Red Rooster is a fast food chain in Sydney that, inexplicably, only exists in the west of the city. If you take every Red Rooster and join up its easternmost stores, you get a line that almost perfectly divides Sydney into east and west. It correlates eerily well with the socioeconomic divide in Sydney; those above the line are generally better off socioeconomically in almost every regard to those below the line.
So, how does this correlation exist so perfectly? Isn't it a bit weird that the locations of specific fast food restaurants match up with the socioeconomic divide of Sydney? Why? And why is Sydney divided like this? Why does Western Sydney have so much socioeconomic disadvantage compared to Eastern Sydney?
In this video, I'll explore all that, explore the controversial 2021 Delta lockdown which enunciated this divide greater than ever before, and investigate ways that we could try to dismantle this divide once and for all. I'll even interview Professor Awais Piracha, a Professor of Geography, Tourism and Urban Planning at Western Sydney University, to get to the bottom of the line!

Links:
- Watch my full interview with Professor Awais Piracha here:    • Red Rooster Line Extra: My Full Inter...  
- The Honi Soit Red Rooster Line Article, one of the first media outlets to write about the line: http://honisoit.com/2017/09/food-faul...
- The research article associating low socioeconomic status with increased fast food intake: http://www.jrbssonline.com/wp-content...
- Alan Tsibulya's Eastern VS Western Sydney Video:    • Eastern Suburbs vs Western Suburbs (S...  
- An article by SMH investigating the statistical differences between the East and West of Sydney: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/h...
- An article by The Guardian on how the Delta lockdown has left a lasting impact on Western Sydney: https://www.theguardian.com/australia...
- The Guardian's article on Postcode Prejudice: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2...
- Two articles on ways that Sydney can fix its socioeconomic divide: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/our-big-cit... AND https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/soc...

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