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The
penal colony of New South Wales was only seven years old when naval
surgeon George Bass and navigator Matthew Flinders sailed into
Sydney Cove aboard HMS Reliance. Within a few weeks of their
arrival, Bass and Flinders were exploring Botany Bay in Tom Thumb.
That first of what was to become a series of historic voyages took
them up the Georges River. In 1797, Captain John Hunter named one of
the areas they’d surveyed Banks’ Town in honour of Captain James
Cook’s botanist, Sir Joseph Banks. A year later, Hunter signed the
first land grants in the area and, fittingly, the first two property
deeds bore the names of Bass and Flinders.
Today,
Bankstown is a cosmopolitan, densely residential suburb 40 minutes'
drive from the centre of Sydney. Covering 77sq km, the city supports
a population of about 165,000, 48 per cent of whom can speak a
language other than English. Birthplace of the colourful and
abrasive Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating and the incomparable,
cricketing Waugh twins Steve and Mark, and home to the doughty
Bulldogs of rugby league fame, Bankstown has left an indelible stamp
on sporting history. Most recently, Bankstown surged into the
international sporting spotlight in 2000 when the cycling gold
medals were decided at the city velodrome in the Sydney Olympic
Games. Many of the US Olympic and Paralympic teams also prepared for
their events here. Mark Waugh, one of the most elegant batsmen to
play cricket for Australia, left no doubts about his allegiances
when he declared, "I still live in the area, I still follow the
Bulldogs and am proud to be a Bankstonian".
The
city of Bankstown is also one of parks and many of the plants
lending colour to the 293 gardens and reserves are raised in the
council’s Barnsgrove Road nursery. The reserved parkland includes
525 ha of bushland - about half of which is preserved in council
parks, while most of the rest is locked into the Georges River
National Park. Major roads and two separate rail lines link
Bankstown directly to the heart of Sydney.
It is
remarkable that Australia’s two busiest airports should be separated
by a mere 25 km of Sydney suburbia. While we all recognise Sydney
International Airport on Botany Bay as the gateway to the nation, we
tend to overlook the fact that Bankstown Airport rates as
Australia’s busiest in terms of annual aircraft movements. Indeed,
Bankstown currently ranks as the fifth busiest in the world and is
the unchallenged centre of Australia’s general aviation industry.
The constant flow of Bankstown landings and takeoffs is maintained
by private planes, passenger and work charters, helicopters,
corporate and business jets and the fleets of 28 flying training
schools. As the use of private and commuter aircraft increases, more
and more Sydney visitors choose to arrive through Bankstown Airport.
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