Sylvania Waters: a new lease on life for Sydney’s ‘soap-opera suburb’ built on swampland

By Dan Stapleton
Updated September 20 2017 - 10:55am, first published 9:35am
The small suburb of Sylvania Waters, in southern Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, was remarkable even before it was immortalised in the TV series. Photo: Bob Pearce
The small suburb of Sylvania Waters, in southern Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, was remarkable even before it was immortalised in the TV series. Photo: Bob Pearce

It’s the community that became synonymous with domestic squabbling and conspicuous consumption when a now-infamous documentary about its inhabitants went to air in 1992.

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