The Dictionary of Sydney - Sydney's history online and connected

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Sydney life

As a port city, Sydney has been susceptible to epidemics since white settlement.

Sydney creatures

They are there every evening at dusk, regular as clockwork, flying from the harbour shores, but perhaps they have not always been part of the inner-Sydney scene.

Sydney people

Henry Parkes cast a long and wide shadow over politics in Sydney in the second half of the nineteenth century.