A COMMUNITY football champion who helped refugees integrate into Australian society through sport has been named Parramatta’s 2024 Citizen of the Year, with local volunteers lea...
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ONE of the world’s innovative materials scientists, an engineer and inventor is Parramatta City’s Australia Day Ambassador. NSW Australian of the Year 2022 and University of New...
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A TRAM has travelled through Western Sydney for the first time in 80 years, with on-track testing for Parramatta Light Rail Stage 1 officially kicking off on 18 December as the ...
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By SASWATI MUKHERJEE PROVIDING a haven for domestic violence survivors became a life mission for Kathryn Kaur, having spent 17 long years enduring the torment of domestic violen...
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DR Negin Nazarian, an award-winning researcher in urban heat from UNSW Sydney, shares her expertise to help us keep cool at home. We asked Dr Negin Nazarian how the science behi...
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ONE of Parramatta’s most-loved landmarks, Parramatta Town Hall, has reopened its doors to the public after a 14-month and more than $30M restoration. Lord Mayors and councilors,...
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THE state-led rezoning for Parramatta’s Church Street North precinct, alongside the Parramatta Light Rail, is now complete allowing for up to 1,800 new homes to be built. The re...
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RODNEY WALTERS AS Christmas fast approaches, so will the point of crisis for many people struggling to make ends meet. Christmas is the busiest time of year for the Salvos. A ti...
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By STAFF REPORTERS IT is best known for hosting elite sport and entertainment, but CommBank Stadium has also been one of the City of Parramatta’s great dining hotspots since the...
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IT is days away when selected students from Parramatta to the Hills perform their entries to the 40th Schools Spectacular at Qudos Bank Arena. They will join more than 5,000 stu...
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By STAFF REPORTERS PARRAMATTA’S CommBank Stadium took centre stage at the Restaurant & Catering 2023 Awards for Excellence, with in-house caterer VenuesLive handed the prestigio...
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A STRIKING new gateway into the City of Parramatta is now complete with the official opening of Alfred Street Bridge. The Alfred Street Bridge is an important part in a growing ...
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ELIZABETH FRIAS HUNDREDS of families and single households in Parramatta are set to benefit in a landmark move by the Minns Labor government to address the state’s housing suppl...
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EXPRESSIONS of interest are sought from residents eligible to be representatives in the Parramatta City Council’s Local Planning Panel. Each role is part-time to be served for u...
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ELIZABETH FRIAS NEW Parramatta Lord Mayor Pierre Esber has vowed to take a lead in a chapter shaping the future of Sydney’s second CBD. The longtime Dundas’ councilor of the Lab...
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PARRAMATTA is set to make sporting history this month by hosting Sydney’s first public AFL and AFLW double-header, with the GIANTS becoming the first club to stage elite men’s and women’s matches on the same day at the same venue.
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WESTERN Sydney has emerged as a national powerhouse of Australia’s night-time economy, with Parramatta, South West Sydney and Blacktown all securing places among the country’s top-performing after-dark precincts.
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THE proposed North Rocks Village development at the former 12.67 hectare site of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children continues to face community opposition despite revisions to its Master Plan. The quiet, leafy suburb was ide...
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AMARIAH Tamaro from Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta and Stella White from St Patrick’s Marist College Dundas in Parramatta is one of 18 students across the state to be awarded a NSW Government scholarship to travel to Greece on an...
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A NEW commercial workplace is designed to uplift Parramatta’s heritage and being billed as an iconic urban landmark. The $125M boutique development which opened in May, is in Parramatta’s vibrant civic heart and directly overlooks Ce...
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CONSTRUCTION of the new $540M Westmead Centre for Mental Health has reached its highest point, marking a major milestone for what will become NSW’s largest mental health facility.
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