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The City Of South Sydney was a former local government area covering the inner-eastern and inner-southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It was forcibly merged with the City of Sydney by the New South Wales State Government in 2004. The council chambers were located in the Erskineville Town Hall, with the administrative offices at Joynton Avenue in Zetland. The administrative offices were relocated to the TNT tower building in Redfern in 2001.

History
The forerunner of the City Of South Sydney was the Northcott Municipal Council, which was created in 1968 when the City of Sydney boundaries were changed. Newtown, part of Darlington, and all of Erskineville, Alexandria, Waterloo and Redfern were combined to form the new council. The council was later renamed the South Sydney Municipal Council, which was itself abolished in 1982 and all of these areas were returned to the City Of Sydney. In 1989, a new South Sydney City Council was created with the pre- 1982 areas but also including most of Surry Hills and the eastern side of the City from the Domain to Boundary Road, including Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross, Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay which had not previously been a part of South Sydney. In 2003, the City of South Sydney was abolished and merged into a larger City of Sydney. The 2003 merger was perceived as an attempt to bring more working class Labour Party voters into the City of Sydney as a way of unseating the independent Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore.