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Fundraising Hope Trek from Hawkesbury to Cowra on the road soon

by Wagner | Apr 22, 2023 | News

The Hawkesbury’s Hope4you Foundation is all about reaching out to communities and supporting each other with mental health and educating about prevention of suicide, and the group’s first major fundraising event promises something different. “I get calls from all...

ABC’s Simon Marnie interviews our editor about the WSU Hawkesbury campus PFAS situation

by Wagner | Apr 22, 2023 | News

Hawkesbury Post editor Tony Bosworth was interviewed this morning by the ABC’s Simon Marnie about the PFAS chemical situation at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury campus. You can listen to the interview here.

Wisemans Ferry – Strike Force Twill investigating child sex abuse claims from the 1980s

by Wagner | Apr 20, 2023 | News, Uncategorized

Police have launched an investigation into reported child sex abuse offences in the Hawkesbury region during the 1980s. Hawkesbury Police Area Command detectives established Strike Force Twill in October last year, following a number of reports of alleged child sex...

PFAS contamination at WSU Hawkesbury likely from landfill, not RAAF base – EPA

by Wagner | Apr 19, 2023 | News

The source of potentially dangerous PFAS chemical contamination in ground water at the Hawkesbury campus of Western Sydney University is almost certainly from landfill, not from RAAF Richmond, says the Environment Protection Authority. Artist’s impression of...

Fears over potential water contamination as PFAS chemicals see Hawkesbury Ag college moved

by Wagner | Apr 13, 2023 | News

The planned new Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Education on the Hawkesbury Western Sydney University site – originally slated to cost $39m – has been abandoned on the chosen site due to elevated PFAS chemical levels that cannot be practically cleaned up...