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Old berrima jail set to become an even bigger tourist attraction.

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A trip down to the Southern Highlands for Macarthur residents usually includes checking out the numerous tourist attractions of Berrima.

One of those attractions is the historic Berrima jail, which is now part of plans to convert it into a hotel and entertainment precinct.

NSW minister for planning and homes Anthony Roberts has announced that the former Berrima Correctional Centre had been sold to a developer for $7 million.

“I am excited to announce that Blue Sox Group is the successful proponent and will redevelop the site, carefully considering its heritage significance to the local community,” Mr Roberts said.

“The proposal incorporates a boutique hotel whilst retaining the beautiful grounds of the estate, and will include café, restaurant, bar, community and event areas, and spaces which will cater for small business opportunities such as antique and book shops, personal services, art galleries, library and museum.”

NSW Minister for corrections Geoff Lee said it was crucial that the winning proposal needed to consider the historical and cultural importance of the site.

“The Berrima Correctional Centre opened in 1839 and had many uses, including being a German prisoner camp during World War I, a training centre and minimum-security prison for men that was later converted to also accommodate women,” Mr Lee said.

“The NSW Government retired the correctional centre in 2020 and I’m excited to see how the site will be transformed.”

Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman said Property and Development NSW (PDNSW) conducted a rigorous Expressions of Interest (EOI) process.

“I am confident the EOI criteria was structured to ensure the successful proponent delivered a strong proposal that provided a broad range of social, economic and cultural benefits for Berrima and the Southern Highlands and that the community will embrace the vision the proponent has for this significant property,” Ms Tuckerman said.

Blue Sox Group will also work with the community, local Indigenous groups and the Local Aboriginal Land Council on collaborative ideas to preserve and celebrate the wider site’s heritage.

The State heritage listed buildings on the site have the highest protections in place and will be preserved and protected.

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do you mean "decommissioned" or active?

the only one i can think of in the former category is pentridge in melbourne.

there are a few others around but i think they are used for other purpose now eg. darlinghurst jail in sydney.

A side trip to Hobart in Tasmania is called for, I think.

You could see the World Heritage listed Port Arthur convict township with its Model Prison, Richmond Gaol (jail) and the Penitentiary Chapel (with court rooms, underground cells and gallows as well).

http://www.portarthur.org.au/

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=2749

http://www.penitentiarychapel.com/

Fremantle Gaol in Perth, Western Australia is good, too.

http://www.hht.net.au/museums/hyde_park_barracks_museum

and i guess cockatoo island and fort dension in sydney harbour have a bit of a convict past. and the quarantine station was a prison to some.

There was a Female Factory at Parramatta but I'm not sure how much of it remains - http://www.parragirls.org.au/female-factory.php

They're clutching at straws really, aren't they, Diane?

If it's prisons you're interested in, best to pack your bags and come to Tassie. This island was just one great prison in its heyday.

It's worth looking at World Heritage listed Maria Island (on the east coast of Tasmania) and Sarah Island (on the west coast). Sarah Island was our earliest and remotest prison settlement for incorrigibles- a "place of banishment and security for the worst description of convicts" . Both were horrible, horrible places.

Or you could stay on the mainland and see a smidgin of convict era relics. :)

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/?base=3495

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=2791

But I'm leading you astray. If you're a prison buff, the real treasure is Port Arthur's separate or model prison, modelled on the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

http://www.portarthur.org.au/file.aspx?id=7157

http://www.portarthur.org.au/index.aspx?base=1471

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur,_Tasmania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

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Travel Support for Prison Visitors

Keeping in touch with someone in prison can be costly, both financially and emotionally. For those having to travel long distances the impact can be even greater.

We may be able to provide some limited financial assistance with costs for travel and accommodation, to people on a low income, such as Centrelink, or who are experiencing financial hardship and need to travel significant distances to visit a family member or kinship relative in a NSW prison.  Travel assistance can be provided for fuel, public transport and in some cases, flights.

The service aims to ease the difficulties of long-distance travel by contributing to some of the travel costs incurred by people visiting a prison that is a significant distance from home. We provide this service in recognition of the importance of maintaining family ties and connection during a period of imprisonment.   If you live more than 100km from the prison  and are experiencing financial hardship, then you may be eligible for this support.

CRC no longer provides a visitor bus service to any NSW prison. You will need to organise your own travel and accommodation through the usual methods and by looking on the internet. You can visit  Corrective Services NSW  to see travel and contact information for every prison and correctional centre in NSW. We recommend you check this information before planning your trip.

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Specific eligibility criteria apply.

Please see the application form for more information and guidelines.

If travelling to Junee Correctional Centre, please contact them directly on (02) 6924 3222 to ask about their travel assistance arrangements.

Funding : This service is funded by Corrective Services NSW

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Questions : If you have questions about the eligibility criteria, would like to discuss your circumstances or confirm with us that your travel will be eligible please contact us on (02) 9288 8700, 9am–5pm Monday to Friday.

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‘A long way to go for one gig’: the 3,723km tour that didn’t break Australia’s most remote band

Desert Stars’ first NSW shows won’t be in pubs or venues but boutique cinemas screening their Gravel Road documentary – and the national gallery

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Almost 3,000km is a long way to travel for a gig. But for the band affectionately known by its fans as Blacca Dacca, traversing great distances is becoming a habit.

Desert Stars, led by frontman Jay Minning, is Australia’s most remote rock band. This weekend they will travel from their community of Tjuntjuntjara in the Western Australia desert to the closest major town of Kalgoorlie, almost 600km away. There they will catch a plane to Perth and then on to Canberra and Sydney for a series of three concerts.

The venues for two of these concert are not pubs, clubs or stadiums. The cinema chain Dendy is hosting two of the Desert Stars performances – because in addition to playing live, the documentary about their first ever tour is making its New South Wales and ACT debut. (The third concert is happening at the National Gallery of Australia, to help open Vincent Namatjira’s major retrospective.)

Gravel Road follows the band as they embark on their first tour: a 3,723km bus trip crossing the Gibson and Sandy deserts to play in Laverton, Warburton, Uluru, Yuendumu, Balgo, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome, to promote Desert Stars’ second studio album, Mungangka Ngaranyi (It’s On Tonight).

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The tour encounters what to any other band would be unsurmountable roadblocks by the time the group reaches Warburton, on day three. The option of shortcutting it straight through to Broome is discussed, but as one member remarks: “That’s a long way to go for one gig.”

“The biggest antagonist in this film is the landscape,” says Tristan Pemberton, who co-directed Gravel Road with the Tjuntjuntjara community.

“The tour didn’t quite work out the way we planned, but that’s the reality of trying to travel through remote Australia. where there aren’t any sealed roads, and you don’t have much support for things like vehicles breaking down or getting spare parts.

“But I think the essence of what the band intended to set out to do is still captured: the idea of getting out and telling their stories outside their remote community.”

A still from Gravel Road

Most of the Desert Stars’ songs are performed in their second language, English, because “in a way, there’s not enough words in Pitjantjatjara … I sing in English, better understanding [for audiences] and more words,” says frontman Minning, also a songwriter.

“For a black man, I’m living in two worlds here – and I got to get the story across to the other side.”

Minning has plenty of stories to tell. Doing time in jail, he says, “I got time to do all this, write all my stories about my land, my people”.

The land of the Spinifex people spans desert terrain across the Western Australia and South Australian borders, and belonged to them for thousands of generations until the British began nuclear testing at nearby Maralinga in the 1950s.

In what was a first European contact experience for many Spinifex hunters and gatherers, they were uprooted and trucked to the Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission in Cundeelee, 160km east of Kalgoorlie.

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They were not permitted to return to their traditional lands until the late 1980s.

Minning’s song Running is about what happened at Maralinga .

“That still lingers in people’s heads, generation after generation,” he says “It’s got stories about it, so I write a song about running; to me its a tribute to survivors.”

Desert Stars and the Re-Mains on tour together.

The band’s drummer, Ashley Franks, recalls his father’s tale of “a big serpent coming up … but it was the bomb and he was running for days to warn his family, to warn his people that a big danger was coming”.

The serpent story handed down by the Spinifex people actually came from white officials in the Menzies government. They told the nearby communities the noises of the nuclear blasts were the sound of wanampi , hostile rainbow serpents, to discourage them from getting too close to the testing sites.

The film Gravel Road has itself been on the road for almost two years, although until now has never been screened in NSW.

It won the best documentary feature award at the Poppy Jasper film festival in California and best road/tour movie at the Sound on Screen Music film festival in South Africa. Gravel Road made its Australian premiere at Cinefest Oz in WA’s Margaret River in late 2022.

Gravel Road will screen at Dendy Canberra at 6.30pm on Friday 1 March and Dendy Newtown at 6pm on Sunday 3 March, with both screenings followed by a Q&A and live performance by Desert Stars. On Saturday 2 March, the band is performing at the opening of the Vincent Namatjira exhibition at Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia

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To celebrate our 10th birthday here at Urban List, we’re asking you to tell us your top 10 lists over on our  Instagram —we asked and you delivered on Sydney's best ghost tours.

If you’re a fan of the supernatural, then Sydney is the right place for you. Packed with abandoned jails, creepy botanic gardens, haunted pubs, and islands trapped in an actual paranormal vortex, there’s no shortage of sites to explore and tours to get around if you’re into getting absolutely spooked.

Get ready to hold your loved ones tight, here are the scariest ghost tours in Sydney right now.

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A cemetery, haunted mansion and a historic cottage which served as a mortuary—this is the tour for horror fanatics. Sydney Ghost Tours is a walking tour through a bunch of historic Cammeray sites with a dark past and two tours are conducted per night, one at 8:30pm and the next at 11:30pm. Kicking off from Cammeray Square, you'll be taken through a series of haunted places which bear tales of love, greed, murder, cannibalism and now—many recounts of paranormal activity.

Fisher's Ghost Investigation Tour

Campbelltown.

This ghost tour slash investigation is strictly for those above the age of 18. Fisher's Ghost Investigation Ghost Tour is a mini investigation inside one of Campbelltown's most haunted buildings— Quondong Cottage . The spooky antics start in Koshigaya Park carpark and look like an actual investigation run by experienced paranormal investigators and mediums. You'll get to use actual paranormal equipment will swigging back hot choc and you'll definitely want to slap on a good pair of walking shoes, you know, in case you have to run away. 

Gates Ghost Tours

Inside the Royal Botanic Garden , there’s a haunted tour you need to try if you’re well and truly keen on being scared out of your wits. Now open after hours, Garden Gates is bringing to life its shadowy tree-lined paths, gloomy ponds, and eerie grottos in a series of twilight tours not for the faint-hearted. You’ll be taken around the grounds and get to hear creepy stories of the Garden’s past and yes, bringing your own torch is an absolute must. More info is here . 

Ghost Tours At Sydney Q Station

Not for the faint-hearted, Q Station is really (and we mean, really) one of the darkest places to explore in Sydney. This one harbours a bleak history as it was formerly a quarantine station for sickly migrants arriving in Sydney—which feels all too eerily relevant in 2020. 

These days, Q Station is the reigning king of ghost tours with a sling of different spooky tours to choose from, including a historical walking tour of the grounds, a ghost tracking session at Q Station’s most haunted sites, an extreme ghost tour loaded with experiments to encourage paranormal activity, and even a spirit searching sleepover (for the true die-hard fans of the poltergeist world).

Ghostyard Tours

Cockatoo island.

It’s believed Sydney’s Cockatoo Island site is trapped in a vortex of negative energy as a result of its horrific past, which means its Ghostyard Tours  are, well, bloody scary. Apparition sightings and paranormal-induced symptoms (slight queasiness and headaches) are not uncommon here with supernatural occurrences stretching back more than a century. Throughout your night tour of the island, you’ll be equipped with a K-II EMF reader (a device that detects surrounding electromagnetic energy) and a pendulum. If you really can’t get enough of this stuff, after your tour you can glamp on the island overnight.

Paramatta Gaol Ghost Hunting And Tours

Parramatta Gaol has had its fair share of reconstructions, kicking off its life back in 1796, it has earned itself a strong reputation for being one of the most unforgiving locations in Sydney, historically speaking. Still decked out with rows upon rows of original cells, the ghost tours and hunts at Parramatta Gaol are led by The Australian Paranormal Phenomenon Investigators (who have been running these sessions since 2014). Depending on what you can handle, the ghost tours here incorporate stories of sightings around these grounds, while the ghost hunts are a dedicated interactive session packed with all the guidance, tools, and methods you’ll need in order to communicate with any spirits that might still linger on the premises. Just casually.

Lantern Ghost Tours

As Sydney's oldest "neighbourhood", The Rocks is thought to be a pretty haunted spot. And while you might have heard stories about opium dens and secret rum tunnels, there's a whole lot of ghostly history to soak up here too. This 90-minute ghost tour of The Rocks will delve into its darkest history, including its convict settlement, opium dens, mass burial pits, public executions and gangs that ruled the streets.

Red Coat History Ghost Tours

Enter The Hero of Waterloo, the one place in Sydney where you can knock back a cocktail or two, kick up your heels at the fireplace and spot a casual ghost-in-residence.

Known for its stellar pub feeds and trad-swing live music, The Hero of Waterloo is one of the most haunted pubs in Sydney having been frequented by many a paranormal event in the past. Yep, if anything is likely to give you actual chills, word on the street is that the owner of this watering hole back in 1849 pushed his wife down the stairs to her death and now, her ghost likes to rearrange furniture and play on the piano in the middle of the night. During the Red Coat History Ghost Tours , you’ll get to soak up an eerie guided tour of the cellar—once used to harbour a secret tunnel for smuggling rum plus a free drink too.

The Best Ghost Tours Near Sydney

Blue mountains mystery tours, blue mountains.

While we all know the Blue Mountans keeps one of the most beautiful landscapes in the country, amid the stunning cascades and picture-perfect hikes, there's a myriad of ghost sites to be explored. Here, your tour guide, afectionately known as Paranormal Pete, will take you out through rugged landscapes and a pretty damn famous 'Ghost Bus'. This one is for hardcore ghost fans with the entire tour spanning anywhere from four to five hours.

Your highlights will include an investigation of an 1830s cemetery, ghost and UFO tales of The Three Sisters and the 'Lady In Black' of Victoria Pass.

Hunter Valley Ghost Tours

Hunter valley.

By day, the Hunter Valley is a smorgasbord of wineries and vineyards any person in their right mind should work their way through. By night, turns out these boozy plains have a few more tricks up their sleeve. They may as well call this region 'Ghost Hunter Valley' because there's a whole lot of supernatural happenings which have occurred in these parts and lets just say if you're a stickler for the scart stuff, your creepy cravings will be more than satisfied here.

With a number of ghost hunting and ghost tours on offer, the most famous tour is the Morpeth ghost and heritage tour (spoiler, Morpeth is pretty much Australia's most haunted town). On this spree, you'll be taken through various haunted sites of an ill-tempered merhant who throws kitchenware around on the odd occassion (apparently), a ghost that haunts the corridors of the Campbell's Store and the secrets of what actually lies beneath the town.

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The night will involve four set experiments using paranormal investigation techniques to attempt to see if any spirits wish to communicate with us.

You will also hear the history of the Wings as we enter, and time permitting, will have a little time to explore the location as well.

With nearly 200 years of history, this grim and very atmospheric prison, built in 1837 is now one of the oldest surviving jails in the country.

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Arson cases rise in regional NSW according to crime data

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Crime data extracted by the ABC shows big spikes in arson offences across New South Wales, with some regional areas reporting a rate up to eight times the state average.

According to crime global fire expert Richard Woods arson causes chaos around the world, with firebugs causing billions of dollars of damage each year.

"And very often it's a feeling of power ... a box of matches can cause absolute chaos for a community," he said.

Mr Woods is a consultant both in Australia and abroad. His team at Wildfire Investigations Analysis focuses on the work of arsonists and how and why they strike.

"So very often it might be someone who probably does not have a successful lifestyle, is perhaps a loner," he said.

NSW RFS Deputy Commissioner Peter McKechnie said arsonists were generally opportunistic.

Although the risk is up to 10 years in jail when they act.

"Just one instance of arson is one too many ... there is zero tolerance for it from the fire services," he said.

"The police and the fire services will actively investigate suspicious fires."

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Regional spikes recorded

Using the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics (BOCSAR) crime mapping tool, the ABC has extracted data that shows arson prosecutions are on the rise, on the back of massive spikes in cases.

In the two years to September 2023, New South Wales recorded about 7,500 cases of arson, up 31.9 per cent each year.

It equates to a rate of almost 54 incidents per 100,000 people.

In the regions, there were significant spikes.

In Gunnedah, the rate of cases was nearly eight times the state average with a spike of nearly 143 per cent, or 72 fires lit across the two years.

In Armidale, there were 90 fires over that time period.

The number of blazes in the Clarence Valley was 147, with a yearly spike in blazes of 88 per cent.

There was an almost 82 per cent rise in Cessnock in the Hunter Valley where there were 231 cases, a rate five times the state average.

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BOCSAR executive director Jackie Fitzgerald said while the figures appeared to be alarming, a new way police have begun collating arson data could be inflating the incident rate.

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"I'm told that in March 2023, new fire incidents and fire classifications replaced the existing fire incidents classification in the Computerised Operational Policing System — COPS," Ms Fitzgerald said.

"The classification code 'DELIBERATE' was replaced with 'SUSPICIOUS — RECKLESS' and 'SUSPICIOUS — ARSON'." 

But she said that, on the face of it, the data could not be ignored.

"What we can see from the police data is that in the most recent figures, about 30 per cent of those arson incidents are in the bushfire category and the remaining 70 per cent are in the typical, more traditional types of arson of buildings and other types of property," she said.

"So certainly those bushfires are making up a sizeable chunk of the overall arson detection that police are reporting."

Deputy Commissioner McKechnie said authorities were working diligently to combat arson.

"And areas like Cessnock, Armidale, Gunnedah are areas that we've worked with New South Wales Police to focus on our bushfire management committees," he said.

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"We now are doing up what we call ignition prevention plans, which are about identifying the trend."

Mr Wood says it is up to all agencies to work together to snuff arson out.

"Some of the work I've done internationally where a lot of these cases are not being solved is that they are purely being given to law enforcement and law enforcement doesn't have the capacity to deal with them appropriately," he said.

Fire and Rescue NSW directed the ABC to NSW Police for comment but after two requests there has been no reply.

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The final report into a high-profile inquiry into a Sydney prison guard who was sentenced to 23 years in jail for assaulting female inmates has been delivered to the NSW Governor and NSW Premier.

In 2023, Wayne Gregory Astill was convicted of 34 charges, including aggravated sexual assault and indecent assault, while working as a guard at Dillwynia Correctional Centre in northwestern Sydney.

The special commission of inquiry was launched in 2023 and overseen by former Supreme Court judge Peter McClellan KC.

Speaking at the inquiry, Trudy Sheiles, who was assaulted by Astill, said she was “terrified of repercussions” and threats that prevented her from speaking out against Astill.

Former prison guard Wayne Astill was convicted of raping female inmates. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Dylan Coker

In her statement to the inquiry, she said he once told her: “You know I am high up, I’ll send you to Wello (Wellington), and you’ll be stomped on the head.”

Ms Sheiles also said she was regularly “retrieved” from her cell by other guards and taken to an office, where she would be sexually abused by Astill.

The probe, which concluded in November last year, was tasked with investigating whether other employees of Corrective Services NSW had knowledge or suspicion of Astill’s offending and what further action was taken, what supervision or oversight applied to Astill, and what policies and complaints processes were available to inmates.

The inquiry also examined the adequacy of existing oversight mechanisms, how they should be improved, and whether any matters should be referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) or the NSW Police Force for further investigation.

The final report, understood to be more than 800 pages, has been given to NSW Governor Margaret Beazley and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

It will now be dissected by the government before it is released publicly.

The NSW Treasurer delivered a jab to his federal counterpart, criticising the National Housing Accords for not following “through with execution”.

The mayor of a local council which became ground zero for Sydney’s asbestos-contaminated mulch scandal has lashed the state’s peak environmental body for their delay in cleaning up a major park.

The Aussie radio star well-known for his radio prime time spot and comedy career has made a major health pledge, offering to be the face of a statewide campaign in one state.

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