Bondi Junction - Definition and Overview

Bondi Junction is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, about 5 kilometres east of the central business district. It is located immediately west of Bondi Beach. It is a largely commercial area which has undergone many renovations and changes since the late 20th century, notably a new bus/rail interchange and a major renovation along the main street leading into Bondi Junction. Bondi Junction station is the eastern terminus of the Eastern Suburbs railway.

As of 2002, the construction of the large Westfield shopping centre is being constructed. Since its completion, it has been the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. A Westfield shopping centre was originally constructed in the early 1970s by a largely migrant workforce. Australia had no commercial building projects of such scale in the 1970s and migrant labourers brought experience gained on large construction projects in Europe and a tradition of trade unionism and the construction site became a bastion of the Builder's Labourers Federation (BLF) and the Communist Party of Australia (CPA).