A Man Has Been Arrested After A 28YO Western Sydney Woman’s Body Was Found In Her Unit Dayna Isaac's vehicle was found burnt-out in nearby bushland after her body was discovered. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 17, 2023
Canberrans' reuseable waste sent to Sydney for recycling after fire destroyed ACT facility About 36 tonnes of recyclable material is being sent each day to a facility in Western Sydney, as the ACT expedites the construction of a new recycling centre. ABC News · Jan 6, 2023
Recycling material being diverted to Western Sydney At this stage approximately 36 tonnes of material is being transported to Sydney. The Canberra Times · Jan 5, 2023
Cow gets lost in shopping centre, stuck in mud, during 24 hour emergency streak Firefighters rescue a mischievous cow twice in 24 hours after the confused bovine made her way through a Western Sydney shopping centre. ABC News · Jan 4, 2023
Golden era for Sydney's west: Perrottet NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says Sydney's west is in the midst of a golden era, thanks to a multibillion-dollar infrastructure pipeline. AAP · Dec 7, 2022
Western Sydney site will need 'significant' fixes for government housing plan to go ahead The Western Sydney suburb of Camellia-Rosehill is among 10 earmarked for new homes, but experts say the area has a list of issues that may be too long to overcome. ABC News · Dec 5, 2022
Man charged with murdering Salim and Toufik Hamze and directing getaway car in Sydney A second man is charged over the alleged gangland shooting of a father and son in a ute in Western Sydney last year. ABC News · Nov 29, 2022
Man allegedly hit woman with meat cleaver in 'horrendous' sexual assault at her Western Sydney home A woman, 26, has been allegedly sexually assaulted and threatened with a meat cleaver in her Western Sydney home in what police described as a "horrendous" attack. ABC News · Nov 28, 2022
Watch: Gas plant shutdown, Queensland baby murder, WA nurses strike Watch: AGL to close its South Australia power station almost a decade earlier, the Torrens Island B Plant will close in 2026. A couple have charged with The New Daily · Nov 23, 2022
One night changed Anthony's life — 15 years later he's still dealing with the scars When Anthony Shipley was 16, he spent the night in a cell at a juvenile detention centre in Western Sydney — now, years later, he's in a legal battle to try and get compensation for what happened there. ABC News · Nov 22, 2022
Sydney light rail delays 'unacceptable' Locals say it's unacceptable a western Sydney light rail line, first announced in 2017, is now not estimated to be taking passengers until 2031. AAP · Nov 10, 2022
Bitter debate erupts over repatriation of Australian families from Syrian detention camps Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil accuses the opposition of hypocrisy over the repatriation of Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps. ABC News · Nov 3, 2022
Residents in Western Sydney celebrate Diwali after last year's COVID lockdown Kirki Joshi has been "cooking for days". After the COVID lockdown wiped out festivities in 2021, she is going all to celebrate Diwali this year. ABC News · Oct 24, 2022
Rising populations and development in Sydney's west threatens food bowl With hundreds of thousands more people expected to move into Western Sydney in coming decades, one farmer warns agricultural lands could be "gone forever" without better planning. ABC News · Oct 18, 2022
AAP · Oct 10, 2022 Lockdowns 'punished' west Sydney: report People living in western Sydney were treated "unequally and unfairly" with harsher lockdowns during the COVID-19 Delta outbreak, according to a report.
ABC News · Oct 7, 2022 Woman killed after car allegedly driven by woman with baby onboard ploughs through St Marys home Police arrest a woman shortly after a black SUV crashes through the front of a house all the way through to the backyard early on Saturday morning, killing a 62-year-old woman.
ABC News · Oct 4, 2022 NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet declares raising Warragamba Dam wall a 'critical' project to fund A proposal to raise the wall of Warragamba Dam is a critical project to fund and will "future-proof" Western Sydney, the New South Wales Premier says.
ABC News · Oct 3, 2022 NSW Premier says WestInvest funds for Western Sydney isn't an apology for COVID-19 lockdown Western Sydney is getting a $5 billion sugar hit but the government is rebuking suggestions the money is to apologise for the harsh lockdowns imposed in the area during the Delta COVID lockdown.
AAP · Oct 1, 2022 Paulo's grand final tribute to Parramatta Parramatta prop Junior Paulo is playing Sunday's grand final in the name of western Sydney, where he says "rugby league is a language that everyone speaks".
ABC News · Sep 28, 2022 Wild weather and hail hits NSW Mid North Coast and western Sydney Hail has been reported up and down the NSW Mid North Coast and at Penrith in western Sydney, with the most intense hail between Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie.
The Conversation · Sep 20, 2022 Half of Western Sydney foodbowl land may have been lost to development in just 10 years More and more farming land is being lost to other land uses such as housing on the outskirts of our cities. But how much land is being lost? And why does it matter?
The Conversation · Sep 18, 2022 10 months and hundreds of subjects: how I took portrait photography to the streets of Parramatta For the past ten months, I have photographed hundreds of people in the Western Sydney suburb of Parramatta for a portrait project called Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook.
ABC News · Sep 10, 2022 Greater Western Sydney 'disproportionately' impacted by housing and rental stress Kate Scott's rent was sucking up 91 per cent of her pension, leaving her only $89 a fortnight to other essentials. The Western Sydney resident isn't the only one "disproportionately" impacted by housing and rental stress.
AAP · Aug 16, 2022 NSW Lib MP adds name to retirement list The list of NSW government members not contesting the March election continues to grow, with western Sydney Liberal MP Kevin Conolly announcing he will retire.
ABC News · Aug 12, 2022 Sydney Water guilty of polluting Prospect Creek with 280,000 litres of sewage Sydney Water is convicted for discharging hundreds of thousands of litres of untreated sewage into Prospect Creek in Western Sydney after an equipment failure.