City of Sydney

This article is about the local government area. For the metropolitan area, see Sydney. For the city centre of Sydney, see Sydney central business district.

The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established by Act of Parliament in 1842, the City of Sydney is the oldest, and the oldest-surviving, local government authority in New South Wales, and the second-oldest in Australia, with only the City of Adelaide being older by two years.

City of Sydney New South Wales
Location in Metropolitan Sydney
Coordinates	33°52′S 151°12′E / 33.867°S 151.200°E / -33.867; 151.200
Population	211,632 (2021 census)^[1] (17th)
• Density	8,470/km^2 (21,900/sq mi)
Established	20 July 1842
Area	25 km^2 (9.7 sq mi)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)
Lord Mayor	Clover Moore
Council seat	Sydney CBD (Town Hall)
Region	Central Sydney
State electorate(s)	Sydney Balmain Heffron Newtown
Federal division(s)	Sydney Wentworth Kingsford Smith
Website	City of Sydney
LGAs around City of Sydney: Lane Cove North Sydney Mosman Inner West City of Sydney Woollahra Inner West Bayside Randwick

Given its prominent position, historically, geographically, economically and socially, the City of Sydney has long been a source of political interest and intrigue. As a result of this, the boundaries, constitution and legal basis of the council have changed many times throughout its history, often to suit the governing party of the State of New South Wales. The City of Sydney is currently governed under the City of Sydney Act, 1988, which defines and limits the powers, election method, constitution and boundaries of the council area. On 6 February 2004, the former local government area of the City of South Sydney, which itself had been created in 1989 from areas formerly part of the City of Sydney (including Alexandria, Darlington, Erskineville, Newtown and Redfern), was formally merged into the City of Sydney and the current city boundaries date from this merger.

The leader of the City of Sydney is known as the Lord Mayor of Sydney, currently held since 27 March 2004 by Clover Moore, who also served concurrently as the state Member of Parliament for Sydney and Bligh from 1988 to 2012.

Suburbs and localities in the local government area

Suburbs within or partially within the City of Sydney are:

• Alexandria
• Annandale (shared with Inner West Council)
• Barangaroo
• Beaconsfield
• Camperdown (shared with Inner West Council)
• Centennial Park (shared with City of Randwick)
• Chippendale
• Darlinghurst
• Darlington
• Dawes Point
• Elizabeth Bay
• Erskineville
• Eveleigh
• Forest Lodge
• Glebe
• Haymarket
• Millers Point
• Moore Park
• Newtown (shared with Inner West Council)
• Paddington (shared with Municipality of Woollahra)
• Potts Point
• Pyrmont
• Redfern
• Rosebery (shared with Bayside Council)
• Rushcutters Bay
• St Peters (shared with Inner West Council)
• Surry Hills
• Sydney CBD
• The Rocks
• Ultimo
• Waterloo
• Woolloomooloo
• Zetland

Localities in the City of Sydney are:

• Broadway
• Central
• Central Park
• Chinatown
• Circular Quay
• Darling Harbour
• The Domain
• East Sydney
• Garden Island
• Goat Island
• Golden Grove
• Green Square
• Kings Cross
• Macdonaldtown
• Railway Square
• Strawberry Hills
• St James
• Wynyard

History

See also: Coat of arms of Sydney and Flag of the City of Sydney

 

Lower George Street, Sydney in about 1828

 

The City of Sydney flag, designed in 1908

 

The 1996 redesign of the City of Sydney coat of arms

 

City Council chambers, Sydney, 1840s

The name Sydney comes from "Sydney Cove" which is where the English Governor (later Admiral) Arthur Phillip established the first settlement, after arriving with the First Fleet. On 26 January 1788, he named it after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, who was the Home Secretary at the time, and the man responsible for the plan for the convict colony in Australia.

The "City of Sydney" was established on 20 July 1842^[3] by the Corporation Act which encompasses present-day Woolloomooloo, Surry Hills, Chippendale and Pyrmont, an area of 11.65 km². There were six wards established by boundary posts. These wards were: Gipps, Brisbane, Macquarie, Bourke, Cook and Phillip. A boundary post still exists in front of Sydney Square.

The boundaries of the City of Sydney have changed fairly regularly since 1900. The bankrupt Municipality of Camperdown was merged with the city in 1909. As a result of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, the municipalities of Alexandria, Darlington, Erskineville, Newtown, Redfern, The Glebe, Waterloo, and Paddington were added to the city. In 1968 the boundaries were changed and many of these suburbs moved to be part of a new municipality of South Sydney. South Sydney was brought back into the city in 1982, but became separate again under the City of Sydney Act of 1988 and then became smaller than its original size at 6.19 km². It grew again in February 2004 with the merger of the two council areas, and now has a population of approximately 170,000 people.

These changes in boundaries have often resulted in control of the council by the governing party in the Parliament of New South Wales at the time; the Labor Party often sought to have traditional working-class suburbs like Redfern, Erskineville, Alexandria and Waterloo included in the council area, and the Liberal Party and its predecessors often desired a smaller council area focused on inner-Sydney or a limited/broader voting franchise. A 1987 re-organisation initiated by a Labor state government and completed in 1989 under a Liberal Coalition government saw the City of Sydney split again, with southern suburbs forming the City of South Sydney, a moved that advantaged the government of the day, as the southern suburbs now in South Sydney Council had traditionally voted Labor.^[4][5]

On 8 May 2003 the Labor state Government partially undid this change, when approximately 40% of the South Sydney City Council area was merged back into the City of Sydney including Camperdown, Chippendale, Darlington, East Sydney, Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo. Glebe was also transferred back from Leichhardt Council to the City of Sydney.^[6] On 6 February 2004, the remaining parts of the South Sydney City Council were merged into the City of Sydney. Critics claimed that this was performed with the intention of creating a "super-council" which would be under the control of Labor, which also controlled the NSW Government. Subsequent to this merger, an election took place on 27 March 2004 which resulted in the independent candidate Clover Moore defeating the high-profile Labor candidate, former federal minister Michael Lee and winning the position of Lord Mayor.^[4]

Boundary changes

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  Boundaries 1870–1908

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  Boundaries 1908–1948

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  Boundaries 1949–1968

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  Boundaries 1968–1982

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  Boundaries 1982–1988

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  Boundaries 1989–2003

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  Boundaries 2003–2004

Demographics

At the 2021 census, there were 211,632 people in the Sydney local government area, of these 52.3% were male and 47.7% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.4% of the population. The median age of people in the City of Sydney was 34 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 7.6% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 9.7% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 25.2% were married and 9.8% were either divorced or separated.^[1]

Population growth in the City of Sydney between the 2006 Census and the 2011 Census was 4.57%; with a significant increase of 22.93% between 2011 and 2016; and a more modest increase of 1.56% between 2016 and 2021 likely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. When compared with total population growth of Australia of 8.81% between 2011 and 2016, population growth in the Sydney local government area was almost triple the national average.^[1] The median weekly income for residents within the City of Sydney was just under 1.5 times the national average.^[7][8]

The proportion of dwellings in the City of Sydney that are apartments or units is 78.5%, which is substantially different from the Australian average of 14.2%. The proportion of residents in the Sydney local government area that claimed Australian ancestry was approximately half the national average.^[1]

Selected historical census data for Sydney local government area
Census year			2001^[9]^[10] ^a	2006^[11]	2011^[8]	2016^[7]	2021 ^[1]
Population		Estimated residents on census night	137,641	156,571	169,505	208,374	211,632
		LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales			10th	8th	12th
		% of New South Wales population	2.18%	2.39%	2.45%	2.79%	2.62%
		% of Australian population	0.73%	0.79%	0.79%	0.89%	0.83%
		Estimated ATSI population on census night	1,993	1,982	2,175	2,413	3,009
		% of ATSI population to residents	1.4%	1.3%	1.3%	1.2%	1.4%
Median weekly incomes
Personal income		Median weekly personal income		A$717	A$888	A$953	$A1,241
		% of Australian median income		153.9%	153.9%	144.0%	154.2%
Family income		Median weekly family income		A$1,204	A$2,273	$A2,524	$A3,057
		% of Australian median income		117.2%	153.5%	145.6%	144.2%
Household income		Median weekly household income		A$1,819	A$1,639	A$1,926	A$2,212
		% of Australian median income		105.9%	132.8%	133.9%	126.7%
Dwelling structure
Dwelling type		Flat or apartment	61.6%	73.7%	73.6%	77.1%	78.5%
		Semi-detached, terrace or townhouse	22.9%	20.2%	21.2%	19.7%	18.3%
		Separate house	2.8%	4.9%	4.2%	2.0%	2.1%
		Other dwellings	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.6%
		Unoccupied dwellings	10.2%	8.5%	11.2%	11.9%	16.1%

Selected historical census data for Sydney local government area
Ancestry, top responses
2001^[9]^a		2006^[11]		2011^[8]		2016^[7]		2021^[1]
No Data		No Data		English	19.3%	English	18.1%	English	25.1%
				Australian	13.9%	Chinese	13.4%	Australian	16.8%
				Chinese	9.7%	Australian	11.9%	Chinese	16.8%
				Irish	8.5%	Irish	8.0%	Irish	10.7%
				Scottish	5.8%	Scottish	5.3%	Scottish	7.5%
Country of Birth, top responses
2001^[9]^a		2006^[11]		2011^[8]		2016^[7]		2021^[1]
Australia	41.1%	Australia	40.5%	Australia	44.0%	Australia	39.4%	Australia	44.6%
United Kingdom	5.0%	England	4.2%	China	5.4%	China	9.7%	China	7.8%
New Zealand	3.5%	China	3.5%	England	4.9%	England	4.5%	England	4.8%
China	2.2%	New Zealand	3.0%	New Zealand	3.3%	Thailand	3.3%	Thailand	3.0%
Indonesia	1.9%	Indonesia	2.0%	Indonesia	2.2%	New Zealand	2.6%	Indonesia	2.7%
Hong Kong	1.0%	South Korea	1.6%	Thailand	2.1%	Indonesia	2.5%	New Zealand	2.7%
Language, top responses (other than English)
2001^[9]^a		2006^[11]		2011^[8]		2016^[7]		2021^[1]
Cantonese	2.9%	Mandarin	3.7%	Mandarin	5.1%	Mandarin	9.9%	Mandarin	8.6%
Mandarin	2.2%	Cantonese	3.3%	Cantonese	3.2%	Thai	3.2%	Cantonese	2.8%
Indonesian	1.6%	Indonesian	1.7%	Thai	2.1%	Cantonese	2.9%	Thai	2.8%
Greek	1.5%	Korean	1.6%	Indonesian	1.9%	Indonesian	2.2%	Spanish	2.4%
Russian	1.2%	Greek	1.3%	Korean	1.6%	Spanish	1.7%	Indonesian	2.1%
Religious affiliation, top responses
2001^[9]^a		2006^[11]		2011^[8]		2016^[7]		2021^[1]
No Religion	19.0%	No Religion	23.7%	No Religion	33.6%	No Religion	43.2%	No Religion	51.0%
Catholic	18.4%	Catholic	18.3%	Catholic	19.0%	Not Stated	15.8%	Catholic	15.2%
Anglican	11.1%	Anglican	10.0%	Anglican	9.0%	Catholic	15.4%	Not Stated	8.4%
Buddhism	4.2%	Buddhism	5.2%	Buddhism	6.5%	Buddhism	7.0%	Buddhism	6.5%
Eastern Orthodox	2.7%	Eastern Orthodox	2.6%	Eastern Orthodox	2.6%	Anglican	5.8%	Anglican	4.9%

^a  2001 Census data comprise the sum of the former South Sydney and the former Sydney local government areas with the addition of localities Glebe and Forest Lodge.

Council

See also: List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney

 

The Sydney Town Hall, seat of the City Council

Lord Mayor		Term	Notes
Lord Mayor	Clover Moore	27 March 2004 – present	MP for Sydney and Bligh 1988–2012.^[12]^[13]^[14]
Deputy Lord Mayor	Robert Kok	18 September 2023 – present	Deputy Lord Mayor 2011–2012.^[15]
Chief Executive Officer		Term	Notes
Monica Barone		7 August 2006 – present	^[16]

Current composition and election method

Sydney City Council is composed of ten Councillors, including the Lord Mayor, for a fixed four-year term of office. The Lord Mayor is directly elected while the nine other Councillors are elected proportionally. The Deputy Lord Mayor is elected annually by the councillors. Although the fixed term of the council is four years, due to delays caused by amalgamations and the COVID-19 pandemic, the previous term lasted from 10 September 2016 to 4 December 2021.^[17]

The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council, including the Lord Mayor, is as follows:^[18]

Party		Councillors
	Clover Moore Independent Team	5
	Liberal Party of Australia	2
	Australian Labor Party	1
	The Greens	1
	Independent	1
	Total	10

The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election, is:^[19][20]

Lord Mayor		Party	Notes
	Clover Moore	Clover Moore Independents	Lord Mayor, 2004–present.
Councillor		Party	Notes
	Adam Worling	Clover Moore Independents	Jess Scully resigned on 4 April 2023.^[21]^[22] Countback election held on 9 May 2023.^[23]^[24]
	Shauna Jarrett	Liberal
	Sylvie Ellsmore	Greens	Marrickville Council Councillor, 2012–2016; Deputy Lord Mayor, 2022–2023.
	Linda Scott	Labor	Elected 2012; Deputy Lord Mayor, 2018–2019.^[25]
	Robert Kok	Clover Moore Independents	Elected 2008; Deputy Lord Mayor, 2011–2012, 2023–present.
	Emelda Davis	Clover Moore Independents
	HY William Chan	Clover Moore Independents
	Lyndon Gannon	Liberal
	Yvonne Weldon	Independent

Business vote

Unlike all other local government area in NSW (which are governed under the Local Government Act, 1993), the City of Sydney is governed under the City of Sydney Act, 1988. On 25 September 2014, the NSW Liberal/National Coalition Government of Mike Baird, in conjunction with the Shooters and Fishers Party in the Legislative Council, passed the City of Sydney Amendment (Elections) Act, 2014, which allowed businesses to have two votes each in City of Sydney elections via a compulsory non-resident register that is maintained at the expense of the City Council.^[26][27][28]

Implemented for the 2016 election and maintained by Council at an annual cost of $1.7 million, the additional business roll was widely criticised as being an infringement on the democratic process and an attempt to gerrymander election results by the Liberal/National Coalition.^{[29][30][31][32][33]} At the time of the bill ABC election analyst, Antony Green, noted: "For eight decades both sides of NSW politics have viewed Sydney's Lord Mayoralty as a bauble to be delivered as soon as possible to someone that the new government thinks is right and proper to hold the position [...] Given the history ... it is a little difficult to view the proposed changes as anything other than being a state government trying again to get its way on who should be Lord Mayor of Sydney."^[34]

The Lord Mayor Clover Moore also expressed her opposition, seeing it as another attempt to attack her administration and that the new compulsory business register "placed an unworkable and costly burden on the council [...] One of the great flaws of the legislation was that it gives businesses two votes and residents just one, completely reversing one of the founding principles of Australia’s democracy: one vote, one value. [It] was not about business voting at all – it was about manipulating democracy."^[29] Moore's position has been supported by several community groups and also Labor Councillor and President of Local Government NSW, Linda Scott, who expressed her view that the business vote is "complex, costly and has no clear public benefit."^[29] However, one supporter of the business vote was former councillor Angela Vithoulkas: "Businesses and property owners pay over 72% of the rates [in the City of Sydney], they deserve to have a voice and exercise their democratic right."^[35] Following the 2021 council elections, the NSW Electoral Commission issued 18,501 failure to vote notices and fines to non-residential electors in the City of Sydney, representing 39% of all non-residential electors for the area.^[36]

On 13 September 2023, Ron Hoenig, the Minister for Local Government in the new Labor state government of Chris Minns, announced that the government had introduced the City of Sydney Amendment Bill 2023 and planned to be implemented at the next elections scheduled for September 2024, that would reverse the 2014 amendment act and remove the compulsory double business voting roll, and return to the system of optional single business voting.^[36][37] On this announcement Hoenig commented: "The amendments were made by the Liberals in a brazen attempt to oust Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore from office and give the party an electoral advantage in controlling the Sydney Town Hall. As expected, the amendments have clearly missed their target with thousands of non-resident ratepayers being slugged with fines for not voting instead. For nearly a decade, City of Sydney ratepayers have also been forced to foot an annual bill of approximately $1 million to maintain the non-residential electoral roll. Nowhere else in this state do we see one group of voters favoured in this way. It erodes the democratic process and undermines the vital importance of giving residents and ratepayers a balanced voice in local council elections."^[36] The City of Sydney Amendment Act 2023 passed the Parliament on 21 September, and received royal assent from the Governor on 27 September 2023, returning to the optional single business vote in city elections.^[38]

Policies, services and initiatives

Environment

Further information: Climate change in Australia

The City of Sydney has adopted various policies to reduce the council's climate impact, including strategies implemented since the 2000s to reduce car pollution by investing in mass and public transit^[39] and introducing a fleet of 10 new Nissan Leaf electric cars, the largest order of the vehicle in Australia.^[40] The council has also invested in bicycle infrastructure, and cycling trips have increased by 113% across Sydney's inner-city since March 2010, with approximately 2,000 bikes passing through top peak-hour intersections on an average weekday.^[41]

The City of Sydney became the first council in Australia to achieve formal certification as carbon-neutral in 2008.^[42][43] The city has reduced its 2007 carbon emissions by 6% and since 2006 has reduced carbon emissions from city buildings by up to 20%.^[41][44] In 2008, the council adopted the Sustainable Sydney 2030 programme, which outlined various energy targets, such as a comprehensive plan to reduce energy in homes and offices within Sydney by 30%.^[41][45] In the commercial space, reductions in energy consumption have decreased energy bills by $30 million a year in more than half of office spaces, and solar panels] have been installed on many CBD buildings in an effort to minimise carbon pollution by around 3,000 tonnes a year.^[46][47] Sydney has become a leader in the development of green office buildings and enforcing the requirement of all building proposals to be energy-efficient.

The One Central Park development, completed in 2013, is an example of this implementation and design.^{[48][49][50][51]} Proposals to make all of Sydney's future buildings sustainable and environmentally friendly by using recycled water, rooftop gardens, efficient and renewable energy.

Sydney Peace Prize

The City of Sydney is a major supporter of the Sydney Peace Prize.

Libraries

Main article: City of Sydney Library

Sister cities

Sydney City Council maintains sister city relations with the following cities:^[52]

•   San Francisco, California, United States, since 1968
•   Nagoya, Japan, since 1980
•   Wellington, New Zealand, since 1982
•   Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, since 1984
•   Guangzhou, China, since 1986
•   Florence, Tuscany, Italy, since 1986

Friendship cities

•   Paris, France, since 1998
•   Berlin, Germany, since 2000
•   Athens, Greece, since 2000
•   Dublin, Ireland, since 2002
•   Chicago, Illinois, United States, since 21 February 2019 (The City of Sydney considers the City of Chicago a "friendship city", while the City of Chicago considers the City of Sydney a "sister city.")^[53]
•   Wuhan, China, since 2014^[54]

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External links

• Official website for the City of Sydney
• Official tourism site for the City of Sydney
•   City of Sydney travel guide from Wikivoyage