Cronulla Winter Market Returns 25–26 July with Free Beachfront Feast
Free beachfront market returns to Cronulla on 25-26 July 2026 with global street food, boutique stalls, a pickleball demo, and ocean views — entry is free.
Published by Janine Preston
Elderslie Suburb Guide – Heritage Outpost in the South- West Growth Corridor
Elderslie sits immediately east of Camden’s historic town centre, on the eastern bank of the Nepean River, about 62 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD. Explorer and Surveyor-General John Oxley received a land grant here in 1816 and named his estate Ellerslie, later adjusting the spelling to Elderslie by 1828, a name that has stuck […]
Gledswood Hills Suburb Guide – Camden’s Premium Parkland Suburb with Historic Roots
Gledswood Hills takes its name from a colonial homestead that has hosted everyone from wool pioneers to wedding parties, and the suburb built around it has become one of Camden’s most polished growth addresses. Gazetted in September 2011 on land adjoining the historic Gledswood Homestead, whose story stretches back to an 1810 land grant, the […]
King Street Newtown Set for Later Trading as Special Entertainment Precinct
King Street Newtown could become a Special Entertainment Precinct under a plan that unifies trading hours across two councils and supports live music and later openings.
10,000 seedlings set for Dundas on National Tree Day
City of Parramatta will try to plant 10,000 native seedlings in one morning at North Upjohn Park Reserve in Dundas for National Tree Day on Sunday 26 July, continuing years of bushland rehabilitation and a separate street tree program that has already added 800 trees.
Record Female Apprentice Intake at Sydney Trains as Bookkeeper Turns to Heavy Machinery
Nicola Huggins never used a guillotine before. Now she’s one of 30 women in Sydney Trains’ record apprentice intake, marking a 50% jump as NSW pushes for more local train manufacturing.
Rob Carlton’s Salzburg Knife Fight Comes Home to Glen Street
Rob Carlton returns to his Northern Beaches roots with Virgin in a Knife Fight, a one-man show of true stories including a Salzburg knife fight and a local courtroom tale, at Glen Street Theatre on 21-22 August.
Upper Blue Mountains villages open for visitors despite Victoria Pass closure
A new tourism campaign urges Sydney residents to visit Blackheath and Mount Victoria by train, as the Great Western Highway at Victoria Pass remains closed until mid-2027.
La Perouse Profile – Steeped in History, Indigenous Community, and Nature Access
La Perouse holds a place in Australian history that few suburbs of its modest size can claim: it was the site of one of the most significant encounters between European explorers and the First Fleet in January 1788, and it has been continuously occupied by Aboriginal people for over 7,500 years. The suburb sits on […]
Fifteenth Avenue Fix Saves 90 Homes and $1 Billion, Council Says
Liverpool Council says a revised Fifteenth Avenue design can cut the cost by $1 billion and spare 90 homes from resumption, while adding a dedicated public transport lane from the start.
Canterbury pool dodges delays as Olympic pool fills for late 2026
Canterbury Leisure & Aquatic Centre’s 50m Olympic pool began filling with 1.7 million litres of water on 23 June, keeping the project on track for a late 2026 opening as one of Sydney’s least delayed new aquatic centres.
Woodbine Suburb Profile – Parkland Galore
Woodbine is a small residential suburb wedged between the Hume Highway and Campbelltown Road, close to Claymore, Eagle Vale and Eschol Park in the western Campbelltown LGA. Gazetted in March 1976, its name is a plant name common in English landscape and garden tradition, typically referring to honeysuckle or a climbing vine, reflecting the wider […]
Ingleburn Suburb Profile – Easy Connections and First Home Buyer Friendly
Ingleburn is one of the largest and most established suburbs in the Campbelltown LGA, with a population over 15,000 and direct T8 Airport and South Line rail access that has made it a durable commuter suburb for south-western Sydney. The name draws on Scottish Gaelic, combining “ingle” (a bend or nook) and “burn” (a small […]
Denham Court Profile – Sydney’s Acreage Enclave Turning Into a Master-Planned Suburb
Denham Court is a semi-rural, prestige acreage locality in the northern Campbelltown LGA, west of Ingleburn along Campbelltown Road. Its name reaches back to one of the earliest European land grants in the district: 500 acres awarded to Richard Atkins, the colony’s Judge Advocate, who arrived in 1792 and named the grant after his father […]
Berala Suburb Guide – Well-Connected, Family Friendly, & Deep Multicultural Roots
Berala sits on the old railway shuttle line between Lidcombe and Bankstown, a small, settled suburb whose name remembers the ducks that once filled its swampland. It is not a suburb many Sydneysiders could place on a map, and locals tend to like it that way: quiet streets, leafy blocks, and a multicultural community that […]
Auburn Suburb Guide – Well Connected & Diverse Multicultural Food Scene
Auburn is named after a village that never existed. The name comes from Oliver Goldsmith’s 1770 poem “The Deserted Village,” which mourns the fictional loss of “Auburn, loveliest village of the plain” to enclosure and depopulation. Sydney’s Auburn, which emerged from subdivisions by John Yelverton Mills near the railway line in the nineteenth century, has […]
Spring Farm Suburb Guide – Master Planned Riverside Living
Spring Farm is the Nepean River suburb built around the idea that new estates do not have to mean bare streets and treeless nature strips. Bush corridors here deliberately link William Howe Reserve and Gundungurra Reserve down to the riverbank itself, and the planning brief behind the suburb explicitly called for an ecologically sustainable, mixed-use […]
Oran Park Suburb Guide – Master Planned Renewal and Growth Story
Oran Park spent nearly half a century as the sound of screaming V8s rather than the sound of ride-on mowers. From February 1962 until its closure in January 2010, Oran Park Raceway hosted the Australian Grand Prix twice, an annual round of the Australian Touring Car Championship every year from 1971, and the legendary 1971 […]
Narellan Suburb Guide – A Commercial Capital with Heritage
Narellan is older than Camden itself, one of five original villages that predated the founding of the Camden township in 1840 in what colonial settlers called The Cowpastures. William Hovell, later famous for the Hume and Hovell overland expedition to Port Phillip, chose the site in November 1813 for a 700-acre grant he called Narralling, […]
Mount Annan Suburb Guide – The Leafy Green Suburb with a Beautiful Native Botanic Garden
Mount Annan is named for a Scottish town most of its residents will never visit, and it holds Australia’s largest botanic garden on land that was, within living memory, a working dairy farm. William Howe, an early Camden district landholder, named the hill after Annan in Dumfriesshire, his home town in Scotland, and today that […]