Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.
The parish is described as partly upland and partly fen, on which chief crops grown were wheat, oats, barley, turnips and mangolds.
George Johnston, an officer of marines who had arrived on the First Fleet was granted land in this area in 1804.
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He has held it since the 1990 elections and was last re-elected in the 2007 elections.
Also, there are many educational institutions named after him, such as De La Salle University in Manila,Philippines; La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; De La Salle High School in Concord, California; and De La Salle High School in Revesby, New South Wales, Australia.
Padstow railway station is on the Sydney Trains Airport, Inner West & South Line, west of Riverwood and east of Revesby.