Liverpool, New South Wales

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Liverpool is a suburb in the City Of Liverpool in south western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 32 km (20 miles) from the Sydney central business district. However, it is part of the Greater Sydney metropolitan area.

It is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive.

Until the 1950s, Liverpool was still a satellite town with an agricultural economy based on poultry farming and market gardening. However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with a strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. The Liverpool area also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s.

Liverpool is well served by transport facilities such as the Hume Highway, the M5 motorway, a frequent electric railway service to Sydney, Campbelltown and Parramatta and the Hoxton Park Airport. It is home to the largest municipal library in Australia ^{[citation needed]}, a large teaching hospital, two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. Industries include a large cable factory, a telephone manufacturer, pharmaceutical laboratories and cold storage plants.

The private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Liverpool.

There are several local schools in the Liverpool district, namely: Liverpool Boys High, Liverpool Girl's High, All Saints, Liverpool Public School and Moorebank High School.

Liverpool is also host to Sonic stir-fry, a community radio program broadcast every Friday night.

Due to economic distress, the Liverpool City Council was dismissed by the Government of New South Wales and the Council is currently administrated by a representative of the State Government.