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Gough Whitlam Park
Gough Whitlam Park is located along the Cooks River foreshore on Bayview and Pines Street, Earlwood.
Park facilities include several cricket pitches for the sporting enthusiast, play equipment for children, and the Cooks River bike path. There are also a number of picnic sheds, with 2 free electric BBQ's for use by the public. There are also several wood BBQ's.
Amenities include toilets, including a disabled toilet), dressing rooms with showers, and shade structures for those warm summer days.
The park is easily accessible, with ample street parking available nearby.
History of Gough Whitlam Park
The land between Cooks River and Wolli Creek was granted to Arthur Martin in 1809. Martin had arrived in the colony as a convict but by 1809 he had received a conditional pardon and was employed as Government Overseer of the Botany Bay limeburners. He sold his 100 acres to Frederick Wright Unwin in 1835 for 331 pounds and 18 shillings. See the Wanstead heritage panel for more history of Unwin's occupation of this site.
In 1906 the State Government declared the land between the junction of the Cooks River and Wolli Creek waterways to be "unhealthy" under the Public Health Act of 1902. Building was forbidden on this low-lying land which "gave off gases and vapours, which were "prejudicial and dangerous to health".
This land remained in the possession of the Department of Public Works for the storage of materials used in the maintenance of the river banks and for the disposal of dredgings from the river.
It was donated to Canterbury Council in 1978 and Council transformed the area into parkland. It was possibly known as Waterworth Park North before naming after Gough Whitlam.
Council named the area Gough Whitlam Park in December 1982 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government.
Mr Whitlam unveiled a plaque which acknowledged his Federal Government's assistance to Canterbury Council during its term in office.
