The Waverley Cemetery opened in of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. It si note for its largely intact Victorian and Edwardian monuents. The Cemetery contain the graves of many significant Australians including the poet Henry Lawson.

Funerals are conducted Monday to Saturday.

The Cemetery is self-funded, deriving its incomen from interments-including burial, cremation, memorial and mausolea-of which there has been over 86,000. Waverley Cemetery was used during the filming of the 1979 Mel Gibson film Tim. The Cemetery was designed to function along similar lines to Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and Kensal Green Cemetery in London.