Fairfield is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield is located 29 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Fairfield is also partly in the local government area of the City of Holroyd. The postcode is 2165. The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 3. ... km redirects here. ... The Sydney central business district (CBD) is, commercially, the most important in Australia. ... Map of Local Government Areas in New South Wales Types of LGAs in New South Wales The Local Government Areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamation of areas. ... The City of Fairfield is a Local Government Area in the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Holroyd is a Local Government Area and suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located in the Western Sydney region. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... Fairfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... Smithfield is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... Blaxland is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. ... The Division of Prospect is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. ... This is a complete listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Sydney area in alphabetical order. ... Smithfield is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Yennora is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... Old Guildford is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Fairfield Heights is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Fairfield East is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Canley Heights is a suburb in the Local Government Area of Fairfield in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Canley Vale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Carramar is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... South-Western Sydney is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area in south-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... A view of the Sydney CBD from the Harbour Bridge, the Circular Quay is in the foreground Map of the CBD The Sydney central business district (CBD) extends southwards for about 2 km from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... The City of Fairfield is a Local Government Area in the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... Holroyd is a Local Government Area and suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located in the Western Sydney region. ... UK and Australian postal codes are known as postcodes. ...

Commercial Area

Fairfield supports a mixture of commercial and residential developments. Fairfield has three major shopping malls: Fairfield Forum, Neeta City and Fairfield Chase. There has been significant development in Neeta city with greater commercial opportunities. Fairfield's culturally diverse population is reflected in multicultural local businesses such as over twenty different types of cafés and restaurants that include Assyrian, Iraqi, Italian, Spanish and Thai aswell as Kurds - VENUS a popular salon owned by a kurdish hairdresser. For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ... In the Middle Bronze Age Assyria was a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur (Akkadian: ; Hebrew: , Aramaic: ). Later, as a nation and empire that came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia, the term Assyria...

Little Iraq

Fairfield's large Iraqi Assyrian and Iraqi Arab community has had the media describe the suburb as "Little Iraq". More Iraqi/Assyrian businesses have opened in Fairfield, mostly around Ware Street. Iraqi/Assyrian businesses include everything from jewellery shops to restaurants, making the area favourite entertainment and shopping hotspot for the Iraqi/Assyrian community.

Sydney's Iraqi community congregated in Fairfield to celebrate Iraq qualifying for the Asian Soccer Cup finals in 2007. More than 7000 people joined in street celebrations around Fairfield on Sunday 29th July, 2007 after Iraq won the Asian Cup finals.

Transport

Fairfield also has a train station on the CityRail network operating on the Cumberland Line and the South line. Trains run frequently from Fairfield to Campbelltown and the City Circle. There are exactly two trains a day from Fairfield directly to Blacktown. Fairfield also has many bus services via Transit First, and Westbus. Fairfield is a CityRail railway station on Sydneys South line. ... The concourse of  Central Railway Station, the main station on the CityRail network. ... The Cumberland Line (usually coloured bright lilac) is a cross-suburban service in the Sydney metropolitan rail network known as CityRail. ... The South line has several alterate route to reach its main destination at Campbelltown railway station, Sydney, via Granville, via Regents Park, via Bankstown and via East Hills. ... Queen Street in Campbelltown Campbelltown is a suburb and the CBD (central business district) of the City of Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 44 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ... The City Circle is a system of underground passenger railway lines located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that make up the heart of the Sydney passenger railway network, owned and operated by CityRail, a New South Wales government agency. ... Fairfield is a common place name in several English-speaking countries. ... Blacktown is a suburb and a city (the City of Blacktown) in Sydney, Australia, and is adjacent to Seven Hills, Marayong, and Quakers Hill. ...

Schools

Public Schools in Fairfield include: Fairfield Public School, Fairfield High School. Catholic Schools are: Patrician Brothers' College and Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School. Patrician Brothers' Primary School was also previously located in Fairfield but closed in 2007. Fairfield High School is a comprehensive, co-educational school in Fairfield, Sydney, Australia, part of the South Western Sydney School Region and the Fairfield School Education Area. ... Patrician Brothers College is a Roman Catholic School in Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia. ...

History

Captain John Horsley bought the land and named the area Fairfield in honour of his family estate in Somerset, in the UK. Captain is a rank or title with various meanings. ... A LAND attack is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer, causing it to lock up. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ...

Aboriginal Culture

For more than 30,000 years, Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal-Gandangara tribe have lived in the area. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... Gandangara or Gundungurra may refer to: Gandangara people Gandangara language Category: ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ...

European Settlement

Frenchman Gabriel Louis Marie Huon de Kerrileu who was a soldier in the NSW Corp received a grant of 100 acres in 1807, in this area which he called 'Castel Paul'. The land was sold to Captain John Horsley in 1840. Development began in the mid 19th century supported by railway construction in 1856. At the turn of the century the area had a population of 2,500 people and with fertile soils, produced crops for distribution in Sydney. This article is about a military rank. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ...

Rapid population increase after World War II saw the settlement of many ex-service men and European migrants. Large scale Housing Commission development in the 1950s swelled the population to 38,000. By 1979, the population had reached 120,000 and the City was becoming one of the larger Local Government Areas in NSW. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... NSW is a three-letter acronym that refers to: New South Wales, a state of the Commonwealth of Australia U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Population

Demographics

A large portion of Fairfield's residents are migrants and their descendants, notably from former Yugoslavia and more recently from Cambodia, Laos and especially Vietnam, the latter concentrated around the suburb of Cabramatta. Large Assyrian, African, Italian and Spanish-speaking populations also reside in Fairfield and surrounding suburbs such as Bossley Park, Wetherill Park and Smithfield. Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ... Cabramatta shops Cabramatta is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, It is part of the Local Government Areas in Australia Local Government Area of the City of Fairfield, 32 km south-west of the Sydney CBD. It is predominantly populated by Vietnamese people, but many other Asian... Languages Aramaic Religions Christianity Related ethnic groups other Semitic peoples The Assyrians (also called Syriacs or Aramaeans[11]) are an ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, but many of whom have migrated to the Caucasus, North America and Western Europe during the... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Bossley Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Wetherill Park is a suburb of western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Smithfield is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...

Fairfield City is home to approximately 182,000 people. The City of Fairfield is Australia's fifth largest city and the third largest in the Sydney metropolitan area (after Blacktown and Sutherland). While Fairfield City has a comparatively young population with many young families, the greatest growth is occurring in the number of older residents, those aged 65 years or more. Look up home in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The City of Fairfield is a Local Government Area in the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Blacktown is a suburb and a city (the City of Blacktown) in Sydney, Australia, and is adjacent to Seven Hills, Marayong, and Quakers Hill. ... Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic) is a committee area of the Highland Council, Scotland, a registration county, and a lieutenancy area. ...

Culture

Fairfield has 2 major local newspapers, The Fairfield Advance and the Fairfield Champion. Fairfield Advance and Fairfield Champion is issued every Wednesday.

Politics

Fairfield is led by Fairfield City Council, with Nick Lalich as Mayor, Joseph Tripodi as State MP, and Chris Bowen and Julia Irwin as Federal MPs for the seats of Prospect and Fowler respectively. Joseph Tripodi is an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for the electoral district of Fairfield. ... Chris Bowen, Australian politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as member for the Division of Prospect, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election. ... Julia Irwin Julia Claire Irwin (born 8 November 1951), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Fowler, New South Wales. ...

References

• The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

External links

• Fairfied City Official Site

Coordinates: 33°52′13″S 150°57′22″E / -33.87028, 150.95622 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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  • Topographic and bathymetric map from Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia.
• 2001 Census Information.
• Fairfield Advance Local Newspaper