Challenge Walk back on at Mt Annan botanic garden

Get set, ready, go: the popular Campbelltown City Challenge Walk is back on the radar for another year. It will be held in the scenic landscape of the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Registrations are …

‘We all have the potential to experience a peaceful, happy life’

Kelsang Jangsem says it is entirely possible to reduce our worrying to the extent that we have a radically improved life. The resident teacher of the Kadampa Meditation Centre in Sydney, Jangsem has been practising meditation and Buddhism since 1997. …

Club Menangle marquee event to attract best mares in Australasia

Queen Elizabeth II is already the race every quality mare in Australia is being set for, but interest in it will hit record levels in 2024 with exciting changes to qualifying for the race. It starts with a change in …

Forget Bradfield, pour money into big two South West towns

Over the past 10 years we have published a lot of stories about the new airport under construction at Badgerys Creek. There have also been stories about the aerotropolis, and rezoning of land to accommodate it. Bradfield – the so …

Draft master plan for brand new city, to be called Bradfield

Hardly anyone knows what Bradfield is all about, few support the name itself, but that didn’t stop the NSW Government from issuing the usual cliches and platitudes in announcing a draft master plan for community feedback. What we do know …

Last gasp win for the Bulls in match of the season

It’s doubtful that the cliches needed to accurately describe the match between the Bulls and the Wanderers last night at Campbelltown Stadium have been invented yet. Macarthur FC walked away with the three points after their last gasp 4-3 victory, …

Tragedy at the Basin: police divers recover body of swimmer

The Basin, a popular water hole on the Georges River at Kentlyn, claimed the life of a swimmer who jumped in off a rock yesterday. With temperatures hovering just under 40 degrees Celsius, many locals headed to the Basin, which …

Heat is on: 7pm kick off for Sunday’s Bulls and Wanderers clash

Kick off time has been pushed back two hours for Sunday’s Greater Western Sydney derby between Macarthur FC and the Wanderers at Campbelltown. The round 15 fixture was originally scheduled for a 5pm start. But with extreme heat conditions forecast, …

Club Menangle gets behind 2024 Team Teal racing campaign

They’re off and racing at Club Menangle for another Team Teal campaign. The 2024 Team Teal campaign, the annual initiative to raise funds for ovarian cancer research and awareness, has launched yesterday, February 1. The Team Teal campaign is a …

Kangaroos hopping mad over state of Fullwood Reserve

The Campbelltown City Kangaroos are one of the oldest rugby league clubs in Australia. Unfortunately, their home ground in the heart of notorious Housing Commission estate Claymore is the pits. And from time to time things get even worse, like …

Badgerys Creek flight paths: 8000 submissions lodged

Around 8,000 submissions have been received on the environmental impact statement for the preliminary flight paths for Western Sydney International Airport. Community members, local councils, special interest groups and other stakeholders made submissions by the January 31 deadline. The EIS …

South bound Razorback lane set to reopen after 14 years

Work will start soon to repair long term damage to an embankment on Remembrance Driveway, Razorback, paving the way of the opening up of the second southbound lane to traffic near the top of the mountain. The project includes the …