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Plan to guide the development of Sydney between 1970 and 2000 particularly the growth of new corridors to areas such as Green Valley, Campbelltown and Blacktown.

Artists' balls have had a long tradition in Sydney; the first one was held as early as 1881 in the Garden Palace at the Royal Botanic Gardens after the International Exhibition. Taking their cue from their outrageous counterparts in Europe, the balls were attended by…

One of the oldest football clubs in Australia it, along with its team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, was one of the founding members of the New South Wales Rugby Football League.

Community hall where the first meeting to found the North Sydney Bears Rugby League Club was held in 1908. It was closed in 1935, bought by City Mutual, and demolished 1983.

The first charts of the shoreline of Sydney Harbour were drawn within days of the arrival of the First Fleet and surveys continued into the nineteenth century. This article compares the shorelines of four surveys with maps of the modern shoreline of Sydney Harbour, revealing…

Founded in 1833 on the model of Scottish Mechanics' Institutes, the SMSA sought to provide further education for working men through lectures, classes and a library. Many of Sydney's foremost intellectuals, inventors and innovators were associated with it, and it influenced…

Built by Governor Macquarie and financed by an innovative scheme that exchanged the building of the hospital for the right to sell liquor, Sydney Hospital was part of Macquarie's plans for the future of the colony.

Convention and exhibition centre at Darling Harbour designed by Philip Cox. The mast and cable construction of the Exhibition Centre reflects its maritime environment. During the 2000 Sydney Olympics the complex was used for wrestling, boxing, judo and fencing events.

When the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in 1932 it was the epitome of modern bridge design and engineering ingenuity. The iconic design was the creation of Dr JCC Bradfield, of the New South Wales Department of Public Works, Ralph Freeman, consulting engineer for the builders,…

Venomous spider native to an area of about 160km across Sydney. First described in 1877 by British arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge from a specimen at the British Museum, he referred to its 'large, massive and very prominent' fangs however it was not identified as…

Newspaper office for the Sydney Morning Herald that stood on the corner of Pitt, Hunter and O'Connell Streets from 1856 until it was demolished in 1926 to be replaced by a new, larger building on the same site.

The keystone representing early English printer John…

Romanesque Revival style building in Mary Ann Street Ultimo designed by WE Kemp, Government Architect, and opened in 1892. It features carvings of Australian flora and fauna and several stained glass windows. It is flanked by two smaller Queen Anne style buildings. The one on…

Endangered eucalypt forest bioregion that occurs along the extensive riverbanks and floodplains of the Cumberland Plain, particularly along the Hawkesbury-Nepean river system. It is part of the River-flat eucalypt forest on coastal floodplains of the NSW North Coast, Sydney…

Aboriginal people have followed and played Rugby League since the beginnings of the code in the early twentieth century. Rugby clubs and competitions have provided Aboriginal communities in Sydney with connections based on country, kinship and competition, as well as allowing…

Research organisation of the University of Sydney.

Rugby league team based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

Administrative unit comprising TAFE colleges in and near central Sydney

Legislation to improve building practice and sanitation in Sydney buildings.