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Addison Road Community Centre
The Addison Road Community Centre is a community meeting-place in Marrickville, in the heart Sydney's Inner West, on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. The site was used as an Army Depot from the middle of World War I and became a community centre in 1976. It…
Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth (Lilardia)
One of the earliest female Aboriginal activists. She was taken from her family at Wangaseda in New South Wales in 1917 at the age of 12 and trained as a domestic servant at the Cootamundra Girls Home. She was sent at 16 to a wealthy grazier's family in Neutral Bay as a…
Chapman, Michael
Irish-born businessman Michael Chapman rose from small business to become an alderman, mayor and parliamentarian.