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unusual facts about Armidale



Adam Salter

In New South Wales, other police shooting fatalities related to mentally-ill people included Elijah Holcombe (shot dead in Armidale in 2009), Michael Capel (shot dead in the Hunter Region in 2008), and Roni Levi (shot dead on Bondi Beach in 1997).

Armidale Airport

Brindabella Airlines commenced Armidale-Brisbane flights in August 2011 using Metroliner commuter planes, however this service was discontinued in June 2012.

Edward Dickens

Edward 'Plorn' Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton — nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford, "It was a dark and stormy night" — and educated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent at a private school owned by the Reverend W. C Sawyer, later Anglican bishop of Armidale and Grafton.

Jean Isherwood

The images represent the diversity of the Australian landscape and include "the filmy veil of greenness' seen from Isherwood's own window, a flood on the Darling River, a bushfire in the Blue Mountains and a forest of ringbarked trees near Armidale.

Jon Stratton

Stratton has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980, arriving at Curtin in 1990 after teaching at universities in Brisbane (Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland), Armidale (University of New England) and Darwin (Northern Territory University).

Keith Froome

Known as Keith, he was born in Armidale but grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales and played his junior football with Wests Newcastle.

Neville Newell

Newell was born in Sydney, Australia, received a Diploma of Applied Science from the Hawkesbury Agricultural College and a Diploma of Education from the Armidale College of Advanced Education, now part of the University of New England.

Northern Mail

The Northern Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney to Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Moree from the 1870s until November 1988.

S. Arasaratnam

Arasaratnam was a practising Christian who attended the Uniting Church in Armidale, New South Wales.

St Peter's Cathedral Armidale

St Peters's Cathedral, Armidale is the cathedral of the Diocese of Armidale in New South Wales, Australia.

Theo Anast

Theo Anast (born 1966 in Armidale, Australia) was a rugby league player for the Canterbury Bulldogs in the Australian New South Wales Rugby League premiership and St Gaudens in the French Elite Championship.


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