Moorebank is a

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, in the state of

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, Australia. Moorebank is located 27 kilometres south-west of the

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in the

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of the City of Liverpool. Moorebank features a mix of residential and industrial areas. Moorebank Shopping Village is a small

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located in the suburb.

History

The suburb takes its name from early settler

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. Moorebank was originally home to vineyards and other rural activities. Nuwarra Public School opened in 1973 and is located directly opposite Moorebank shopping centre, which also opened in the early 1970s. Moorebank is built atop a plateau and was cut off from surrounding areas in the floods of 1986.

Transport

The

M5 Motorway The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West England, South West. It runs from junction 8 of the M6 motorway, M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. Heading south-west, the M5 runs east of West Brom ...

links Moorebank east to the

and west to Campbelltown. Moorebank is close to Liverpool railway station on the

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and

Cumberland Line The Cumberland Line (numbered T5 and coloured magenta) is a commuter rail line operated by Sydney Trains in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It connects Schofields railway station, Schofields and Leppington railway station, Leppington station ...

of the

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network. Moorebank is the site of the proposed

Moorebank Intermodal Terminal The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is an intermodal terminal in the south-western Sydney suburb of Moorebank. Moorebank has two intermodal terminals. The first to be operational was the IMEX (Import Export) terminal to transfer containers to Por ...

Schools

* Nuwarra Public School Note:

Moorebank High School Moorebank High School (MHS) is a government-funded co-educational partially academically selective secondary day school, located in Chipping Norton, a suburb in the Liverpool district of Sydney, Australia. The school was located in Moorebank ...

, Newbridge Heights Public School and St Josephs Primary are now in the adjacent suburb of

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, due to a suburb border change.

Churches

Moorebank has several churches for the suburb * St Thomas (Anglican) * St Joseph (Catholic) * Freedom City Church

Sport and recreation

Moorebank is home to a number of local sporting teams, most of which use Hammondville Park as their home ground. Most prominent is the Moorebank Magpies

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team which plays in the second division of the

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competition. The Moorebank Rams

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team plays in the

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Junior Rugby League competition but have previously fielded teams in the Metropolitan Cup, the most senior Sydney competition beneath the

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. Moorebank also fields a

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team in the Southern Districts Soccer Football Association, a

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team in the Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Association, a

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team (the Royals) in the Bankstown District Baseball Association and also has

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and

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clubs. Moorebank/Liverpool District Hockey Club operates out of Ernie Smith Reserve with 3 international standard water based turfs and is one of the most successful clubs in Sydney. Moorebank is also home to a purpose-built

remote control car Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio. Nitro powered models use glow plug engines, small internal combustion engines fuelled by a special mixture of n ...

race track. The John Grant International Raceway is located in Helles Reserve which is just off Helles Avenue, near the Moorebank Road and M5 intersection. The racetrack is run by the New South Wales Remote Control Race Car Club Incorporated, a not-for-profit club, and was host to the 2001

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World Championships for 8th scale racing which saw the world's best 8th scale racers attend this event. Also situated in Helles Reserve, on the

Georges River The Georges River, also known as Tucoerah River, is an intermediate tide-dominated Ria, drowned valley estuary, that is located in Sydney, Australia. The Georges River is located south and south-west from the Sydney central business district, w ...

, is the NSW Barefoot Waterski Club. The site is considered one of the best in the World with consistent pristine water conditions. NSWBWSC has hosted many World Championships, National Championships, State Titles and Club Tournaments. Growth and development of first time barefooters and nurturing of junior members is key to the club's goal and purpose. Moorebank has a small

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called Clinches Pond. It is surrounded by a park called Chinches Pond Reserve.

Population

Demographics

According to the , Moorebank was home to 11,408 people. 63.0% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 3.3%, India 2.7%, Lebanon 2.2%, Fiji 1.9% and Philippines 1.7%. 53.4% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 10.1%, Vietnamese 5.2%, Greek 4.2%, Hindi 2.0% and Mandarin 2.0%. The most common responses for religion in Moorebank were Catholic 29.2%, No Religion 17.1%, Islam 9.6%, Eastern Orthodox 9.2% and Anglican 8.3%. The average age was 36 compared to 38 for the country as a whole and the median household income was $2,201 per week compared to a national figure of $1,746. The average housing loan repayments in Moorebank ($2,500 per month) are above national average ($1,863.)

Notable residents

Robert Kaleski Robert Lucian Stanislaus Kaleski (1877-1961) was a self-taught writer, bushman, environmentalist and canine authority living in New South Wales at the turn of the nineteenth century. While he is perhaps best known for his role in breeding and co ...

(1877–1961), bushman and dog expert. * Harley Matthews (1889–1968), vigneron, soldier and author of four books about his experiences at

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. *

(1762–1840), explorer and first British settler of Moorebank. * Robert Braiden (1971), film writer and director.

References

{{Sydney Liverpool suburbs Suburbs of Sydney City of Liverpool (New South Wales)