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Take them to Koolang Observatory at Bucketty - they have full facility and roadworks to handle coaches and the sky is almost as dark there as much further west if you look at the night sky light pollution maps. Even a bit closer to Sydney on the same road , Mangrove Mountain has a sky good enough for a pretty spectacular view of the winter Milky Way - there is a sports oval there . If you talk to the council you might be able to get them to shut the light off .
Even here in Berowra in the Kuringai National Park only 35 km as the crow flies- when the Milky Way culminates at 2 or 3 am it can be pretty darned spectacular on a crisp clear night . Some proportion of light pollution is due to local area lighting so it helps to be surrounded by bush.
I remeber back in the early 80's we had some power blackouts that blacked out the whole of Sydney and from Artarmon I could see the Magellenic Clouds clearly naked eye - amazing .
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