Darlinghurst is an inner-city,
eastern
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suburb
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of
Sydney
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,
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the
Sydney central business district
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(CBD) and
Hyde Park
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England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
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, within the
local government area
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of the
City of Sydney
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. It is often colloquially referred to as "Darlo".
Darlinghurst is a densely populated suburb with the majority of residents living in apartments or terraced houses. Once a slum and red-light district, Darlinghurst has undergone
urban renewal
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since the 1980s to become a cosmopolitan area made up of precincts. Places such as
Victoria Street (which connects Darlinghurst to
Potts Point
Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.
Potts ...
in the north),
Stanley Street (Little Italy) and
Crown Street (Vintage and Retro Fashion) are known as culturally rich destinations. These
high street
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areas are connected by a network of lane-ways and street corners with shops, cafes and bars.
Demographically, Darlinghurst is home to the highest percentage of
generation X
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and
Y in Australia. The majority of businesses in Darlinghurst are independently owned and operated small businesses with over 50% of all commercial activity in the area being consumer oriented: indie retail, food, drink, dining, leisure and personal services. Darlinghurst is also home to large number of off-street creative industries.
Darlinghurst's main street is
Oxford Street
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. This major Sydney road runs east from the south-eastern corner of
Hyde Park
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Austra ...
through Darlinghurst and Paddington and terminates at
Bondi Junction. Oxford Street is one of Sydney's most famous shopping and dining strips. The Darlinghurst end is well known around the world as the centre of Sydney's
gay community
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, is the yearly parade route of the
Sydney Mardi Gras
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and the spiritual birthplace of the
LGBT
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rights movement. It is home to a number of prominent gay venues and businesses, while more broadly Darlinghurst is a centre of Sydney's burgeoning small bar scene.
From the 1990s onwards Oxford Street began to garner a reputation for being Sydney's primary "
nightclub
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Nightclubs gener ...
strip", popular with both
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...
and
straight
Straight may refer to:
Slang
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* Straight, a member of the straight edge subculture
Sport and games
* ...
clubbers, surpassing the notorious
red-light district
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of Kings Cross in popularity. As a result of the influx of revellers, crime rates increased in the area around 2007, particularly for
assault
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s and
robberies
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. This reported increase should be understood in terms of a very low background crime rate in East Sydney in general.
The 2014
lockout laws saw many nightclubs close and the crime rate drop once again, with a new focus on small bars, restaurants and cafes after the lockout laws ended in 2020.
There are a number of named localities in and around Darlinghurst including
Taylor Square
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Taylor Square is a public square in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Taylor Square is located beside a major road junction, where Oxford Street meets Flinders Street. Taylor Square is also on the border of ...
, Three Saints Square, and confusingly also
East Sydney. Locals have used this name to refer to the area immediately around Stanley Street in the suburb's west, however the title is used more broadly throughout the area from
Woolloomooloo
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up to
Taylor Square
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Taylor Square is a public square in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Taylor Square is located beside a major road junction, where Oxford Street meets Flinders Street. Taylor Square is also on the border of ...
where the old
Darlinghurst Gaol
The Darlinghurst Gaol is a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. The site is bordered by Darlinghurst Road, Burton and Forbes streets, with entrances on Forbes and Burton Streets. The heritage-listed building, predom ...
still has the words East Sydney in brass lettering above the main entrance. This is because from 1900 to 1969 the entire area to the east of Sydney's CBD, from the harbour to
Redfern, was an electorate known as the
Division of East Sydney
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. Already in 1820 the entire ridge line running from Potts Point to Surry Hills was known as Eastern Hill.
Darlinghurst shares a postcode (2010) and an extensive soft southern border with neighbouring suburb
Surry Hills
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which, with
Paddington
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to the east and
Woolloomooloo
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,
Rushcutters Bay
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and
Potts Point
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Potts ...
to the north, comprise the metropolitan region of East Sydney. Although only minutes walk away from the Sydney CBD, this region is geographically distinct from it; separated from the more well known commercial centre by several landmarks:
Central railway station,
Hyde Park
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Austra ...
,
St Mary's Cathedral and
The Domain. East Sydney hosts many well-known restaurants.
Sydney's
Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
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*Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand
* Eastern ...
cover all the land from the east of Darlinghurst up to the
Pacific Ocean
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.
History
The suburb was originally known as Eastern Hill and then Henrietta Town, after
Governor
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Lachlan Macquarie
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's wife, whose second name was Henrietta. The loyalties changed with the change of governors and the suburb became Darlinghurst in honour of Elizabeth Darling, the popular wife of Governor
Ralph Darling
General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831. He is popularly described as a tyrant, accused of torturing prisoners and banning theatrical entertain ...
, during the early 19th century. The suffix 'hurst' is derived from the Old English word hyrst, meaning wooded area. In 1973, Darlinghurst saw a
green ban
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as a ban on all commercial construction was placed by residents as residents demanded that all housing should be high density low-rise with adequate provision for low and middle income families to live within the inner-city area.
Landmarks
![Sydney Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst, Sydney](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Sydney_Jewish_Museum_in_Darlinghurst%2C_Sydney.jpg)
Darlinghurst has two of Sydney's museums: the
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum is a heritage-listed museum at 1 William Street, Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. It is the oldest museum in Australia,Design 5, 2016, p.1 and the fifth oldest natural history museum in the ...
(a
natural history museum) and the
Sydney Jewish Museum
The Sydney Jewish Museum is a history museum located in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Darlinghurst. It showcases exhibits relating to the The Holocaust, Holocaust, the history and achievements of Judaism in Australia, Jewi ...
. The suburb also features
St Vincent's Hospital, and is associated with the Sacred Heart Hospice on Darlinghurst Road, and the
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an Australian biomedical research institute located in , Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Charity as a research department of St Vincent's Hospital, it is now one of Australi ...
.
Darlinghurst Gaol
Darlinghurst Gaol
The Darlinghurst Gaol is a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. The site is bordered by Darlinghurst Road, Burton and Forbes streets, with entrances on Forbes and Burton Streets. The heritage-listed building, predom ...
, the large sandstone penal complex in the middle of Darlinghurst was built between 1836 and 1840. The large sandstone walls still bear convict markings, and the complex features six wings surrounding a circular chapel. Australian poet
Henry Lawson
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spent time incarcerated here during some of the turbulent years of his life. The last hanging at the gaol was in 1907 (Jahn, 1997). The site became
East Sydney Technical College
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in 1921, but was turned into the
National Art School
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from 1995.
Darlinghurst Fire Station
Darlinghurst Fire Station
Darlinghurst Fire Station is a three-storey brick and stone building situated at the prominent location of the junction of Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street in Darlinghurst in Sydney, New South Wales.
It was designed in 1910 by Walter Liber ...
was completed in 1912, this three-storey brick and stone building occupies a prominent location at the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street. It was designed in 1910 by
Walter Liberty Vernon
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(Jahn, 1997). It still functions as a fire station and is listed on the Register of the National Estate.
Darlinghurst Courthouse
![SLNSW 479525 22 Court House Darlinghurst front view SH 571](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/SLNSW_479525_22_Court_House_Darlinghurst_front_view_SH_571.jpg)
Darlinghurst Courthouse is an imposing heritage-listed sandstone building on Taylor Square. It was designed by architect
Mortimer Lewis
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in 1844, and has a Greek Revival style facade. The central block is adapted from an 1823 design in
Peter Nicholson's ''The New Practical Builder'' (Apperly, Irving & Reynolds, 1989).
Oxford Street
Oxford Street
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is the major commercial thoroughfare of Darlinghurst, running from the south-east corner of Hyde Park, through Taylor Square and beyond into Paddington, Woollahra and Bondi Junction, respectively. Oxford Street was originally called The South Head Road and work commenced on the road in 1811 (Faro, 2000). It was a toll road in its early years with the toll gates being located near present-day Glenmore Road. Oxford Street assumed its current name in 1875. Oxford Square is located at the intersection of Oxford and Burton Streets. Oxford Square is also the name of a small shopping centre located opposite, on the corner of Oxford and Riley Streets.
Football Federation Australia
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have their head office at 1 Oxford Street.
Stanley Street
Stanley Street is one of the suburb's two secondary restaurant strips (with Victoria Street) and is often referred to as Sydney's first "Little Italy". However, the restaurants range from Japanese, Thai and Italian and the prices range from basic to moderate. There is an annual Italian Festival held here every June.
Victoria Street
Victoria Street is the other major cafe strip. Restaurants range from basic to upmarket. The majority of the cafes have outdoor seating. Several iconic restaurants are in this area, such as Tropicana and Bar Coluzzi.
Inter-War apartments
![Tennyson_House_Darlinghurst](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Tennyson_House_Darlinghurst.jpg)
* Ballina, 3-5 Darley Street
* Claridge, 28-30 Flinders Street
* Greencourt, 1 Darley Street (1919)
* Hillcrest, 114 Burton Street
* Kurrajong, 138 Darlinghurst Road
* Mont Clair, 347 Liverpool Street
* Portree, 2a Darley Street
* Royal Court, 227 Crown Street
* Tennyson House, 1 Farrell Avenue designed by Claud Hamilton 1924
* The Rutland, 381 Liverpool Street
* The Savoy, 2-10 Hardy Street designed by Claud Hamilton 1919
The Horizon
![(1) Horizon Apartments](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/%281%29_Horizon_Apartments.JPG)
The
Horizon
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, located in Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, is a 43-storey residential high-rise building completed in 1998. It has a distinctive scalloped facade and is finished in rendered concrete. The building was designed by Sydney architect
Harry Seidler
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and is controversial in that it was one of the first high-rise buildings constructed in the predominately low rise area, with critics saying it caused overshadowing of the surrounding area. The Horizon apartments consist of a residential tower and two lower buildings of apartments, 6 levels of car parks, swimming pool, a tennis court, gym and surrounding gardens.
Demographics
![Presbyterian church in Darlinghurst](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Presbyterian_church_in_Darlinghurst.jpg)
At the
2021 census, the population of Darlinghurst was 10,615.
According to the , there were 11,320 residents in Darlinghurst. 57.8% of people were male and 42.2% female. This was a higher rate of male residents than the national average of 49.3%. In Darlinghurst, 45.2% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were England 6.1%, New Zealand 3,8%, Thailand 2.2%, United States of America 2.0% and China 1.6%. 63.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Thai 2.1%, Spanish 2.1%, French 1.8%, Mandarin 1.6% and Italian 1.3%. The most common response for religion was No Religion at 42.7%. Of occupied private dwellings in Darlinghurst, 77.0% were flats or apartments and 21.1% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc. Just 0.5% of dwellings were separate houses, compared to the national average of 72.9%.
Commercial area
Darlinghurst's commercial activity is centred on Oxford Street, and extends to Victoria Street, Flinders Street, Crown Street, William Street, and Darlinghurst Road. There are a large number of cafés, restaurants and take-away food stores throughout Darlinghurst, as well as a large number of pubs and nightclubs, many of which are on Oxford Street. These pubs and clubs were subject to controversial 'lock-out' laws imposed by the Liberal state government in February 2014, in which venues stopped admitting new customers after 01:30, and ceased the service of alcohol between 03:00 and 05:00. These laws were introduced as a response to violence in the Inner City of Sydney that was related to alcohol intoxication. The lockout laws were repealed in January 2020 with a focus on small bars over big nightclubs. There is also a significant retail presence, including fashion retailers.
Transport
Darlinghurst is well-served by public transport, with many bus routes from the
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converging on
Oxford Street
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prior to entering the
Sydney central business district
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.
Route 333 between
Circular Quay
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and
Bondi Beach
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travels through Darlinghurst along Oxford Street. Routes 352, 373, 396 and 440 also travel through the suburb on Oxford Street. Buses that travel through the centre of Darlinghurst are routes 311 and 389.
There are no train stations in Darlinghurst, however
Kings Cross railway station on the
Sydney Trains
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Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line
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is just over the northern border of the suburb.
Museum station on the
City Circle
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, is located just to the west of Darlinghurst, on the south-west corner of
Hyde Park
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Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
.
Schools
![(1) SCEGGS Performing Arts Centre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/%281%29_SCEGGS_Performing_Arts_Centre.JPG)
Darlinghurst Public School, located on the corner of Liverpool Street and Womerah Avenue, was opened in 1884. It teaches both boys and girl students from Kindergarten to Year 6 grade.
Sydney Grammar School is located on College Street, across the road from
Hyde Park
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Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
. This school is a boys-only
private school
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which opened in 1857.
The Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School (now called
SCEGGS Darlinghurst
, motto_translation = Let Your Light Shine
, established =
, type = Independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school
, denomination = Anglicanism
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) was founded in 1895 in Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. It moved to its current site in Forbes Street, in 1901. The former Marist Brothers High School at 280–296 Liverpool Street is now an apartment complex named Alexandra. The school occupied this site from 1911 until 1968 when it moved to
Marist College Canberra.
The
National Art School
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of Australia, a specialist Art school in collaboration with Sydney
TAFE
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, dates back to 1859.
The University of Notre Dame's School of Medicine and the School of Nursing are located in the historic parish buildings associated with the Sacred Heart Parish in Darlinghurst. The complex includes facilities for use by medical and nursing students such as simulated wards, practise wet laboratories and clinical skills laboratories in addition to simulated consulting rooms.
Churches
![Blacket StJohns Darlinghust](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Blacket_StJohns_Darlinghust.jpg)
Darlinghurst has four functioning churches:
* God in the city, an
Assemblies of God
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congregation affiliated with
Christian City Churches
* St. Pauls Lutheran Church congregation (Sydney Lutheran Parish)
*
St John's, an
Anglican
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congregation. St John's operates Rough Edges, a street outreach centre that functions as a cafe and drop-in centre. It provides a range of services to the local community, including the
homeless
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* living on the streets, also kn ...
.
* Sacred Heart Catholic Church is on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Oxford Street.
There is also a variety of smaller chapels and religious services attached to
St Vincent's Hospital and other religious organisations in the suburb.
The building which previously housed the
Church of Christ, Scientist is now a private residence. There is also the defunct St. Peter's
Anglican
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church, Bourke Street, which is now part of
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, motto_translation = Let Your Light Shine
, established =
, type = Independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school
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.
Politics
The area has often been a battleground between the two councils of the City of Sydney and the
City of South Sydney
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. Most of the suburb belonged to South Sydney, however the
New South Wales
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, nickname =
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
State Government
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moved the borders repeatedly in order to change the make-up of the City of Sydney. Many claim that these shifts have been attempted to shift the balance of power in the favour of the party in control of the State Government, though some residents of Darlinghurst and Potts Point (the former North Ward of the City of South Sydney) felt that the postcodes of 2010 (Darlinghurst and Surry Hills) and 2011 (Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay, Woolloomooloo and Potts Point) were relatively neglected by the City of South Sydney.
However, this battle is now moot since both councils were forced by the State Government to
amalgamate
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in February 2004. An election was held on Saturday, 27 March 2004, in order to elect a new council for the redesignated (expanded) City of Sydney.
Critics of the amalgamation have claimed that the election demonstrated strong voter backlash against the State Government for pressing the issue. The
Australian Labor Party
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, for whom the area was usually safe, had their primary vote reduced to approximately 20%. The independent
Clover Moore
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took the
Lord Mayoral position, having campaigned against the Government's dismissal of the council.
At a federal level, Darlinghurst falls in the electorates of the
Division of Sydney
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History
The division draws its name from Sydney, the most populous city in Australia, which itself was named after former British Home Secretary Tho ...
and Wentworth. Its current parliamentary representatives are
Tanya Plibersek
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(Labor) and
Allegra Spender
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(Independent). These electorates have some of the state's strongest support for
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* Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens''
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.
Heritage listings
New South Wales State Heritage Register
![(1) Stoneleigh (Darley Street)-1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/%281%29_Stoneleigh_%28Darley_Street%29-1.jpg)
Darlinghurst has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the following sites listed on the
New South Wales State Heritage Register
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:
* Bourke Street:
St Peter's Church
* 348a Bourke Street:
Bourke Street Wesleyan Chapel
* 411a Bourke Street:
St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, officially the St Sophia and Her Three Daughters Greek Orthodox Church, is a heritage-listed Greek Orthodox church at 411a Bourke Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of in the City of Sydney local governme ...
, formerly the Bourke Street Congregational Church and School
* 1 Darley Street: ''
Stoneleigh'' (a former home of
Phillip Adams
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* Phillip Adams (American football) (1988–2021), American football cornerback
* Phillip Adams (sport shooter) (born 1945), Australian pistol shooter
* Phil Adams (cricketer) (born 1 ...
)
* 2 Darley Street: ''
Iona
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''
* 120 Darlinghurst Road:
St John's Anglican Church
* 56 Oxford Street:
G. A. Zink and Sons Building
* Taylor Square:
Darlinghurst Courthouse
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* intersection of Taylor Square, Oxford, Forbes and Bourke Street:
Taylor Square Substation No. 6 and Underground Conveniences
Taylor Square Substation No.6 and Underground Conveniences is a heritage-listed electrical substation and underground public toilets at the intersection of Taylor Square, Oxford, Forbes and Bourke Streets, in the inner city Sydney suburb of Da ...
* 101-115 William Street:
William House
Register of the National Estate (defunct register)
The following buildings are listed on the now defunct
Register of the National Estate
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:
[The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981]
Culture
The Darlinghurst area is famous for the annual
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
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. The parade, first held in 1978 as a protest march by members of the gay and lesbian community, marks the end of a three-week festival and takes place on
Oxford Street
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, the main street that runs through several suburbs, including Darlinghurst.
![Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Eternity_Playhouse%2C_Darlinghurst.jpg)
The Sydney Jewish Museum is on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Burton Street (148 Darlinghurst Rd) and features exhibitions about the Jewish community in Sydney. There are many small private art galleries in Darlinghurst, including Black Eye Gallery (Darlinghurst Road; photography), King Street Gallery on William (William Street; painting), Conny Dietzschold Gallery (Crown Street; contemporary art), Stanley Street Gallery (Stanley Street; contemporary art), Robin Gibson (Liverpool Street; painting, sculpture), Watters Gallery (Riley Street; painting, sculpture), Gallery 9 (Darley Street; contemporary art) and Liverpool Street Gallery (Liverpool Street; contemporary art). Entry to these galleries is free, and most of the exhibitions will display the work of Australian artists. There is also a gallery in the National Art School (NAS) that hosts exhibitions in a mid-19th century sandstone building.
The
Eternity Playhouse
The Eternity Playhouse is a 200-seat theatre in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The playhouse, which opened in 2013, was created from the heritage-listed Burton Street Tabernacle. Darlinghurst Theatre Company is the resident company. The name 'Eternity' r ...
in Burton Street Darlinghurst opened in 2013, following the renovation of the former Burton Street Tabernacle, which was founded in 1887. Following its purchase by the City of Sydney in 2004, plans were gradually developed to renovate the building as a theatre. The 200-seat theatre is the home of the Darlinghurst Theatre Company, and the renovation was designed by architecture firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.
Notable residents
*
Phillip Adams
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* Phillip Adams (American football) (1988–2021), American football cornerback
* Phillip Adams (sport shooter) (born 1945), Australian pistol shooter
* Phil Adams (cricketer) (born 1 ...
, Australian humanist social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer, lived at ''
Stoneleigh'' in the mid to late 1980s
*
Baz Luhrmann
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and
Catherine Martinlived in ''Iona'' (1880) from 1997 to 2016
* George Edward Ardill (1889–1964)evangelist and social worker
*
Flora Sydney Eldershaw
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(1897–1956)author and critic
*
Cecil Patrick Healy (1881–1918)swimmer and commercial traveller
*
Michael Hutchence
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INXS
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singer lived in Darlinghurst in the 1980s
*
Damian Moss, born in Darlinghurst, former pitcher for the
Atlanta Braves
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and the
San Francisco Giants
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.
*
Karl Stefanovic
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, host of Nine Network's Today Show
*
Mark Nielsen, businessman
See also
References
Further reading
*Apperly, Richard; Irving, Robert; Reynolds, Peter (1989). ''A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present.'' Sydney, Angus & Robertson.
*Faro, Clive (2000). ''Street Seen: A History of Oxford St.'' Carlton South, Melbourne University Press.
*Jahn, Graham (1997). ''Sydney Architecture''. Sydney, The Watermark Press.
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