Submit Your Message Today

This year we would like to celebrate Christmas together, virtually! Get in the community spirit and share a message of encouragement, hope and love. Community Christmas messages are open for submission until 30 November 2020.

Chemical Clean Out

Are expired pool chemicals, dead batteries and left over paint taking up space in your home? Dispose of your household chemicals correctly at Council’s Chemical Clean Out on Sunday 15 November at the Council Depot.

Have Your Say

There’s less than 2 weeks left to let Council know what you love about our local parks and submit your feedback on draft plans of management for 13 parks, reserves and community centres.

October Council Meeting

Watch the recap of the October Council Meeting and keep up to date with various happenings in your area.

Tax Help Extension

Didn’t get around to lodging your tax return yet? Council’s Tax Help Program has been extended until Thursday 26 November.

Remembrance Day Service

You are invited to a Remembrance Day Service on Wednesday 11 November to commemorate the service and sacrifice by members of the Australian Defence Forces. Bookings are essential.

Sydney LHD AGM

The Sydney Local Health District will be hosting their AGM and Quality Awards Presentation online to review an extraordinary year and discuss challenges that lie ahead at 5pm on Thursday 5 November.

If you wish to ask questions during the AGM please click here. For a live stream only option please click here.

A Halloween Party at Halloween Children’s Home

A very special Halloween party was held on 31 October 1929 for the children of the Halloween Children’s Home which once stood in Albert Road Strathfield. Photos of the party appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 1 November. Here the children are listening to fairy stories after ducking for apples in a tub. Miss Margaret Tolmie was the matron of the home which cared for about 30 children. The children’s home closed in 1935 and the large house soon became the Loreto Convalescent Home. The Edward Clancy Building of the Australian Catholic University now stands on this site.

Image - Daily Telegraph 1 November 1929 p.32