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Art class at Malek Fahd Islamic school, Greenacre 2004

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Immig, John

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Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

Muslims in Sydney

Muslims have been a presence in Sydney since the eighteenth century, despite the immigration restrictions of the White Australia Policy. Half of all Australia's Muslims now live in Sydney, forming a culturally and ethnically diverse community that flourishes, even amidst outbursts of prejudice from other residents of multicultural Sydney.

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Malek Fahd Islamic School Greenacre

Independent Islamic combined primary and secondary school which has a population of over 2400 students across three campuses.

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Greenacre

Western residential suburb, first subdivided in the early 1900s. It has a large Muslim community chiefly of Lebanese ancestry.

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