The City of Randwick is a local government area in the Eastern Suburbs[3] of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1859, Randwick is the second-oldest local government area in New South Wales, after the City of Sydney.

[citation needed] The area was home to a few wealthy landowners and the poor residents of several shantytowns until the 1880s, when the coming of trams from Sydney brought extensive suburban development.

Woollahra Council instigated legal action claiming that there was procedural unfairness and that a KPMG report at the centre of merger proposals had been "misleading".

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5% of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively.