PADDY'S A FEATURE OF SYDNEY LIFE
Security of tenure ran out in the late sixties when it was decided to relocate the markets to Flemington. In the parliamentary debate on the bill, the Labor opposition insisted that the future of Paddy's, "which has become a feature of Sydney life", should be guaranteed.
A weekend Paddy's Market was included in the new Flemington complex when it was opened in 1975, and although Paddy's stallholders were asked to vacate the No. 6 building in the Haymarket to make way for the $41 million Entertainment Centre, they were rehoused in the Nos. 1 and 2 markets across the way. The result was positive because Paddy's Market doubled its capacity and it seemed that the future of the institution itself was assured. And so it remains.