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The University has a number of campuses and has continued to expand over the years. Until recently, the University also operated the Museum of Contemporary Art. As of 2005, the campuses are: University of Sydney - Camperdown/Darlington main campus. Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855, the government granted the university land in Grose Farm, three kilometres from the city, which is now the main Camperdown campus. The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothi ...

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Politically and academically, undergraduate students are represented by the Students Representative Council (SRC) and postgraduate students by the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) [1]. The University of Sydney Union provides student services and amenities and supports the university's strong debating, dramatic, and cultural traditions, through over a hundred clubs and societies. Sydney Univers ...

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Nunemous museums and galleries are part of the university. University of Sydney - Nicholson Museum. Main article: Nicholson Museum Nicholson Museum of Antiquities contains the largest and most prestigious collection of antiquities in Australia. It is also the country's oldest university museum, and features ancient artefacts from Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, Rome, Cyprus and Mesopatamia, collected by the University over many years and added to by recent archaeological expeditions. University of Sydney - Macleay MuseumSee also:

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Under the terms of the Higher Education (Amalgamation) Act 1989 (NSW), the following bodies were incorporated into the University of Sydney in 1990: the Sydney Branch of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music the Cumberland College of Health Sciences the Sydney College of the Arts of the Institute of the Arts the Sydney Institute of Education of the Sydney College of Advanced Education the Institute of Nursing Studies of the Sydney College of Advanced Educatio ...

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During 1848, William Wentworth proposed a plan to expand the existing Sydney College into a university in the Legislative Council. Wentworth argued that a state university was imperative for the growth of a society aspiring towards self-government, and that it would provide the opportunity for 'the child of every class, to become great and useful in the destinies of his country'. It would take two attempts on Wentworth's beha ...

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