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New Zealand born painter and photographer who opened a studio in Sydney with her sister Mina in 1911. She retired in 1928.

Settler who was granted land in the Auburn area in 1823, and established a hotel to serve travellers between Sydney and Parramatta.

Activist and reformer who was first social worker with South Sydney Community Aid and worked to establish the Aboriginal Medical Service. 

Gold miner, businessman, politician and photography enthusiast who made a fortune on the goldfields and sponsored a famous series of photographs of Sydney.

Small vessel built by Burton Crossland and used by him to convey supplies between the settlement at Berowra Creek and Sydney.

Radio quizmaster who became one of Sydney's best known personalities, famous for his charity appeals and participation in Redex motor rallies.

One of the earliest churches in Sydney, the present building was constructed on the site of the original 1841 church.

First ladies' above-ground public lavatory in Sydney which provided limited relief for ladies after many years of lobbying and complaint.

Luka Budak is Director of the Croatian Studies Centre, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney

Pam Forbes is an archaeology student at the University of Sydney. Prior to this she had a teaching career at TAFE.

Robert Freestone is a Professor in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in Sydney

Bridget Griffen-Foley is an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the Centre for Media at Macquarie University, Sydney

Noeline J Kyle is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney, a biographer and a teacher of writing history in the community.

Local community hall, used by the Coal Lumpers Union, before being taken over by Sydney City Council as community facilities.

Fiona McGregor is a Sydney author and performance artist. She has published five books, most recently the prize-winning novel Indelible Ink.

Perry McIntyre is a historian and an adjunct lecturer at the Global Irish Studies Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Archaeologist and historian who is the author of Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney (NewSouth, 2017).

When builders labourers, organised by their union, refused to work on projects they found socially or environmentally undesirable, in Sydney in the 1970s, they started a new form of environmental activism. The Green Bans were to change the way Sydney developed

Circus has been part of Sydney's entertainment since the 1840s and hardly a year has passed since then without a circus in town. Sydney performers have gone on to international careers in the arena and have returned triumphant, and circus skills and acts became part of the…

Opera with music by William Shield and libretto by John O'Keeffe, which was one of the earliest theatrical productions in Sydney.