Sydney Olympic Park is a suburb of

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, located 13 kilometres west of the

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, in the

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of the

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. It is commonly known as Olympic Park but officially named Sydney Olympic Park. The area was part of the

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and known as "North Lidcombe",Dictionary of Sydney - Homebush Bay
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" (part of which is now the separate suburb of

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). The names "Homebush Bay" and, sometimes, "Homebush" are still used colloquially as a

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for

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as well as the Olympic Park precinct as a whole, but Homebush is an older, separate suburb to the southeast, in the

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. Sydney Olympic Park features a large sports and entertainment area, originally redeveloped for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and

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. The stadiums, arenas and venues continue to be used for sporting, musical, and cultural events, including the

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and a number of world-class sporting fixtures. The suburb also contains commercial developments, residential buildings and extensive

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lands.

History

Aboriginal land

Aboriginal people have been associated with the

area for many thousands of years. When Europeans arrived in 1788, the Homebush Bay area formed part of the traditional lands of the Wanngal clan. The lands of the Wanngal clan extended along the southern shore of the

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between about

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and Auburn. The Wanngal clan would have had access rights to the resources of the Homebush Bay area, but would have routinely interacted with neighbouring clan groups. Shortly after the British colonisation of

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several

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epidemics ravaged the local Aboriginal population, leaving many of the clans seriously depleted. By way of adaptation, members of neighbouring clan groups are known to have joined to ensure their survival. Aboriginal people were still using the Homebush Bay area in the early 1800s even after their lands were granted to Europeans. Several encounters and conflicts between Europeans and Aboriginal people are documented for the Homebush Bay area throughout the 1790s, and in the early 1800s Aboriginal people (perhaps of the Wanngal clan) were working for and supplying fish to Europeans in the area.Cameo, 2002: 46 No references have yet been located which describe Aboriginal people living in the Homebush Bay area for the period after the 1810s; however, this is the subject of ongoing research through the Aboriginal History & Connections Program, a long-term program aimed at documenting Aboriginal connections to the Homebush Bay area before and after the arrival of Europeans launched by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority in April 2002. Today the Homebush Bay area is within the asserted traditional cultural boundary of the

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language group, of which the Wanngal clan is said to have belonged. The descendants of Darug

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of the Sydney area play a custodial role in the preservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage and are actively involved with archaeological and historical research in and around the Homebush Bay area. The area also falls within the administrative boundary of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council which also plays a major role in the investigation and preservation of Aboriginal culture and heritage.

Colonisation

The Sydney Olympic Park locality was first known to Europeans as "The Flats", as described by Lieutenant Bradley in his charting of the river in 1788. The name "Liberty Plains" was also given to the locality but referred to the higher and drier lands along

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and referred to the first group of settlers who were free rather than convict, who established farms there in 1793.Carney & Mider, 1996: 11 The first European settler was Thomas Laycock (1756?-1809), who was granted 40 hectares between Parramatta Road and Homebush Bay in October 1794. He named his farm, Home Bush and ran sheep and cattle there. Laycock was Quartermaster of the NSW Corps and also held other government positions.

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(c.1762-1827) purchased the 318 hectare holding from the Laycock family in January 1808. With additional grants Wentworth's holdings at Homebush Bay totalled 372 hectares by 1810. Wentworth established a horse stud and a private racetrack adjoining Parramatta Road and was influential among the early government officials and free settlers. He died at Homebush on 7 July 1827. The village and later suburb of

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was not part of the Home Bush Estate: the village was subdivided from Edward Powell's estate further south, and took its name from nearby

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, which in turn was named after the Home Bush Estate to its north. The Home Bush Estate was inherited by

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(1790-1872), who continued in his father's tradition of controversial public service. With his neighbour

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, he was in the first exploration party to find a route through the Blue Mountains. He expanded and developed his father's bequest of properties, becoming one of the colony's richest men by his death in 1872. The property was let to numerous tenants throughout William's ownership, while he lived at

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in Sydney. William, who was elected president of the

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in 1832, gave permission for the existing racetrack to be upgraded for public race meetings. The racetrack included grandstands, stables and spelling paddocks which stretched over the Sydney Olympic Park site. The property was inherited by William Wentworth's son, Fitzwilliam.Painter & Waterhouse, 1992:15-22 The Wentworth Estate, together with adjoining areas to the south, was proclaimed the Borough of Rookwood on 8 December 1891. The borough became a municipality in 1906, and was renamed the "Municipality of Lidcombe" in 1913. Addresses in the area were subsequently listed under the suburb of

and the area was sometimes referred to as "North Lidcombe" Lidcombe merged into the Municipality of Auburn in 1948.

State Abattoir and State Brickworks

In 1907 367 hectares, most of the Wentworth estate, was resumed for the building of the State Abattoirs. Specifications for the general arrangement and layout of the site and drawings of the gatehouse, administration buildings, mutton, pork, beef and veal houses were completed in 1909 by the

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under Government Architect

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and construction completed in 1913. The gardens were also designed in 1913 by Joseph Maiden, Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, including the historic formal avenue of trees that is located on the eastern boundary of the Overflow. Consisting of Brush Box (

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) and Spotted Gum (

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maculata) this row of trees is referred to as "the allee".OCA Tender documents, 2001 The cauldron is located in the Overflow, a park just west of the former main abattoir administration precinct and allee, on land which formed a car park for the abattoir. In 1910, part of the land initially resumed for the State Abattoir was used to build the State Brickworks. Thereafter, the abattoir and the brickworks became the two largest establishments in North Lidcombe. By 1923 the State Abattoir employed 1,600 people and had a killing capacity of 25,000 animals a week, making it one of the largest abattoirs in Australia. The abattoirs continued to expand during World War II and into the 1950s with works provided for the treatment of offal, refrigeration, the preparation of tallow, fertilizers, meat for export and canning of pet foods (Godden & Associates 1989: 21ff). By the 1970s the facilities required rebuilding and a decision was taken not to upgrade but to redevelop surplus land for industrial use. The State Abattoir officially closed on 10 June 1988 and the Homebush Abattoir Corporation wound up on 30 June 1992.Fox & Associates 1986: 48-50 Throughout the twentieth century, much of the current land of the site was reclaimed from the river and wetlands by landfill.

Regeneration

In the mid-1980s, an area bounded by Australia Avenue and what are now

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Avenue and Sarah Durack Avenue was promoted as a 'technology park' called the Australia Centre. However, apart from a few relatively high tech businesses like AWA Microelectronics,

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and

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, the idea did not catch on and the

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is now in

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. In any event, a decade later the entire area became the main cluster venue for the

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. As part of the regeneration scheme for the area, North Lidcombe was renamed "Homebush Bay" in 1989, named after the bay to its north and east. After 1992 the Abattoir precinct was occupied by a number of organisations that ultimately became the Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA). Sydney won the right to host the Olympic Games on 23 September 1993, after being selected over Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester at the 101st IOC Session in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The industrial activities in the area resulted in a highly contaminated site with little natural ecology and a fragmented stream corridor. Sixty-five percent of the soils were required to be excavated and contained on-site. The site did have some positive attributes that

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; bird sanctuaries; and surviving endangered species like Golden orb spiders and the

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s that resided in a 70-acre historic limestone quarry, the Brick Pit. Millennium Parklands was and is a project that matches the scale of the city, dealing with landscape as the system that sustains urban life, the Olmstedian "lungs" known these days as "

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" a component of the urban condition rather than its native opposition.

Post-Olympics

With the successful completion of the 2000 Olympics, Sydney Olympic Park has undergone a significant amount of development work to support its conversion to a multipurpose facility with a number of businesses re-locating to the area. Commercial developments now sit alongside sporting facilities with tenants in office buildings such as

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from September 2007. A five-star Pullman hotel and a two-star Formule 1 hotel were completed in mid-2008. The parklands have undergone redevelopment with Blaxland Riverside Park (formerly Blaxland Common) being transformed into an urban park along

. The Park opened on 3 March 2007. In addition the Wentworth Common area was upgraded with significant adventure playground facilities for children aged 8–13 years. The former Auburn Council sought public comment on a proposal to rename the Homebush Bay area, to remove confusion with its namesake suburb Homebush. The area encompassing Sydney Olympic Park, which made up most of the suburb of Homebush Bay, was given autonomy as a suburb, the waterfront residential area was renamed

and the Carter Street industrial precinct was absorbed by the neighbouring suburb of

. Prior to the 2010s, Sydney Olympic Park was largely uninhabited. Together with Rookwood and

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to the south, it formed part of a string of uninhabited suburbs between

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Sydney and

. However, the suburb has seen substantial residential development in the 2010s. In the 2011 census, its population was only 65 people,ABS
2011 - QuickStats - Sydney Olympic Park (state suburb)
/ref> but by the 2016 census five years later, this had grown dramatically to 1736. By 2021 this number had grown again to 4848. On 10 May 2021, a

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mass vaccination hub opened in a commercial building in the suburb of Sydney Olympic Park.

Heritage listings

Sydney Olympic Park has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: *Cathy Freeman Park near corner of Olympic Boulevard and the Grand Parade: 2000 Summer Olympics cauldron *Holker Street: Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve *Australia Avenue, State Sports Centre: New South Wales Hall of Champions Collection

Events

More than 5000 events are held at Sydney Olympic Park each year, including the

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and

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games at

. The Sydney International is held each year at the

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, and the park also hosts

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and

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events, using some venues for concerts during the year, and hosts

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. It hosts the

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music festival and has been the venue for free, open air performances as part of the

such as Movies in the Overflow and Music by Moonlight. The

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has in the past been the venue for the now-defunct "Great Escape" and "Acoustica at the Armory" music festivals, both of which were held over the Easter long weekend. Some venues function have changed from the original uses in the 2000 Olympics, such as the baseball stadium which has become the Sydney Showground; the former Sydney Superdome is now known as Allphones Arena and the Olympic Stadium has been renamed a number of times, currently Accor Stadium. The latter two venues are now very successful in their own right, with the stadium serving as the venue for 49 major sporting events in 2007 and the Arena being the world's second-highest grossing venue of its type in the world in 2005 - behind only New York City's

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. A funeral was held for the Lin family at Sydney Olympic Park on 8 August 2009, with the only surviving member, Brenda Lin, in attendance. Between 2009 and 2016, the Sydney 500

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event was held through the streets of the Olympic precinct.

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was also hosted at The Sydney Showgrounds within Sydney Olympic Park between 2012 and 2016 present. During October 2018 the

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for wounded, injured and ill war veterans was hosted in the Sydney Olympic park as the fourth competition of its type, this was the first Invictus games held in the southern hemisphere. Large hip-hop music festival Rolling Loud was held on January 29, 2019. Performers included

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, who was billed as a surprise guest, and a tribute set for the late

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Culture

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The suburb is home to a significant arts and cultural program including regular events, the largest single precinct public art collection in Australia, the Armoury Gallery which is the largest single room permanent art exhibition space in the Southern Hemisphere, a new theatre, an artist studio facility at Newington Armoury and a BMX track. The suburb is fully dedicated to environmentally and socially sustainable practices and has committed to 'Master Plan 2030': an opportunity to establish a best practice example of sustainable urban development for the next 20 years of the Park's growth. The Master Plan 2030 vision is that the Park will, by 2030, be home to a daily population of 50,000 residents, students and workers, in addition to 10 million visitors per year.

Demographics

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,736 people in Sydney Olympic Park, an increase of 2,571% from its population of 65 people at the 2011 Census. 22.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 19.8% and South Korea 10.5%. The most common reported ancestries were Chinese 24.6%, Korean 10.7%, English 8.0%, Australian 5.6% and Indian 5.2%. 22.2% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 20.1% and Korean 11.8%. The most common response for religion was No Religion at 36.6%.

Governance and management

Sydney Olympic Park was part of Auburn Council at the time of its creation. When Auburn Council was abolished,was absorbed by

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. However, in practice, the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the state government body which manages Sydney Olympic Park, has considerable autonomy and in many matters its powers are similar to that of a local government. Sydney Olympic Park Authority is the successor of the Homebush Bay Development Corporation, which was originally established to manage the large-scale

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project for the Homebush Bay area after industry moved out. After the site was nominated for the 2000 Olympics bid, in 1995 the Homebush Bay Development Corporation became the Olympic Co-ordination Authority. After the games, in 2001, it became the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. The Authority also remains a significant land owner in the area, having inherited land that was already owned by the state government or acquired for the purpose of the Olympics.

Facilities

Sydney 2000 Olympics venues

- (capacity: 110,000 at time of Olympics, now 83,500) *

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- formerly Sydney Superdome, Acer Arena and Allphones Arena (capacity: Concert 21,032; Basketball 18,200; Gymnastics 15,000) * Sydney Showground Formerly Sydney Baseball Stadium - Home of Sydney's Royal Easter Show. Includes

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(capacity: 21,500 from 1998 to 2011, 24,000 from 2012). *

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(capacity: Grandstand 5,000; Grass 10,000) *

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- Formerly Sydney International Aquatic Centre (capacity: 17,500 at time of Olympics, now 10,000) *

(capacity: 10,000) *

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(capacity: 15,000 at time of Olympics, now 8,000) *

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(capacity: 5,006) *

Sydney International Archery Park The Sydney International Archery Park was specially designed for archery during the 2000 Summer Olympics. The stadium is located in Sydney Olympic Park. It was designed by Stutchbury and Pape. Goad, Philip: ''New Directions in Australian Archite ...

(capacity: 4,500) *Sydney Olympic Park Sports Halls File:ANZ Stadium Sydney July 2015 (cropped).jpg,

- the second largest stadium in the southern hemisphere File:Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.jpg,

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Ken Rosewall Arena The Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre is a tennis and multi-purpose sports facility located within the Olympic Park in Parramatta, near Sydney, Australia. The centre was built in 1999 and hosted the tennis events for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Th ...

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Non-Olympic facilities

*Monster Mountain X -

Mountain Biking Mountain biking is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and pe ...

*Monster BMX * Monster Skate Park *

Gallery and Theatre *

Netball Central, Sydney Olympic Park Netball Central is an Australian netball venue located in Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales. Between 2016 and 2018, due to a naming rights arrangement, it was known as the Genea Netball Centre. The venue is owned by Netball New South Wales. ...

Accommodation

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and Ibis Hotel, Sydney Olympic Park * Pullman, Sydney Olympic Park * Ibis Budget, Sydney Olympic Park *Sydney Olympic Park Lodge - Newington Armory *Former Olympic Village - now suburb of Newington

Transport

Sydney Olympic Park is served by the Olympic Park railway line and Olympic Park station. There are also regular ferry services to the nearby

Sydney Olympic Park ferry wharf Sydney Olympic Park ferry wharf is located on the southern side of the Parramatta River serving the Sydney suburb of Wentworth Point. History Sydney Olympic Park wharf opened on 22 September 1997 to service the Sydney Olympic Park precinct for ...

, at the end of Hill Road, serviced by

Sydney Ferries Sydney Ferries is the public transport ferry network serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales. Services operate on Sydney Harbour and the connecting Parramatta River. The network is controlled by the New South Wales Government's transport a ...

to and from various points around

Sydney Harbour Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove River, Lane Cove and Parramatta River, Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or harbor, natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. T ...

. During major events,

Sydney Olympic Park bus routes The Sydney Olympic Park bus routes operate from various places in Sydney to Sydney Olympic Park when significant cultural or sporting events are held at the Sydney Olympic Park precinct. History As part of its winning bid for the 2000 Olympic G ...

operate. The two-line

Parramatta Light Rail The Parramatta Light Rail (often unofficially referred to as the Western Sydney Light Rail) is a project for a light rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which is under construction and due to start passenger services in 2024. The ...

project was announced in 2015. Original plans included a line between Westmead and Strathfield, passing through Sydney Olympic Park. Plans for this line were redesigned and truncated in 2017. The redesigned line will terminate at Sydney Olympic Park instead of continuing to Strathfield.

Sydney Metro West Sydney Metro West is a rapid transit project under construction in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, involving the construction of a rail line linking the Sydney City Centre (CBD) with Westmead in the outer western suburbs of Greater Sydn ...

is a proposed metro line between the Sydney Central Business District and Westmead. The line was announced in 2016 and would include a station at Sydney Olympic Park. Sydney Olympic Park water feature

Parklands

* Bicentennial Park; of parkland, opened in 1988 to celebrate

Australia's Bicentenary The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. It marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. History The bicentennial year marked Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships ...

*Wentworth Common *Archery Park *Blaxland Riverside Park along Parramatta River *Narawang Wetlands and

Louise Sauvage Pathway Located alongside the suburb of Newington, New South Wales, and named in honour of Australian paralympic wheelchair racer Louise Sauvage, the Pathway is the longest continuous section of pathway in Sydney Olympic Park. As such, the pathway is s ...

*The Brickpit and Brickpit Ring Walk * of parkland throughout the Sydney Olympic Park site

Restricted areas

- Former

Armory Armory or armoury may mean: * An arsenal, a military or civilian location for the storage of arms and ammunition Places *National Guard Armory, in the United States and Canada, a training place for National Guard or other part-time or regular mili ...

Store for the

Royal Australian Navy The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the principal naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister o ...

- limited public access related to events and Sunday open days *Newington Nature Reserve

Tom Wills Oval

Located at Olympic Boulevard and adjacent to the netball arena the Quaycentre, the Tom Wills Oval (known for sponsorship purposes as the

WestConnex WestConnex is a predominantly underground motorway scheme in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. As of 2022, it is partially completed and partially still under construction. A joint project of the New South Wales and Australian governments, t ...

Centre) is the training ground and headquarters of professional

club the

GWS Giants The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Sydney Olympic Park, which represents the ...

. The Giants play home matches at the nearby Showground Stadium. The club moved into the facility in May 2013. As well as featuring a full-size training field, the facility also has a high-performance centre for indoor training and administration.

Climate

The Olympic Park area has a

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

(''Cfa'') with slightly warmer summers than in coastal Sydney, and mild to cool winters.

References

External links

* *
SYDNEY.com - Sydney Olympic Park

Attribution

{{Authority control Sports venues in Sydney Olympic Parks Suburbs of Sydney Venues of the 2000 Summer Olympics Cumberland Council, New South Wales Sports complexes in Australia