RIS ID
110679
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Abstract
What's in a name? Quite a lot if you live in the fringe urban communities of Campbelltown, Camden or Picton in the Macarthur district on Sydney's rural-urban fringe. In the past these communities have been fiercely parochial country towns with clearly identifiable differences based on history, heritage, traditions, mythology, rituals, demographics, local government and a host of other factors. With the encroachment of Sydney's urban sprawl they have been wrapped up by the tentacles of the metropolitan octopus and faced challenges on a variety of fronts. The questions that this article raises concern Macarthur regionalism. Is it authentic? How representative is it of the former country towns that are now incorporated within it?
Publication Details
I. C. Willis 2016 Westies, Bogans and Yobbos. What's in a name? Camden History Notes https://camdenhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/westies-bogans-and-yobbos-whats-in-a-name/