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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia :
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City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is a capital city council which
is responsible for the commercial, financial and cultural hub of the greater
Sydney area.
The city community includes around 150,000 residents, 350,000 workers and more
than 450,000 daily visitors, as well as other government agencies, arts and
cultural organisations and community based service providers.
The City continues to pursue its vision of meeting local resident's needs whilst
advancing Sydney's global position as Australia's premier city, through the
implementation of a range of services, programs and initiatives directed at
residents, businesses and visitors.
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Craigslist: Sydney
craigslist provides local classifieds and forums
for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
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Discover Sydney
Your comprehensive, user friendly guide to Sydney
Australia, the Capital of New South Wales. Includes Sydney accommodation, things
to do and more.
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State Transit Authority of New South Wales
The State Transit Authority of New South Wales
(STA) is an agency of the Government of New South Wales based in Sydney,
Australia operating bus and ferry services.
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Sydney.com
Official Sydney Tourism guide to what is on in
Sydney. Search for accommodation, events, attractions and get the latest deals
on offer.
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Sydney.com.au
Sydney.com.au will help you plan your holiday by
providing information on accommodation, things to do, sights to see, places to
eat and how to get around this beautiful harbour city at your own pace, and,
much more.
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Sydney Airport
Sydney Airport (also known as Kingsford Smith
Airport) (IATA: SYD, ICAO: YSSY) is located in the suburb of Mascot in Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia. It is the major airport serving Sydney, and is a
major hub for Qantas.
Sydney Airport is one of the oldest continually operated airports in the world,
and the busiest airport in Australia, handling 33.4 million passengers and
298,964 aircraft movements in 2008. It was the 28th busiest airport in the world
in 2003. The airport is managed by Sydney Airport Corporation Limited (SACL) and
the current CEO is Russell Balding.
Situated next to Botany Bay, the airport has three runways, colloquially known
as the "East-West", "North-South" and "Third" runways. It has the smallest land
area of any capital city airport in Australia.
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Sydney Australia
New South Wales government site offering
information for international travellers. Includes a guide to maps,
accommodation, events, attractions and tours.
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Sydney Entertainment Centre
The Sydney Entertainment Centre is an entertainment
venue located in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia. It opened in May 1983 to replace
the Sydney Stadium, which had been demolished to make way for a new railway. The
centre is currently owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, which
administers the neighbouring Darling Harbour area, and managed under a lease. It
is one of Sydney's larger concert venues, accommodating 12,000 people as a
conventional theatre or 8,000 as a theatre-in-the-round. It is averaging an
attendance of 1 million people each year. It hosts concerts, family shows,
sporting events and corporate events.
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Sydney Festival
Sydney Festival is Australia's largest and most
attended annual cultural event running every January since it was first held in
1977. Its program features more than 50 events including classical and
contemporary music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and public lectures. Its
indoor and outdoor presentations attract an estimated 1 million people annually.
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Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts
centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Opera
House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney
Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business
district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and
Farm Cove) and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
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Sydney Ports
Sydney Ports Corporation aims to add value to all
aspects of Sydney's port operations. We work with stakeholders to achieve
outcomes that benefit all parties.
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Time Out Sydney
Sydney Entertainment guide - Sydney Events - The
best of what's on, what to do, and where to go in Sydney.
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University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (informally Sydney
University, USyd or simply Sydney) is the oldest university in Australia. It was
established in Sydney in 1850. In 2009, the university had 47,775 students
making it the second largest (behind Monash University) in Australia.
The university has a number of small special-purpose satellite campuses as a
result of annexes over the past 20 years, however the main campus is centred on
the large Oxbridge-inspired grounds which spread across the suburbs of
Camperdown and Darlington on the south-western outskirts of the Sydney CBD.
The University of Sydney is a member of Australia's Group of Eight, Academic
Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the
Worldwide Universities Network.
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Sydney is the largest city
in Australia and Oceania, and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney has a
metropolitan area population of approximately 4.5 million and an area of
approximately 12,000 square kilometres (4,633 sq mi). Its inhabitants are called
Sydneysiders, and Sydney is often called "the Harbour City". It is one of the
most multicultural cities in the world, reflecting its role as a major
destination for immigrants to Australia.
The site of the first British colony in Australia, Sydney was established in
1788 at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip, commodore of the First Fleet. The city is
built on hills surrounding Sydney Harbour – an inlet of the Tasman Sea on
Australia's south-east coast. It is home to the iconic Sydney Opera House, the
Harbour Bridge and its beaches. The metropolitan area is surrounded by national
parks, and contains many bays, rivers and inlets.
The city is home to many prominent parks, such as Hyde Park, Royal Botanical
Gardens and national parks. This is a major factor, along with Sydney Harbour,
that has led to the city’s reputation as one of the most beautiful in the world.
Sydney is considered an alpha+ world city, as listed by the Loughborough
University group's 2008 inventory, is ranked 16th among global cities by Foreign
Policy's 2008 Global Cities Index and is an international centre for commerce,
arts, fashion, culture, entertainment, education and tourism. According to the
Mercer cost of living survey, Sydney is Australia’s most expensive city, and the
66th most expensive in the world. Sydney also ranks among the top 10 most
livable cities in the world according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting and
The Economist.
Sydney has been ranked 14th within the top 50 global financial cities as
surveyed by the Mastercard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index (2007), and 1st
within Australia. Sydney has hosted major international sporting events,
including the 1938 British Empire Games, 2000 Summer Olympics, the final match
of the 2003 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 2008 World Youth Day. The main
airport serving Sydney is Sydney Airport.
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Economy of Sydney :
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The largest economic
sectors in Sydney, as measured by the number of people employed, include
property and business services, retail, manufacturing, and health and community
services. Since the 1980s, jobs have moved from manufacturing to the services
and information sectors. Sydney provides approximately 25 percent of the
country's total GDP.
The Australian Securities Exchange and the Reserve Bank of Australia are located
in Sydney, as are the headquarters of 90 banks and more than half of Australia's
top companies, and the regional headquarters for around 500 multinational
corporations. Of the ten largest corporations in Australia by revenue, four have
headquarters in Sydney: Caltex Australia, the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and
Woolworths. Of the 54 authorised deposit-taking banks in Australia, 44 are based
in Sydney including nine of the 11 foreign subsidiary banks in Australia and all
of the 29 local branches of foreign banks. Major authorised foreign banks in
Sydney include Citigroup, UBS Australia, Mizuho Corporate Bank, HSBC Bank
Australia and Deutsche Bank.
Shopping locations in the central business district include the Queen Victoria
Building, the pedestrian mall on Pitt Street, and international luxury boutiques
in the quieter, northern end of Castlereagh St. Oxford Street in Paddington and
Crown Street, Woollahra are home to boutiques selling more niche products, and
the main streets of Newtown and Enmore cater more towards students and
alternative lifestyles.
Sydney received 7.8 million domestic visitors and 2.5 million international
visitors in 2004. In 2007, the (then) Premier of New South Wales, Morris Iemma
established Events New South Wales to "market Sydney and NSW as a leading global
events destination". Fox Studios Australia has large film studios in the city.
As of 2004, the unemployment rate in Sydney was 4.9 percent. According to The
Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide cost of living survey, Sydney is the
sixteenth most expensive city in the world, while a UBS survey ranks Sydney as
15th in the world in terms of net earnings. As of September 2009, Sydney has the
highest median house price of any Australian capital city at $569,000, and a
median unit price of $400,000. Sydney also has the highest median rent prices of
any Australian city at $450 a week.
The Sydney Region accounts for 12 percent (approximately $1 billion per annum)
of the total agricultural production, by value, of NSW. Sydney provides 55% of
NSW's flower production and 58% of its turf production, as well as 44% of
state's nurseries. In 1994-1995 Sydney produced 44% of New South Wales' poultry
meat and 48% of the state's eggs.
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