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Culture

  • The National Rugby League football club, the Cronulla Sharks are the major local professional sports team. They have an average attendance of 12,000-15,000.
  • North Cronulla Surf Life Saving club doubled as a police station in the television series White Collar Blue.
  • Four winners of the worlds biggest triathlon, the Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona Hawaii, call the Sutherland Shire home. Greg Welch (1994), Michellie Jones (2006), Chris McCormack (2007 & 2010) and Craig Alexander (2008, 2009 & 2011). A resident of the Sutherland Shire won the race,considered the worlds toughest one day sporting event, for six years running (2006-2011).
  • The 1979 novel, Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, is a teen novel about the lives of two girls from the lower middle class of the Sutherland Shire.
  • The 1981 film Puberty Blues and the 2012 TV series Puberty Blues are based on the novel and predominantly filmed around the Sutherland Shire, including Cronulla Beach and the southern campus of Caringbah High School.
  • The television reality shows Sylvania Waters and The Shire follow the lives of residents in the Sutherland Shire.

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