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The City of Bankstown is a city and Local Government Area in south-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It consists of a number of suburbs including Bass Hill, Greenacre, Georges Hall and Milperra, among others. The City is bounded by the City of Parramatta and Auburn Council to the north, the City of Fairfield and the City of Liverpool to the west, the Sutherland Shire to the south, and the City of Canterbury, the City of Hurstville and the Municipality of Strathfield to the east.

Bankstown has one of the most ethnically diverse communities in Australia. Home to a large Lebanese community, Bankstown also boasts large populations of Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese and Slavic migrants. In all, over 60 different languages are spoken. Bankstown is considered as one of the most multicultural areas in the country.

Sabrina Houssami (born July 12, 1986) is a former Miss World Australia. She gained the title although though she did not officially win the national competition. The judges cancelled the pageant for that year, due to Miss World pageant been preponed by 3 months and gave Sabrina the title directly.

Sabrina was born in the city of Sydney. She initially lived in the Sydney suburb of Kemps Creek, and eventually moved to the riverside suburb of Georges Hall. She attended Sefton High School for her secondary education. She comes from a multicultural heritage. Her mother Alka is Hindu-Indian and her father Ahmad is Muslim-Lebanese. She has a younger sister named Abbi. She is reported to be a practising Islam.

Sabrina is a Liberal Arts student at the University of Sydney. Her personal motto is “He, who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own”.

During her campaign to become Miss World, it was discovered that she or her representatives fraudulently posed as different people on internet sites in order to create the impression that she enjoyed greater public support then she actually did.

"Baby" John Burgess (born June 4, 1943) is an Australian television personality.

• Former host of the Australian adaptation of Wheel of Fortune, shown on the Seven Network.
• Host of the now-defunct Australian adaptation of Catch Phrase, shown on the Nine Network.
• Starred in the 2002 independent short film, 'Brown Love', as himself. His character was the golfing buddy of a coke addict played by Weird Cam.
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A public park on the Hume Highway Bankstown

• ...that In 1795, Matthew Flinders, and George Bass, and the boy servant William Martin explored the Georges River to land at what is now Garrison Point.
• ...that During WWII, Picnic Point National Park was the location of a remote receiving station and operations bunker that was owned and operated by the RAAF. This facility was used in conjunction with two other facilities, one of them was located in Bankstown, the Bankstown Bunker and the other facility was a transmitting station located in Johnston Road Bass Hill.
• ...that Potts Hill, New South Wales is named for Joseph Hyde Potts, an accountant in the Bank of New South Wales, who received a grant of 1,100 acres (4 km²) in 1833. He originally called his property Hyde Park and had increased his holdings to 2,564 acres (10 km²) by 1835.
• ...that Mount Lewis, New South Wales takes its name from the highest point in the district at Mount Lewis Reserve on Wattle Street.
• ...that the Aboriginal word Birrong meaning star, was adopted as the suburb's name around 1927,
• ...that Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of Australia, was a student of De La Salle Bankstown from 1955-1958.
• ...The suburb of Chullora was originally part of the area known as Liberty Plains, which was land given to the first free settlers who arrived in Sydney Cove on the 6th January 1793.
• ...that the name Punchbowl is taken from a circular valley, called 'the punch bowl', which is located in the nearby suburb of Belfield at the intersection of Coronation Parade, Georges River and Punchbowl Roads..
• ...that the Dunc Gray Velodrome in Bass Hill, New South Wales was home of the track cycling events for the 2000 Summer Olympics

Suburbs Bankstown, Bass Hill, Birrong, Chester Hill, Chullora, Condell Park, East Hills, Georges Hall, Greenacre, Milperra, Mount Lewis, Padstow, Padstow Heights, Panania, Picnic Point, Potts Hill, Punchbowl, Revesby, Revesby Heights, Sefton, Villawood, Yagoona.

Education Bankstown Girls, LaSalle Catholic College, Malek Fahd Islamic School, St Euphemia College, Sefton High School, Southern Cross College.

Sport & rec Bankstown Oval, Dunc Gray Velodrome, Garrison Point, Georges River National Park, Jensen Oval, McLeod Reserve, Middleton Park, Mirambeena Regional Park, O'Neill Park, Salt Pan Creek, Terry Lamb Complex.

Public transport Bankstown railway station, Birrong railway station, East Hills railway station, Padstow railway station, Panania railway station, Punchbowl railway station, Sefton railway station, Yagoona railway station.

Sports Teams Bankstown Berries, Bankstown City Lions, Bankstown City Bulls, Bankstown RSL Dragons, Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, Chester Hill Rhinos, Yagoona Lions

World War II Bankstown Bunker, No. 1 Fighter Sector RAAF, History of Bankstown during WWII, HMS Nabberley

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