The "Homebush" you continually refer to in your broadcasts when talking about the Sydney Showgrounds/Aquatic Centre/former Olympic site is not -- and has never been -- called Homebush. As you can see from this map, easily found with any modern Internet browser, Homebush is a completely different suburb. In fact, Homebush and the actual place often referred to as "Homebush" by Tim Bailey on Channel Ten weather, aren't even in the same council area. Homebush is in the Municipality of Strathfield, the other "Homebush" is in the Auburn Local Government Area.
Homebush
The former Olympic site, Bicentennial Park and the headquarters of the NSW Rural Fire Service -- a place that becomes newsworthy about two minutes after the beginning of summer -- are located in a suburb formerly known as Homebush Bay. Auburn Council long identified the confusion of adjacent suburbs with similar names, and the media's laziness when it came to reporting them, so it applied to the NSW Geographical Names Board to have it re-designated into three different suburbs. This occured on October 2, 2009, when Homebush Bay was broken up into Olympic Park and Wentworth Point. One street, Carter Street, where the RFS building is, reverted into the suburb of Lidcombe. So everytime you "report from Homebush" about the swimming, or the Easter Show crowds, or the Grand Final, or a bushfire emergency update, you are actually deceiving the public because you're not reporting from Homebush at all! It was never called Homebush and even if it was, it hasn't been for the last six months.
Not Homebush
I'm pretty sure the Melbourne media don't get Dandenong and Mt. Dandenong mixed up. Why this behaviour from the news rooms in Sydney? Are you stupid?
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