City of Liverpool (New South Wales)

For other uses, see City of Liverpool (disambiguation).

City of Liverpool New South Wales
Population:	182,261(2009)[1]
Area:	305.5 km² (118.0 sq mi)
Mayor:	Wendy Waller (ALP)
Council Seat:	Liverpool
Region:	Metropolitan Sydney
State District:	Liverpool, Macquarie Fields, Menai, Mulgoa, Camden
Federal Division:	Hughes, Fowler, Macarthur, Werriwa
Website: http://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/
LGAs around City of Liverpool: Penrith Fairfield Bankstown Wollondilly City of Liverpool Bankstown Camden Campbelltown Sutherland

The City of Liverpool is a Local Government Area to the southwest of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

History

It is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive. A large army base was established in Liverpool during World War I, and exists to this day as the Holsworthy Barracks. There are a number of other military establishments in neighbouring Moorebank.

Until the 1950s, Liverpool was still a satellite town with an agricultural economy based on poultry farming and market gardening. However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with a strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. Liverpool also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s.

Liverpool today

The estimated population in 2008 was 176,903. Liverpool covers an area of 305.5 square kilometres (118.0 sq mi); though most of this is still agricultural land. The Liverpool CBD has become the major commercial centre of south-west Sydney, as it includes many shopping centers and high-rise office buildings. Within the Liverpool city area there are many open spaces and natural environment areas. These include the Georges River, Chipping Norton Lakes and other bushland areas which are part of Western Sydney Parklands. A shooting centre in the area was used as part of the 2000 Olympic Games, and Warwick Farm Racecourse is used as a track for horse race meetings in Sydney. A significant part of the City's land area is still devoted to smallhold agriculture, though this is slowly being enveloped by urban sprawl.

The main ethnic groups which exist within the Liverpool City area include Bosnians, Croatians, Serbs, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pacific Islanders.

Liverpool's transport facilities include the Hume Highway, the Cumberland Highway, the M5 motorway, the M7 motorway and an electric railway service to Sydney, Campbelltown and Parramatta. It also has a Liverpool to Parramatta transitway which buses travel through. It is home to the largest municipal library in Australia^{[citation needed]}, a large teaching hospital, two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. Industries include a large cable factory, a telephone manufacturer, pharmaceutical laboratories and cold storage plants.

Wards and structure

The City is divided into two wards, each electing five councillors. The mayor is directly elected.^[2]

Current council

The current makeup of the council, including the mayor, is as follows:^[2]

Party		Councillors
	Australian Labor Party	5
	Liberal Party of Australia	3
	Liverpool Community Independents Team	2
	Independent	1
	Total	11

The current council, elected in 2008, is:^[2]

Ward	Councillor		Party
Mayor		Wendy Waller	Labor
North Ward		Alan Khanib	Labor
		Mazhar Hadid	Liberal
		Anne Stanley	Labor
		Peter Harle	Community
		Gary Lucas	Independent
South Ward		Jim McGoldrick	Labor
		Ned Mannoun	Liberal
		Nadia Napoletano	Community
		Ghulam Gillani	Labor
		Tony Hadchiti	Liberal

Suburbs and localities

• Ashcroft
• Austral
• Badgerys Creek (shared with Penrith)
• Bringelly (shared with Camden)
• Busby
• Carnes Hill
• Cartwright
• Casula
• Cecil Hills
• Cecil Park (shared with Fairfield)
• Chipping Norton
• Denham Court (shared with Campbelltown)
• Edmondson Park
• Green Valley
• Greendale
• Hammondville
• Heckenberg
• Hinchinbrook
• Holsworthy
• Horningsea Park
• Hoxton Park
• Kemps Creek (shared with Penrith)
• Leppington (shared with Camden)
• Liverpool
• Luddenham (shared with Penrith)
• Lurnea
• Middleton Grange
• Miller
• Moorebank
• Pleasure Point
• Prestons
• Rossmore (shared with Camden)
• Sadleir
• Voyager Point
• Wallacia (shared with Penrith and Wollondilly)
• Warwick Farm
• Wattle Grove
• West Hoxton

Notes

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (30 March 2010). "Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2008–09". http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/3218.0Main%20Features42008-09?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=3218.0&issue=2008-09&num=&view=. Retrieved 3 June 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Liverpool CityCouncil". 2008 Election results. Electoral Commission NSW. http://www.lg.elections.nsw.gov.au/LGE2008/result.Liverpool.html. Retrieved 2009-08-03. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Liverpool City Council website

Coordinates: 33°56′S 150°55′E / 33.933°S 150.917°E / -33.933; 150.917