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Makin, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Makin is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Its name and boundaries for the locality were assigned in March 2000 for the portion within the Tatiara District Council while the portion within the Coorong District Council was added in August 2000. Makin’s name is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Makin which was named after James Bain Makin (1855-1933), a pastoralist who lived in the vicinity of what is now the hundred. The principal land use in the locality is primary production. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Makin had a population of 30 people. Makin is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Mackillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council Tatiara District Council is a local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide City Centre
Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from the Park Lands around the whole city centre). The population was 15,115 in the . Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a greenfield site following a grid layout, with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of and is surrounded by of park lands.The area of the park lands quoted is based, in the absence of an official boundary between the City and North Adelaide, on an east–west line past the front entrance of Adelaide Oval. Within the city are five parks: Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smaller parks. Names for elements of the city centre are as follows: *The "city square mile" (in reality 1.67 square miles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwood, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Sherwood is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Boundaries for the locality were created on 16 March 2000 for the “long established name.” Sherwood is served by Emu Flat Road which passes through the locality from the Ngarkat Highway in the east where the highway forms the locality’s eastern boundary to Keith in the west where the road terminates in the Keith town centre. The principal land use in the locality is primary production. A parcel of land at its eastern boundary has protected area status as the Hardings Springs Conservation Reserve. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sherwood had a population of 97 people. Sherwood is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who spent Census night, 9 August 2016, in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Chronicle
''The'' ''Border Chronicle'' is a weekly newspaper published in Bordertown, South Australia from June 1908 to the present day. Its head office is in Smith Street, Naracoorte. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History The paper's founder was Leslie Duncan. The first issue of ''The Border Chronicle'' (subtitled: "The only newspaper printed in the huge Tatiara District") was Saturday 13 June 1908. It described itself as "A Journal devoted to the News of the district. the various markets, and condensed reports of State, Inter-State and World's News". It was published in broadsheet style, in a press at the rear of Bordertown's first Institute building on Woolshed Street. Donald Campbell became the sole proprietor in 1931. In 1939, the paper moved to 74 DeCourcey Street in Bordertown, and in 1950 it was bought by Roy Poulton and Ross Warne. The business continued as Neil Poult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Makin
__NOTOC__ The Hundred of Makin is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Australian state of South Australia within the County of Buckingham and the state government region of the Limestone Coast about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west and south-east respectively of the municipal seats of Bordertown and Tailem Bend. Its extent includes part of the locality of Ngarkat The Ngarkat is a recorded title of a tribal group from South Australia. The Ngarkat lands had linked the mallee peoples of Victoria and South Australia to the river peoples of the Murray River Murraylands. Ngarkat language has been loosely groupe ... in its northern half while its southern half is occupied by the entirety of the locality of Makin along with portions of Coombe and MacCallum in the west and in the east respectively. References Makin Limestone Coast {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coombe, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Coombe is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide city centre, Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend, South Australia, Tailem Bend. Coombe ’s boundaries were created on 24 August 2000 and given the “local established name” which is derived from the Coombe Railway Station and ultimately from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Coombe. Despite its name, the locality consists of land in south-east corner of the Hundred of Coombe in the west and the southern ends of the adjoining hundreds of Hundred of Archibald, Archibald and Hundred of Makin, Makin in the east. The Dukes Highway and Adelaide-Wolseley railway line both pass thought the locality from the town of Tintinara, South Australia, Tintinara in the north-west to the town of Keith, South Australia, Keithin the south-east. Land use within the locality is ’primary production’ with exception to some land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordertown, South Australia
Bordertown, formerly Border Town, is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's east near the state border with Victoria about east of the state capital of Adelaide. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line cross the Tatiara Creek between Adelaide and Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. Bordertown is the commercial and administrative centre of the Tatiara District Council. ''Tatiara'' is the local Aboriginal word for "Good Country". History Bordertown was established in 1852 when a direct route across the Ninety Mile Desert was being planned for gold escorts from the Victorian goldfields to Adelaide. Police Inspector Alexander Tolmer was instructed to create a town as close as practical to the border. Tolmer was upset when the town was not named after him, but that was made up for by naming several sites around Bordertown after him, such as Tolmer Park and Tolmer Takeaway. Land was first offered for sale in the new governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngarkat, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Ngarkat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the south-east of the state at the border with the state of Victoria in both the Murray Mallee and the Limestone Coast regions about south east of the state capital of Adelaide. Its boundaries were created firstly in August 1999 for the part in the Southern Mallee District Council followed by the part in the Tatiara District Council during March 2000 and finally by the part in the Coorong District Council during August 2000. Its name is derived from the Ngarkat Conservation Park. The principal land use within the locality is conservation with the majority of the land being located in the Ngarkat Conservation Park with the exception of a parcel of land between the Ngarkat Highway and the Victorian border within the Tatiara District Council. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Ngarkat had a population of zero. Ngarkat is located within the federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
