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Not for profit community organisation in Western Sydney that shares and protects Darug culture and provides support for Aboriginal people.

Caraher Stairs was a large stairway designed by City of Sydney Engineer Edward Bell that connected Lower Fort Street in Millers Point to Princes Street North in The Rocks, demolished as a result of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Isthmus and headland on the northern end of Sydney's northern beaches peninsula, which is the site of the Barrenjoey lighthouse.

Park in the Darlington campus of the University of Sydney, adjoining Maze Crescent. Originally planned to be called Maze Green.

Shipping company formed to operate a four weekly mail and passenger service from Sydney to Brisbane, Batavia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Dagmar Berne was the first female student of medicine at Sydney University and a pioneering doctor. Confronted by prejudice, she was obliged to travel overseas to qualify. She gained world-class degrees and was feted on her return to Sydney, yet was denied access to…

Publishing, printing and lithography company in Sydney in the 1870s and 1880s , and the publishers of the Illustrated Sydney News between 1872  and 1894. After a disastrous fire in their premises on Hosking Place in October 1890, the business did not recover and closed in…

Convicted of 'feloniously stealing' a range of clothing items including a muslin apron, silk border and velvet hood at the Old Bailey on 12 December 1787, she was transported to Sydney for seven years. In Sydney she formed a relationship with First Fleet surgeon John White…

Accountant and estate agent who was a keen sailor and the Commodore of the Sydney Sailing Club. He recognised the importance of keeping access to Sydney Harbour in public hands and as founder and secretary of the Harbour Foreshore Vigilance Committee in the early 1900s…

Painter, glazier, oil and colour merchant, James Green was a good lodge man and an alderman on the Sydney City council for over a decade.

Mayor five times, Sir William Manning was one of Sydney's most prominent Catholic businessmen, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Teacher, businessman, farmer and diarist, John Armstrong was active in debates and organisations in Sydney's mid-nineteenth century public sphere.

Key component of the Northern Main Sewer extension of the Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer, crossing Whites Creek in Sydney's inner-west.

Tea, coffee and cocoa merchant established in Melbourne by brothers James and John Griffiths with a branch and warehouse in Sydney.

Australia's first colonial creatives probably didn't think of themselves as artists. Mostly, they were just trying to get by. All the Best listened for secret histories from Australia's first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. The result was These Walls Have Ears, a live…

Ship that brought 2,000 internees, known as the 'Dunera Boys', who had sought to escape Nazi persecution, to Sydney in 1940.

Hotel which existed in Lower George Street from 1830 in the building occupied by Sydney's first post office to 1819.

Official artist on the Vostok voyage to the Antarctic under the command of Captain Bellingshausen which visited Sydney in 1820.

Lesbian women's group established when Sydney lesbians broke away from CAMP New South Wales because of sexism from male members.

The site of many Aboriginal carvings, HMAS Watson has been part of Sydney's military defences since 1854.