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unusual facts about Electoral district of Sydney-Gipps



Electoral district of Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904, partly replacing Sydney-Gipps in the vicinity of Darling Harbour.

Electoral district of Sydney-Lang

It was abolished in 1904 and absorbed into Darling Harbour.

It was west of George Street, generally south of Margaret Street, north of Hay Street and east of Darling Harbour.

Holroyd-Parramatta Blacktown AFC Goannas

The Goannas home ground is Gipps Road Oval located in the western Sydney suburb of Greystanes, part of the local city of Holroyd.

Mount Gipps Station

In 1883 a boundary rider from Mount Gipps named Charles Rasp who, along six fellow workers, formed the Syndicate of Seven and pegged out the mining claim for the one of the world's richest lode of silver, lead and zinc at Broken Hill in the Barrier Range forming the company Broken Hill Proprietry Limited.

Myall Creek massacre

Supported by the Attorney General, John Plunkett, Gipps ordered Police Magistrate, Edward Denny Day at Muswellbrook, to investigate the massacre.

Simon Gipps-Kent

Gipps-Kent had the uncredited speaking part of a posh party boy in Quadrophenia (1979), based loosely on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who and appeared in the Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon.

Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley, and in V for Victory, an episode of the TV series Enemy at the Door.


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