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Lithgow Correctional Centre
Lithgow Correctional Centre is a prison near Lithgow, Australia, operated by Corrective Services NSW, an agency of the New South Wales state government. The prison houses sentenced male inmates with a maximum security classification. History Data obtained from Corrective Services NSW by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' revealed that between July 2006 and May 2009, 67 assaults occurred at the centre, one of which was considered serious. Following the 2008 discovery of a prison drug ring orchestrated from inside Lithgow Correctional Centre by Bassam Hamzy through use of a mobile phone, prison officials sought approval for the introduction of a trial of mobile phone jamming technology. The trial began on 24 September 2013, and has been extended to 1 November 2018. In 2011, prison officials announced a trial ban of smoking in the centre, impacting both inmates and officers. Nicotine patches were issued to inmates as a substitute. Prisoners were permitted to smoke in some designate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marrangaroo, New South Wales
Marrangaroo is a village in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Lithgow. The name is also applied to the surrounding area, for postal and statistical purposes. Overview Marrangaroo is located a few kilometres west of Lithgow. It is accessible from the Great Western Highway, and has no railway station and little bus services. Lithgow Buslines, run buses between Lithgow and Bathurst, which makes limited stops at Marrangaroo on the Great Western Highway. A main feature of Marrangaroo was the Trout Farm which was opposite the Lithgow Correctional Centre. At the 2016 census, Marrangaroo had a population of 909. The area in the north-east of the Marrangaroo bounded locality is now a part of the Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area. Military Marrangaroo Army Camp situated at the end of Reserve Road used to be a major ammunition depot from 1941 to the late 1980s. It was served by a three kilometres siding that branched off from the Main Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Orkopoulos
Milton Orkopoulos (born 22 July 1957) is an Australian convicted sex offender and former politician. A member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2006, Orkopoulos was appointed Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Premier on Citizenship in August 2005. In November 2006, Premier of New South Wales Morris Iemma sacked Orkopoulos as a Minister and expelled him from the Australian Labor Party after he was charged with child sex and other offences. The following week, he resigned as MP for the state electorate of Swansea. On 14 March 2008, Orkopoulos was convicted on charges relating to child sex offences and the supply of drugs. In May 2008, he was sentenced to 13 years 9 months in jail. He was paroled in December 2019, but was re-detained in January 2020 after failing to comply with his parole conditions. Orkopoulos was sentenced to a further 20 years in jail in November 2023, after being charged with sexually abusing and supplying drugs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisons In New South Wales
Punishment in Australia arises when an individual has been accused or convicted of breaking the law through the Australian criminal justice system. Australia uses prisons, as well as community corrections (various non-custodial punishments such as parole, probation, community service etc.). When awaiting trial, prisoners may be kept in specialised remand centres or within other prisons. The death penalty has been abolished, and corporal punishment is no longer used. Prison labour occurs in Australia, with prisoners involved in many types of paid work. Before the colonisation of Australia by Europeans, Indigenous Australians had their own traditional punishments, some of which are still practised. The most severe punishment by law which can be imposed in Australia is life imprisonment. In the most extreme cases of murder, and some severe sex offences, such as aggravated rape, courts in the states and territories can impose life imprisonment without parole, thus ordering the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Region, Bathurst Regional Council. Founded in 1815, Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had a population of 44,621 in 2023. Bathurst is often referred to as the Gold Country, as the area was the site of Australia's first discovery of payable gold in 1851, and where Australia's first gold rush occurred. Today education, tourism and manufacturing drive the economy. The internationally known racetrack Mount Panorama, also known as Wahluu, is a landmark of the city which brings in a lot of tourism, especially during the week of the Bathurst 1000. Bathurst has a historic city centre with many ornate buildings remaining from the New South Wales gold rush in the mid to late 19th century. History Wiradjuri The area around what is now called Bathurst was originally occupied by the Muurra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Highway
Great Western Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. From east to west, the highway links Sydney with Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst, on the state's Central Tablelands. The highway also has local road names between the Sydney city centre and Parramatta, being: Broadway, Sydney, Broadway from to , Parramatta Road from Chippendale to Parramatta, and Church Street through Parramatta. Route The eastern terminus of Great Western Highway is at Railway Square, at the intersection of Broadway, Sydney, Broadway with Quay Street, in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket, New South Wales, Haymarket and just south of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD. From Railway Square, the highway follows Broadway south and west, to the intersection with City Road, Sydney, City Road (Princes Highway), where the highway changes name to Parramatta Road and heads generally west towards Parramatta. Hume Highway (Liverpool Road) branches south-west at Summer Hill, New S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buslines Group
The Buslines Group is an Australian bus operator in New South Wales and is the third largest private bus operator in New South Wales. History John A Gilbert Group The John A Gilbert group was founded in March 1926 by John A Gilbert as Reo Motors, being renamed in 1951. Initially a motor dealer, in 1941 it diversified into operating bus services. Its first operation was in Parkes followed by Bathurst, Dubbo, Goulburn, Mittagong, Orange and Tamworth. It also operated services in Sydney with suburban companies in Bronte, Ramsgate and Matraville. Most of these were sold over the years, with only Mittagong, Orange and Tamworth remaining by 1980.Buslines Group Australian Bus Fleet Lists From 1954 until 1982 it was listed on the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithgow Railway Station
Lithgow railway station is a heritage-listed former station master's residence and railway station located on the Main Western railway line, New South Wales, Main Western line at Railway Parade, Lithgow, New South Wales, Lithgow, City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built by New South Wales Government Railways and built from 1924 to 1925. It is also known as Lithgow Railway Station Group and Residence and Eskbank East. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 30 August 2013. The station has frequent NSW TrainLink services running to and from Central railway station, Sydney, Sydney Central. History With the completion of the Lithgow Zig Zag in 1869, the Western railway's terminus moved from to Bowenfels, New South Wales, Bowenfels, signifying the successful crossing of the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains. Whilst the railway would continue west, Lithgow proved to be an important destination in itself due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Francis Cameron
Rodney Francis Cameron (1952 – 19 April 2025), also known as Rodney Mallard, commonly referred to in media as the Lonely Hearts Killer, was an Australian serial killer who murdered several women during the 1970s and the 1990s. Crimes In 1974, Cameron was arrested for the murder of two people , Florence Edith Jackson, 49, whom he killed following the loss of his job as a trainee nurse. Following the murder, he fled to Victoria and murdered 19-year-old hitchhiker Francesco Ciliberto. Following his release, Cameron received a life sentence, following the murder of 44-year-old Maria Goellner. Cameron lured Goellner to an Inn at Katoomba, New South Wales by using a radio matchmaking show. Death Cameron died from cancer at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Anita Cobby
Anita Lorraine Cobby (née Lynch; 2 November 1959 – 2 February 1986) was a 26-year-old Australian woman from Blacktown, New South Wales, who was kidnapped while walking home from Blacktown railway station just before 10:00 p.m. on 2 February 1986, and subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered. Two days after being reported as missing by family, Cobby's body was discovered by a man in a paddock of his farm in Prospect, NSW. Investigations led to the arrest of five men, who were later convicted of her abduction, rape and murder on 10 June 1987. Each was sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole, on 16 June 1987. Upon arriving to the location of her body, it was clear to authorities that Cobby had sustained a prolonged and vicious attack, with multiple sharp puncture wounds and cuts, as well as lacerations from being rolled in and dragged through barbed wire. She had obvious signs of being beaten, kicked and struck, mainly from the bruising, cuts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect, New South Wales
Prospect is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Prospect is located west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and a small part of Cumberland City Council, is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. One of the oldest suburbs in Sydney, Prospect takes its name from the prominent nearby landmark of Prospect Hill - from the top of which people could ''get a prospect of'' (see a great distance) the surrounding countryside. Initially a settlement for emancipated convicts, it later became a village. Since colonisation, settlers cleared larger areas of land to raise livestock, and to build churches, inns, schools, shops and a large reservoir. Naturalist Charles Darwin visited Prospect in January 1836, to observe the geology. History Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Prospect was inhabited by different groups of the Darug people including the Warmuli. The Aboriginals there were of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neddy Smith
Arthur Stanley "Neddy" Smith (27 November 1944 – 8 September 2021) was an Australian criminal who was convicted of drug trafficking, theft, rape, armed robbery, and murder. Smith served a life sentence since 1989 and was imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre after he was moved from Long Bay Correctional Centre, New South Wales, where he spent 14 years. Smith's partner in crime, Graham "Abo" Henry, claimed in ''ABO — A Treacherous Life: The Graham Henry Story'' that the gang of criminals led by Smith committed crimes worth Australian dollar, A$25 million in the 1980s. Early life Smith was born on 27 November 1944 at Royal North Shore Hospital during World War II to an Australian mother and an American sailor whom he never knew. He was brought up in the Redfern,_New_South_Wales, Redfern area of Sydney with his half-siblings, and was sometimes cared for by his grandmother. He was first convicted of a crime at the age of 11 for stealing and was sent to a boy's home in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
