Oran Park - NSW

Originally Oran Park was part of the traditional land of the Dharawal people, who were as first people in much of Australia, dispossessed and displaced by Europeans who then established their grand colonial estates.

Until recently the area largely retained a rural character with open pastures and rolling hills, creating a picturesque landscape reminiscent of rural England. The rural character has never been seriously challenged, although there have been golf courses, a trotting track, a motor racing circuit, and, while some had dreams, theme parks. The first developer sub-divisions in the 1960s were for small-scale hobby farming, which saw the appearance of stables, small-scale floriculture and horticulture.

These urban-fringe dwellers have been recently replaced by developer corporations selling dreams to new suburbanites who live in streets named after motor racing celebrities.