Sefton is a suburb in Western Sydney, Australia. It is located 23 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in New South Wales, Australia. It shares the 2162 postcode with the neighbouring suburb of Chester Hill.
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Sefton railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main Southern railway line in the Sydney suburb of Sefton. It is served by Sydney Trains' T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line services.
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The Division of Blaxland is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
It covers 59 square kilometres of Labor heartland in the Canterbury Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Parramatta and Strathfield areas in Sydney's west. It stretches south from the M4 Motorway at Parramatta to the Hume Highway in western Yagoona. The Labor Party has continuously held the seat since its inception in 1949.
Since 2007 the MP for Blaxland has been Jason Clare, who has served as Minister for Education under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese since 2022. From 1969 to 1996, the seat was held by Paul Keating, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996.
Blaxland is an ethnically diverse and multicultural electorate, with Australia's second highest population of Muslims after neighbouring Watson and the highest share of non-English speakers. As of 2021, 20% of electors speak Arabic at home.
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Chester Hill railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main Southern railway line in the Sydney suburb of Chester Hill. It is served by Sydney Trains' T3 Liverpool & Inner West Line services.
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Sefton High School is a government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school, located in Sefton, a suburb in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1961, the school caters for approximately 1,100, students from Year 7 to Year 12 and is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education.
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Jensen Oval is a suburban soccer park located on 30 Clapham Road, Sefton, Sydney, Australia, within the City of Canterbury-Bankstown. It is the homeground of the Bankstown City Lions who last played in the New South Wales Premier League/Pre-NPL NSW in 2011 and Bankstown United FC who last played at Jensen Park in 2022. also home matches for Canterbury Bankstown FC in 2025. It can currently hold up to 8,000 spectators. It has 2 main grandstands & a training park next to it.
It was built early in the 1960s as a Premier Ground for football in the Bankstown LGA. The Oval's facilities include play equipment, a soccer field, turf cricket pitch and toilets. Before the rebuild in the early 1960s it had been used by the local junior Regents Parks Soccer Club and also for cricket since at least the early 1950s.
In 2018 City of Canterbury-Bankstown Council has accepted $2.5 million upgrade to install an artificial turf surface at its Jensen Park soccer field. Construction is scheduled to begin in June and be completed by the end of February, 2019. The Council will work with Bankstown City Lions on future maintenance on the field.
