August 22, 2026 — 9:30am

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It was really a matter of when, not if Omar Kowaider was going to leave Sydney behind for a rural lifestyle.

It was 2021 and the electrician and father-of-three had been going back and forth over where to go and when to leave as the western Sydney lockdowns bit hard.

“We wanted space, and the lockdowns were the push and the drive, but we were thinking about it as a family,” he said.

“And we made the decision last minute – we even told our families, like, a week or two before going. They were acting like we were…

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