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Crestwood, Sydney
Crestwood is an urban place in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Crestwood is located in the suburb of in the local government area of The Hills Shire. Education * Crestwood High School - 7-12 Government Owned. Founded 1981. *Crestwood Public School - K-6 Government Owned (Crestwood High feeder school); founded 1972. *St Michael's Primary School - K-6 Catholic School (Gilroy College and Oakhill College feeder school); founded 1972. Crestwood Reserve Is a large public park located in the centre of Crestwood, facilities include: * 2 Rugby League fields * 6 Tennis courts * 2 Playgrounds * 2 Half court Basketball courts * Netball courts * Picnic and BBQ facilities * Fenced dog leash free area * Skate park * Girl Guides hall Places of worship Norwest Anglican - formerly known as Crestwood Anglican Church or St Andrews Crestwood - is located in Crestwood, adjacent to Crestwood High. Chapel Lane is the evening service of Norwest Anglican History The area was developed between 1966 ...
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Electoral District Of Kellyville
Kellyville is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was contested for the first time at the 2023 New South Wales state election, 2023 election. It is a Conservatism in Australia, conservative urban electorate in the Hills District, New South Wales, Hills District in Sydney's north west. History Kellyville was created as a result of the 2021 redistribution. The electorate of Electoral district of Baulkham Hills, Baulkham Hills was abolished, and much of it was transferred to Kellyville. The remainder of Kellyville comprises parts of the former Electoral district of Castle Hill, Castle Hill. Based on the results of the 2019 New South Wales state election, 2019 election, it was a very safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party with an estimated notional margin of 23.1 percent. Ray Will ...
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Division Of Mitchell
The Division of Mitchell is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. It is currently represented by Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal MP Alex Hawke. Mitchell is a largely White-collar worker, white collar, upper class and Social conservatism, socially conservative electorate in the Hills District, New South Wales, Hills district of northwestern Sydney. According to a 2022 survey by the ABC, Mitchell was the most Social conservatism, conservative metropolitan electorate and the second-most conservative electorate in Australia after the Division of Maranoa. History The division is named after Major Thomas Mitchell (explorer), Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor (surveying), surveyor and explorer who was the first European to explore large areas of New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was ...
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ...
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ...
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ...
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Local Government In Australia
Local government is the third level of government in Australia, administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories of Australia, states and territories, and in turn beneath the Australian Government, federal government. Local government is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia, and two referendums in 1974 Australian referendum (Local Government Bodies), 1974 and 1988 Australian referendum#Local Government, 1988 to alter the Constitution relating to local government were unsuccessful. Every state/territory government recognises local government in its state constitutions in Australia, own respective constitution. Unlike the two-tier local government system in local government in Canada, Canada or the local government in the United States, United States, there is (largely) only one tier of local government in each Australian state/territory, with no distinction between county, counties and city, cities. The Australian local government is generally run by ...
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The Hills Shire
The Hills Shire (known until 2008 as Baulkham Hills Shire) is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Greater Western Sydney, Greater Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The area is north-west of the Sydney central business district, and encompasses stretching from the M2 Hills Motorway in the south to Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales, Wisemans Ferry on the Hawkesbury River in the north. The Hills Shire had a population of as of the . The current mayor of The Hills Shire is Dr Michelle Byrne (Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal), who was elected on 14 September 2024. The Hills Shire is a member council of the Hawkesbury River County Council. Suburbs in the local government area Suburbs at least partially within The Hills Shire are: * Annangrove * Baulkham Hills (shared with City of Parramatta) * Beaumont Hills * Bella Vista, New South Wales, Bella Vista * Box Hill, New South Wales, Box Hill * Canoelands (share ...
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Crestwood High School (New South Wales)
Crestwood High School is a public high school in Crestwood, , in the north-west of Sydney, Australia. Crestwood High School offers an education culminating in the award of the HSC, administered in accordance with New South Wales Education Standards Authority. Their overall state score is 90. The school offers comprehensive classes for students in grades seven through to twelve. The school is of moderate size, counting 1,062 students and 94 employees in 2014, slightly smaller than many nearby high schools. Entry for prospective out-of-area students is increasingly competitive. In addition to the standard educational facilities, the school has a farm used for lessons in agriculture, sizeable arts and technology faculties, and a support unit which provides special education classes for persons with disabilities. Location The school is located in the suburb of in the Hills District. Prospective students in the prescribed drawing area (including portions of , , and ) are giv ...
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Joseph Foveaux
Joseph Foveaux (1767 – 20 March 1846) was a soldier and convict settlement administrator in colonial New South Wales, Australia. He was also a sheep grazier and breeder, being the largest landholder in New South Wales by 1800. Early life Foveaux was baptised on 6 April 1767 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, the sixth child of Joseph Foveaux and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Wheeler. Family tradition maintains he was actually born almost a year earlier, on 10 April 1766. Foveaux was an ensign in the 60th regiment and then joined the New South Wales Corps in June 1789 as lieutenant, became a captain in April 1791 and reached Sydney in 1792. There he was promoted to major in June 1796 and, as senior officer between August 1796 and November 1799, he controlled the Corps at a time when some of the senior officers were making fortunes from trading and extending their lands. By 1800 he had become the largest landholder and stock-owner in the colony. Norfolk Island In 1800, having be ...
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John Macarthur (wool Pioneer)
John Macarthur (1767 – 11 April 1834) was instrumental in agitating for, and organising, a rebellion against Governor William Bligh (now known as the Rum Rebellion) in January 1808. Macarthur had been a British Army officer, entrepreneur, landowner, a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry and a politician who was a highly influential figure in the establishment of the colony of New South Wales. Macarthur was the brilliant leader or Australia’s first organised crime enterprise, the 'Rum Corps'. Early life John Macarthur was born at Stoke Damerel near Plymouth, England in 1767. His exact date of birth is unknown, but his baptism was registered on 3 September 1767. He was the second son of Alexander Macarthur, who had fled Scotland to the West Indies after the Jacobite rising of 1745 before returning to Plymouth to work as a linen draper and mercery, mercer. In 1782, John Macarthur was commissioned as an ensign (rank), ensign in Fish's Corps, a regiment of the British ...
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Toongabbie
Toongabbie is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. One of the oldest suburbs in Sydney, Toongabbie is located approximately 30 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Toongabbie is split between the local government areas of the City of Parramatta, the City of Blacktown and Cumberland Council. The suburb is often locally referred to as "Toonie". Geography To the north across Old Windsor Road the next suburb is Winston Hills; to the east is Old Toongabbie; to the south-east, the next suburb (and railway station) is Pendle Hill; to the south is Girraween; to the south-west is Prospect; and to the west the next suburb (and railway station) is Seven Hills. History The traditional custodians of the land are the Dharug peoples. These peoples usually lived along the waterways. Plant and animals life was abundant in streams and bushland in the area now known as Toongabbie. Toongabbie is ...
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Sydney Localities
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ...
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