Harris Park, New South Wales

Harris Park is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Harris Park has a sizeable Indian and Hindu diaspora, which together make up the largest ethnic and religious grouping in the suburb.

James Ruse was the first convict to be granted land in the colony, by Governor Arthur Phillip in this area in 1791.

Surgeon John Harris, who had already received land grants in the area in 1793 and 1805, bought the farm and built a cottage on the site in c1795.

[5][6] Macarthur built Hambledon Cottage in the early 1820s for Penelope Lucas, the governess for his children.

[9] In the 1880s, Arthur Latimer McCredie, an architect and alderman in Parramatta Council, built his mansion, Kenilworth, in Allen Street.

It was a two-storey building in Victorian Italianate style and served as his home for most of the remainder of his life.

On 23 May 2023, prime minister Anthony Albanese announced at a special community event for the Indian diaspora, during Narendra Modi's state visit to Sydney, that a small precinct in the suburb's commercial area would be renamed "Little India" following requests from the local community.

Other languages spoken at home included Gujarati 15.1%, Hindi 11.6%, Punjabi 6.4%, Nepali 5.7% and Telugu 5.6%.

Other languages spoken at home included Gujarati 18.7%, Hindi 11.7%, Punjabi 5.9%, Arabic 5.1% and Telugu 4.8%.