ABSTRACT
THE CITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Sydney was founded in 1788 when Captain Phillip arrived from England to establish a penal colony. His fleet landed in Botany Bay, which Captain Cook had described 18 years earlier. Four days later they discovered the jewel that is Sydney Harbour, and located the new settlement there. Sydney was a convict town for 60 years but, despite its brutal beginnings, the city's mixture of pragmatic egalitarianism and plain indifference has transformed it into a thriving multicultural society, that is, wonderfully, a great place to live.
