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Marrickville Council
Marrickville Council was a Local government in Australia, local government area located in the Inner West region of Sydney, Australia. It was originally created on 1 November 1861 as the "Municipality of Marrickville". On 12 May 2016, Marrickville Council was forcibly merged with Municipality of Ashfield, Ashfield and Municipality of Leichhardt, Leichhardt councils into the newly formed Inner West Council. The area was bounded by Municipality of Leichhardt, Leichhardt to the north, the City of Sydney to the east and north-east, the City of Botany Bay to the south-east, City of Rockdale, Rockdale to the south, City of Canterbury, New South Wales, Canterbury to the west, and Municipality of Ashfield, Ashfield to the north-west. It covers an area of approximately . The area is roughly bounded by Parramatta Road to the north, King Street, Newtown, King Street and the Princes Highway to the east, the Cooks River and Alexandra Canal (New South Wales), Alexandra Canal to the south, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In Australia
Local government is the third level of government in Australia, administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories of Australia, states and territories, and in turn beneath the Australian Government, federal government. Local government is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia, and two referendums in 1974 Australian referendum (Local Government Bodies), 1974 and 1988 Australian referendum#Local Government, 1988 to alter the Constitution relating to local government were unsuccessful. Every state/territory government recognises local government in its state constitutions in Australia, own respective constitution. Unlike the two-tier local government system in local government in Canada, Canada or the local government in the United States, United States, there is (largely) only one tier of local government in each Australian state/territory, with no distinction between county, counties and city, cities. The Australian local government is generally run by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immigration To Australia
The Australian continent was first settled when ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea over 50,000 years ago. European colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of a British Empire, British penal colony in New South Wales. Starting at independence in 1901, Australia maintained the White Australia policy for much of the 20th century, which forbade the entrance in Australia of people of non-European ethnic origins. Following World War II, the policy was gradually relaxed, and was abolished entirely in 1973. Since 1945, more than 7 million people have settled in Australia. Between 1788 and the mid-20th century, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from Britain and Ireland (principally English Australians, England, Irish Australians, Ireland and Scottish Australians, Scotland), although there was significant immigration from Chinese Australians, China and German Australians, Germany during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanmore, New South Wales
Stanmore is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia 3 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district. It is part of the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. It is known for its long strip of shops running along Parramatta Road (Great Western Highway). History Prior to settlement by the British, the site was populated by coastal Aboriginal peoples known as the Gadigal, Gadigal people of the Eora, Eora Nation. Land in the present Stanmore area was first allocated to colonial officers by Governor Arthur Phillip between 1793 and 1810. Stanmore was named by a saddler, John Jones, who settled on the land in 1835 where Newington College now stands and called it the Stanmore Estate. Jones named it after his birthplace of Stanmore, now a north-west suburb of London. Thomas Rowley (soldier), Thomas Rowley owned Kingston Farm which occupied the eastern half of Stanmore and much of Newtown, New Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peters, New South Wales
St Peters is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Inner West Council, with a small section in the southeast in the City of Sydney. History St Peters was named by its association with St Peters Church, St Peters, St Peters Anglican Church, which was consecrated in 1838. St Peters is the third oldest Anglican church in Sydney and has been claimed to be the first church built in Australia using non-convict labour. The church is on the Princes Highway. It was designed by Thomas Bird and built in 1838–39. In 1875, alterations were carried out under the supervision of Edmund Blacket. The church is now listed on the Register of the National Estate. The graveyard is the burial place of a few notable people, including solicitor and merchant Frederick Wright Unwin, who had Unwin Road and Unwin's Bridge named after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersham, New South Wales
Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Petersham is known for its extensive Portuguese businesses, with many Portuguese shops and restaurants, despite only 156 (1.9%) of the population being born in Portugal. Petersham is bordered by the suburbs of Leichhardt to the north, Stanmore to the east, Marrickville to the south and Lewisham to the west. Taverner's Hill, named after Fred Taverner, is a locality in the western part of the suburb. History Early Before European settlement, the area now constituting Petersham was within the territory of the Indigenous Gadigal people. The area now occupying Petersham was first worked by Europeans in 1793. During a period of food shortage for the new colony, the Lieutenant-Governor Major Francis Grose dispatched convicts to the suburb's south-west to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown, New South Wales
Newtown, a suburb of Inner West, Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the Local government areas of New South Wales, local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia. King Street, Newtown, King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. The street follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near the University of Sydney and extends to the south, becoming the Princes Highway at its southern end. A34 (Sydney), Enmore Road branches off King Street towards the suburb of Enmore, New South Wales, Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the Main Suburban railway line at Newtown railway station, Sydney, Newtown railway station. Enmore Road and King Street together comprise 9.1 kilometres of over 600 shopfronts. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mascot, New South Wales
Mascot is an inner south suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mascot is located 7 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is one of the administrative centres of the Bayside Council. A small part of Mascot is located in the Inner West Council. Mascot is on the northwest side of Botany Bay and contains Sydney Airport. History The first land grants in the area were made in 1835, with market gardening being the main land use. Subdivision followed the construction of Botany Road in 1875 and a municipality known as North Botany was Municipality of Mascot, formed in 1888. A racecourse operated in this area in 1904 on land that was formerly owned by the Australian Golf Club. The race course was known as Ascot Racecourse, Sydney, Ascot, named after its Ascot Racecourse, famous counterpart in England. Residents wanted the area to have an individual identity and a referendum was held in 1911 to choose between Ascot, and Booralee. An object ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marrickville
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government area. Marrickville sits on the northern bank of the Cooks River, opposite Earlwood and shares borders with Stanmore, Enmore, Newtown, St Peters, Sydenham, Tempe, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park and Petersham. The southern part of the suburb, near the river, is known as Marrickville South and includes the historical locality called ''The Warren''. Marrickville is culturally diverse, and contains both low and high density residential, commercial and light industrial areas. Geography Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia. Most of Marrickville is contained in a valley, as part of the broader Cooks River basin. History Early The Cadigal people of the Eora Nation have lived in the area for tens of thousands of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewisham, New South Wales
Lewisham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lewisham is located 7 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. History Lewisham took its name in 1834 from the estate of Joshua Frey Josephson, a German-born businessman who would later become mayor of Sydney. The estate was named after the London borough of Lewisham, which means Leofsa's village or manor. The original residents of the Lewisham area were the Wangal clan of the Darug tribe. Artefacts found near the Cooks River indicate at least 7,000 years of habitation in the local area. When the First Fleet arrived in 1788, the settlers set up camp in the middle of Cadigal territory. While the first governor Arthur Phillip tried to establish cordial relations with the Cadigals and their neighbours, the two groups were competing for the same food sources and tensions inevitably developed. In 1789, a smallpox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enmore, New South Wales
Enmore is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Enmore is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local government in Australia, local government area of Inner West Council. Like Newtown, Enmore is mostly comprises Victorian era buildings, namely in its commercial area, that provide a hint of the suburb's rich cultural heritage. History Enmore was named after Enmore House, built in 1835 by Captain Sylvester Browne, a master mariner with the British East India Company. Browne named his house after the Guyana estate of a business associate, the head of James Cavan & Co, which in turn took its name from Enmore, Somerset, Enmore in Somerset, England. Browne's son wrote several Australian classics, including ''Robbery Under Arms'', under the name of Rolf Boldrewood. In 1836, there was a report of snowfall in the suburb. Weather observer T. A. Browne stated, "the years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulwich Hill
Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7.5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Dulwich Hill stretches south to the shore of the Cooks River. History The suburb takes its name from the area of Dulwich in London. The name Dulwich Hill appears in Sands Directory of 1892. It had been known by several different names prior to this. Following European settlement, it was called ''Petersham Hill''. It later took the name ''Wardell's Bush'', a reference to Dr Robert Wardell, one of the area's early landowners. Other names the area was given were ''South Petersham'' and ''Fern Hill''. The area became part of Sydney's expanding tram network in 1889 and, like many suburbs in the Inner West, experienced rapid growth in the early twentieth century. As a consequence, the suburb has a large number of examples of Australian Federation architecture. It a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camperdown, New South Wales
Camperdown is an inner western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Camperdown is located 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Inner West region. Camperdown lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council. Camperdown is a heavily populated suburb and is home to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the University of Sydney and the historic Camperdown Cemetery. It was also once home to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, which was relocated to be next to Westmead Hospital in Sydney's west. The hospital buildings and grounds have been redeveloped into apartment complexes. History Camperdown takes its name from the Battle of Camperdown (or Camperduin in Dutch). It was named by Governor William Bligh who received a grant of 240 acres (1 km2) of land covering present day Camperdown and parts of Newtown. The land passed to Bligh's son-in-law Maurice O'Connell, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
