Auburn, New South Wales

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Auburn is a suburb in the Local Government Area of Auburn Council in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. The suburb has a train station (on the South line and Western line) and a hospital with basic 24-hour emergency facilities on Norval and Hargrave Streets. Its postcode is 2144.

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Sydney suburbs near Auburn (Auburn Council)
Granville	Rosehill	Silverwater
South Granville	Auburn	Lidcombe
Chester Hill	Sefton and Regents Park	Berala

1 Culture
2 Famous and infamous locals
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Culture

Auburn prides itself as having one of the largest refugee communities in Australia. With a very high percentage of its population coming predominantly from Lebanese, Turkish and Vietnamese backgrounds; Auburn also has the fastest growing Iraqi and Sudanese communities in the country. Whilst a population of 60,000 people from

[edit] Famous and infamous locals

Jack Lang had a long and close association with Auburn, setting up a successful real estate business there. He went on to serve on the local council, eventually becoming Mayor. He died in Auburn in 1975.
Warren Mundine is the first Aboriginal president of the Australian Labor Party. Born in Grafton in 1956, Warren and his family lived in Auburn in the mid-1960s.
Myuran Sukumaran, one of the Bali Nine.

[edit] Trivia

Tooheys beer is brewed in Lidcombe, part of Auburn municipality.
Harvey Norman's biggest store in Australia is located in the centre of Auburn.

[edit] External links

Coordinates: -33.86563° 151.02360°

Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
Auburn Council website
2001 Census Information

Suburbs and localities within Auburn Council \| Western Sydney \| Sydney
Auburn \| Auburn North \| Auburn South \| Auburn West \| Berala \| Homebush Bay \| Lidcombe \| Lidcombe North \| Newington \| Regents Park \| Rookwood \| Silverwater
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