23-584: Balmain Sailing Club is a sailing club in Municipality of Leichhardt in the Inner West of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia . The club currently has approximately 300 members and races a keelboat fleet and a dinghy fleet. The club runs a full racing calendar throughout the year, with Summer, Winter and Spring series, along with Summer Twilights (pre- and post-Christmas) and
46-779: A country or territory's gross household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind). According to the OECD , 'household disposable income is income available to households such as wages and salaries, income from self-employment and unincorporated enterprises, income from pensions and other social benefits, and income from financial investments (less any payments of tax, social insurance contributions and interest on financial liabilities). 'Gross' means that depreciation costs are not subtracted.' This indicator also takes account of social transfers in kind 'such as health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by governments and not-for-profit organisations.' The data shown below
69-658: A number of non point-score races. Keelboat fleet races are organised across 4 divisions, with entrants from clubs across the western harbour area on Sundays, and as another 4 divisions in the Friday Twilight Series during summer. The dinghy fleet races in two divisions. The club is located in Water Street on the northern side of the Balmain Peninsular in the suburb of Birchgrove , with water-front access directly into Sydney Harbour The club
92-729: A population of approximately 186,000. On 12 May 2016 Leichhardt Council was dissolved and merged with neighbours Municipality of Ashfield and Marrickville Council to form the Inner West Council . Leichhardt Park, which includes the Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre is in Lilyfield , as is Leichhardt Oval in Mary Street, the homeground of the Wests Tigers . The Bay Run around Iron Cove
115-425: Is a celebration of the local community connection with Sydney Harbour and the local boat-building industry. As of 2020–2021: 33°51′06″S 151°10′40″E / 33.851739°S 151.177657°E / -33.851739; 151.177657 Municipality of Leichhardt The Municipality of Leichhardt was a local government area in the inner-west region of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . It
138-523: Is a popular bicycling, walking and running track, passing along the foreshore of Lilyfield and Rozelle, and linking to paths along Hawthorne Canal on the western border of Leichhardt. Callan Park in Lilyfield, bordering Iron Cove, offers open space for walking, cycling and passive recreation. Pioneer Memorial Park in Norton St, Leichhardt, has gardens and paths for passive recreation. It is built on
161-618: Is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the Sydney central business district . On 12 May 2016, Leichhardt merged with Marrickville Council and the Municipality of Ashfield to form the Inner West Council . The last mayor of the Leichhardt Municipal Council was Cr. Darcy Byrne , a member of Labor Party . In December 2021, a majority of voters in Inner West Council voted in favour of reversing
184-454: Is published by the OECD and is presented in purchasing power parity (PPP) in order to adjust for price differences between countries. *Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred; if data is unavailable for 2022, figures for 2021, 2020 or 2019 are shown. The median equivalised disposable income is the median of the disposable income which is equivalised by dividing income by
207-584: The Borough of Annandale . In 1949, it was merged with the municipalities of Annandale and Balmain . In 1967, the municipal boundary was altered to include Glebe and parts of Camperdown . In 2003, the municipal boundary was again changed, to exclude the Annandale Foreshore (land between The Crescent and Rozelle Bay), Glebe and Forest Lodge, which are now part of the City of Sydney. Since the middle of
230-577: The Gadigal and Wangal people, of the Eora nation. It has a long cultural heritage that comes from its Sydney Harbour location and its old suburb origins. Leichhardt is named after the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt , who in the 1840s was feted for his 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) expedition in search of an overland route from southern Queensland to Port Essington , a British settlement on
253-503: The household sector. It includes every form of cash income, e.g., salaries and wages , retirement income, investment income and cash transfers from the government. It may include near-cash government transfers like food stamps , and it may be adjusted to include social transfers in-kind, such as the value of publicly provided health care and education. Household income can be measured on various bases, such as per household, per capita , per earner, or on an equivalised basis. Because
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#1732787013067276-522: The 2016 merger and separating the three pre-existing councils of Ashfield, Leichhardt and Marrickville. Suburbs in the Municipality of Leichhardt were: At the 2011 Census , there were 52,198 people in the Leichhardt local government area, of these 47.4% were male and 52.6% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.0% of the population. The median age of people in
299-557: The 20th century, Leichhardt has been a centre for Sydney's Italian community. Leichhardt is also home to the first non-government women's health centre to be established in Australia. On International Women's Day 1974, the Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre opened as a result of grass-roots lobbying from women in the community and Sydney's Women's Liberation Movement. Initially funded through Federal Government funds,
322-556: The Leichhardt local government area was slightly lower than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Municipality of Leichhardt was significantly higher than the national average. As at the 2011 Census, the Municipality of Leichhardt had approximately double the national and state average of people who spoke Italian at home; and just under double the New South Wales average of people who claimed Italian ancestry. Leichhardt Municipal Council
345-425: The Municipality of Leichhardt was 37 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 16.8% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 10.3% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 40.9% were married and 12.6% were either divorced or separated. Population in the Municipality of Leichhardt between the 2001 Census and the 2006 Census decreased by 20.2%. This was due to an alteration of
368-432: The boundary between Leichhardt and the Sydney local government areas that took effect in 2003. The suburbs of Glebe , Forest Lodge and parts of Annandale were transferred from Leichhardt to the City of Sydney. In the subsequent five years from the 2006 Census to the 2011 Census, population growth was 7.02%. When compared with total population growth of Australia in the most recent Census, being 8.32%, population growth in
391-610: The centre is now funded mainly by the NSW Health and continues to run multi-disciplinary health care clinics and health education from its base in Leichhardt and in outreach locations throughout Sydney's inner west. A 2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the Municipality of Leichhardt merge with the Municipality of Ashfield and the Marrickville Council to form a new council with an area of 35 square kilometres (14 sq mi) and support
414-679: The far northern coast of Australia that is approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the north of the modern city of Darwin . He later famously vanished without trace on his attempt to cross the continent from the Darling Downs to the Swan River Colony on the Western Australia coast. Leichhardt was proclaimed a municipality on 29 December 1871. In 1893, the East Ward of the Municipality separated and became
437-406: The number of people or earners per household can vary significantly between regions and over time, the choice of measurement basis can impact household income rankings and trends. When taxes and mandatory contributions are subtracted from household income, the result is called net or disposable household income. A region's mean or median net household income can be used as an indicator of
460-436: The purchasing power or material well-being of its residents. Mean income ( average ) is the amount obtained by dividing the total aggregate income of a group by the number of units in that group. Median income is the amount that divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount. The list below represents a national accounts-derived indicator for
483-513: The site of Balmain Cemetery . Illoura, Ballast Point and Yarulbin Parks have superb Harbour locations in the Balmain Peninsular. ^a Census data for 2001 contains information for the suburbs of Glebe, Forest Lodge and parts of Annandale that were transferred from Leichhardt to the City of Sydney in 2003. Household income Household income is a measure of income received by
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#1732787013067506-466: Was composed of twelve Councillors elected proportionally as four separate wards , each electing three councillors. All councillors were elected for a fixed four-year term of office, with the mayor elected annually by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The last election was held on 8 September 2012, and the final makeup of the council was as follows: The Municipality of Leichhardt operates over land that prehistorically belonged to
529-621: Was originally formed in 1885. After a long period of little activity, the club was re-formed in 1995. The club hosts the annual Balmain Regatta , which is claimed to be the oldest in Australia, on the last Sunday in October each year. The event was first held in 1849 and ran continuously until the outbreak of World War I. With the revival of the club in the 1990s, the regatta restarted in 1996 and has run annually ever since. The event includes classic 18- and 10-foot skiff, dinghy and yacht races and
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