Murderer Ron Medich and his family have reaped almost $500million from the sale of a block of land next to the new Western Sydney International Airport.
Ron and Roy Medich paid just $3.5million for the 344 hectares of farmland in 1996 and the single-storey brick home that stands on it was last rented for $280 a week.
The Badgerys Creek block on Elizabeth Drive - one of the largest bordering the airport - sold for $499,950,000 to a consortium with links to a Chinese billionaire.
Sales records show the vendors were Roy Medich Properties Pty Ltd and CSPA Properties Pty Ltd, of which 73-year-old jailed killer Ron Medich is shareholder.
Final link in walkway along Sydney Harbour foreshore opens at Barangaroo
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A missing link in an 11-kilometre walkway which follows the curves of Sydney Harbour’s foreshore from Woolloomooloo to the Anzac Bridge has opened, giving access to a part of the city locked away from the public for two centuries.
The last 300-metre stretch of the walkway at Barangaroo, on the western edge of central Sydney, features a tree-lined boulevard for cyclists, commuters and visitors. It was designed by landscape architect Peter Walker, who also drew up plans for the headland park known as Barangaroo Reserve.
Suevic (A29) at sea.
Her story caused a sensation in the press at the time. She was described by newspaper reporters as “a clear-skinned, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed type of healthy country girl”, a “Kurri Kurri Amazon” who wanted to get to the front to do her bit for the war effort. But Maud didn’t actually want to go away and fight.
“I had a terrible desire to help in some way, but I was only a girl,” she told reporters on Christmas Day 1915.
“I wanted to join the Red Cross, and I tried very hard to get accepted.
“I knew it would be no use to stay in Kurri Kurri, because I would never learn to be a nurse there.