Unique IDAG-0180DescriptionOn 27 February 1984 Council approved and adopted a recommendation from Lord Mayor Doug Sutherland that a Sister City link be established between Sydney and Portsmouth. This was in response to a formal proposal from the Lord Mayor of the City of Portsmouth
On 11 April 1984 the Director of Civic and Public Affairs, Ron Stringer, wrote to the Town Clerk recommending that a Sister City Committee be established to advance the proposal. The Town Clerk endorsed this proposal on 12 April 1984.
The first meeting was held on 14 June 1984, chaired by the Lord Mayor, Doug Sutherland.
At this meeting Doug Sutherland was elected President; Air Vice-Marshall W Townsend was elected Chairman; and R D Stringer, Director of Civic and Public Affairs, Sydney City Council, was elected Secretary.
The Sister City Proclamation was signed first in Portsmouth, and then in Sydney at a meeting of the Committee held on 28 March 1985.
The Committee's main activity in the beginning was the organisation of celebrations to commemorate the Bicentennial of Australia in 1988, in particular the re-enactment of the sailing of the First Fleet from Portsmouth.
(Sources: CRS 116, 34.15.0043 and the Minutes of Council)CreationResolution of Council 27 February 1984
Start date27th February 1984Relationship legacy dataRELATED TO: Sydney City Council OR-0001 (27/02/1984)
RELATED TO: Mayoralty / Lord Mayoralty FN-0023 (27/02/1984)
RELATED TO: External committees FN-0028 (27/02/1984) Source System ID180
Sydney / Portsmouth Sister City Committee [AG-0180]. City of Sydney Archives, accessed 12 May 2025, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/62634
