About Rockdale

Rockdale
The New South Wales state seat of Rockdale is an inner metropolitan seat, which covers an area of 67 sq km. It includes the suburbs of Arncliffe, Banksia, Bardwell Park, Bardwell Valley, Beverley Park, Bexley, Bexley North, Brighton-Le-Sands, Dolls Point, Kogarah, Kogarah Bay, Kyeemagh, Monterey, Ramsgate, Ramsgate Beach, Rockdale, Sandringham, Sans Souci, Turrella and Wolli Creek.

Rockdale is home to the Cadigal, Gwegal and Bidjigal tribes. Known as the ‘Water People’, these tribes inhabited the Bay area for thousands of years before white settlement.

Rockdale comprises of 48,397 enrolled electors and includes the Local Governments of Rockdale and Kogarah.

Rockdale Members

2003 – Present Frank Ernest Sartor, Australian Labor Party
1991 – 2003 George Edmund Thompson, Australian Labor Party
1986 – 1991 Barrie John Unsworth, Australian Labor Party
1959 – 1986 Brian Joseph Bannon, Australian Labor Party
1941 – 1959 John Francis McGrath, Australian Labor Party
1927 – 1930 James Guy Dalley Arkins, Nationalist Party of Australia