STOP PRESS: What’s in a name? How Blackmans Swamp became Orange

By Denis Gregory
Updated November 30 2017 - 1:15pm, first published 1:00pm
WAY BACK WHEN: The town of Orange - formerly known as Blackmans Swamp - in its early years.
WAY BACK WHEN: The town of Orange - formerly known as Blackmans Swamp - in its early years.

Those politically correct dills are at it again with their campaign for Blacktown Council to scrap calling a new suburb Lynch as a tribute to Jim Lynch, who was mayor from 1981 to 1985.

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