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Cartwrights Hill, New South Wales
Cartwrights Hill is a north-eastern suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. It is located immediately to the west of the industrial suburb of Bomen Bomen is a northern suburb of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is dominated by industrial enterprises including Cargill Beef, Watties, the Wagga Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre (saleyards). The suburb is also home ..., which has, due to Bomen's shift towards heavier industries, led to the suburb's development being halted. The Red Steer Hotel/Motel is located in Cartwrights Hill. History Cartwright's Hill was named after Thomas Cartwright and his family, who were the original owners of the land. Thomas Cartwright arrived in New South Wales as a convict on board the transport ''Royal Admiral'', which arrived in Australia in 1834. He spent his early years in Australia in the Yass and Illawarra areas and was given a conditional pardon in 1847. On 26 June 1841 he married Catherine Gormly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Wagga Wagga
City of Wagga Wagga is a local government area in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia. The Mayor of the City of Wagga Wagga is Cr. Dallas Tout, an independent politician. City, town and localities The City of Wagga Wagga includes the suburbs of History Wagga Wagga was first incorporated as the Borough of Wagga Wagga on 15 March 1870. It received city status and became the City of Wagga Wagga on 17 April 1946. The municipality enlarged substantially on 1 January 1981 when the adjoining Shire of Kyeamba and Shire of Mitchell were amalgamated into the City. Heritage listings The City of Wagga Wagga has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * , Main Southern railway: Bomen railway station * , Tarcutta Street: Hambledon Homestead * Wagga Wagga, Botanic Gardens Site (BGS), Baden Powell Drive: Mobile Cook's Galley, Museum of the Riverina * Wagga Wagga, Main Southern railway: Wagga Wagga railway station Demographics At the , there were people in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarendon County, New South Wales
Clarendon County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It contains the towns of Gundagai, New South Wales, Gundagai, Junee, New South Wales, Junee and Bethungra, New South Wales, Bethungra. The Murrumbidgee River is the boundary to the south. Clarendon County was named in honour of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl Clarendon (1800-1870). Parishes within this county A full list of parishes found within this county; their current Local government in Australia, LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: References {{Reflist Counties of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. The district has been held by MP Joe McGirr since the September 2018 by-election. Wagga Wagga is a regional electorate. It entirely covers two local government areas: the City of Wagga Wagga and Lockhart Shire. It also covers part of the Snowy Valleys Council, which was established following the merger of Tumut Shire and Tumbarumba Shire. History Wagga Wagga was created in 1894. In 1920, Wagga Wagga, Albury and Corowa was absorbed into Murray and elected three members under proportional representation. When proportional representation was replaced by single-member electorates in 1927, Wagga Wagga was recreated, with Matthew Kilpatrick, the Country Party candidate, winning the October election. According to the Wagga ''Daily Advertiser'', it was a decisive vote against the continuance of the Labor government led by Jack Lang. Labor regained the seat in its 1941 l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Riverina
The Division of Riverina is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election, although it was abolished between 1984 and 1993, so has not been contested at every federal election. The division was named after the Riverina region in which it is located, though its modern borders do not correspond exactly with the Riverina region. The division covers a primarily agricultural, rural area with many small towns. In the 1984 redi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estella, New South Wales
Estella is a northern suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is relatively new with development commencing in the 1980s, however growth has been slow and land is still being subdivided. The suburb is located directly to the south of Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explore ..., and to the west of Boorooma. The southern and western boundaries of the suburb are Old Narrandera Road and Pine Gully Road respectively. Streets in Estella are named after crop varieties and individual associated with the Agricultural Research Institute. In early 2012 the intersection of Avocet Drive and Booroma Street was upgraded to include a dual-lane roundabout. A new road creating further access to Boorooma was also created. Other ''Estella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomen, New South Wales
Bomen is a northern suburb of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is dominated by industrial enterprises including Cargill Beef, Watties, the Wagga Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre (saleyards). The suburb is also home to Wagga Wagga's secondary (and original) railway station on the Main Southern line, when the line waited for the construction of a bridge over the Murrumbidgee River. New streets in Bomen are to be named after sheep and cattle breeds. Heritage listings Bomen has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Main Southern railway: Bomen railway station Industry Major industries located within Bomen are located within the Bomen Business Park which include Cargill Foods Australia, Heinz-Watties factory, BOC Gas plant and Austrak concrete sleeper plant. Bomen is the site of the proposed Riverina Intermodal Freight & Logistics Hub The Riverina Intermodal Freight & Logistics Hub (also known as RiFL Hub) is an Australian dry port in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boorooma, New South Wales
Boorooma is a suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, located in the city's north, beyond the floodplains of the Murrumbidgee River. The locality is a southern neighbour of Charles Sturt University—which in fact is referred to as 'Boorooma Campus' and is located directly to the east of the suburb of Estella and to the north of the Olympic Highway. Boorooma is progressively undergoing transition from rural residential type allotments to more intensive urban residential uses. Boorooma is also home to Vianney College Seminary and The Riverina Anglican College, and has land zoned for a future shopping centre. Streets in Boorooma are named after 'Notable Australian Sporting Identities', such as Messenger Ave after Dally Messenger Herbert Henry Messenger, nicknamed "Dally" and sometimes "The Master" (12 April 1883 – 24 November 1959) was one of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code. He pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Wagga Wagga
North Wagga Wagga (informally called North Wagga) is an inner northern suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, located on the floodplain of the Murrumbidgee River, directly across from the city's Central Business District. North Wagga is one of Wagga's oldest suburbs, being settled at approximately the same time as Wagga. Two pubs are located within North Wagga - The Black Swan Hotel and the Palm and Pawn Hotel, as well as a public school, a public hall, a football/cricket ground and a scattering of business and churches. Due to its flood prone nature, Wagga Wagga City Council long sought to deter development in North Wagga and aimed for its residents to relocate. For many years the level of services provided in North Wagga was inferior to the rest of Wagga, and most alterations and additions to dwellings were prohibited. In 1960, a levee bank was built around Wagga to protect it from flood inundation, however, North Wagga was not included in this protection. It was du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth largest inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia—Sydney and Melbourne—and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions. The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. The city is accessible from Sydney via the Sturt and Hume Highways, Adelaide via the Sturt Highway and Albury and Melbourne via the Olympic Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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