The City of Randwick is a
local government area
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in the
Eastern Suburbs of Sydney,
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. Established in 1859, Randwick is the second-oldest local government area in New South Wales, after the
City of Sydney
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. It comprises an area of and as per the had a population of .
The
mayor
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of the City of Randwick is
Cr. Dylan Parker, a member of the
Australian Labor Party
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, who was elected on 8 October 2024.
Suburbs and localities in the local government area
Suburbs and localities in the City of Randwick are:
These localities are also serviced by Randwick Council:
History
The name Randwick comes from the village of Randwick in
Gloucestershire
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,
England
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, birthplace of the district's first mayor Simeon Henry Pearce. The area was home to a few wealthy landowners and the poor residents of several shantytowns until the 1880s, when the coming of
trams from Sydney brought extensive suburban development. The New South Wales University of Technology opened at
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
in 1949 on the site of Kensington Racecourse, eventually becoming the
University of New South Wales
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The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...
.
A
2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the City of Randwick merge with the
Waverley and
Woollahra
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councils to form a new council with an area of and support a population of approximately . Following an independent review, in May 2016 the NSW Government sought to dismiss the council and force its amalgamation with Woollahra and Waverley councils. Woollahra Council instigated legal action claiming that there was procedural unfairness and that a
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report at the centre of merger proposals had been "misleading". The matter was heard before the
NSW Court of Appeal
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who, in December 2016, unanimously dismissed Woollahra Council's appeal, finding no merit in its arguments that the proposed merger with Waverley and Randwick councils was invalid. In July 2017, the
Berejiklian government decided to abandon the forced merger of the Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick local government areas, along with several other proposed forced mergers.
Town Clerks and General Managers
Demographics
At the , there were people in the Randwick local government area, of these 49.2% were male and 50.8% were female.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
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made up 1.5% of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The
median
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age of people in the City of Randwick was 34 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 14.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.4% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 38.5% were married and 9.1% were either divorced or separated.
Population growth in the City of Randwick between the 2001 Census and the was 1.10%; and in the subsequent five years to the , population growth was 7.59%. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same periods, being 5.78% and 8.32% respectively, population growth in Randwick local government area was lower than the national average.
The median
weekly income for residents within the City of Randwick was higher than the national average.
Council
Current composition and election method
Randwick City Council is composed of fifteen
councillor
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s elected
proportionally as five separate
wards,
each electing three councillors. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The
mayor
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is elected for a two-year term, with the deputy mayor for one year, by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The
most recent election was held on 14 September 2024, and the makeup of the council is as follows:
The current Council, elected in 2024, in order of election by ward, is:
Election results
2024
Heritage listings
The City of Randwick has a number of heritage-listed sites, including those listed under the
New South Wales Heritage Register:
* Centennial Park, 3R Oxford Street:
Centennial Park Reservoir
* Centennial Park, 5R Oxford Street:
Woollahra Reservoir
* Coogee, 45-51 Beach Street:
Cliffbrook
* Coogee, Grant Reserve:
McIver Women's Baths
* Coogee, 4b Neptune Street:
Wylie's Baths
* Kensington, 85 Todman Avenue:
''Carthona'' (Kensington)
* La Perouse,
Bare Island Fort
* La Perouse, 46 Adina Avenue:
La Perouse Mission Church
* La Perouse, 1-39 Bunnerong Road:
Chinese Market Gardens (La Perouse)
* Little Bay, 1430 Anzac Parade:
Prince Henry Site
* Malabar, 1250 Anzac Parade:
Long Bay Correctional Centre
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* Malabar, Franklin Street:
Malabar Headland
* Randwick,
Centennial Park,
Moore Park,
Queens Park
* Randwick, 124 Alison Road:
Randwick Post Office
* Randwick, 162 Alison Road:
Randwick Presbyterian Church
* Randwick, 102-108 Avoca Street:
St Jude's Church, Randwick
* Randwick, 211-215 Avoca Street:
Corana and Hygeia
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* Randwick, 128 Belmore Road: ''Sandgate'' (Randwick)Emanuel School, Australia
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Future
The new Kensington to Kingsford Planning Strategy by the City of Randwick will include 8 new plazas, more than a doubling of public space, and wider footpaths along the Anzac Parade.
References
External links
Randwick City Council website
Randwick City Tourism
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