AUBURN, NEW SOUTH WALES

'Auburn' is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales Australia. Auburn is located 19 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Auburn Council.

Contents

History

Transport

Landmarks

Commercial Area

Schools

Population

Demographics

Notable Residents

References

References

External links

History

The suburb was named after Oliver Goldsmith's poem ''The Desserted Village'', which describes 'Auburn' in England as the ''loveliest village of the plain''.

Transport

Auburn railway station is on the Southern line and Western line of the CityRail network.

Landmarks

★ Auburn Hospital with basic 24-hour emergency facilities is on Norval and Hargrave Streets.

★ Auburn Botanic Gardens ^[1]

Commercial Area

Auburn has a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial areas. Auburn shopping centre is located close to Auburn railway station. Commercial and industrial develoments are also located along Parramatta Road and surrounding streets.

★ Tooheys Brewery is located in Auburn.

★ Harvey Norman's biggest store in Australia is located on Parramatta Road.

★ Reading Cinemas is on Parramatta Road. ^[2]

★ Revolution Racegear - Australasia's largest race equipment stockist

Schools

★ Auburn Girls High School

★ Auburn North Pubic School

★ Auburn West Public School

★ Auburn Public School

★ St John of God Primary school

★ St Joseph The Worker Public School

★ Trinity Catholic College

Population

Demographics

Auburn prides itself as having one of the largest refugee communities in Australia. With a very high percentage of its population coming predominantly from Lebanese, Turkish and Vietnamese backgrounds, as well as some anglo-celtic and other cultural backgrounds. Auburn also has the fastest growing Iraqi and Sudanese communities in the country with a population of 65,000 people.

Notable Residents

★ Jack Lang had a long and close association with Auburn, setting up a successful real estate business there. He went on to serve on the local council, eventually becoming Mayor. He died in Auburn in 1975.

★ Warren Mundine is the first Aboriginal president of the Australian Labor Party. Born in Grafton in 1956, Warren and his family lived in Auburn in the mid-1960s.

★ Myuran Sukumaran, one of the Bali Nine.

References

★ ''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

References

1. Auburn Botanical Gardens
2. Reading Cinemas

External links

★ Auburn Council website

★ 2001 Census Information