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Sydney – Our number one city
For the second consecutive year Sydney has been voted the world's best city by the international "Travel & Leisure Magazine". It scored an 87 per cent approval rating among travellers and tourist industry workers. It was ahead of Florence (83.3%), Rome (82.8%), and San Francisco (82.2%).

In 1901 the Sydney Harbour Trust resumed hundreds of properties in The Rocks and Millers Point. While public health was a convenient excuse for resumptions, the need for a harbour bridge may also have motivated the authorities. Green Bans in the 1970s on the redevelopment of The Rocks helped preserve this historic area which is now a major tourist attraction. The Rocks area has been under the control of the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority since 1970 and the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority since 1999.

Size
Sydney is one of the largest cities in its land size. It reaches across 1580 square kilometres. This is the same as London and more than double New York's 780 square kilometres. Amsterdam is 167 square kilometres, and Paris is a mere 105 square kilometres. There are 1,526,266 dwellings in Sydney.

Population
Sydney's population is 4,536,000 people as at June 2009 according to ABS data.

Sydney is Australia's oldest city, the economic powerhouse of the nation and the country's capital in everything but name. It's blessed with sun-drenched natural attractions, dizzy skyscrapers, delicious and daring restaurants, superb shopping and friendly folk.

Although it's come a long way from its convict beginnings, it still has a rough and ready energy, and offers an invigorating blend of the old and the new, the raw and the refined. While high culture attracts some to the Opera House, gaudy nightlife attracts others to Kings Cross.

It's a city blessed with long stretches of heavenly beaches, a pleasant climate that sees over 300 sunny days a year, an economy that's stronger than it should be, a stable local government, and a population of open-minded, outgoing entrepreneurial types who are itching to show the whole place off.

Country: Australia
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +10 (Eastern Standard Time)
Telephone Area Code: 02. Sydney real estate average home price at June 2009 $568,856

Orientation
Sydney wasn't a planned city and its layout is further complicated by its hills and the numerous inlets of the harbour, its focal point. The centre of Sydney is on the south shore of the harbour, about 7km (4mi) inland from the harbour heads. Skyscrapers in the Central Business District (CBD) vie for dominance and harbour views, but the city's relentlessness is softened by shady Hyde Park and The Domain parkland to the east, Darling Harbour to the west and the main harbour to the north. The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the harbour tunnel link the city centre with the satellite CBD of North Sydney and the suburbs of the North Shore. Sydney Airport is about 10km (6mi) south of the city centre. Central station, Sydney's main train station, is in the south of the city centre, and the main bus terminal is located outside it.

Currency
Dollars and cents. Notes: $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills. Coins: 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, $1 and $2. The Australia dollar is floated on the world currency market and is presently fluctuating at around 70 to 73 cents to the US$.

Health
Sydney, like most parts of Australia, presents no real health risks for foreign visitors. Tap water is good, restaurants and eating places are required by law to maintain a high standard of food preparation, and the city is generally clean. Smog is less of a problem than with cities such as London, Hong Kong and Bangkok, but is still quite high. Exposure to the sun can be a problem for those who are fair-skinned. Also, those with little experience in swimming in the surf should be cautious when swimming at Sydney's famous surf beaches, Bondi and Manly, and should always swim between the warning flags erected by lifeguards. Medical costs in Australia are not exhorbitant like in the United States and Europe, but travel insurance is still recommended.

Handy to Know:

• Electricity voltage: 240.
• Units of measure: metric.
• Public phones: 40-cent local calls (Sydney metropolitan area).
• Phone directory assistance: 1223 (Sydney area), 1223 (Australia), 1225 (International).
• Phone international dial out prefix code: 0011
• Coffee: around $3.50 a cup, sometimes less, quite often more in tourist areas.
• Petrol (gas) in cents per litre:  approximately 110 (as at
• Emergency phone number for police, ambulance and fire is 000.

The City of Sydney celebrates summer with a series of live concerts in one of the most beautiful parks in Sydney

Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is one of the world's most distinctive buildings. It was built in 1973. The opera house faces the habor. The soaring roofs swell upward like giant sails of a ship. The building contains a concert hall, opera theater, drama theater, cinema, recording hall, and reception hall. Daily tours are offered to the public.

Areas not open to the public include scenery docks administration offices, kitchens, pantries, cold-rooms, laundries, wardrobe and wig rooms, and two vast areas underground housing the air-conditioning, electricals and security operations. Since 1993 there has also been a 1,100-space car park winding below the huge complex. The entire building occupies around 1.82 hectares (4.5 acres) of its 2.23 hectare (5.5 acre) site.

In all there are 800 separate areas and 2,200 doors. The building is 183 metres (600 feet) long and at its widest point, 118 metres (388 feet) wide. Its foundations are concrete and its structure is of reinforced concrete. The highest roof is 67.4 metres (222 feet) above sea level, and its shell roofs, with an area of 18,500 square metres (1999,030 square feet) are covered with 1.056 million glossy white and matt cream Swedish-made tiles. The glass windows are over 6223 square metres (66,971 square feet) of glass.

Sydney Opera House is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust. This was established in 1961, although the number of members has reduced and the committee reconstituted by new legislation enacted in early 1969. Its chief executive is the general manager of the Sydney Opera House.

Sydney Opera House is open for nearly 16 hours a day, every day of the year except Christmas Day and Good Friday. There are staff on duty at all times, every day.

THE PERFORMING SPACES

The Concert Hall
As the largest performing area in the Sydney Opera House, the Concert Hall is used for the range of performances, from symphony concerts, chamber music, and dance, to rock and jazz concerts and miscellaneous uses such as conventions or public talks.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, also affectionately known as the 'Coathanger', was opened on March 19th 1932 by Premier Jack Lang, after six years of construction. Made of steel the bridge contains 6 million hand driven rivets. The surface area that requires painting is equal to about the surface area of 60 sports fields. The Bridge has huge hinges to absorb the expansion caused by the hot Sydney sun. You will see them on either side of the bridge at the footings of the Pylons.

Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan, most famous for his role as Mick Dundee in the 1986 blockbuster film Crocodile Dundee used to work on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge's famous iron coathanger arch. This was before he was discovered on a television program New Faces in 1973.

You can have a close hand look while you are in Sydney by visiting the South Eastern Pylon. It is a walking trip and recommended for the fit only. It is a longish walk to get to the base of the Pylon and then there are 200 steps to the top
The views and photo opportunities are fantastic. (If you can make it, we've got to say it is tough). There is a great display on how the thing was built. It has a similar place in Sydney history to the Statue of Liberty in New York as far as many migrants to Australia go. In sight of the bridge you knew you had made it.

Sydney Harbour Bridge History
The displaced peoples of Europe who came to Australia in the days of the grand ships can get very misty when you ask them what they felt when they saw this grand old arch on their arrival in Sydney from the aftermath of World War Two as they sailed up Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). The old Bridge has been replaced as "the" landmark of Sydney by the bold architecture of the Opera House.

“The Coathanger” will remain in your memory whenever you think of Sydney after your visit.

When it opened it cost a car six pence to cross. A horse and rider was 3 pence. These days a return trip (for some reason the only kind) costs two dollars twenty (gst). Horses and riders are banned, that's the changing times. You can walk across free and you are allowed to bicycle in a special lane.

Sydney Harbour Bridge is the world's largest (but not longest as that’s the New River Gorge in the USA) steel arch bridge, and, in its beautiful harbour location, has become a renowned international symbol of Australia.

Its total length including approach spans is 1149 metres and its arch span is 503 metres. The top of the arch is 134 metres above sea level and the clearance for shipping under the deck is a spacious 49 metres. The total steelwork weighs 52,800 tonnes, including 39,000 tonnes in the arch. The 49 metre wide deck makes Sydney Harbour Bridge the widest Longspan Bridge in the world.

It now carries eight vehicle lanes, two train lines, a footway and a cycleway.

After inviting worldwide tenders in 1922, the New South Wales Government received twenty proposals from six companies and on 24 March 1924; the contract (for Australian 4,217,721 pounds 11 shillings and 10 pence!) was let to the English firm Dorman Long and Co of Middlesbrough.

The general design was prepared by Dr J.J.C Bradfield and officers of the NSW Department of Public Works, while the detailed design and crucial erection process were undertaken by the contractors consulting engineer Mr (later Sir) Ralph Freeman of Sir Douglas Fox and Partners and his associate Mr. G.C Imbault. Some other designs that where not choosen can be found here.

As Chief Engineer of Sydney Harbour Bridge and Metropolitan Railway Construction from 1912, Dr Bradfield is regarded as the "father" of the Bridge as it was his vision, enthusiasm, engineering expertise and detailed supervision of all aspects of its construction which brought Sydney's long held dream into reality.

The contractors, under Director of Construction, Lawrence Ennis, set up two workshops at Milsons Point on the North Shore. Here, the steel (79% imported from England, 21% from Australian sources) was fabricated into girders etc.

The foundations for the four main bearings, which carry the full weight of the main span were dug to a depth of 12.2 metres and filled with special reinforced high-grade concrete laid in hexagonal formations.

The four impressive, decorative 89 metre high pylons are made of concrete, faced with granite, quarried near Moruya, where about 250 Australian, Scottish and Italian stonemasons and their families lived in a temporary settlement. Three ships were specifically built to carry the 18,000 cubic metres of cut, dressed and numbered granite blocks, 300km north to Sydney.

After the approach spans were erected, work began on the main arch. Two half-arches were built out progressively from each shore, each held back by 128 cables anchored underground through U-shaped tunnels. Steel members were fabricated in the workshops, placed onto barges, towed into position on the harbour and lifted up by two 580 tonne electrically operated creeper cranes, which erected the half-arches before them as they travelled forward.

There was great excitement on 20 August 1930 after the arch was successfully joined at 10pm the night before. The steel decking was then hung from the arch and was all in place within nine months, being built from the centre outwards to save time moving the cranes.

As the project neared completion, the last of approximately six million Australian made rivets were driven through the deck on 21 January 1932. In February 1932 the Bridge was test loaded using up to 96 steam locomotives placed in various configurations.

The official opening day on Saturday 19 March 1932 was a momentous occasion, drawing remarkable crowds (estimated between 300,000 and one million people) to the city and around the harbour foreshores. The NSW Premier, the Hon. John T. Lang, officially declared the Bridge open. However, the Premier enlivened proceedings when Captain Francis De Groot of the para-military group, the New Guard, slashed the ribbon prematurely with his sword, prior to the official cutting. This incident caused both amusement and dismay on the day and has since become part of Australian folklore.

The opening celebrations included a vast cavalcade of decorated floats, marching groups and bands proceeding through the city streets and across the deck in a pageant of surprising size and quality, considering the economic depression.

The celebrations continued with a gun-salute, a procession of passenger ships under the Bridge, a 'venetian' carnival, a fly-past, fireworks, sports carnivals and exhibitions. After the pageant the public was allowed to walk across the deck…an event not repeated until the 50th anniversary of the Bridge in 1982.

The Harbour Bridge is an essential artery feeding traffic to and from Sydney.
The cranes had played a very important part in both the construction and ongoing maintenance of the bridge. During construction of the main arch between 1929 and 1931, two huge creeper cranes moved outwards, laying their tracksas they progressed. Behind them moved the four maintenance cranes, used initially by the riveting and painting gangs until they had to be dismantled to allow the creeper cranes to pass by and be removed in pieces near the pylons. The maintenance cranes were then re-erected on the arch and remained in service until their removal in 1997.

• Length of arch span 503 metres
• Height of top of arch 134 metres about mean sea level
• Height to top of aircraft beacon 141 metres above mean sea level
• Width of deck 49 metres
• Clearance for Shipping 49 metres
• Height of Pylons 89 metre above mean sea level
• Base of each abutment tower 68 metres across and 48 metres long (two pylons rest on each abutment tower)
• Total length of bridge 1149 metres including approach spans
• Paint required 272,000 litres of paint were required to give the Bridge its initial three coats.
• In June 1976, the one-billionth vehicle crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The first 500 million crossings took over 33 years while the second 500 million took less than 11 years.
• In 1932, the annual average daily traffic volume (in both directions) was about 10,900.
• In 1943, with a wartime shortage of vehicles and petrol rationing, there was a drop in traffic to about 8,600 vehicles a day.

(NB: Harbour Tunnel opened 31st August 1992)

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List of Sydney suburbs
This is a complete listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Sydney area in alphabetical order.
Sydney has about 38 local government areas, each consisting of several suburbs which are listed below:

A
Abbotsbury - Abbotsford - Acacia Gardens - Agnes Banks - Airds - Akuna Bay - Alexandria - Alfords Point - Allambie - Allambie Heights - Allawah - Ambarvale - Annandale - Annangrove - Anzac Village - Arcadia - Arncliffe - Arndell Park - Artarmon - Ashbury - Ashcroft - Ashfield - Asquith - Auburn - Audley - Austral - Avalon

B
Badgerys Creek - Balgowlah - Balgowlah Heights - Balmain - Balmoral - Bangor - Banksia - Banksmeadow - Bankstown - Barden Ridge - Bardwell Park - Barra Brui - Bass Hill - Baulkham Hills - Baulkham Hills West - Bayview - Beacon Hill - Beaconsfield - Beauty Point - Beecroft - Belfield - Bella Vista - Bellevue Hill - Belmore - Belmore South - Belrose - Berala - Berkshire Park - Berowra - Berowra Heights - Berrilee - Beverley Park - Beverly Hills - Bexley - Bexley North - Bidwill - Bilgola - Bilgola Plateau - Birchgrove, New South Wales - Birkenhead Point - Birrong - Blackett - Blacktown - Blairmount - Blakehurst - Bligh Park - Bobbin Head - Bondi - Bondi Beach - Bondi Junction - Bonnet Bay - Bonnyrigg - Bonnyrigg Heights - Boronia Park - Bossley Park - Botany - Bow Bowing - Box Hill - Bradbury - Brighton-Le-Sands - Bringelly - Broadway - Bronte - Brooklyn - Brookvale - Bundeena - Burraneer - Burwood - Busby

C
Cabarita - Cabramatta - Cabramatta West - Cambridge Gardens - Cambridge Park - Camden - Camden South - Camellia - Cammeray - Campbelltown - Camperdown - Campsie - Canada Bay - Canley Heights - Canley Vale - Canterbury - Careel Bay - Caringbah - Carlingford - Carlton - Carnes Hill - Carramar - Carss Park - Cartwright - Castle Cove - Castle Hill - Castlecrag - Castlereagh - Casula - Cecil Park - Centennial Park - Chatham Village - Chatswood - Chatswood West - Cheltenham - Cherrybrook - Chester Hill - Chifley - Chippendale - Chipping Norton - Chiswick - Chullora - Church Point - Circular Quay - Claremont Meadows - Clareville - Clareville Beach - Claymore - Clemton Park - Clifton Gardens - Clontarf - Clovelly - Clyde - Cockatoo Island - Colebee - Collaroy - Collaroy Plateau - Colyton - Como - Concord - Concord West - Condell Park - Connells Point - Coogee - Cottage Point - Cowan - Cranebrook - Cremorne - Cremorne Point - Cromer - Cronulla - Crows Nest - Croydon - Croydon Park - Curl Curl

D
Daceyville - Dangar Island - Darling Harbour - Darling Point - Darlinghurst - Darlington - Davidson - Dawes Point - Dean Park - Dee Why - Denham Court - Denistone - Denistone East - Dharruk - Dobroyd Point - Dolans Bay - Dolls Point - Doonside - Double Bay - Dover Heights - Drummoyne - Duffys Forest - Dulwich Hill - Dundas - Dundas Valley - Dunheved - Dural

E
Eagle Vale - Earlwood - East Balmain - East Botany - East Gordon - East Hills - East Killara - East Lindfield - East Roseville - East Ryde - East Sydney - East Wahroonga - Eastern Creek - Eastlakes - Eastwood - Edensor Park - Edgecliff - Edmondson Park - Elanora Heights - Elderslie - Elizabeth Bay - Emerton - Emu Heights - Emu Plains - Enfield - Engadine - Enmore - Epping - Ermington - Erskine Park - Erskineville - Eschol Park

F
Fairfield - Fairfield Heights - Fairfield West - Fairlight - Five Dock - Flemington - Forest Lodge - Forestville - Freemans Reach - Frenchs Forest

G
Galston - Garden Island - Georges Hall - Georges Heights - Gilead - Girraween - Gladesville - Glebe - Glebe Point - Glen Alpine - Glendenning - Glenfield - Glenhaven - Glenmore Park - Glenorie - Glenwood - Glossodia - Goat Island - Gordon - Gore Hill - Granville - Grays Point - Green Valley - Greenacre - Greenfield Park - Greenwich - Greystanes - Guildford - Gymea - Gymea Bay

H
Haberfield - Hammondville - Harbord - Harris Park - Hassall Grove - Haymarket - Heathcote - Hebersham - Heckenberg - Henley - Hillsdale - Hinchinbrook - Holsworthy - Homebush - Homebush Bay - Homebush West - Hornsby - Hornsby Heights - Horsley Park - Hoxton Park - Hunters Hill - Huntingwood - Huntleys Point - Hurlstone Park - Hurstville - Hurstville Grove

I
Illawong - Ingleburn - Ingleside

J
Jamisontown - Jannali

K
Kangaroo Point - Kareela - Kearns - Kellyville - Kemps Creek - Kensington - Kenthurst - Kentlyn - Killara - Killarney Heights - Kings Cross - Kings Langley - Kings Park - Kingsford - Kingsgrove - Kingswood - Kingswood Park - Kirrawee - Kirribilli - Kogarah - Kogarah Bay - Ku-ring-gai - Kurnell - Kyeemagh - Kyle Bay

L
La Perouse - Lakemba - Lalor Park - Lane Cove - Lansdowne - Lansvale - Lavender Bay - Leichhardt - Lemongrove - Leonay - Lethbridge Park - Leumeah - Lewisham - Lidcombe - Lilli Pilli - Lilyfield - Lindfield - Linley Point - Little Bay - Liverpool - Llandilo - Loftus - Londonderry - Longueville - Lucas Heights - Luddenham - Lugarno - Lurnea

M
Macquarie Fields - Macquarie Park - Maianbar - Malabar - Manly - Manly Vale - Maraylya - Marayong - Maroubra - Maroubra Junction - Marrickville - Marrickville South - Marsden Park - Marsfield - Mascot - Matraville - Mays Hill - McGraths Hill - McMahons Point - Meadowbank - Melrose Park - Menai - Menangle Park - Merrylands - Merrylands West - Middle Cove - Middle Dural - Miller - Millers Point - Milperra - Milsons Point - Minchinbury - Minto - Minto Heights - Miranda - Mona Vale - Monterey - Moore Park - Moorebank - Mortdale - Mortlake - Mosman - Mount Annan - Mount Colah - Mount Druitt - Mount Kuring-Gai - Mount Lewis - Mount Pleasant - Mount Pritchard - Mount Vernon - Mulgoa - Mulgrave

N
Narellan - Narellan Vale - Naremburn - Narrabeen - Narraweena - Narwee - Nelson - Neutral Bay - Newington - Newport - Newtown - Normanhurst - North Balgowlah - North Bondi - North Cronulla - North Curl Curl - North Engadine - North Epping - North Manly - North Narrabeen - North Parramatta - North Richmond - North Rocks - North Ryde - North Seaforth - North St Ives - North Strathfield - North Sydney - North Turramurra - Northbridge - Northmead - Northwood

O
Oakhurst - Oakville - Oatlands - Oatley - Old Guildford - Old Toongabbie - Orchard Hills - Oxford Falls - Oxley Park - Oyster Bay

P
Paddington - Padstow - Padstow Heights - Pagewood - Palm Beach - Panania - Parklea - Parramatta - Peakhurst - Pendle Hill - Pendle Hill South - Pennant Hills - Penrith - Penshurst - Petersham - Phillip Bay - Picnic Point - Pitt Town - Pleasure Point - Plumpton - Point Piper - Port Hacking - Potts Hill - Potts Point - Prairiewood - Prestons - Prospect - Punchbowl - Putney - Pymble - Pyrmont

Q
Quakers Hill - Quarry Hill - Queens Park - Queenscliff

R
Raby - Ramsgate - Randwick - Redfern - Regents Park - Regentville - Revesby - Revesby Heights - Rhodes - Richmond - Riverstone - Riverview - Riverwood - Rockdale - Rocks, The - Rodd Point - Rookwood - Rooty Hill - Rose Bay - Rose Bay - Rosehill - Roselands - Rosemeadow - Roseville - Roseville Chase - Rossmore - Round Corner - Rouse Hill - Rozelle - Ruse - Rushcutters Bay - Russell Lea - Rydalmere - Ryde

S
Sadleir - Sandringham - Sandy Point - Sans Souci - Scheyville - Schofields - Scotland Island - Seaforth - Sefton - Seven Hills - Shalvey - Shanes Park - Silverwater - Smithfield - South Granville - South Hurstville - South Penrith - South Strathfield - South Turramurra - South Wentworthville - South Windsor - Spit Junction - Spit, The - Spring Farm - St Andrews - St Clair - St Helens Park - St Ives - St Ives Chase - St Johns Park - St Leonards - St Marys - St Peters - Stanhope Gardens - Stanmore - Strathfield - Strathfield West - Strawberry Hills - Summer Hill - Surry Hills - Sutherland - Sydenham - Sydney - Sylvania - Sylvania Waters

T
Tamarama - Taren Point - Telopea - Tempe - Tennyson - Terrey Hills - Thornleigh - Toongabbie - Tregear - Turramurra - Turrella

U
Ultimo - Undercliffe

V
Varroville - Vaucluse - Villawood - Vineyard - Voyager Point

W
Wahroonga - Waitara - Wakeley - Wallacia - Wareemba - Warragamba - Warrawee - Warriewood - Warringah Mall - Warwick Farm - Waterfall - Waterloo - Watsons Bay - Wattle Grove - Waverley - Waverton - Wedderburn - Wentworthville - Werrington - Werrington County - Werrington Downs - West Hoxton - West Killara - West Lindfield - West Pennant Hills - West Pymble - West Ryde - Westleigh - Westmead - Wetherill Park - Whalan - Whale Beach - Wheeler Heights - Wilberforce - Wiley Park - Willmot - Willoughby - Windsor - Wingala - Winston Hills - Wollstonecraft - Woodbine - Woodpark - Woollahra - Woolloomooloo - Woolooware - Woolwich - Woronora - Woronora Heights

X

Y
Yagoona - Yarrawarrah - Yennora - Yowie Bay

Z
Zetland

NB: Sydney Real Estate home price is $568, 856 as at June 2009

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