Western Sydney takes centre stage in close-run Australian election


By Ian ChuaYuzuha Oka
  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Jun 2016

A pedestrian walks along a footpath as a worker uses a sign to direct traffic near a construction site in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta, Australia, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ian Chua

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Twenty-two-year-old forklift driver Mitchell Beckwith is living the dream. Or he's living Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's dream anyway.

Beckwith, who quit his job in inner Sydney for work closer to his home in the west, is an exemplar of Turnbull's ambitious plan to create 30-minute cities around the country where people can both work and live with a commute in that timeframe.

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