‘Spend one night here’: Anger explodes over new Western Sydney airport night flights

Acreage owners in Sydney’s booming outer west are paying millions for dream homes, only to be jolted awake by planes thundering over their roofs through the night as anger explodes over the new 24/7 Western Sydney International airport.Residents living near the runway say the noise is so relentless they’re being driven from family homes, children are falling asleep at school and exhausted locals are daring Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to spend a single night in their houses to experience what they are going through.In prestige semirural pockets including Luddenham, Greendale, Silverdale, Wallacia, Badgerys Creek and Kemps Creek, where homes can sell for between $1.5m and $4m, locals say the lifestyle they paid dearly for is being smashed by overnight cargo flights, while the federal government’s promised insulation remains undelivered.For some, the fallout has already become deeply personal.A plane flying to WSI airport home during the daytime captured from a Luddenham home. (Supplied)Luddenham resident Carolyn Wong says her family is now weighing up whether to abandon the home they’ve owned for 70 years because living beside the airport has become unbearable.“I grew up here. My...