He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

* FBi Radio, a community radio station based in Sydney, Australia

In 1991, Australian author and playwright Larry Buttrose wrote and staged a theatrical production of Kurtz ( based on Heart of Darkness ) with the Crossroads Theatre Company, Sydney.

* Independent Schools Association ( Australia ), a grouping of schools primarily based in Sydney, Australia, for the purposes of sporting competitions

* Sydney Sixers ( based at the SCG )

* Sydney Thunder ( based at ANZ Stadium )

The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales.

Sydney was the first club in the competition to be based outside of Victoria.

* Rainbow Six ( 1999 – 2000 )-events are based on the Sydney Olympics held in 2000, RAINBOW-an elite counter-terrorist force-is created and engages terrorists across Europe.

The first commercial networks in Australia involved commercial stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and later Perth, sharing programming, with each network forming networks based on their allocated channel numbers: TCN-9 Sydney, GTV-9 Melbourne, QTQ-9 Brisbane, NWS-9 Adelaide and STW-9 Perth together formed the Nine Network, while their equivalents on VHF channels 7 and 10 formed the Seven Network and Network Ten respectively.

* Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia

For example, the executive head of the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, which is a campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney is a Rector, as is the head of the Cairns campus of James Cook University, based at Townsville.

3ivx ( ) is a video codec suite, created by 3ivx Technologies, based in Sydney, Australia, that allows the creation of MPEG-4 compliant data streams.

Sydney has a range of museums including those based on visual art such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the White Rabbit Gallery, Artspace Sydney, the Brett Whiteley Studio ; science and technology such as the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Observatory, Sydney Tramway Museum, Australian National Maritime Museum and Australian Museum ; and history such as the Museum of Sydney.

Associate Vice-Chancellors are based in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

The University of New South Wales ( UNSW ) ( informally New South ), is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Jake Lloyd Jones, a Sydney based artist, conceived a body art ride called the Sydney Body Art Ride which has become an annual event.

" Catchphrase of mentally handicapped British crime lord ' Bob H ' in Sydney based TV series Underbelly

Opera Australia is based in Sydney at the world renowned Sydney Opera House.

About a year after his arrival in Sydney, Parkes was hired by the New South Wales Customs Department as a Tide Waiter, and given the task of inspecting merchant vessels to guard against the smuggling of contraband.

By 1801, the property had passed into the hands of Robert Campbell, a wealthy Sydney merchant.

On 27 December 1851, Gibbes — who was contemplating a departure from the Customs Service at the age of 64 — sold the property to James Lindsay Travers, a merchant of Macquarie Place, Sydney, for 1, 533 pounds.

In April 1874, Wotonga House was auctioned and bought for 10, 100 pounds by Mr Thomas Cadell, a Sydney merchant and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1881 to 1896.

William Tucker ( 1784 – 1817 ) was with a gang employed by Robert Campbell, a Sydney merchant, dropped on islands off the Dunedin coast in November 1809 and with another man, Daniel Wilson, was at Otago Harbour on May the 3rd 1810 when Robert Mason, master of the Brothers, anchored in the harbour and picked him up.

* 1840-Albert Black ( 1840 – 1890 ) becomes customs officer and adopted grandson of merchant Simeon Lord famous in early Sydney.

In 1958 Hooker bought Festival Records from its original owners, the merchant bank Mainguard, and he even established his own boutique label, Rex, ( named after his Sydney hotel ) as a Festival subsidiary.

In 1951 merchant bank, Mainguard took over a struggling Sydney engineering firm, retooled and relaunched it as Festival Records.

One of the most notable examples was in World War II when the German commerce raider Kormoran, disguised as a Dutch merchant ship, surprised and sank the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in 1941, causing the greatest recorded loss of life on an Australian warship.

Bryan Grey a former airline executive with Ansett and Air Niugini formed early 1982 in Sydney together with former Citicorp Australia merchant banking executive Duke Minks, East-West Development Pty.

Efforts to form trade unions amongst merchant seamen trading out of Australian ports can be traced back to 1874, with the formation of the Sydney Seamen's Union and Melbourne Seamen's Union.

After his death in 1804, the land was acquired by Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1836 ), a wealthy merchant who built some of the early warehouses along the Sydney Cove waterfront.

He was educated at the Australian College under Dr Lang, obtained a position as a young man in a Sydney wine merchant's business, and afterwards was in partnership as a merchant with a brother.

ING Direct Australia was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Sydney, offering banking online and via telephone.

During the banking crisis of May 1893 he showed himself to be a firm leader, saving the situation at Sydney by giving the banks power to issue inconvertible paper money for a period, although most of them failed to take advantage and went bankrupt.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

Sydney is home to two private freight railroad companies.

The term rector is used by some academic institutions, such as the University of Melbourne residential college, Newman College ; the private boys ' school, Xavier College ; and the University of Sydney residential college, St John's College ( Benedictine ).

Being a sickly child, Gordon Childe was home schooled for a number of years, before being sent to gain an education at a private school in North Sydney.

He resigned both his teaching position and his commission in the Cadet Corps and travelled up to Sydney to enlist as a private in the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) because it was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Braund, whom Morshead knew well from his time in Armidale.

* Avondale Golf Club, a private golf course in Sydney, Australia

Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections such as the Tate ; the Victoria and Albert Museum ; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ; and South Gallery, London.

The private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Liverpool.

Castle Hill is well served by private buses such as Hillsbus which provides express services to Sydney CBD, as well as Parramatta, Pennant Hills, Macquarie Park, Baulkham Hills, Rouse Hill, Cherrybrook and Busways, which provides services to Stanhope Gardens, Kellyville, Glenwood, Bella Vista and Blacktown.

McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School, a private boys school.

Other examples are in the Royal Collection, the Tapling Collection of the British Museum, and at museums in Sydney, and Perth, in addition to private collections.

* Harris, A. C. ( 1996 ), ‘ Financing infrastructure: private profits from public losses ’, Audit Office of NSW, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of NSW, Conference, Public / Private infrastructure financing: Still feasible ?, Sydney, September.

Woollahra Golf Club is a public 9-hole course and Royal Sydney Golf Club is a private 27-hole championship course, not open to the public.

* Raffles College of Design and Commerce, a private education provider in Sydney, Australia

( The land had been sliced off the grounds of adjacent Wotonga House, which now forms part of Admiralty House, Sydney, but was then in private ownership.

On 21 January 2006, at a Young Liberals convention in Sydney, Bishop declared her intention to introduce a private members bill to make " destroying or violating " the Australian flag a federal offence.

The New Guard was reputed to have over 50, 000 members within Sydney alone ( which had a population of 1. 2 million at the time ), and its membership was organised along strict military lines with ranks, divisions, drill parades and a large private arsenal.

* Combined Associated Schools, an association of private schools in Sydney, Australia

Major hospitals in the municipality include the Sydney Adventist Hospital located in the suburb of Wahroonga which is a private hospital serving that also serves the greater North Shore region.

In December, a VFT Concept Report was released, identifying the key issues for a high-speed rail system, to be built and operated by private enterprise, with trains operating between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne at speeds up to 350 km per hour.

It has been speculated that the revived foundation club, the North Sydney District Rugby League Football Club, would form part of the Central Coast Bears consortium with several private investors.

* The Scots College, a private school in Sydney, Australia

In addition to starring in several made for TV movies and miniseries, she starred in two sitcoms in the 1990s: as private eye Sydney, with Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko, and Café Americain from the creators of Frasier.