Sydney's economy was buoyed by the 2011 announcement of funding for the Sydney Harbour dredging project, which was completed in 2012.

These people pioneered Sydney's private sector economy and were later joined by soldiers whose military service had expired, and later still by free settlers who began arriving from Britain.

The known Spanish manuscript was lost in the 18th or 19th centuries ; however, an 18th-century copy of it was discovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson, labelled in English " Transcribed from ms. in possession of the Revd Mr Edm.

A scene was developing around Radio Birdman and its main performance venue, the Oxford Tavern ( later the Oxford Funhouse ), located in Sydney's Darlinghurst suburb.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

On its abolition, Morton commented that it was " essential for Sydney's progress " and replaced the City Council with a Commission, headed by another former Liberal leader, Vernon Treatt.

He also alleged that, later in Askin's premiership, Abe Saffron became the " bagman " for Sydney's illegal liquor and prostitution rackets and most illegal gambling activities, collecting payoffs that were then passed to Askin, Allan and others, in return for which his father was completely protected.

It was the turning point in Sydney's season, as they would earn some revenge of its own in a controversial preliminary final later that year, winning by 31 points and denying the Saints a place in the grand final.

The rivalry was further extended in 2000 when North Melbourne attempted to play " home " games in Sydney to further promote the game of Australian rules football, which was deemed that the Kangaroos were trying to invade Sydney's " territory ".

It was their first finals showdown since the 1996 AFL Grand Final and Sydney's win extracted some revenge for the Grand Final loss 12 years prior.

The most popular talkback radio station historically was Sydney's 2UE, whose populist programs like The John Laws Morning Show, are widely syndicated across the continent.

Also referred to informally as " St. Francis Xavier Junior College " or " Xavier Junior College " ( XJC ) and colloquially as " Little X ", the St. Francis Xavier University Sydney Campus was situated in Sydney's central business district and saw several buildings opened as a result of growth during its first decade of operation.

Colonial churchmen such as Sydney's first Catholic archbishop, John Bede Polding strongly advocated for Aboriginal rights and dignity and prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson ( born 1965 ), who was raised at a Lutheran mission in Cape York, has written that Christian missions throughout Australia's colonial history " provided a haven from the hell of life on the Australian frontier while at the same time facilitating colonisation ".

The lack of significant war-time investment in Sydney's steel plant led to its decline after the war from which it was unable to recover.

He died at Kissing Point ( now known as Putney, in Sydney's North West ) on 3 January 1813, and was buried in the orchard of the brewer James Squire, a great friend to Bennelong and his clan.

His obituary in the Sydney Gazette was unflattering, insisting that "... he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him ...", which reflected the feelings of some in Sydney's white society that Bennelong had abandoned his role as ambassador in his last years, and also reflects the deteriorating relations between the two groups as more and more land was cleared and fenced for farming, and the hardening attitudes of many colonists towards ' savages ' who were not willing to give up their country and become labourers and servants useful to the colonists.

Sydney's independent record label Festival Records was the first to get on the bandwagon in Australia, releasing Bill Haley & His Comets ' " Rock Around the Clock " in 1956.

Lang died in Auburn in September 1975, aged 98, and was commemorated with a packed house and overflowing crowds outside Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral at his Requiem Mass and memorial service.

In early 1974, former radio DJ Graham Webb launched a weekly teen-oriented TV music show which screened on Sydney's ATN-7 on Saturday mornings ; this was renamed Sounds Unlimited in 1975 and later shortened simply to Sounds.

As a consequence of the impending collapse of the organisation, there was a groundswell of concern and support within Sydney's LGBTQI communities for the continuation of the work and events of Mardi Gras.

Parades such as Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Manchester's Pride events attract significant investment and create tourist revenue, and cities are beginning to realize, firstly, that the acceptance of lesbian and gay culture is fast becoming a sign of urban " sophistication ", and secondly, that gay-oriented events, such as pride parades, the World Outgames and the Gay Games, are potentially lucrative events, attracting thousands of gay tourists and their dollars.

* Mei Quong Tart was one of Sydney's most famous and well-loved personalities, and made a significant impact on the social and political scene of Sydney at a time of strong anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia.

On 14 March 2009, Gibb teamed with Olivia Newton-John to present the one-hour finale performance at a star-studded 12-hour live concert at Sydney's Sydney Cricket Ground, part of Sound Relief, a fundraiser to aid victims of the February 2009 Victorian Bushfires that devastated large tracts of heavily wooded and populated south-eastern Australia, where the Gibb family once lived.

Sydney Airport, Sydney's principal airport, takes up a large part of the suburb.

Bathurst's population has had rapid growth periods throughout its history ; during the mid to late 19th century gold rush period, then post World War 2 when migrants from the war ravaged countries were settled in the area and returning soldiers were offered farming land, and at the start of this century has been another fast growth period corresponding in part to Sydney's congestion.

Before the war they had been part of Sydney's Bohemian arts world.

He was later kidnapped from his home by Kelly Peyton and tortured, resisting admirably until at Sydney's urging he cooperated as part of a plan to rescue him and the also-abducted Rachel.

While playing in Sydney's Enmore Theatre in May 2011 as part of their 2011 Australian tour, lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor announced the new album would be titled This Machine ( after previously jokingly that it would be called either The Pastor of Muppets ,< ref > Shitty Shitty Band Band < ref > or Whirled Piece < ref > in blog posts on the band's official website ).

The eight above-ground platforms were opened in 1926 as part of a large electrification and modernisation program aimed at improving Sydney's suburban railway services.

Aerial view of a part of Sydney's Northern Beaches, with Pittwater and Scotland Island, New South Wales | Scotland Island on the left

Sydney's fiancée, Danny, was murdered by SD-6's internal security division in Season 1 after Sydney revealed to him that she works for SD-6, believing it to be a part of the CIA.

The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line ( also known as the Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line ) is a commuter railway line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, which is a part of Sydney's CityRail network.

It impounds the river's lower reaches to form Lake Yarrunga and part of Sydney's water supply.

Sydney's Chinatown ( Chinese: 雪梨華埠 or 悉尼唐人街 ) is an urban locality in the southern part of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia.

During 1999 Davies, together with Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, composed The Ghost of Time as an expansion of " Great Southern Land " into a forty minute performance for Sydney's part of the worldwide millennial celebrations.

The construction of the Northern railway line in the 1880s opened up the Shire to the rest of Sydney and also to Newcastle, but it was not until motor vehicles became commonplace in the 1950s that the southern part of the Shire truly became part of Sydney's suburbia.

The southern half of the Shire is urban, forming part of Sydney's suburbia.

The Eastern Suburbs Railway was a part of engineer Dr John Bradfield's scheme for Sydney's railways ( the Bradfield Scheme ).

Born in Granville, New South Wales, in Sydney's western suburbs, McGann first came to prominence as part of a loose alliance of modern jazz musicians who performed at the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Kings Cross, Sydney in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In 1965 Oz editor Richard Neville had a close encounter with Sydney's alleged " Mr Big " of organised crime, Lennie McPherson, a notorious criminal who was at that time well on his way to becoming Sydney's most powerful underworld figure, thanks in part to a systematic program of public assassinations of his rivals.

The intersection of Epping and Pittwater Road was once destined to be a major junction of part of " Sydney's Missing Roads " until the cancellation of the North Western and Lane Cove Valley Expressways in the late 1970s.

The area became part of Sydney's expanding tram network in 1889 and, like many suburbs in the inner-west, experienced rapid growth in the early twentieth century.

This was even more the case when 2KO's owners at the time, United Broadcasting Company ( who also owned Sydney's 2UE ), itself owned by the local Lamb family, was part of the consortium that brought television to Newcastle, launching NBN Television on channel 3 in 1962.

On 7 August 1999 Bennett returned home with his adoptive sport and took part in Australia's first American Bowl in Sydney's brand new Stadium Australia versus the Denver Broncos.