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Green Valley, New South Wales

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City Councilor for over 40 years, with two terms as mayor and three as deputy mayor. A tribute is displayed to Oliveri at the front of the Green Valley library/community centre with a photo of a young Frank at the gates of the Liverpool City Speedway (now the Valley Plaza/Library/Community Hall). Eric Hall sold the main part of his land to Frank Oliveri which became the pit area of the Liverpool City Raceway. Eric Hall also conducted a pre-recorded weekly radio show called "Happy Harmonies" on radio 2KA for 17 years during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Former Liverpool Mayor and local businessman, Frank Oliveri, who settled in Green Valley in the early 1950s with his family after migrating from southern Italy. Frank Oliveri and family owned the Liverpool City Raceway, local bus company (with green white and red colour livery) and was a Liverpool
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Unlike older suburbs of Sydney, where streets often run parallel in a grid pattern, Green Valley's streets follow the contours of the area, so that many streets are curved and follow an almost semi-circular pattern. Many of the streets in the suburb of Green Valley have Aboriginal names, such as
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It was, however, a long time before residents were provided with adequate services such as public transport, health services, shopping centres, and other necessary facilities, and before 1970 there were no pre-school centres. There was, however, a local post office, the
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and who oversaw the establishment of Green Valley School in 1882. When the first children began their classes the school was nothing more than a large tent, although a wooden building with an iron roof was constructed not long after.
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48.7% of the people living in Green Valley who worked were employed full-time, while 26.1% were employed on a part-time basis. Green Valley had an above average unemployment rate of 7.5%.
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27.5% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Vietnamese 13.9%, Arabic 10.3%, Hindi 4.8%, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 4.6% and Spanish 3.8%.
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A large area to the northwest of Liverpool was dubbed Green Valley. As well as the present-day suburb of Green Valley, it included what is now known as
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The top responses for religious affiliation in Green Valley were Catholic 27.6%, Buddhism 16.1%, Islam 14.6%, and No Religion 12.1%.
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in 1810, the surrounding areas were soon granted to British settlers who began clearing the forests for farmlands.
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The median age of the Green Valley population was 37 years of age, with 19.4% of people being 14 years and under.
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One of the first settlers in the area was Peter Miller, who gave his name to the nearby suburb of
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that were hunted by the Cabrogal for meat, hides and bones. When Governor
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Green Valley was originally home to the Cabrogal people who spoke the
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By the 1960s Sydney's suburban sprawl had reached Liverpool, and the
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Post Office open from 1964 until 1973, when it was renamed Miller.
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Index

Sydney
New South Wales

2021 census
Postcode(s)
Sydney
LGA(s)
City of Liverpool
State electorate(s)
Liverpool
Federal division(s)
Werriwa
Suburbs
Cecil Hills
Bonnyrigg Heights
Bonnyrigg
Cecil Park
Heckenberg
Middleton Grange
Hinchinbrook
Busby
suburb
Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Sydney central business district
local government area
City of Liverpool
Greater Western Sydney
Darug language

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