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Indonesian Muslim women at prayer, end of Ramadan, Marrickville Community Centre, 19 January 1999

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Immig, John

National Library of Australia

Indonesians

Indonesians arrived in Sydney in great numbers after the dismantling of the White Australia policy in the 1970s, and with strong community organisations have added richly to Sydney's cultural and culinary life.

Marrickville

Once the site of a vast swampland, Marrickville became a significant industrial area in the nineteenth century. Today, the industry has largely gone but its multicultural legacy still flourishes in this inner west suburb.

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Addison Road Community Centre

The Addison Road Community Centre is a community meeting-place in Marrickville, in the heart Sydney's Inner West, on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. The site was used as an Army Depot from the middle of World War I and became a community centre in 1976. It is home to organisations, artists, galleries, a theatre, a radio station, organic gardens and a self-guided Heritage Trail. The centre is cared for and managed by the Addison Road Community Centre Organisation (ARCCO), creating affordable spaces for NGOs, community groups and artists, and as a base for ARCCO's own community development programs in the arts, multiculturalism, environment, social justice and history. The centre is a locally listed Heritage Item that preserves remnant open space from its time as a 19th century dairy and market garden, dozens of buildings from its period of military use and buildings, artworks and additions made since its incarnation as a vibrant community centre, as well as several magnificent trees.

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Marrickville

Inner-western residential suburb with an industrial heritage on the Cooks River, named after the Marrick estate of Thomas Chalder which was subdivided in 1855. The post-Second World War period saw the influx of mainly non-English speaking people, attracted by the availability of factory work and cheap housing.

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