Census Night is Coming Up

The Census is a national count of every person and household in Australia. Census data helps inform decisions that impact you and your community, from schools, healthcare, transport and infrastructure to local services. This year, you can complete your Census as soon as you receive your instructions if you know where you’ll be on Census night, Tuesday 10 August 2021.

Rates Hardship Application

Are you experiencing difficulties paying your rates? We encourage you to contact Council and submit a rates hardship application. Applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis, and should be made in writing to: council@strathfield.nsw.gov.au

Outdoor Fitness and Playgrounds are Open

Public playgrounds and outdoor fitness areas are open for use in line with public health orders. Council is cleaning the facilities regularly for hygiene purposes and strongly recommends everyone to wash their hands and wipe equipment before and after use.

Prevent and Protect

You must wear a face mask at indoor non-residential premises in NSW. You must also carry a face mask with you at all times if you are in the LGAs of Greater Sydney including Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour. You must also wear a face mask if you go outside in a public area in the Blacktown, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool or Parramatta LGAs.

Homebush Village Upgrade

The Homebush Village Upgrade is complete! Improvements include footpath and public seating area, festoon lighting and additional 22 parking spaces.  

Spring Festival Cancelled

It is with great disappointment that Council announces the cancellation of this year’s Strathfield Spring Festival due to the ongoing stay at home orders and Covid-19 outbreak. We hope to see you next year for a day filled with family fun! In the meantime, stay safe and look after one another.

Midwife, Flora Anne Briton

This cookbook in the collection of the National Museum of Australia once belonged to nurse and midwife, Flora Anne Briton – her address of 23 Albert Road Strathfield is on the flyleaf with the date of 1921 and ‘Royal Hospital’ also inscribed. This site is now part of the apartment complex at 33-39.  Flora and her sister Agnes had emigrated from Glasgow in 1913. She appears in the Medical Register as a midwife in Homebush in 1926 but she was soon lured to Canberra where midwives were in short supply. She married Augustine Phillips in 1928 and died there in 1988.

Courtesy National Museum of Australia