About 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