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AUSTRAL, NSW

2179Major Cities of AustraliaSEIFA Decile 7/10LGA: CamdenView on Power MapAlignment 100/100Download Place Brief (PDF)
Entities
190
Total Funding
$17.2M
Community-Controlled
3
CC Funding Share
0%
2 social & Indigenous enterprisesoperating in this area
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Top Funded Entities

$12.0M
C: $12.0M
$4.6M
C: $4.6M
FRY OPTICS
Company
$207K
C: $207K
$200K
C: $200K

Evidence-Funding Alignment

100/100
Strong
30 evidence-based interventions (30 funded). 20 community voice records.
Interventions
30
Funded
30
Voice Records
20
2026 Spring Field Day
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
2026 Women's Field Day
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
48 Hour Mission
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
AbSTAR School Program
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Academic Portal
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
ACIS Certification
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Active Australian Innovation Challenge
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Adult Harvest Thanksgiving Service
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Advocate Art Award
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
AFAC Conference and Exhibition
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Affordable Housing Program
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
AgChats: Understanding Employee Contracting
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Albany Agricultural Show
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Alice Springs Youth Accommodation and Support Services
Wraparound Support · Promising (community-endorsed, emerging evidence)
Funded
Annual Great Irish Famine Commemoration
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Annual Stationery Drive
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Artistic Development
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
ASPiRATION
Therapeutic · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Athlete Scholarship Program
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Atnarpa Homestead On-Country Cultural Programs
Cultural Connection · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Beginners Genealogy Course
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Breast Cancer and Diet Research
Therapeutic · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
BU Study Abroad Sydney
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Bush Adventure Therapy Program
Therapeutic · Promising (community-endorsed, emerging evidence)
Funded
Bush School
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
Cancer Screening Program (CaSP)
Community-Led · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
CAOP and OPRA Examination Program
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded
CASSE Creating a Safe Supportive Environment
Early Intervention · Promising (community-endorsed, emerging evidence)
Funded
Children's University Adelaide
Education/Employment · Untested (theory/pilot stage)
Funded

Community Voice (20 Transcripts)

First-person accounts from Empathy Ledger, recorded in AUSTRAL, NSW. These are community members speaking about their lived experience with services and systems.

Brodie GermaineVideo17,845 words
Brodie Germaine - Interview Transcript

- Reintegration Conference Full transcript - 00:00 - Benjamin Knight (Host) I'm good, all right, we're going to get started straight away because we have three presentations to get through and we've...

Kristy BloomfieldVideo12,528 words
Kristy Bloomfield - Interview Transcript

Yeah, so it's the, yeah, the Yipa-Rinya Cheddar, which is dreaming. And it's the caterpillar dreaming here for us, the rangers. Awesome. That's what they represent. And so the Yipa-Rinya, you know,...

Aunty Bev and Uncle TonyVideo9,832 words

DJI_09_20250311_102113: A few bats flying around and that old thing coming in and you have a things, yeah. When I worked for the Transport Works, I did just about every place in,

Aunty Bev and Uncle TonyVideo9,809 words
Untitled

DJI_09_20250311_102113: A few bats flying around and that old thing coming in and you have a things, yeah. When I worked for the Transport Works, I did just about every place in,

Uncle Alan Palm IslandVideo5,344 words
Uncle Alan Palm Island - Interview Transcript

That's a pretty good seed actually. Yeah. I reckon that's... Let's hope we don't run out of battery. What do you mean no battery? Are we shooting? Yeah, we're shooting. We talking? We could start. My...

Kristy BloomfieldVideo4,990 words
Sitdown interview #1

Speaker 59: Okay, so just just in case someone ends up editing this for me. Yeah. Just do your full name and spell it.

Kristy BloomfieldVideo4,990 words
Kristy1

Speaker 59: Okay, so just just in case someone ends up editing this for me. Yeah. Just do your full name and spell it.

Keiron LanderVideo4,928 words
Keiron Lander Initial Interview

My name's Keiron Lander. I'm a myth dairy man with connections. Threw my grandmother down to the JI people, my great-grandmother.

Tanya TurnerVideo4,927 words
Tanya1

Tanya: . [00:00:00] Tanya Turner. T-A-N-Y-A-T-U-R-N-E-R. Cool. Let's do just what's your best I suppose always say just identify how you want to identify and then just a little bit about yourself....

Tanya TurnerVideo4,925 words
Tanya

**Tanya:** . [00:00:00] Tanya Turner. T-A-N-Y-A-T-U-R-N-E-R. Cool. Let's do just what's your best I suppose always say just identify how you want to identify and then just a little bit about...

Shayne BloomfieldVideo3,936 words
Shayne Bloomfield - 10/11/2025

Shayne === [00:00:00] Speaker 24: We made for this. Shayne: Yeah, man, I've done my fair share of bloody Speaker 24: um. Your name's easy to spell, isn't it? Yeah. S-H-A-N-S-H-A-N-E....

Kylie BloomfieldVideo3,646 words
Kylie Bloomfield - Recording

Kylie: Yeah. All right. This is like my last Bloomfield, um, interview. Yep. Except if I, um, there's only one family member I haven't met yet. Yeah. Jason. Jason. Yeah. Maybe I can interview him at...

Kylie BloomfieldVideo3,646 words
Kylie Bloomfield - 10/11/2025

Kylie Interview === Kylie: [00:00:00] Yeah. All right. This is like my last Bloomfield, um, interview. Yep. Except if I, um, there's only one family member I haven't met yet. Yeah. Jason. Jason....

G ManaVideo3,557 words
Untitled

Speaker: But cool. You talk to me. Yeah. This thing's not even there.

Ade RizerVideo3,155 words
Ade Rizer - Interview Transcript

"text": " basketball The ninja opens up every so often ninja course open we just open today Because after that the children already hip, hop and then bring something home. But it will be three-stop...

Olga HavnenVideo3,048 words
Transcript – Speaker View & Screen Share: In, in relation to, this interest, I suppose ju

Speaker View & Screen Share: In, in relation to, this interest, I suppose justice and justice reform. That's probably been high priority for me over my working life anyway, just because of the...

Dianne StokesVideo2,631 words
Getting washing machine

Speaker 10: We'll see you down there, Diana. I'll see you there. No worries. I'm excited

Kristy BloomfieldVideo2,330 words
Kristy - Full Interview Law Students

[00:00:00] I think going into the fourth year compared to the first year starting off under Naja was very challenging because not only did we have to go through barriers in terms of, management to be...

Kristy BloomfieldVideo2,330 words
Kristy2

[00:00:00] I think going into the fourth year compared to the first year starting off under Naja was very challenging because not only did we have to go through barriers in terms of, management to be...

Dianne StokesVideo2,159 words
Untitled

Dianne: My full name is Dianne Stokes. And I'm a local, I'm a traditional owner and where I live is where it's in the boundary of my totem and I. Been here for really 24 years, but almost 24. It's 23...

NDIS Supply & Service Pressure

State Providers
4,591
Thin Districts
2
Very Thin
1
Local Disability Delivery
0
91 disability-focused enterprises in NSW

NDIS money is not the same thing as healthy service coverage. This view shows whether AUSTRAL, NSW sits inside a state market with thin provider supply, captured payment flows, and too few local disability-focused or community-controlled alternatives.

Thinnest Districts In NSW
Far West49 providers
Far West51 providers
Southern NSW242 providers
Southern NSW245 providers
Captured Markets
Far West95%
Mid North Coast89%
Western NSW75%
Murrumbidgee71%

Social & Indigenous Enterprises (2)

ARRAHMAN COLLEGE LIMITED
acnc-classifiedABN 55634918540

Provides educational services, likely through tuition fees.

education
THE JUNCTION WORKS HEALTH & WELLBEING LIMITED
acnc-classifiedABN 38681237061

Provides health and wellbeing services via government contracts, NDIS, and fee-for-service programs, reinvesting surplus into mission.

healthcommunity-development
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Schools (7)

ACARA school profiles in postcode 2179. ICSEA measures educational advantage (national avg 1000).

Al-Faisal College - Liverpool
IndependentCombined
ICSEA 1097
1,573 students
St Anthony of Padua Catholic College
CatholicCombined2% Indigenous
ICSEA 1037
1,539 students
Unity Grammar College
IndependentCombined
ICSEA 1059
1,428 students
Austral Public School
GovernmentPrimary2% Indigenous
ICSEA 1032
846 students
Leppington Public School
GovernmentPrimary3% Indigenous
ICSEA 1032
507 students
Leppington Anglican College
IndependentCombined1% Indigenous
ICSEA 1101
485 students
Arrahman College
IndependentPrimary
ICSEA 1084
256 students

Crime & Safety — Camden LGA

Reported incidents by offence group (October 2024 - September 2025). Source: state crime statistics agencies.

The major offences
143 per 100K
20,443
0% 2yr0% 10yr
Other Theft
106 per 100K
6,971
0% 10yr
Against justice procedures
81 per 100K
5,381
1% 2yr0% 10yr
Drug offences
26 per 100K
4,389
0% 10yr
Disorderly conduct
27 per 100K
1,174
Other Assault
15 per 100K
168
Robbery
3 per 100K
83
Other Homicide
0 per 100K
2

Social Need

DSS payment recipients in this area by payment type. Higher counts indicate service demand and community need.

Total Recipients
16,565
Payment Types
15
Pension Concession Card
3,330
Family Tax Benefit A
2,265
Commonwealth Rent Assistance
2,040
Family Tax Benefit B
1,730
Health Care Card
1,675
Age Pension
1,320
Carer Allowance
1,015
JobSeeker Payment
805
Carer Payment
665
Disability Support Pension
545

NDIS Participants

Camden (A) LGA
4,248
active participants
2025-Q4

All Entities (190)

Disadvantage Index

7/10
SEIFA IRSD Decile

This area has relatively low socio-economic disadvantage.

Entity Types

Company
150
Charity
32
Foundation
3
Social Enterprise
3
person
1
Govt
1