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Chifley

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Randwick City Council NSW, 30 Frances Street, Chifley, NSW 2036
1300 722 542

Description

Chifley is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Chifley is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Chifley is 13 km south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the City of Randwick. The postcode is 2036. Chifley is surrounded by the suburbs of Matraville, Malabar, Little Bay and Phillip Bay.

History

The first house built in the Chifley area was Bunnerong House, which was built in 1825. Most land in that area was owned by the Crown; during the Depression of the 1930s, land was leased to people who built homes in the area gradually, over a drawn-out period of time. Chifley was named after Ben Chifley (1885–1951), Australia's Labor Prime Minister at the end of World War II. Randwick Council made the area, which had been part of southern Matraville, a separate suburb in 1964.A large public housing complex was established in the area in the 1960s. It featured a number of four- and five-storey buildings, plus some smaller buildings containing bedsit-style accommodation, in which lounge-room and bedroom are combined in one room.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 1.057 km2

Elevation: 11-50 metres

Town elevation: 30 m

Population number: 3,233

Local Government Area: Randwick City Council

Location

Randwick City Council NSW, 30 Frances Street, Chifley, NSW 2036

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Chifley, New South Wales

Chifley - Localista

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