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Traditional home of the Cadigal people and site of the first British colony, the city of Sydney is a cosmopolitan business and cultural centre of 25 square kilometres.

Founded by Europeans as a social experiment, Sydney's beginnings brought death and dispossession to the original inhabitants of the place, as well as surprising freedom and prosperity to many of the convicts. Over its history, the city's growth has been shaped by factors that…

Netball team representing Sydney in national competition.

Colloquial expression to describe a Sydney person or 'cove'.

Monthly magazine published with the Sydney Morning Herald.

Basketball team also known as West Sydney Razorbacks

Sydney's second high-rise business district, at the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, result of a building boom from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Chinese export ware punchbowl depicting Sydney Cove before 1820.

Pastoralist and politician, Burdekin was Mayor of Sydney in 1890-1891.

Artist and etcher who was widely exhibited in Sydney and London.

Four Royal Australian Navy ships have been named HMAS Sydney over the last 100 years. Deployed all over the world, they have all maintained a special connection with the port of Sydney.

Please see the entry 'Sydney Park: from kangaroo hunting grounds to brickpits' which supersedes this page.

Sydney amateur singing group which gave concerts in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of Sydney's water supply, formed in 1880 when these functions were taken from the Sydney City Council. Reformed a number of times by legislation, the organisation was corporatised in 1995 but remains state-owned…

Large region in Sydney's west comprising eleven local government areas and home to more than 1.5m Sydneysiders.

The process of suburbanisation is arguably one of the most important developments in Sydney's post-invasion history. Kilometres of suburbs have for decades dominated the physical evolution of Sydney and its ideological underpinnings.