Greater Western Sydney

Breakin' more.

West of Sydney and certainly around our listeners at 2LT Lithgow, the Darling Causeway has reopened in both directions at Mount Victoria, top of the mountains, following that multi-vehicle crash between the Great Western Highway and the Bells Line of Road earlier.

The road had been closed, of course, in both directions.

So traffic conditions, I'm told, are back to normal.

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Australian citizen [laughs] lives in Western Sydney.

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Susan Palmer is a primary school teacher.

She's also the pastor of the Open Door Community of Christ in Cranebrook in Western Sydney.

She has served as a pastor for more than a quarter of a century now with a mission to create inclusive and nurturing safe spaces for all people and particularly the LGBTQIA community.

She's married to the other love of her life, Lynn, who is also a minister of the Open Door Community.

And we'll include that as well in this episode as well.

Make sure it's in the show notes so that folks can go there as well.

If you're in Western Sydney and you're looking to connect with an amazing bunch of people and have some fun, but also in terms of getting involved from a faith perspective, I couldn't recommend a place more from my own experience.

I think it's It's a great experience.

If they can't do it when you tap your card, they may need to do it in the price.

Thank you, Pete Burrows, Lower Russell and Farr, everybody's favourite accountant at Penrith, Western Sydney and everywhere else.

I'm Ben McKechn from Hope Morning.

It's been great to be with you on Money, Faith and Finance.

Lots of emails.

Walter, our interview you were talking about with Jennifer Westacott yesterday, the professor from Western Sydney University.

She's a chancellor, Walter.

Are we a third world country? Problems that we need to send billions outside of the country.

It's a shame.

I think you're probably talking about...

Yeah, overseas students coming to the University of Western Sydney.

And see, they're big business, Walter.

Welcome back to the HFE Hub.

I'm Sharon Todd, and today I am chatting with Stavros Prinias, who is a consultant anesthetist based in Western Sydney.

He's worked both in Australia and the UK, and he is currently the head of anesthetics at Blue Mountains Hospital.

Whilst his main interest is complex airways and regional anesthesia, his main passion is human factors and ergonomics.

So where are you working now?

So I'm now working, uh...

I divide my time between, uh, Nepean Hospital, which is a major teaching hospital in Western Sydney, uh, but I'm also head of anesthetics at Blue Mountains Hospital, small kind of cottage hospital up the hill, and, uh, we have a, a lovely, uh, theater community and a, and a lovely, um, environment there and we, we look after the local population.

So what are some of the key challenges that you have as an anesthetist?

That's good.

Well, look, just getting back to restaurants, I actually work at a beautiful Italian restaurant in Hoxton Park, Western Sydney.

And look, even at 9.30 at night, if you want to come in and grab a seafood platter, a bottle of wine, and we can save you dessert after as well.

We like to look after all our guests that come in.

Thanks for the call.

There you go.

If you want something after 9.30ish and you're in Western Sydney, La Rambla Ristorante.

Sounds good.

Can you give us a sense of the scale of Bathler and how big it is in this construction sector?

Well, it certainly is very big and particularly in the region of Western Sydney.

As you noted, it's constructing something like two, two and a half thousand homes at the moment, many sites across the region.

So it's certainly a big deal, particularly in that local region.

And so they need to get construction finished so that they can sell to give a greater chance of the lenders being able to recoup their money that they've lent to Bathler.

So It's a very difficult situation and complex because you have all 40 different units where the lending is occurring.

As you were saying earlier, Jonathan, many of these projects are in Western Sydney.

What does that mean for housing targets and particularly at the more affordable end of the market?

This week on the pod, we've got Mick Mack, a street fighter who's become one of the most feared names in Australia's underground fight club.

Long before any of that, he built his reputation on the streets of Western Sydney.

There

was three times I got jumped and three of those times I walked away without a scratch.

My upbringing was surrounded by a lot of conflicts and dramas and fights, even though I never liked it.

It was just part of the way of life, I suppose you can call it.

So growing up in Blacktown, Western Sydney? I grew up...

from all my life until probably year eight