page_title: Balmain, New South Wales
section_title: Parks and reserves
hierarchical_section_title: Balmain, New South Wales / Culture / Parks and reserves
caption_attribution_description: Park Balmain East on the shores of Mort Bay
context_page_description: Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located 2 km west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council. It sits on a small peninsula that juts out of Sydney Harbour, directly opposite Milsons Point.
  It is located on the Balmain peninsula surrounded by Port Jackson, adjacent to the suburbs of Rozelle to the south-west, Birchgrove to the north-west, and Balmain East to the east. Iron Cove sits on the western side of the peninsula, with White Bay on the south-east side and Mort Bay on the north-east side.
  Traditionally blue collar, Balmain was where the industrial roots of the trade unionist movement began. It has become established in Australian working-class culture and history, due to being the place where the Australian Labor Party formed in 1891 and its social history and status is of high cultural significance to both Sydney and New South Wales. Today, the ALP contends with the Australian Greens for political prominence in Balmain, and Jamie Parker of the Greens holds the State seat of Balmain.
context_section_description: Balmain has a number of parks including Gladstone Park, Birrung Park and White Bay Park. The wider peninsula has many more parks in close proximity, particularly along the foreshores.
  In earlier times Punch Park was the goto place for park footy (rugby league), though it was always referred to by the boys then as Punch's Park
caption: Public open space on the shores of Mort Bay on the Balmain, Balmain East border
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