'It's a McFailure': West Dapto residents reject council's new suburb name short list

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 26 2020 - 9:23pm, first published 9:00pm
Not happy: Sandra Etryk with Sophie and Clara, and Ami Beck with Reuben and Oscar at Kembla Grange Estate, which may no longer be in the suburb of Kembla Grange if the council's name changes go ahead. Picture: Robert Peet.
Not happy: Sandra Etryk with Sophie and Clara, and Ami Beck with Reuben and Oscar at Kembla Grange Estate, which may no longer be in the suburb of Kembla Grange if the council's name changes go ahead. Picture: Robert Peet.

Residents of the developing housing estates on the western side of Kembla Grange have branded Wollongong council's proposed renaming of their suburb a "McFailure".

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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