ahem - typo alert, pls correct your master copy!

"In the early 1970's the inner city neighborhood of Woolloomooloo in Sidney, Australia, was threatened by massive urban renewal.

SIDNEY??????

I grew up in the Western Suburbs (Granville, 2 stations east of Parramatta & Wentworthville, 2 stations west of Parramatta) & moved into the inner city in the 70's.

Working class battlers lived in our broad area, some in rent-controlled Housing Commission houses, others in small houses they were paying off. Most would have had 3 bedrooms, & all would have had 1 bathroom, with a dunny out the back (bathroom = room with basin, bath & shower, dunny = little house = toilet).

Nowadays the battlers (renamed Aspirational Voters & courted by politicians on both sides) live much further west, or south west as they can't afford the area where I grew up. Nowadays a lot of these small houses have been extended or rebuilt as MacMansions.

Mount Druitt is 6 stations west of Wenty.

sandra