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Parramatta VIEW Club
About
Parramatta VIEW Club was formed in 1960.
Currently, the Club sponsors three Smith Family Learning for Life students and is actively involved in fundraising activities to raise donations for The Smith Family programs.
We are always open to new members, so please get in touch today and come and see what it's all about.
Location
- When: Meeting Day on the 1st Wednesday each month
- Time: At 11.30am
- Where: Northmead Sports Club
- Address: 166 Windsor Road, NORTHMEAD NSW 2117
Contact
- Rosemary on 0422 331 488
- Email: rm2day22@gmail.com
2025 Newsletters
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Meet Our 2024 Committee
Accompanying photo of our 2024 Committee with our Zone Councilor, Sandra.
Newsletters 2024
Celebrating Australia Day In 2024
Australia Day:
Australia Day means different things to different people. For some, it’s a time to celebrate being Australian. For others it’s their anniversary of becoming an Australian citizen. For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it represents a day -their way of life was changed forever. It also represents the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures, and the important and ongoing contributions they make to our country.
1. Australia Day was not consistently celebrated on 26 January as a public holiday in all states and territories until 1994.
2. It wasn't until 2013 that the Aboriginal flag and the Australian flag were raised together on Sydney Harbour Bridge for Australia Day. Despite being formally recognised in 1995 as an official Flag of Australia under the Flags Act 1953, the Aboriginal flag wasn't flown on the nation's most iconic landmark on the country's national day until nearly twenty years later.
3. The First Fleet, the group of ships which left England to create a penal colony abroad, arrived in Botany Bay somewhere between the 18th and 20th of January 1788. After landing, settlers wanted to relocate in the hope of finding a more suitable area to construct their colony. They travelled to Sydney Cove on 25 January and the next morning, on the 26th, Sir Arthur Phillip and a small entourage of marines and officers claimed the land in the name of King George III.
4. The first sanctioned marriage between an Aboriginal person and a convict occurred on the 26 January. Robert and Maria Lock were married in Paramatta on 26 January 1824. This union was performed on the 26th only by coincidence and has nothing to do with 'Australia Day' as we recognise it.
Australia Day means different things to different people. For some, it’s a time to celebrate being Australian. For others it’s their anniversary of becoming an Australian citizen. For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it represents a day -their way of life was changed forever. It also represents the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures, and the important and ongoing contributions they make to our country.
1. Australia Day was not consistently celebrated on 26 January as a public holiday in all states and territories until 1994.
2. It wasn't until 2013 that the Aboriginal flag and the Australian flag were raised together on Sydney Harbour Bridge for Australia Day. Despite being formally recognised in 1995 as an official Flag of Australia under the Flags Act 1953, the Aboriginal flag wasn't flown on the nation's most iconic landmark on the country's national day until nearly twenty years later.
3. The First Fleet, the group of ships which left England to create a penal colony abroad, arrived in Botany Bay somewhere between the 18th and 20th of January 1788. After landing, settlers wanted to relocate in the hope of finding a more suitable area to construct their colony. They travelled to Sydney Cove on 25 January and the next morning, on the 26th, Sir Arthur Phillip and a small entourage of marines and officers claimed the land in the name of King George III.
4. The first sanctioned marriage between an Aboriginal person and a convict occurred on the 26 January. Robert and Maria Lock were married in Paramatta on 26 January 1824. This union was performed on the 26th only by coincidence and has nothing to do with 'Australia Day' as we recognise it.