DK Travel : Sydney : History & Culture

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They’re a Weird Mob (1957)

Memoirs of John O’Grady, an “Italian immigrant journalist” turned builders’ labourer.
Thomas Keneally (b. 1935)

Keneally is a prolific and prize-winning author who has had several of his historical novels translated into film. His subjects have ranged from Aboriginal resistance, in The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1972), to the Holocaust, in 1982′s Schindler’s Ark .
Tilley Devine & Kate Leigh

These madams of crime vied for control of Sydney’s 1920s and 30s “razor gangs”.
Toni Collette

A daring lead performance in Muriel’s Wedding launched Collette on the world stage; she lives in Tamarama.
Town Hall

John Henry Wilson originally designed Sydney’s civic headquarters in 1868. The front steps of this Victorian building, with its 1884 clock tower, elegant 1877 vestibule and grand 1889 Centennial Hall, have been a favourite meeting place for Sydneysiders since the original porte cochère facing George Street was removed in 1934.
Troops Set Sail

The first of Australia’s World War I volunteers set sail from Sydney Harbour on 1 November 1914, destined for battlefields in Europe and the Middle Almost 330,000 Australian troops served overseas and 60,000 died, which was the highest death rate per head of population of all nations involved in the war.
Wentworth, Blaxland & Lawson

Opening up Australia’s interior, these European explorers crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813.
William “Billy” Blue

He started a ferry service between Dawes Point and the North Shore.
Windsor

Governor Macquarie established five towns in 1810 on the fertile land around the upper Hawkesbury River, one of which was Windsor, now a weekend tourist haven. The town’s wonderful Colonial buildings include one of Australia’s oldest pubs, the 1815 Macquarie Arms Hotel, as well as the 1823 St Mathew’s Anglican Church and Rectory, designed by Francis Greenway (see Francis Greenway: Convict Architect).
“Granny” Smith Memorial Park

A small park in Eastwood on Sydney’s North Shore commemorates Maria “Granny” Smith who, in 1868, discovered in her orchard a mutated variety of apples sprung from the cuttings of French crab apples. Then a curiosity, it soon became the world’s best-known variety, particularly valued for its virtues as a cooking apple.