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Ashfield, New South Wales
Ashfield, New South Wales: Inner West Sydney suburb (postcode 2131) in Inner West Council, population 23,012 (2021), Chinese top ancestry at 22.1%, station opened 1855, 23 heritage conservation areas, TOD controls from January 2025. Distinct from Ashfield, England.
Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach, Sydney's famous one-kilometre ocean beach in Waverley, NSW, birthplace of world surf lifesaving (Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club, 1907), National Heritage listed 25 January 2008, site of the 14 December 2025 Hanukkah terror attack that killed 15.
Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales
Brighton-Le-Sands, also known as Brighton Le Sands, is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Lady Robinsons Beach, known for its Greek-Australian community.
Carlton, Victoria
Carlton is an inner Melbourne suburb, postcode 3053, surveyed by Robert Hoddle in 1852 and home to the University of Melbourne, Lygon Street's 'Little Italy', the Carlton Association, and the World Heritage Royal Exhibition Building.
Cottesloe, Western Australia
Cottesloe is a beachside suburb and small local government area 12 km west of Perth, Western Australia, named in 1886 after Baron Cottesloe. Known for Cottesloe Beach, Sculpture by the Sea, Federation architecture, and a 2021 population of 7,750.
Cronulla
Cronulla, a beachside suburb of Sydney's Sutherland Shire (Kurranulla, 'place of pink seashells'), is a surf beach town with direct rail access, known for the December 2005 race riots and their legislative aftermath.
Crows Nest, New South Wales
Crows Nest is a Lower North Shore Sydney suburb in North Sydney LGA, about 5 km from the CBD, with 4,974 residents (2021), a Willoughby Road dining village, a new Sydney Metro station, and a 2024 TOD rezoning for 5,900 homes.
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)
The Eastern Suburbs is an informal region of Sydney, New South Wales, east of the city center, with no legal boundaries, including suburbs like Bondi Junction, Randwick, and Vaucluse.
Glebe, New South Wales
Glebe, New South Wales: inner-west Sydney suburb on a 240-hectare peninsula, named for the 1790 church glebe grant to Rev. Richard Johnson; terraces, the 1974 Glebe Estate acquisition, and gentrification.
Hunters Hill
Hunters Hill is a sandstone peninsula suburb in Sydney, Australia, named for Captain John Hunter and proclaimed a municipality in 1861. Known for French founders, sandstone villas, Australia's oldest garden suburb status, and the 1971 Kelly's Bush Green Ban.
Lakemba, New South Wales
Lakemba, NSW: southwestern Sydney suburb in City of Canterbury-Bankstown, 15 km from CBD, on Bankstown line; majority-Muslim (61.2%), Haldon Street Ramadan night markets, Metro conversion from 2024.
Mount Maunganui
Mount Maunganui (Mauao) is a coastal suburb of Tauranga, New Zealand, on a tombolo between harbour and ocean, named for the 252 m dormant volcanic cone sacred to Tauranga Moana iwi, returned to them in 2007.
North Sydney
North Sydney: lower North Shore Sydney suburb and local government area, 10.5 km², 72,909 residents, formed 1890; major commercial centre with Harbour Bridge, Luna Park and Victoria Cross metro.
Parramatta
Parramatta, Sydney's second CBD in Western Sydney, NSW, Australia; founded 1788 as Rose Hill, Australia's second European settlement. Known for Old Government House World Heritage listing, $30.97 billion economy, Metro West and light rail projects.
Penrith, New South Wales
Penrith, New South Wales: a city on the Nepean River, 55 km west of Sydney CBD; LGA population 217,664 (2021); municipality 1871, city 1959; gateway to the Blue Mountains and Western Sydney International Airport.
Randwick
Randwick is a south-eastern Sydney suburb named by Simeon Pearce after Randwick, Gloucestershire. Its municipality was proclaimed 22 February 1859, the second oldest LGA in NSW, and it hosts Randwick Racecourse and Prince of Wales Hospital.
St Kilda Road
St Kilda Road is Melbourne's grand tree-lined boulevard, running south from Princes Bridge toward St Kilda. Once Baxter's Track, it became the ceremonial route past the Shrine of Remembrance, lost most of its mansions after 1956 rezoning, and is heritage-listed.
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner southern beachside suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, 7.2 km from the CBD, with 19,490 residents at the 2021 Census. Named after the schooner Lady of St Kilda in 1842, it became a city in 1890 and joined the City of Port Phillip in 1994.
Subiaco, Western Australia
Subiaco is an inner-western Perth suburb and local government area in Western Australia, named by 1851 Benedictine monks after Subiaco, Italy; municipality 1897, city 1952, 2021 suburb population 9,940.
Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Surfers Paradise is a high-rise beach suburb of Gold Coast City, Queensland (postcode 4217), a tourism center since the 1920s Jim Cavill hotel era, with 26,412 residents at the 2021 Census and the 333-meter Q1 tower.
Swanston Street
Swanston Street is Melbourne CBD's main north-south street, about 1,200 m long, closed to cars in 1992, carrying the city's busiest tram corridor, fronting the State Library, and hosting Town Hall Station.
Tuggeranong
Tuggeranong is a district of southern Canberra, Australia, established in 1973 as the city's third satellite town. Its name means 'cold plain'; the 2021 Census recorded 89,461 residents.
Wahroonga
Wahroonga is an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney in Ku-ring-gai council area, named from an Aboriginal word meaning 'our home', formerly Pearces Corner, developed after the 1890 railway and home to Sydney Adventist Hospital.
Western Sydney
Western Sydney, also known as the Sydney Greater West, is the western metropolitan region of Sydney, New South Wales. It is Australia's third-largest economy and fastest-growing region.