Parramatta: From Colonial Powerhouse to Sydney’s Second CBD

Parramatta is becoming Sydney's second CBD, 24 kilometres west of the harbour. This documentary traces how Governor Arthur Phillip founded Rose Hill in 1788 to grow food for the starving First Fleet settlement at Sydney Cove, how convicts, Henry Dodd and James Ruse turned it into a colonial government town, why the 1855 railway helped Sydney overtake it, and how Parramatta Square, the 2024 light rail, the future Sydney Metro West and Powerhouse Parramatta are making it central again. #parramatta #sydneySecondCBD #historyofParramatta