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Bankstown is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is located 19 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Canterbury-Bankstown region.
The traditional Aboriginal inhabitants of the land now known as the Canterbury-Bankstown were the Dharug (Darag, Daruk, Dharuk) and Eora peoples. Early indigenous groups relied upon the riparian network of the Georges River and Cooks River catchments towards Botany Bay, with extant reminders of this lifestyle dating back 3,000 years including rock and overhang paintings, stone scrapers ...
It is now the seat of the City of Canterbury Bankstown, and was the location of the first council meeting on 24 May 2016. In March 1895 a petition was submitted to the NSW Colonial Government by 109 residents of the Bankstown area, requesting the establishment of the "Municipal District of Bankstown" under the Municipalities Act, 1867. [13]
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 ...
Bankstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's West. It has historically been one of the safest Labor seats in New South Wales. It is currently represented by Jihad Dib, a member of the Labor party, who was previously the member for the abolished seat Lakemba.
Bankstown Airport was originally planned in 1929. The plan to build an airport at Bankstown was put on hold until it was established in 1940, after the commencement of World War II when the Department of Civil Aviation attained 630 acres (2.5 km 2) of land for development as a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) facility.
Transport for NSW is currently extending the Sydney Metro to Bankstown, with a delayed opening date of 2025. [8] Before the extension opens, the line between Bankstown and Sydenham will close, so that the nine intermediate stations can be converted for driverless Metro operation.
The Bankstown Myer store stocks more than the old David Jones store and is the largest store at Bankstown at 10,150m². [10] Stage 2 development also added new stores including National Australia Bank branch located next to the RTA (now Service NSW).