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One of the largest immigrant groups from Latin America, the Chileans arrived in Sydney in several waves, responding to changing events in their home country. Now joined by students and travellers from Chile, the community maintains close connections with home and culture.

Built on Dharug land, Galston provided ironbark and white mahogany to the growing settlement in Sydney, and orchards and farmland as the land was cleared.

As the embarkation point for many World War I soldiers, Sydney was a centre for recruiting volunteers from all over New South Wales, and also strongly affected by the bitter conscription referenda campaigns of 1916 and 1917, and the subsequent political fallout.

Harbourside suburb on a peninsula west of central Sydney, named after the First Fleet assistant surgeon, with a working-class and industrial history. From the 1960s, as industry waned, it became popular with professional and business people who wanted to live close to the…

Largely industrial inner-city suburb located south of Sydney's central business district, named after Princess Alexandra, wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). By the 1940s, it was the nation's largest industrial district, and called itself the "Birmingham…

Area on Sydney's southern edge governed by Sutherland Shire Council, traditional lands of the Gweagal people, a Dharawal speaking clan. Occupying the area south of Georges River and Botany Bay, it is the second most populous local government area in New South Wales.

A vinedresser who brought his family to Camden in 1838, Johann Justus (later John Justice) was one of Sydney's earliest German-born immigrants.

A Chinese community and family festival for over a century, Sydney's Chinese New Year celebrations now include entertainment by Australian and Chinese performers, Chinatown markets, shopfront decorations, dragon boat races, and a stunning Chinese New Year Parade,…

An early graduate in architecture, Rosette Edmunds became lead designer for Clement Glancey, and was involved in designing many Catholic churches and schools in Sydney. She wrote and illustrated a history of world architecture, before moving into town planning.

Affluent suburb overlooking the harbour five kilometres east of central Sydney. In the nineteenth century it was home to villas built by the colony's emerging plutocracy. Mass suburban development was helped by the extension of the tram line to Bondi Beach in 1914.

Residential and commercial suburb on north shore of Parramatta River, named after the town on the Isle of Wight where Mary Turner, an early resident in the area had been born. It was the third British settlement in Australia after Sydney and Parramatta.

Asylum constructed by the Benevolent Society in 1821 to provide shelter and care to the poor, aged and infirm. Adjacent to the Old Sydney Burial Ground (Devonshire Street Cemetery), it was demolished to make way for the current Central Railway Station in 1901.

Apartment block which was the only element of a high density development plan for the area which was built. Often criticised, it is now listed on the North Sydney heritage register. It contains 144 apartments over 25 levels and is 83 metres high.

Variety theatre, later used as a cinema, in Pitt Street that was built for George Adams in 1896 as part of the Tattersall's Hotel complex. The building had Sydney's first electric power station installed in the basement to provide light for the theatre.

Public recreation ground at the head of Parsley Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs that was created by the NSW State Government in 1907 after resuming the land, formerly part of the Wentworth Vaucluse estate, in 1906. The reserve is adminstered by Woollahra Council.

New Zealand based shipping line that was at one time the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Their Australian offices at 15 Bridge Street in Sydney were the site of the attempted robbery that led to the Bridge Street Affray in February 1894.

Island in Sydney Harbour given by Arthur Phillip to the crew of the Sirius to grow their vegetables By 1858 it had become a naval base and was joined to the mainland by the construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock in 1942.

Cross dressing has aroused wildly varying attitudes in Sydney over the course of its history. Once subject to extreme legal punishment, drag no longer causes consternation in the streets, and is still part of life in the city.

Northbridge, a suburb of Willoughby City Council that borders Middle Harbour on Sydney's north shore, is named for its suspension bridge, Long Gully Bridge, which was first opened in 1892. This article outlines the history of its development.

Explorer, pastoralist and settler, William Lawson came to Sydney as a soldier, but stayed to become one of the most successful farmers and animal breeders in the colony.