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Newlands, Western Australia
Newlands is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality of the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia. The South Western Highway runs through the eastern part of the locality from north to south. Newlands started out as a siding on the Donnybrook, Western Australia, Donnybrook to Bridgetown, Western Australia, Bridgetown section of the Northcliffe branch railway and was first mentioned in 1899. The Imperial Jarrah Company built a public hall at Newlands in 1901, which was also used as a school at the time. At the request of the local residents, the Western Australian Government declared and townsite at Newlands, which was gazetted in 1907. Newlands and the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup are located on the traditional land of the Wardandi people of the Noongar nation. References {{Towns South West WA Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Collie-Preston
Collie-Preston is a Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly Electoral districts of Western Australia, electorate in the states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. While the seat was known as Collie for just over a century of its existence as an electorate, the seat was known as South West Mining from 1901 to 1904, and Collie-Wellington from 2005 to 2008. It is named for the South West (Western Australia), South West coal mining town of Collie, Western Australia, Collie. While historically a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party, redistributions in 1988 and 2007 due to increases in the quota for country seats which had historically been Apportionment (politics)#Malapportionment, malapportioned resulted in the seat incorporating surrounding rural shires which were hostile to Labor and thereby becoming more marginal. History Collie was originally created as the seat of "South West Mining" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
