29-853: Liverpool Hospital is major district general hospital located in the South Western Sydney suburb of Liverpool, New South Wales , Australia and is a 50-minute drive from the Sydney CBD . It is the second largest hospital in New South Wales (behind Westmead Hospital ) and one of the leading trauma centres in Australia. It has a maximum capacity of 960 beds, 23 operating rooms and 60 critical care beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care. The hospital
58-531: A Hoddle Grid layout with many little laneways and arcades, similar to that of Melbourne. The central retail strip is Macquarie Street which contains numerous small cafes. In recent times the extension of the Westfield shopping centre has seen many new fashion stores come in. The Central Business District is being touted as Sydney's Third CBD centred around the Western Sydney Airport and aerotropolis. The CBD
87-507: A range of clinical placements available for students from universities around Australia . Liverpool, New South Wales Liverpool is a suburb of South Western Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia , 31 kilometres (19 mi) south-west of the Sydney CBD . It is the administrative seat of the City of Liverpool and is in the Cumberland Plain . Liverpool is one of
116-430: A strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. The Liverpool area also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s. Liverpool has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Liverpool is currently the major city centre in South Western Sydney. The city centre has
145-417: Is a Mandaean temple located in the city centre of Liverpool, and is the largest of its kind in Australia. It is led by Rishama (head priest) Salah Choheili . There are many open spaces within the city centre, including botanical parks and sporting facilities. Bigge Park on the east side of the city features a War Memorial while Pioneer Memorial Park to the north has a historical cemetery. Woodward Park to
174-471: Is a major shopping centre, located in Liverpool , a suburb of Sydney. Westfield Liverpool was opened in 1971. The current anchors of the centre are Myer, Kmart (formerly Target prior to 2021), Big W, Woolworths, Coles, Uniqlo, JB Hi-Fi and an Event Cinemas complex. The centre has a current trade area population of 614,000 people, with 14.9 million annual customer visits. The total annual retail sales at
203-579: Is a member of the Liberal Party. Federally, the north side of Liverpool is located in the Division of Hughes held by Jenny Ware of the Liberal Party. The south side is part of the Division of Werriwa , held by Labor's Anne Stanley . The table above illustrates recent election results in the Liverpool area by combining results from each of the booths located in the suburb of Liverpool. The table regards only
232-561: Is on the Main Southern railway line . Liverpool has services to the Sydney CBD, Leppington , Parramatta and Schofields . The Liverpool to Parramatta transitway provides a bus-only route for buses. For details of long distance and local bus services see Liverpool station . There are three public primary schools within the suburb of Liverpool: Liverpool Public School, Liverpool West and Marsden Road. Liverpool Boys and Liverpool Girls are
261-551: Is one of the first FM radio stations setup in the early '80s. Liverpool has had several newspapers since the late 1800s. The first newspaper appeared in Liverpool in 1886 was The Liverpool Times which was soon superseded by The Liverpool Mercury . Both of these newspapers were then incorporated with The Liverpool Herald . There was also the free newspaper The Liverpool News that ran from 1904 to about 1973. Liverpool now has two newspapers, The Liverpool Leader and The Liverpool Champion published every Wednesday. According to
290-521: Is remarkable for the high proportion of people who reported following some religion in the Census; only 12.1% stated that they had no religion, much lower than the national average of 38.4%. This Census question is optional and 10.9% of residents did not respond to it, which introduces some uncertainty into all the religious figures. The most common responses for religion were Islam 16.4%, Catholic 16.2%, and "Miscellaneous Religions" 9.2%. The suburb of Liverpool
319-518: Is somewhat spread throughout the months, although the first half tends to be wetter. July to September tend to be drier, due to foehn winds originating from the Great Dividing Range . Frost can occur in the winter; the lowest recorded temperature was -5 °C, on 25 July 1994. 33°55′15″S 150°55′23″E / 33.92092°S 150.92314°E / -33.92092; 150.92314 Westfield Liverpool Westfield Liverpool
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#1732854548208348-534: Is split in its representation at all three levels of government with Hoxton Park Road the divider in each case. At the local level, Liverpool is part of the City of Liverpool , which is divided into two wards, the North Ward on the north side of Hoxton Park Road and the South Ward on the other side. Each ward elects five councillors and the council currently consists of four Labor councillors, four Liberals, two members of
377-427: Is the major health service for South Western Sydney , providing services to the local government area of Liverpool City Council as well as district services to residents and visitors in the area. It also provides a range of statewide services in areas such as critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care and brain injury rehabilitation. Liverpool Hospital sits within an education and health precinct which includes
406-716: The 2021 census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics , Liverpool had a population of 31,078. These came from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds; less than one-third (33.9%) of residents were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Iraq (11.3%), India (4.9%), Vietnam (3.1%), Fiji (2.7%), and Philippines (2.2%). The most popular ethnic responses were Australian (9.4%), Iraqi (8.3%), English (8.3%), Serbian (6.9%), and Indian (6.8%). 24.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 19.2%, Serbian 6.5%, Vietnamese 4.4%, Hindi 3.2%, and Urdu 2.4%. Liverpool
435-535: The Sydney Grade Cricket competition, Liverpool City Netball, which has participated successfully in many State and representative competitions, Hinchinbrook Hornets Junior Rugby League and FC Bossy Liverpool which plays in the New South Wales Super League and Liverpool Rangers FC which is located at Ireland Park, Memorial Avenue. The West Sydney Razorbacks basketball team used to play out of
464-788: The University Of Wollongong . St Luke's Anglican Church , located in the city centre across the road from Westfield Liverpool , is the oldest existing Anglican church in Australia. All Saints Catholic Church in George St is located with the All Saints schools. St Raphael, Nickolas and Irene Greek Orthodox Church is in Forbes Street and the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Apostle Luke is on Flowerdale Rd. Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi
493-735: The Gough Whitlam Centre while they were in the NBL . Liverpool is also home to Australian Ice Hockey League team the Sydney Ice Dogs who play out of the Liverpool Catholic Club Ice Rink and Liverpool little athletics. Liverpool has an arts and creation centre which provides music lessons with instruments such as:guitar, drums and banjo etc. Liverpool is currently served by a full-time radio station 89.3FM 2GLF which broadcasts local information, music and ethnic programming. It
522-607: The Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research, Clinical Schools of the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University , South West Private Hospital and South Western Sydney TAFE . It is a principal teaching hospital of the University of New South Wales and the Western Sydney University and continues to have an active education programme for medical practitioners, nurses and health professionals, with
551-602: The Liverpool Community Independents Team (LCIT). There is also a directly elected mayor, Ned Mannoun. For New South Wales state elections, the north side of Liverpool is located in the Electoral district of Liverpool , held by Charishma Kaliyanda , while the south side is in the electoral district of Holsworthy , held by Tina Ayyad . Charishmas Kaliyanda is a member of the Labor Party while Tina Ahmad
580-557: The centre were A$ 515.5 million. The centre has been extended and redeveloped three times in its life, the first in 1991, again in 1993, and more recently in 2006. By its 1993 extension, the centre was jointly owned by Westfield and Rodamco , and had 57,664 m (620,690 sq ft) of GLA . The 2006 extensions brought the GLA to 83,365 m (897,333 sq ft). These extensions were valued at an estimated $ 200 million (2006). In 2011, another redevelopment occurred in
609-696: The city is zoned for high density commercial developments. Liverpool has a large teaching hospital , two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. The private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Liverpool. Liverpool is well served by roads such as the Hume Highway (also known as Liverpool Road), the M5 Motorway , and the Westlink M7 Motorway. Liverpool railway station
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#1732854548208638-558: The first Post Offices to be opened in New South Wales. Liverpool was one of the six stations on the first line of Telegraphs to be constructed in this Colony. On 26 January 1858, a Telegraph Office was opened at the Railway Station. Later, on 12 July 1878, these two offices were amalgamated and plans proposed to construct a joint office. Finally a Foundation Stone was laid prior to construction starting. Mrs. N. G. Bull of Cabramatta had
667-528: The first-preference votes. The winner(s) of each election is highlighted in yellow. The Cooks River/Castlereagh Ironbark ecological community and Cumberland Plain Woodland are the indigenous flora community of the area, which are found in remnants within the suburb. Liverpool has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfa ) and is a few degrees warmer than the Sydney CBD at daytime, although nights are slightly cooler than Sydney's. If
696-508: The honour of laying the Stone - such a responsibility given to a woman bringing great indignation by the Mayor and several of the leading men. An Indignation Meeting held soon after confirmed unanimously that Mrs Bull was "a fit and proper person" to have laid the stone. Urban sprawl of Sydney across the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with
725-519: The maximum temperature is 27 °C in the city, in Liverpool it could typically reach as high as 33 °C, while in winter the temperature can be close to 0 °C while it is above 7 °C in central Sydney. The hottest day recorded in Liverpool was on 1 February 1977 when it reached 45.8 °C. At the time this was the second highest temperature recorded in Sydney's metropolitan area, being 2 °C behind Richmond's record set in 1939. Rainfall
754-554: The oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded on 7 November 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie . He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson , Earl of Liverpool , who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the English city of Liverpool , upon which some of the area's architecture is based. The Post Office opened at Liverpool on 1 March 1825 - one of
783-656: The two public secondary schools. The Mainsbridge School caters to children with intellectual disabilities and Liverpool Hospital School for children hospitalized for lengthy periods. Private schools include All Saints Primary School, All Saints Catholic College and Al Amanah College . Post secondary education is catered to with the South Western College of TAFE , Macarthur Community College, Liverpool U3A: School for Seniors, University of Western Sydney English Language Centre, School of Arts in Macquarie Street, and
812-467: The west is the main sporting precinct containing a number of outdoor playing fields and the Whitlam Leisure Centre, hosting a swimming pool and a 3000-seat indoor sports stadium. Other notable sports facilities within the suburb of Liverpool include Collimore Park (netball) and Paciullo Park (soccer and touch football). Prominent local teams include Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Club which plays in
841-411: Was rezoned for mixed use in 2018 to allow for more homes, offices and shops. The main shopping area is centred on Macquarie Street, with Westfield Liverpool , a major shopping centre at the northern end. Liverpool Plaza is a shopping mall located between Macquarie Mall & Northumberland Street. The northern end of the city has been zoned for high density residential apartments . The southern end of
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