City of Bankstown
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| City of Bankstown | |
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| Image:Bankstown lga sydney.png | |
| Geography | |
| State: | New South Wales |
| Region: | Metropolitan Sydney |
| Area: | 77 km² |
| Council seat: | Bankstown |
| List of suburbs or localities | |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Density | 174,513 2266 / km² |
| Born in Australia: | 58.7% |
| Indigenous Australian origin: | 0.8% |
| Government | |
| Bankstown City Council http://www.bankstown.nsw.gov.au/ | |
| Mayor: | Helen Westwood |
| Federal electorates: | Banks; Blaxland |
| State electorates: | Auburn; Bankstown; |
The City of Bankstown is a Local Government Area south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Bankstown was established by Governor Hunter in 1797 in honour of botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who travelled to Australia with Captain James Cook in 1770. The area was discovered during an expedition of the Georges River by George Bass and Matthew Flinders. The area of first European settlement along the river has been partially preserved as part of the Mirrumbeena Regional Reserve. Bankstown also includes large areas of the Georges River National Park.
It became a municipality in 1895, and then declared official city status in 1980.
Famous Australians who lived or grew up in Bankstown include former Prime Minister Paul Keating, Australian test cricket captain Steve Waugh and his brother Mark, swimmer Ian Thorpe and Australian Rugby League test player Terry Lamb.
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Important sites
In the centre of Bankstown is the large Paul Keating Park. It stands on what was once the Council Chambers, which burned down accidentally in 1997. It is used for a variety of concerts and festivals, and is otherwise a large playing field. Facing it is the Town Hall. All of the council operations are contained in Civic Tower.
There are various public amenities in the Bankstown area. There are a wide variety of commercial shops and stores. Most notable is the large and extensive mall, now known as Centro Bankstown (it used to be named Bankstown Square), opened in 1966. It is currently undergoing expansion to be completed in 2006. There are other shopping choices, including the various stores in Bankstown Plaza, a large pedestrian thouroughfare. It features several small business, Asian and discount stores.
Bankstown is the site of Sydney's second airport, Bankstown Airport, . It is also the site of Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, a 454-bed Major Metropolitan Acute General Hospital. Major educational sites include the Bankstown Campus of the University of Western Sydney, and TAFE NSW Bankstown College. Bankstown also has a large central library, which services the district, alongside smaller branches in the surrounding suburbs.
During the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney, Olympic cycling events were held at the Dunc Gray Velodrome at the Crest of Bankstown park, a centrally-located public reserve that also includes soccer, Rugby League and field hockey grounds, an athletic track and bush walking tracks.
Geography
The boundaries of Bankstown City are, clockwise, the Prospect water supply pipeline and Liverpool Road (also known as Hume Highway) along the north, Roberts Road, Juno Parade, Koala Road, Punchbowl Road, Canterbury Road and the Salt Pan Creek along the east, the Georges River in the south and the Georges River, Prospect Creek, the Hume Highway and Woodville Road along the west.
Transport
The Bankstown LGA is served by rail and road.
The M5 motorway runs through the Bankstown suburbs of Padstow, Revesby and Milperra, and is accessible by ramps on Henry Lawson Drive, The River Road and Fairford Road. Other major roads include the Canterbury Road, Milperra Road, Stacey Street and Liverpool Road. Bankstown also features Henry Lawson Drive, a scenic drive that runs parallel to Georges River near the Western and Southern borders of the local government area.
Two railway lines of the CityRail network provide passenger services to the Bankstown local government area. Yagoona, Bankstown, Wiley Park and Punchbowl railway stations of the Bankstown line line service the north part of the local government area, while Padstow, Revesby, Panania and East Hills railway stations of the East Hills railway line service the south.
Natural environment
On the lower eastern border of Bankstown local government area, sandwiched between the Bankstown suburb of Padstow and the Hurstville suburb of Riverwood is the Salt Pan Creek. The creek is a saltmarsh and mangrove swamp that extends from Caterbury Road to Georges River.
Suburbs of the Bankstown local government area
Image:Bankstown Civic Tower.jpg
There are 21 suburbs in the local government area:
- Bankstown
- Bass Hill
- Birrong
- Chester Hill
- Chullora
- Condell Park
- East Hills
- Georges Hall
- Greenacre
- Milperra
- Mount Lewis
- Padstow
- Padstow Heights
- Panania
- Picnic Point
- Punchbowl
- Revesby
- Revesby Heights
- Sefton
- Villawood
- Yagoona
References
- Sue Rosen (1996), Bankstown, a Sense of Identity
- About Bankstown - Yesterday & Today
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