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Available online or on campus, your coach is dedicated to your success. They are part-cheerleader, part-problem-solver, all with the inside knowledge of your future industry. Success Coaches. She has assembled a team of teachers and researchers from various countries to ensure the highest international standards. Official reports, from the s onwards, detailed cramped quarters, with people living cheek by jowl with domestic animals, with no water or sewerage, but any amount of flooding and sewage.
Refuse and offal from the slaughter yards might be taken out on the tide, but often remained to rot on the mudflats. Floodgates, installed to hold back the waters and build up enough momentum to flush the area, were not always effective, as industrial users in adjoining Chippendale dammed the creek for their own use. When government abattoirs were opened on Glebe Island in , there were hopes that Ultimo's streets would no longer run with blood, but this also cut Ultimo out of the meat trade, and some illegal slaughtering continued.
Behind it, Ultimo remained more or less rural. The initial grant to Harris had specified that a reserve be created for a road along the peninsula, and this evolved into Harris Street, but it carried little traffic.
After Harris's death in , legal complications frustrated subdivision of Ultimo until when the family squabbles were partially resolved and the land was finally distributed to a number of second- and third-generation family members. There were a few cottage-dwellers dotted around, using the land under grace and favour to run a few cattle or do a little local quarrying, while contemporary reports indicate that the area was so unsettled as to remain hospitable to Aboriginal people who still frequented the area.
Recent scholarly work suggests that the people living around Go-mo-ra Darling Harbour and the headwaters of the Blackwattle Creek may have formed a separate clan from the generally recognised Gadigal. Tentatively named the Gommerigal, this clan has yet to be officially recognised, but as late as , Absalom West recorded the existence of a Darling Harbour 'tribe. The opening of the Pyrmont Bridge in made the peninsula more accessible, but this also had the effect of allowing traffic to bypass the Ultimo end of it.
Local protest persuaded the bridge company to include a central swing span in the bridge, so that ships could still get to the upper reaches of Darling Harbour, and in the Sydney Railway Company acquired seven acres three hectares from the Harris estate, to build a rail terminus and goods yards. The line was opened in , but as it did not extend to connect with the Pyrmont Bridge, the volume of goods passing through the yards was slight. Visions of a railway terminus at the head of Darling Harbour were premature, and increased silting of the headwaters made this location progressively less attractive to shippers.
The government was eventually forced to undertake reclamation and stabilisation of the 'slime' they had created, while the Harris family was successful in extracting both financial compensation and additional reclaimed land in recognition of the damage done to their estate.
While the building boom of the gold rush era largely passed Ultimo by, the rush to build fine public buildings in the centre of Sydney did have an indirect effect through the opening of several large quarries along the western flank of the Pyrmont peninsula. The stone had long been used on a small local scale, but by the s its superior qualities as a building material was more widely recognised. The decision to use it in the construction of Sydney University at nearby Grose Farm provided enormous opportunities for quarrying, though most of the quarrymen lived in neighbouring Pyrmont.
Needless to say, the university provided no direct benefit to the people of Ultimo, most of whom were too poor and too poorly educated to ever think of engaging with such an august institution. In the second half of the nineteenth century, much of the western side of the peninsula was quarried and carted away to build Sydney's finest buildings.
If there is one explanation of the tendency for Ultimo residents to feel that they came off second best in the rivalry that developed between the residents of Pyrmont and of Ultimo, it is probably that the name Pyrmont was applied not only to the whole peninsula, but also to the city's best stone, despite the fact that much of it was quarried in Ultimo.
When the land was finally available for subdivision, a third generation of Harrises moved back into Ultimo, both as landlords of extensive rows of terrace housing and pubs built from the s onwards, and as residents. George Harris moved into Ultimo house, while his younger siblings built fine houses. These families held extensive property in the area until at least the s.
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