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Traffic lights to make Raby Road intersections safer
It wasn’t that long ago that Raby Road was a goat track connecting Campbelltown Road and Camden Valley Highway. These days though Raby Road is a major arterial crossing to the Hume Highway for residents from Camden and the wider Macarthur region. It now also connects with Camden Valley Way at a second location, Gregory Hills, via Eagle Vale Drive and Badgally Road. All this means that motorists who travel along Raby Road know that negotiating most of the intersections along the way requires patience and a lot of care. Two intersections stand out: at Spitfire Drive and Eagle Vale… Read more »
Liverpool: sleeping giant of Greater Sydney is finally awaking
The $400 million Civic Place development will benefit Liverpool in a number of ways. None will be as important as creating, finally, a balance between the southern and northern ends of the central business district. For years activity in the Liverpool CBD has mostly taken place in and around the giant Westfield complex in the north. It has meant that the southern end has languished as major retailers and financial institutions relocated to the opposite end. Civic Place, located on the pivotal corner of Scott Street and Macquarie Street, will change all that as a huge number of workers move… Read more »
The 2020 Fisher’s Ghost winner is art you can take home
The Fisher’s Ghost art prize is the closest thing we have to the Archibald, another competition that attracts some controversy year after year. Here in Campbelltown, where the prize for the winner of the open category is a $25,000 purse, the Fisher’s Ghost has copped plenty of criticism for being out of touch. In recent years the award has come under fire for some baffling selections in picking the open winner. Annika Romeyn and arts centre director Michael Dagostino. To put it bluntly, if the art work wasn’t post modernist on steroids it had no chance of picking up that… Read more »
