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5 unusual facts about Western Sydney


Australian rules football in New South Wales

In 2008 the AFL stated their intention to establish a second team in Sydney by 2012, to be an expansion team based in the western suburbs.

Cedar Boys

Cedar Boys is a 2009 Australian film about life of Middle Eastern young adults in Western Sydney, Australia.

Ed Husic

Husic was raised in Western Sydney and was educated at Blacktown South Public School, Mitchell High School and the University of Western Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications.

Elderslie, New South Wales

The area now known as Elderslie was probably originally home to the Tharawal people, based in the Illawarra region, although the Western Sydney-based Darug people and the Southern Highlands-based Gandangara people were also known to have inhabited the greater Camden area.

Western Sydney Parklands

The Western Sydney Parklands, also known as Western Sydney Regional Parklands, is an urban park system located in Western Sydney.


Heathcote Road, Sydney

Heathcote Road plays a major role in the servicing of traffic travelling between the Illawarra and Western Sydney and also provides access to the Holsworthy Barracks.

Knights of the Underground Table

Throughout the album, the group make various references to Sydney landmarks (such as the Sydney Opera House) and areas such as Penrith, Parramatta, Mount Druitt and St. Marys of Western Sydney.


see also

AFL Live

Skoda Stadium (Greater Western Sydney) (Game of The Year Edition only)

Bankstown Line

The line serves two major centres in Western Sydney, namely Bankstown and Liverpool.

Birkenhead ferry wharf

There are up to twenty Sydney Buses services which run from the city to various locations in inner western Sydney, including Ryde, Parramatta and Macquarie University that use the stop.

Emu Plains railway station

Emu Plains railway station is located in the western Sydney suburb of Emu Plains and also serves the surrounding suburbs of Emu Heights and Leonay.

Greater Western Sydney

The Western Sydney Parklands, a major urban parkland stretching through many local government areas in Western Sydney, also contains many attractions such as picnic areas and lookouts, Calmsley Hill Farm, Blacktown Olympic Park, Eastern Creek Raceway, and, most notably, the Nurragingy reserve (features picnic areas and a Chinese garden).

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.

Jack Renshaw

Renshaw was educated at Binnaway Central School, Patrician Brothers at Orange (where he lived with his grandmother), and then Holy Cross College at Ryde in north-western Sydney.

Jason Clare

Clare was born and raised in western Sydney and attended Cabramatta Primary School and Canley Vale High School.

Petersham, New South Wales

Mosquito HR576 RAF (UK) disintegrated over the inner western Sydney suburbs of Leichhardt and Petersham on 2 May 1945 during an air test flight.

Safwan Khalil

Born in Tripoli, Lebanon, he has lived in Australia since he was a child, attending Lurnea High School in south-western Sydney and training at his brother's gym, Global Martial Arts.

Stephen Coniglio

Drafted with the second pick in the 2011 AFL National Draft, Coniglio made his debut for Greater Western Sydney in the first round of the 2012 season, and was later nominated for the 2012 AFL Rising Star award.

The PoznaƄ

The supporters group of Australian club Western Sydney Wanderers, The Red and Black Bloc, perform it in the 80th minute of matches to represent the first football match played in western Sydney in the year 1880.

Thy Art Is Murder

Formed in 2006, in the Western Sydney locality of Blacktown, the group originally consisted of vocalist Brendan Van Ryn, guitarists Gary Markowski and Sean Delander, bassist Josh King and drummer Lee Stanton.

Toll Global Logistics

In Australia, in 2012 Customised Solutions opened a new warehousing facility in Yennora in western Sydney.

Waratah

The botanical journal Telopea is named after the genus, as is the western Sydney suburb of Telopea, New South Wales.