| Greater Sydney Region New South Wales | |
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| Time zone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) (UTC+10:00) |
| State electorate(s) | Several |
| Federal division(s) | Several |
Greater Sydney is the most populousmetropolitan area inAustralia andOceania. Located in the state ofNew South Wales, it encompasses the state capitalSydney, including theCity of Sydney local government area (LGA), as well as the surroundingbuilt-up areas. Greater Sydney covers an area stretching from theHawkesbury and theNorthern Beaches in the north, to theBlue Mountains in the west and toWollondilly,Campbelltown andSutherland in the south.[2][3]
Under the New South WalesGreater Cities Commission (formerly the Greater Sydney Commission), the Greater Sydney Region, along with Newcastle, the Central Coast and Wollongong, will constitute a Sandstone Mega-region that will make-up 70% of the New South Wales population and 25% of the national population.[4]
A Greater Sydney had been proposed several times prior to its eventual formation, usually curtailed by some form of national crisis.[5]There had been aLabor Party Greater Sydney Bill before the NSW legislature, defeated because of the controversy over conscription during theBoer War.[5]A Bill proposed byWilliam McKell that had stalled in committee failed outright when theLang government fell.[5]Labor Party proposals of the 1940s fell by the wayside because ofWorld War 2.[5]An early 1960s proposal was opposed by moves to instead create aCity of North Sydney, and was quashed outright by theLiberal Party government ofRobert Askin in 1965.[5]
In its broadest definition, Greater Sydney covers the city ofSydney in addition to four neighbouring regions: theBlue Mountains, theHawkesbury,Macarthur andWollondilly.
[2] During theCOVID-19 pandemic, Greater Sydney was defined as the city of Sydney itself as well as theCentral Coast andWollongong (including both theCity of Wollongong in the north and theCity of Shellharbour in the south).[2] On 19 of August 2021, The NSW Government has informed that theCentral Coast Council and the City of Shellharbour local government areas had been removed from the Greater Sydney Covid-19 Lockdown to become Regional NSW local government areas, while the City of Wollongong remained under the Greater Sydney Covid-19 regulations.
The Greater Sydney Region Plan defines the five districts that form the Greater Sydney metropolitan area as follows:[6]
| Western City | Central City | Eastern City | North District | South District |
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| Blue Mountains | Blacktown | Bayside | Hornsby | Georges River |
| Hawkesbury | Cumberland | Burwood | Hunters Hill | Canterbury–Bankstown |
| Penrith | Parramatta | Canada Bay | Ku–ring–gai | Sutherland |
| Camden | The Hills | Inner West | Lane Cove | |
| Campbelltown | Randwick | Northern Beaches | ||
| Fairfield | Strathfield | Mosman | ||
| Liverpool | Woollahra | Willoughby | ||
| Wollondilly | Waverley | Ryde | ||
| City of Sydney | North Sydney |
The Sydney Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA) is the definition of Greater Sydney used by theAustralian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It covers the following level-four statistical areas:[1]
Therefore, the Sydney GCCSA covers all of the 33 local government areas in Greater Sydney which includes the City of Blue Mountains to the west, the City of Hawkesbury and the Northern Beaches Council to the north, Botany Bay to the east and the Sutherland Shire and the Wollondilly Shire to the south. The Sydney GCCSA also includes the Central Coast, which in most cases is considered a regional area that is situated north of Greater Sydney, however the Australian Bureau of Statistics includes the Central Coast within the broader Sydney GCCSA area, which increases Greater Sydney’s population by approximately 350,000 for the Sydney GCCSA definition, but is considered its own Significant Urban Area and a stand-alone region within its own right. The Illawarra, which is south of Greater Sydney is not included in the Sydney GCCSA.[1]
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