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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Changing food landscape in melting pot of Western Sydney celebrated in new series

From Filipino halo-halo to Bangladeshi street food, Western Sydney is serving up a rich range of cuisines.

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Mental health programs for new mothers struggle to meet demand in Western Sydney

Perinatal organisations are being forced to turn away women struggling with homelessness and mental health due to a surge in demand across Western Sydney.

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Western Sydney a hotspot for diabetes, according to Census data

Sydney father Jaybee Serrano was forced to make tough lifestyle decisions after ending up in hospital because of a sudden pain in the neck.

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Photographs capture the heartbreaking reality of life after the floods in Lismore and Western Sydney

As towns and suburbs continue to go under water, experts say Australia is at a critical moment where the choices made now will determine whether the misery will be repeated for generations to come.

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Western Sydney residents urged to use less water as rain eases, flooding subsides

Dozens of suburbs in Sydney's west have been issued a conserve water warning as the processing plant that services them is forced to slow operations down following the floods.

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