It’s over - a Fair Go was sought, and a Fair Go delivered.

But someone should probably let that snowball know; you know, that rolling ball of momentum, gathering speed and magnitude every hour.

Good luck trying to stop it.

The fight for service equality, world-class infrastructure and job creation for the hardworking folk of Western Sydney is merely in its infancy, successfully kicked off the mountain top as a snowflake by The Daily Telegraph with its Fair Go For The West Campaign and now burgeoning with political and business backers of the highest order.

TUESDAY NIGHT’S FAIR GO FOR THE WEST GALA WHICH WSBC WERE GUESTS OF.

Apprentice Michelle Sinai and Mike Baird / Picture: Craig Greenhill Source: News Corp Australia

The campaign has become a cause; “a great legacy” for The Daily Telegraph that will carry on into the future, according to Lachlan Murdoch, News Corp’s non-executive co-chairman, who commended the paper’s editor Paul Whittaker as a key driver.

Mr Murdoch said newspapers like The Australian had been influential at a national level, but it was grassroots campaigns like the Telegraph’s that could “play a very, very positive role in shaping the debate about our politics and our communities”.

“What The Telegraph has been able to do over a course of campaigning journalism over many years, but certainly more recently and specifically under Paul Whittaker, is ­really drive a campaign about ­investing in infrastructure in Western Sydney.”

Judging by the gamut of political elite and the bevy of corporate CEOs attending Tuesday night’s Champions of the West gala at the Rooty Hill RSL Club, the light bulbs are beginning to switch on. It’s epiphanies for everyone.

Captains of industry and political heavyweights are grasping the fact that a tangible difference can be made when those with power and influence put their heads and resources together to redress decades of neglect.

A tangible difference can be made selling the region to the world and championing the talent in its ’burbs.

“For a long time we’ve thought how great (Western Sydney) could be. My strong sense as this campaign comes to a close, it is not the end, but … a realisation from everyone across Western Sydney on how great Western Sydney is and could be,” NSW Premier Mike Baird said.

In a 57-day window, the campaign compelled governments into action, none more so than the pressure applied to the federal government to begin work on the Badgerys Creek airport by 2016.

Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch with Prime Minister Tony Abbott / Picture; Stephen  Cooper Source:News Corp Australia

The campaign pushed for airport infrastructure, which was delivered courtesy of a $6.5 billion road and rail commitment, with the bulldozers expected to roll down Bringelly Rd within months.

The Telegraph also ­announced the state government had committed $10 ­million for a feasibility study into the proposed $1.9 billion Parramatta Light Rail, and the creation of a Greater ­Sydney Commission to plan major developments across the west.

Other outcomes include the state government’s push to relocate 3000 bureaucrats to the west, the creation of a rail orbital corridor, a pledge to boost hospital beds, hospital upgrades at Blacktown, Campbelltown and Nepean, while the Supreme Court will sit regularly in Parramatta and the NSW Civil and ­Administrative Tribunal will sit there three days a week.

But the campaign was not confined to stories of happy endings and breakthroughs.

There were revelations of the deteriorating health of the population and elective surgery waiting lists three times longer than other regions, and sobering data that showed youth unemployment would hit 27 per cent in Blacktown and 26 per cent in Parramatta in two years unless thousands of jobs were created. Not just a bad news story but fuel for a fire that appears inextinguishable.

Source: The Daily Telegraph by Andrew Carswell. Original article.