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The council was initially under the management of Administrator Richard Colley until elections were held. [18] The first meeting of the council was held at Bankstown Council Chambers on 24 May 2016. [19] The former Bankstown General Manager, Matthew Stewart was proclaimed as the first General Manager of the council. [18]
Bankstown Civic Tower, opened in 1990, was the primary offices of Bankstown council from 1997–2016. It is now the offices of the City of Canterbury Bankstown. In 1989, Council commissioned a new 14-storey "Civic Tower" office building at 66-72 Rickard Road to accommodate additional council staff, state government agencies, and rented office ...
The administration building which was part of the 1963 premises, was destroyed by fire on 1 July 1997. Council offices relocated to Bankstown Civic Tower (the blue tower) in 1999. On 13 June 2000, Bankstown's now popular Central Park, where the former administration building once stood, was officially declared Paul Keating Park. [6]: 13
Campsie is part of Canterbury Ward of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, which elects three councillors to the city council. [7] For New South Wales state elections, the suburb is in the Electoral district of Canterbury.
Fairfield City Council is composed of two six-member wards, as well as a directly-elected mayor. The election is being conducted by the Australian Election Company. [39] Although Frank Carbone and Dai Le formed their own groups at the 2021 election, they have an alliance on council. [40] [41] [42]
A 2015 review of local government boundaries [broken anchor] by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that the City of Canterbury merge with the City of Bankstown to form a new council with an area of 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 351,000. [8]
Tania Mihailuk (born 5 May 1976) is an Australian politician, currently serving as member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2023. [3] She served as mayor of the City of Bankstown from 2006 to 2011.
The original inhabitants of Canterbury and Bankstown were the Gweagal, Bidjigal, (also known as Bediagal) and a small portion of the Dharug people.. Five years after the first fleet arrived in Sydney Cove in 1788, a man by the name of Rev Richard Johnson, a chaplain aboard the First Fleet, was the first to receive a land grant of 40 hectares in what is now known as the 'Canterbury–Bankstown ...