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City of South Sydney
New South Wales
Logo of the City of South Sydney.
Population82,960 (1996 census)[1]
Established1 January 1968
1 January 1989
Abolished1 January 1982
6 February 2004
Council seatErskineville Town Hall
RegionInner City/Inner West

The South Sydney City Council was a

Sydney City Council by the Government of New South Wales in 2004. The council chambers were located in the Erskineville Town Hall, with the administrative offices at Joynton Avenue in Zetland. The administrative offices were relocated to the TNT Towers in Redfern
in 2001.

History

First creation, 1968–1981

The forerunner of the City of South Sydney was the Northcott Municipal Council (named after the late Governor Sir John Northcott, who served from 1946 to 1957 as the first Australian Governor of NSW), which was created on 1 January 1968 when the City of Sydney boundaries were changed. Newtown, Darlington, Erskineville, Alexandria, Waterloo and Redfern were combined to form the new council. The council was renamed the South Sydney Municipal Council on 1 December 1968, which was itself abolished on 1 January 1982 and all of these areas were returned to the City of Sydney.

Second creation, 1989–2004

In the late 1980s, the

Surry Hills and the eastern side of the City from The Domain to Boundary Road, including Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross, Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay
which had not previously been a part of South Sydney.

The South Sydney City Council was established on 1 January 1989 under the City of Sydney Act 1988 with nine

aldermen (Councillors from 1993) divided across three wards: North, South and East wards. The first election for the City of South Sydney was held on 3 December 1988.[2]

In 2002, parts of the City of South Sydney and Leichhardt were proposed to be merged with the City of Sydney. In 2003, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Chippendale, Ultimo and parts of Rushcutters Bay, Camperdown and Darlington were transferred from South Sydney to the City of Sydney. As the financial viability of the residual City of South Sydney was under threat as a result, the City of Sydney and the City of South Sydney were combined by proclamation on 6 February 2004.[3] The 2003 merger was perceived as an attempt to bring more working class Labor Party voters into the City of Sydney.[4][5]

Mayors

Northcott/South Sydney Municipality, 1968–1982

Mayor Party Term Notes
  Bill Hartup Labor January 1968 – 31 December 1981 [6]

City of South Sydney, 1989–2004

Mayor Party Term Notes
  Vic Smith Labor 1 January 1989 – July 2000 [7]
  John Fowler Community Independents July 2000 – 2 September 2002
  Tony Pooley Labor 2 September 2002 – 5 February 2004 [8][9]

References

  1. ISBN 9780868405131
    . Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "South Sydney City Council". Archives Investigator, State Records Authority of New South Wales. Government of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  3. ^ "Records of Councils Absorbed by Sydney City Council". City of Sydney. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  4. ^ The Guardian Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Communist Party of Australia. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  5. Sydney Morning Herald
    , 21 August 2001.
  6. ^ "William Charles Hartup". Sydney's Aldermen. City of Sydney. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  7. Canberra Times
    . Vol. 63, no. 19, 447. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 January 1989. p. 10. Retrieved 6 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Tony Pooley". Sydney's Aldermen. City of Sydney. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  9. ^ "Tony Pooley, Council's newly elected Mayor". South Sydney Innercity News. South Sydney City Council. 2 September 2002. Archived from the original on 23 December 2002. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

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