Ah I missed this change. My intention was to map the regions of Sydney including "Northern Beaches", "North Shore", "Lower North Shore", "Upper North Shore", "Inner West", "Eastern Suburbs", "St George", "Sutherland Shire", "Forest District", "GBD", "Canterbury-Bankstown", "Hills District", "Southern Sydney", "South Western Sydney", "Western Sydney".

These are typically above the suburb level, but are independent of local governments. Especially with how local government boundaries have been changing, local government areas are mostly administrative only, in the same way as electoral boundaries. No body refers where they live based on their local government boundaries, they refer to their place, be that the suburb or region.

Since "The Shire" as a place/region exists independently of the administrative boundaries of the Sutherland Shire LGA, I was thinking it should exist as a distinct feature in OSM, and therefore is not a duplicate.

Would you prefer I open up a wider community discussion?