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Dance company which offers accredited courses in Aboriginal dance and theatre skills, and provides a dance outreach program for children and youth from metropolitan Sydney, regional NSW and around Australia.

Founded in Sydney as The Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, it aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.

Petty criminal and illegal bookmaker who operated in Sydney's underworld at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was born in Tumut to a Chinese father and Australian born mother.

Association formed in 1905 to protect public access to the foreshores of Sydney Harbour and to lobby for the resumption of areas of private land to create public reserves. 

Professional association of nurses founded in Sydney in 1899, which later became part of the Australian Nurses Federation in 1924. It sought to improve nurses' training, registration and status.

Woolbroker who built a large and successful business in Melbourne before expanding into Sydney in 1882. By 1888 his business had amalgamated with Mort & Co to form Goldsbrough Mort & Co.

Known to its Cadigal traditional owners as Ta-Ra, the land that became Dawes Point was Sydney's first observatory and weather station, run by William Dawes. It was fortified to a Greenway design and remained government land. In 1925 part of the fort was demolished for the…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of St Patrick's Roman Catholic church between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Sumner Locke Elliott, actor, playwright and novelist, lived in Sydney until 1948 and thereafter in the United States. In the 1960s after a successful career as a playwright he decided to reinvent himself as a novelist and of his ten novels five are based on his life in Sydney…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of George Allen's house in Elizabeth Street between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Suburb built on the peninsula between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay, on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. Its foreshore was preserved when Cremorne Reserve was gazetted in 1905.

Hall for formal ceremonies constructed as part of the eastern front of the Main Quadrangle at the University of Sydney, designed by Edmund Blacket in the Gothic Revival style.

Watercourse, now confined to a channel about 1.5 kilometres long, flowing into Rushcutters Bay. The creek's original course formed the municipal boundary between Paddington and the City of Sydney Council.

Former butchers' shop on the corner of Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, which became the Butchers' Arms and was later renamed the Volunteer Hotel before its demolition in 1882.

Semi-autobiographical novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a young boy caught up in a custody battle between his aunts in Depression era Sydney.  The book was made into a film in 1983.

From its foundation by the First Fleet, Sydney has been populated by immigrants from cultures across the world and remains Australia's most multicultural city.

There are three main geological layers in the Georges River catchment that can be seen along the river's route through south western Sydney. 

Established in Oxford Street in the 1880s, Mark Foy's became one of Sydney's leading stores, with a grand store in Liverpool Street and a wide range of departments.

One of the large Lindsay family of artists and writers, Lionel Lindsay settled in Sydney from 1903, and became a well known art writer as well as a noted watercolourist and printmaker.

By the 1840s, Sydney's Devonshire Street cemetery was nearing capacity so planning commenced for a new cemetery at Haslems Creek. From 1867 through to 1948, a branch from the Parramatta to Sydney line brought mourners and coffins into the Rookwood Necropolis, with grand…