Several western Sydney councils are battling to become the new home of the Special Broadcasting Service, with Canterbury-Bankstown refreshing its push and Willoughby pleading for the broadcaster to stay put on the north shore | michaelkoziol
Several western Sydney councils are battling to become the new home of the Special Broadcasting Service, with Canterbury-Bankstown refreshing its push and Willoughby pleading for the broadcaster to stay put on the north shore.
“Right now, we as a council have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to make a new home for SBS in our city,” Asfour will tell a council meeting on Tuesday, according to a written mayoral minute that also references the late television legend Bruce Gyngell and former prime minister Paul Keating. Bleasdale hoped for support from federal Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, whose seat of Greenway overlaps Blacktown City Council.But Liverpool and Parramatta are also gunning to be SBS’s new home. Parramatta’s mayor Donna Davis said Sydney’s second CBD was a gateway to the rest of western Sydney and it “just makes sense” for major media outlets to have a presence there.
The latest census showed half of Willoughby City Council’s 75,000 residents were born overseas, a very similar proportion to Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool and Blacktown.
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