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mountain escarpment, though this stream has been recorded to flood the whole park and north along
Wedmore Rd in major storms. (The stream was diverted east by housing developers in the 1980s who followed a farmers drainage channel rather that the original flow north beside Wedmore Rd to the Nepean river).
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and features basketball, netball and children's playground facilities. The park does not have formal field sporting facilities but is more than large enough for such and regularly used by the close knit people of Emu
Heights for community events. There is a peaceful stream that flows down from the
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A larger unnamed parkland also exists at the north end of Emu
Heights, between the suburb and the Nepean River, giving wide access to the river. Sporting fields and golf facilities are being considered for this parkland. Fishing and canoeing are popular as this section of the river is not used by
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power boats. The section of river accessible from Emu
Heights is home to a large variety of native and migratory waterbirds. In the early 1960s, the native egg laying mammal the platypus could still be found in this section of the river but has since become extinct.
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Heights Public School was founded in 1972. The school had only eighty seven pupils and three teachers, but now has over three hundred students enrolled. The school's teaching revolves around seven Key Learning Areas,
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who obtained 400 acres (1.6 km) in 1831, near McCann's Island and named it Emu
Heights. However, the name "Emu Heights" wasn't officially assigned to the neighbourhood until early 1976.
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The most common ancestries were
Australian 43.8%, English 39.3%, Irish 13.6%, Scottish 11.2% and German 4.4%.
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The most common responses for religion were No
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people inhabited the land now known as Emu
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.3% of the population.
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Of occupied private dwellings in Emu Heights, 97.3% were separate houses.
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Emu Heights was established by George Innes, a free settler from
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474:"Penrith City Council, Local Suburb Profiles"
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291:City of Blue Mountains
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18:Emu Heights, Tasmania
543:-33.73521; 150.65030
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142:Federal division(s)
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685:Kemps Creek
675:Jamisontown
655:Emu Heights
635:Castlereagh
603:Agnes Banks
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529:150°39′01″E
372:2021 census
327:Mathematics
226:Emu Heights
189:Emu Heights
173:Castlereagh
81:Postcode(s)
72:Established
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814:Categories
780:Werrington
737:Oxley Park
660:Emu Plains
650:Cranebrook
526:33°44′07″S
509:2007-06-08
484:2007-06-08
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398:References
366:Population
287:Emu Plains
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193:Emu Plains
52:Population
711:Luddenham
691:Kingswood
428:15 August
248:, in the
242:Australia
205:Glenbrook
90:Elevation
774:Wallacia
757:St Marys
752:St Clair
701:Llandilo
310:Bathurst
200:Blaxland
106:Location
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645:Colyton
620:Caddens
331:Science
323:English
316:Schools
297:History
252:of the
178:Penrith
159:Suburbs
147:Lindsay
135:Penrith
39:,
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696:Leonay
592:Sydney
303:Dharug
261:Dharug
234:Sydney
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118:LGA(s)
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