NORTH SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES

'North Sydney' is a suburb and commercial district on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of North Sydney Council.

Contents

Commercial Area

Transport

Schools

Churches

Landmarks

Sport and Recreation

Population

Notable residents

Politics

References

External links

Commercial Area

The commercial district of North Sydney includes the second largest concentration of office buildings in New South Wales, with a large representation from the advertising and information technology industries. Advertising, marketing businesses and associated trades such as printing have tradionally dominated the business life of the area though these have been supplanted to a certain extent by information technology businesses. Corporations whose offices are in North Sydney include Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Optus.
Unlike other major suburban hubs within the Sydney metropolitan area, North Sydney has limited shopping facilities and almost no Sunday trading. There are no department stores and only two medium sized supermarkets (Aldi & IGA). The main shopping complex is the Greenwood Plaza which is connected to North Sydney station. Berry Square is another shopping centre in Berry Street, formerly known as North Sydney Shopping World.

Transport

North Sydney is directly linked to the Sydney CBD by road and rail across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. North Sydney railway station is on the North Shore Line of the City Rail network. The Warringah Freeway links North Sydney south to the Sydney CBD and north to Chatswood, New South Wales.

Schools

Local primary schools are North Sydney Demonstration School & St Mary's. Local high schools include the government selective North Sydney Boys and North Sydney Girls High Schools, the Catholic Marist College North Shore and Monte Sant' Angelo, and independent schools, Wenona School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School ("Shore"). St Aloysius' College of Milson's Point and Loreto Kirribilli are also within the confines of the North Sydney Local Government Area. Post-secondary education providers include the Australian Catholic University, Raffles College of Design and Commerce and Billy Blue College.

Churches

Prominent places of worship in the suburb include St Mary's Catholic Church and St Thomas' Anglican Church.

Landmarks

★ Museum at Mary MacKillop Place, which tells the story of Australia's first and only Catholic Saint

★ Don Bank Museum devoted to the history of the local area

★ Greenwood Plaza shopping complex

★ North Sydney railway station

★ North Sydney Oval

★ Stanton Library

★ St Mary's Cathedral

Sport and Recreation

★ North Sydney Bears (rugby league team based in the area)

★ North Sydney Cricket Club

★ Northern Suburbs Rugby Club

★ UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club

Population

Notable residents

★ Billy Blue - a convict after which several places were named such as Blues Point

★ Henry Lawson - poet

Politics

The local government area of North Sydney Council includes the suburb of North Sydney and the surrounding suburbs of Crows Nest, Wollstonecraft, Waverton, Neutral Bay, McMahons Point, Kirribilli, Cremorne (divided between North Sydney & Mosman), and Cammeray.
The current Prime Minister of Australia chooses to live in the official Prime Minister's Sydney residence known as Kirribilli House, which is located in the suburb of Kirribilli which is adjacent to the North Sydney area, and owns his own house in Wollstonecraft, also in the area.

References

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

★ Berry Square

★ Greenwood Plaza

External links

★ Monte Sant'Angelo

★ Wenona

★ Marist College North Shore

★ North Sydney Boys

★ North Sydney Girls

★ Billy Blue College & Billy Blue Creative

★ 2001 Census Information