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White Pages Australia is a formerly government-owned and now-privatised directory of contact information for people and business entities within Australia. Originally only in the form of a print book delivered to all households for several decades, it now also exists online.
A major obstacle to the federation of the Australian colonies was the protectionist policies of Victoria which conflicted with the free trade policies dominant in New South Wales. Nevertheless, the NSW premier Henry Parkes was a strong advocate of federation and his Tenterfield Oration in 1889 was
Played for NSW Blues, and Australia 1985–2002; born in Campsie in 1965 Steve Waugh: Cricketer Captained NSW Blues, and Australia 1984–2004, named Australian of the Year in 2004, inducted in the Cricket Hall of Fame in 2010; born in Campsie in 1965 Lizzie Welborn: Ironwoman Todd Woodbridge: Tennis player Matthew Farrelly: Professional wrestler
Googfest is a regional music festival hosted by the developers of Googong, Peet Limited and Mirvac.The festival was launched in 2015 and has previously featured music acts including Dami Im, SAFIA, Sneaky Sound System, The Aston Shuffle, Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows, and Travis Collins attracting more than 10,000 people each year.
Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West [2] of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Municipality of Burwood.
In the 2021 Census, there were 9,659 people in Newport. 74.7% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 7.8%, New Zealand 1.7% and South Africa 1.3%. 89.8% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 46.7%, Catholic 18.8% and Anglican 17.5%. [4]
Angus Nivison, Art Gallery of NSW’s annual Wynne Prize for landscape winner in 2002. [38] Sam Payne, former Australia national rugby union team ("Wallaby") halfback [39] Norman Roy held the NSW boxing title on two occasions. [40] Jacob Samuels was mayor of Walcha in 1902/03. [41] He was born in Lithuania to a Jewish family before emigrating ...
In the mid-1800s, a land boom attracted people into the area, land was subdivided for housing and small farms. Wentworth's holdings were sub-divided – amounting to 600 lots. [ 6 ] The railway line had been put through on its way to Penrith , in 1864, but it was not until 1883 that Wentworthville got its own public railway station.