Over the years Bidwill has become a community where more than 90 per cent are living on Centrelink payments. For many of its residents, what started as a short stay in public housing has turned into years and generations of unemployment and welfare reliance. It is renowned for drug use, violence, mental illness and poverty."Bidwill residents describe life in a western Sydney suburb 'full of sad stories'" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-07/bidwill-a-suburb-in-crisis/5240962 (ABC)
