

STRATHFIELD MP Virginia Judge has announced the end of her long-standing marriage to Lidcombe GP Dr Ofo Niumeitolu.

The announcement, made first to the Scene, came after the strange on again, off again sale of the couple’s Strathfield family home and ended weeks of speculation by residents who had contacted reporters from the paper.

Judge and her husband issued a joint statement saying  “after a long period of separation, they are in the final stages of an amicable divorce.”