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93 unusual facts about Sydney


1810 in Australia

6 October - A town plan of Sydney was published, on which the streets were given new and permanent names, including Market, George, Park and Barrack Streets.

1831 in Australia

18 April - The Sydney daily newspaper and Australia's oldest newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.

1916 in Australia

They raided hotels in Liverpool before travelling by train to Sydney, where one soldier was shot dead in a riot at Central Railway station.

A. T. Anderson

He retired from the military in 1924 and settled in Sydney.

Abraham Rabinovitch

Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch (1889-1964) was an Australian-Russian property developer and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish community; in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions.

Alfred Spencer Heathcote

There is also a memorial for him at St. James' Anglican Church, Sydney, New South Wales.

Anne Dalgarno

She married Kenneth John Dalgarno, a civil engineer, on 1 July 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

Arden Anglican School

The pre-school and primary School are situated in a bushland setting in Beecroft near Beecroft railway station on Wongala Crescent, while the secondary school is located 200 m from Epping railway station, in the suburb of Epping.

Ardijah

In 1990, Betty-Anne (Lead singer) and Ryan Monga (Producer, Musical Director & Bass) along with the Band moved to Sydney, taking their sound throughout the pubs and clubs of Australia.

Assyrian genocide

A monument to the victims of the Assyrian genocide has been built in Fairfield in Australia, a suburb of Sydney where one in ten of the population is of Assyrian descent.

Auster J/1B Aiglet

The majority of aircraft were exported engineless to Kingsford Smith Aviation Services in Sydney where they were completed and tested before delivery.

Australian Federation Flag

It is still used in Sydney Central Railway Station main hall.

Australian Jewish Historical Society

The NSW chapter maintains extensive archives as well as a research library in Mandelbaum House, a College of the University of Sydney.

Banksia nutans

Readily grown in areas with Mediterranean climates, its sensitivity to dieback makes it short-lived in climates of summer humidity such as Sydney.

Bellevue, Glebe

In 2003 Bellevue came under the jurisdiction of the City of Sydney Council because the suburb of Glebe had been transferred to their control.

Benalla railway station

Located at the Midland Highway level crossing close to the centre of town, the station is served by both V/Line Albury-Wodonga line and NSW TrainLink Melbourne - Sydney passenger services.

Benevolent Society

1821: Benevolent Asylum opens on the site of Sydney's Central Station: a refuge for homeless older men, deserted women and children and the mentally ill

Bethlehem College, Ashfield

Students are easily identifiable by the amethyst and navy school uniform - fondly known around the inner western suburbs of Sydney as "Ribena Berries".

Bethlehem's greatest rival was St. Mary's Cathedral who Bethlehem felt had an unwarranted advantage in that the Carnival marching band was from the Cathedral boys school which often played for St. Mary's.

Blanche Cave

The location has been the site for a number of events, such as, in the early days, annual New Years parties and, much more recently, it was featured as part of the Olympic torch relay for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Canberra railway station

NSW TrainLink Southern - terminating services; returning as country services to Sydney Central

CASsat

In 2006, it was being jointly conducted by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Technology, Sydney's Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group, and the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.

Chinese Australian

As with many overseas Chinese groups the world over, early Chinese immigrants to Australia established Chinatowns in several major cities, such as Sydney (Chinatown, Sydney), Brisbane (Chinatown, Brisbane) and Melbourne (Chinatown, Melbourne).

Clive Steele

Setting up private practice in 1924 as a consulting engineer, he designed and supervised structural works including the State Savings Bank of Victoria building in Melbourne, the members' stand at Flemington Racecourse, the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd building in Brisbane, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney and the Melbourne Town Hall.

Dusky toadlet

The Dusky Toadlet (Uperoleia fusca) is a species of Australian ground-dwelling frog that inhabits coastal areas from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to mid-northern Queensland.

Edward William O'Sullivan

He was a most vigorous minister and was responsible for a great development of the tramway system, for the building of many new railways, and for many other public works in connexion with water-supply, roads, rivers, harbours and buildings, including the new Sydney railway station.

Ethel Anderson

She was asked by the rector of St James' Church, Sydney to help decorate the Children's Chapel and designed a mural scheme for it which was executed by the group in 1929.

Festa del Santissimo Salvatore a Pazzano

Pazzano-Australian emigrates in Sydney (Australia) in Narrawena suburb celebrate Santo Salvatore's fiest with a similar statue of the St John the apostole parish.

Geoffrey Bardon

Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in creating the Aboriginal art of the Western Desert movement, and in bringing Australian indigenous art to the attention of the world.

George Goyder

In 1848, at the age of 22, Goyder followed his sister and brother-in-law, George Galbraith McLachlan, to Sydney, New South Wales.

Gordon Parker

He is the Founder of the Black Dog Institute, an organization based at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales, that focuses on the treatment of mood disorders, in particular clinical depression and bipolar disorder.

Henry John Hatch

While he was there he met and married Esther "Essie" Dillon, daughter of John Dillon, a solicitor of Sydney originally from Dublin, and in 1847 or thereabouts Hatch returned to England with his wife.

Heritage College Cooranbong

Heritage College Cooranbong is one of four Christadelphian Heritage Colleges in Australia; the other three are located in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney.

Hillsong Church Kiev

Hillsong Church Kiev (formerly Kiev Christian Life Centre) is the Kiev-based offshoot of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia.

James Charles Cox

He became an assistant to Professor John Smith, the foundation professor of chemistry and experimental physics at the University of Sydney at its original site near Hyde Park, now occupied by Sydney Grammar School and established what became the Sydney Museum next door.

Jim Bradfield

Born in Sydney, he was a company manager and underwent military service in 1951.

John Allworth Clark

John Allworth Clark died on Tuesday 14 June 1932 at his home, 233 Stanmore Road, Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales.

John Busby

In June 1825 Busby made an interesting report on the state of the water-supply of Sydney, and suggested that a supply could be drawn from "the large lagoon in the vicinity of the paper mill" to a reservoir in Hyde Park from which it would be distributed throughout the city by pipes.

John Lazar

Born in Edinburgh, Lazar came to Sydney in 1837 where he worked as an actor and theatre manager.

Johno Johnson

He served as director of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and was chair of the Catholic Newspaper Company, publishers of the Catholic Weekly.

Joseph Coles Kirby

While still the minister of the Port Adelaide church, Kirby became secretary of the Social Purity Society in 1882 and spent time in Melbourne and Sydney advocating temperance and women's suffrage.

KIIS

KIIS 106.5, a contemporary Australian radio station that broadcasts to the Greater Sydney area

Litoria chloris

Litoria chloris, also commonly known as the red-eyed tree frog or orange-eyed tree frog, is a species of tree frog native to eastern Australia; ranging from north of Sydney to Proserpine in mid-northern Queensland.

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Ludwig Sugiri

He completed the postgraduate study in Information Management at University of Technology, Sydney in 2006 and become a qualified librarian.

Metrosideros excelsa

The pōhutukawa has been introduced to other countries with mild-to-warm climates, including south-eastern Australia, where it is naturalising on coastal cliffs near Sydney.

Michael Bialoguski

He married again in 1943, was naturalised in 1947, the same year in which he qualified as a doctor, and he practised as a general practitioner from 1948, initially in Thirroul and later in Macquarie Street, Sydney.

He joined the Australian Army, served as an orderly at an army hospital, and was discharged in order to continue his medical studies at the University of Sydney.

Michael Hissey

Michael Hissey is an Australian musician, teacher and conductor who has for ten years been the Musical Director of St Mary's Singers at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

Netbox Blue

It is privately held company with its head office in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia, and branch offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

Nino, Princess of Mingrelia

Princess Nino's only surviving portrait, produced by an unknown artist during her St. Petersburg years, was purchased in 2010 by the Australian entrepreneur Victor Greenwich Dadianov, a scion of the Dadiani dynasty and Honorary Consul-General of Georgia in Sydney, at one of the auctions of Europe, and was presented by him to the Dadiani Palaces Museum in Zugdidi, Georgia.

Nova Scotia peninsula

When included with the Sydney and Inverness coal fields on Cape Breton Island, these regions were extremely prominent in the industrial and social development of Nova Scotia.

Pademelon

The name is a corruption of badimaliyan, from the Dharuk Aboriginal language of Port Jackson (Sydney region).

Peter Dodds McCormick

He began his involvement with Sydney's St Stephen's Church as a stonemason, working on the now demolished Phillip Street Church (where Martin Place now stands).

Pilot-controlled lighting

The ARCAL frequency for most aerodromes is usually the same as the UNICOM/CTAF frequency, although in some rare cases, a second ARCAL frequency may be designated to control the lighting for a second runway separately (an example of this is runway 01/19 at the airport in Sydney, Nova Scotia).

Postal service in Australia

His main job was to take charge of letters and parcels arriving by ship, to avoid the chaos of people rushing onto the ships as soon as they arrived at Sydney's wharves.

Python Lee Jackson

In June the quartet added former Wild Cherries singer Malcolm McGee (born in Melbourne on 1 November 1945) and opened Rhubarb's club in Sydney's Liverpool Street.

Rhacophorus vampyrus

The first specimen was discovered in 2008 by Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum at Sydney, Australia, and her student Le Thi Thuy Duong from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science.

Rivalries in the National Rugby League

The two clubs neighbour each other in the inner suburbs of Sydney and over the years have often been in bitter dispute over numerous issues.

Royal Australian Engineers

During this period the School of Military Engineering was established at Moore Park in Sydney.

SCENE Music Festival

The festival features mostly alternative music and has hosted such groups such as Sydney, Alexisonfire, A Northern Chorus, Billy Talent, Boys Night Out, Cauterize, City and Colour, Ligeia, Crush Luther, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Johnny Truant, Lights, Magneta Lane, Raising the Fawn, The Trews, and The Black Lungs.

SEAGas pipeline

It connects Adelaide's gas supply to Melbourne and Sydney's, thus increasing the security of natural gas supply to Adelaide.

Self-immolation

Self-immolation "setting oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest" was first recorded in Lady Morgan's (1817) France.

Shawn Atleo

He holds a Master of Education in Adult Learning and Global Change (MEd) from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

Skopos market insight

SKOPOS Market Insight is a global market research agency and communications research company with offices based in London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Johannesburg and Sydney.

Smooth toadlet

Sydney is the collision point of the 3 species, however around Sydney there is only Smooth Toadlets, just north of Sydney there are Dusky Toadlet and just south of Sydney there are Tyler's Toadlets, the Smooth Toadlet occurs throughout much of the Tyler's Toadlet and Dusky Toadlets range.

Sopwith Gnu

Two Australian aircraft were used by Australian Aerial Services Limited on the Adelaide to Sydney mail route.

South Australia–Victoria border dispute

In November 1846 the Colonial Secretary's Office directed surveyor Henry Wade to proceed from Sydney to the disputed territory to define a "Boundary for Police Purposes".

St Leo's Catholic College

St Leo's Catholic College is a secondary Catholic college in the North Shore suburb of Wahroonga in Sydney, Australia.

St Scholastica's College

St Scholastica's College was founded by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1878, on a site in Pitt Street where Sydney's Central Railway Station now stands.

Striped rocket frog

The striped rocket frog, Litoria nasuta, or in its native range known as the rocket frog, occurs mostly in coastal areas from northern Western Australia to around Gosford in New South Wales at its southernmost point, with a disjunct population occurring further south at the Sydney suburb of Avalon.

Sydney City

Sydney, Nova Scotia, a community in Canada formerly a city (1904–1995)

Sydney Deamer

He had a distinguished career in civilian life as a journalist in England and Australia and as a newspaper editor for the Sydney Daily Telegraph under the new proprietor Sir Frank Packer between 1936 and 1939.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

The results of Italian historical studies were given in her Life and Times of Salvator Rosa (1823).

Taylors College

Taylors College delivers the final 3 years of Australian secondary education (Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12) at Melbourne and Sydney campuses, Year 10 and 11 at Perth campus.

Ted Theodore

Theodore was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Dalley in Sydney at a by-election in 1927.

Teen Queens

All three formed the group in 1990 with the intention of getting a TV program off the ground about a girl group in 1960s Sydney.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

The Bens

Two performances were recorded live for the Live at the Wireless (the Melbourne concert) and Live at the Basement (one of the Sydney concerts) radio series.

The Eight Lancashire Lads

His brother, Richard White was for a period the choreographer of the female chorus at the Tivoli revue theatre in Sydney.

The Empire Lights

The Empire Lights were formed by founding members Sarah Starr (Reeve) and Ronan McCormick in 2009 in Sydney, Australia, before moving to Cork, Ireland in 2010.

Thomas Ebrill

His numerous trade and transport trips had taken him throughout Polynesia but also to Sydney in Australia and Valparaíso in Chile.

University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry

It is an Australian graduate-entry dental school based at two locations: Westmead Centre for Oral health (WCOH) which is a part of Westmead hospital, and Sydney Dental Hospital (SDH) which is situated between Chalmers Street and Elizabeth Street opposite the entrance to Central Station.

Unk White

He came to Sydney in 1922 with the artists Joe and Guy Lynch and was soon immersed in the bohemian scene there.

Vika and Linda

The recording of the album, Princess Tabu took place in Melbourne, Sydney and Tonga.

Walter Marks

As a result of an inheritance in 1912, he was able to partly finance the building of his chambers, the twelve-storey Culwulla Chambers in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, the tallest building in central Sydney until after World War II.

Waterfall railway station

For the railway station in Sydney, NSW, Australia, see Waterfall railway station, Sydney

Wayne Griffin

The artificial heart surgery was performed on 20 August 2010, by Dr. Phillip Spratt, the head of the Heart and Lung Transplant Unit of St Vincent's Hospital.

White woman of Gippsland

There were two women aboard, the wife of the Captain and a woman sailing to Sydney to join her fiancé, Mr Frazer.

William Dexter

His wife came out from England at the end of 1854, and in March 1855 they together opened a gallery of arts and school of design in Bathurst Street, Sydney.

William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson spent much of the 1890s in Sydney and Western Australia, working as an expert in mining.

William Romaine Govett

He was appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department of New South Wales on 10 July 1827 and reached Sydney in December 1828.

Wolf Fang

Players start along the shores of Australia and proceed to Sydney before being allowed to choose where to go from there.


1994 Australian Indoor Championships

The 1994 Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney in Australia and was part of the Championship Series of the 1994 ATP Tour.

2008 Movistar Open

Other seeded players were 2007 St. Petersburg finalist Fernando Verdasco, Doha and Sydney quarterfinalist Agustín Calleri, Óscar Hernández, José Acasuso and Nicolás Massú.

A Divided Heart

A Divided Heart is an Australian film directed by Denny Lawrence, released in 2005, portraying a complex romantic conflict set in wartime Sydney, 1942, involving two sisters and an American army officer.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Australian Christian Churches

Greenwood and Philip Duncan (prominent PCA pastor in Sydney) exercised greater control in their own churches which were large and their influence dominated the other PCA churches.

Bill Athey

He made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and eight years later appeared in the Bicentennial Test in Sydney, along with fellow survivors John Emburey and Mike Gatting.

Brian Tse

While in Sydney, he became influenced by the cartooning style of Michael Leunig, a Melburnian who was (and remains to this day) one of the most popular and critically acclaimed cartoonists in Australia.

Carrier Air Wing Two

Port calls during the past three deployments have included stops in Sydney and Perth, Western Australia, Manama (Bahrain), Jebel Ali (United Arab Emirates), Singapore, Kelang (Malaysia), Hong Kong (China), Pusan (Korea), Yokosuka (Japan), and Hawaii.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Cecil King

Cecil King (rugby league Australia) (father of Johnny King), rugby league footballer of the 1940s for South Sydney Rabbitohs

Chong Tae-Hyon

In 1999, as a junior at Kyung Hee University, Chong was selected as a member of the South Korea national baseball team for the 1999 Intercontinental Cup in Sydney.

Christopher Augustine Reynolds

The principal consecrator was Archbishop John Bede Polding of Sydney, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Daniel Murphy of Hobart, Bishop Matthew Quinn of Bathurst, and Bishop James Murray of Maitland.

Clive Lucas

The Mint - Sydney, Headquarters of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

Corey Gameiro

On 3 January 2014, Gameiro scored his debut goal for Sydney FC, scoring against Adelaide United with a header from a Nikola Petković free kick.

Cronulla railway station

Cronulla railway station is a railway station on the Sydney Trains network, a short distance from Cronulla Beach of Sydney, Australia, on the Pacific Ocean.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Diploglottis australis

The Native Tamarind is grown as a decorative tree in various parts of urban Australia, including behind the Mitchell Library in the city of Sydney.

Dolphin Juice

Dolphin Juice was a comedy radio show broadcast from 9-11pm Sunday nights on Sydney's 104.9 Triple M.

Eban Hyams

Earning a scholarship to attend Terra Sancta College in Sydney, Eban was named captain of his school and was introduced to basketball, eventually being selected to the New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges (NSW CCC) state tryouts.

Federation for a Democratic China

In 2005 Chen Yonglin, then Chinese consulate-general working in Sydney, defected to the Australian government by a formal claim for political asylum.

Garry Bradbury

Garry Bradbury is an Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene since 1979 where he was an early member of the pioneering post punk / industrial band Severed Heads, from 1981 to 1985, appearing on the albums: Since the Accident, City Slab Horror, Blubberknife and Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past.

Greg Florimo

Florimo began playing as a junior in the North Sydney district for Willoughby at age seven before playing for McMahons Point, Crows Nest and North Sydney Brothers.

Helen Zerefos

Zerefos is also a tireless charity worker for the Ageing Research Centre at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital.

John B. Haberlen

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

Johnny Wardle

Apart from 5 for 79 and 3 for 51 on a flood-soaked pitch at Sydney, he had little to do.

Julia Hargreaves

She finished 24th at the 2011 La Coruna CSI5 Grand Prix held in La Coruna, Spain; finished 13th at the 2011 Wien Stadthalle CSI4 Table A held in Wien Stadthalle, Austria; finished first at the 2011 Sydney Royal CSI1 held in Sydney, Australia; and finished eighth at the 2011 Zuidwolde CSI2 held in Zuidwolde, The Netherlands.

Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street, Sydney, an important thoroughfare in the central business district of Sydney, Australia

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Mount Ritchie

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve area.

Norman Cowans

For these five days, Cowans was the star of English cricket, and had sent the series to Sydney for the deciding Fifth Test, which ended in a draw.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Pel-Air

Pel-Air Aviation Pty Ltd (trading as Pel-Air) is an airline based in Mascot, Sydney, Australia.

Peter Chitty

Perry, R. (2010) The Changi Brownlow, Hachette, Sydney.

Prince of Denmark's March

The march is used as the background music during the hourly performance of the Royal Clock in the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia.

Princess Haya bint Al Hussein

Princess Haya participated in the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia representing Jordan in show jumping, where she was also her country’s flag bearer.

Ramsay Health Care

The company is competing for a tender for the design, construction and management of a new 423-bed hospital on Sydney's Northern Beaches with the country's other large private health provider Healthscope.

Ricky Nixon

The plan was criticised by many Gaelic football officials and players, including Sydney's Tadhg Kennelly.

Ruth Milkman

In 1986, she was a visiting lecturer in American labor history at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom, a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil in 1990, a visiting research scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 1991, and a visiting research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris in 1993.

Sydney Airport Holdings

MAp owned shareholdings in Brussels and Copenhagen Airports besides Sydney until 2011 when the company sold its shares to concentrate on the latter, though retained a 1% holding in Bristol Airport.

Sydney Boys High School

Also nearby, but not associated with Sydney Boys and Girls High Schools, are Fox Studios Australia, the Sydney Cricket Ground, and the Sydney Football Stadium.

Sydney Devine

Sydney Devine (born Cleland, Lanarkshire 1940) is a Scottish singer whose career began with a television appearance in 1953 at the age of thirteen, developed during eight years touring with the White Heather Group.

Television broadcasting in Australia

The CEO of TVS Sydney, Laurie Patton, is the Secretary and represents ACTA on the Federal Government's Digital Switchover Taskforce Industry Advisory Group.

The Paper Scissors

The album was featured as Album of The Week on Sydney's influential FBi Radio as well as receiving regular airplay on Californian StationKCRW which is considered "one of the most influential independent music radio stations around the globe"KCRW Wiki.

The Screaming Tribesmen

After relocation to Sydney, and a number of line-up changes the band settled on its most successful lineup of Medew, ex-Radio Birdman & The Hitmen guitarist Chris Masuak, bass player Bob Wackley & drummer Warwick Fraser (ex-Feather & Hoi Polloi) who replaced Michael Charles after the recording of the Date With A Vampyre EP.

Thomas New

He was born near Studley, Warwickshire and arrived in Sydney on the Troubadour in June 1843 with his parents Cornelius and Rebecca New and his sister Emily.

Timor-Leste at the 2002 Asian Games

De Araújo was the first East Timorese at the Olympics, he represented East Timor in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the same weight class.

William Snell Chauncy

In 1868 Chauncy was appointed road superintendent at Goulburn, New South Wales with one of his responsibilities being improvements to the main Sydney to Melbourne Road (now the Hume Highway).