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99 unusual facts about New South Wales


2AAA

2AAA relocated to its own premises in November 1982, on the corner of Young and Coleman Streets, Turvey Park on the foot of Willans Hill.

3265

The Taree, New South Wales and Gloucester, New South Wales Railway Centenary 2013 and Sydney Great Train Expo 2013 at Central Station.

78 Saab

The album's title and chief inspiration was described by Nash as coming from the long drives between his Sydney home and his family farm near Orange, New South Wales.

92.5 ABC Central Coast

The transmission area of the station stretches from Woy Woy to The Entrance.

Arthur Chipperfield

Arthur Gordon Chipperfield (17 November 1905, Ashfield, New South Wales – 29 July 1987, Ryde, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests from 1934 to 1938.

Australian Lightwing SP-4000 Speed

The Australian Lightwing SP-4000 Speed is an Australian kit aircraft, designed and produced by Australian Lightwing of Ballina, New South Wales.

Awaba

Awaba, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, in Australia

Balmain Rowing Club

It has occupied its current site at the bottom of White St, Balmain since the club's inception.

Banksia 'Limelight'

It arose as a sport from a mature plant found growing near an expressway at Kariong, New South Wales in 1986.

Beer Wine Spirits

The first BWS was opened in Cabramatta, New South Wales, the site of a Woolworths owned Mac's Liquor Store.

Belinda Neal

On 7 April 2011 Neal was issued with an interim apprehended violence order after she allegedely abused and followed Kate Neill, the former mistress of her husband John Della Bosca, from her Newtown home.

Bells Line of Road

It then proceeds to climb onto the Bell Range of the Blue Mountains, passing through Kurrajong Heights.

Ben Fixter

Ben currently plays with the Charles Sturt University Football Club in the Farrer Football League, a semi-professional football league based in the Riverina region of New South Wales.

Breadalbane, Scotland

Breadalbane, New South Wales is a small village located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.

Brisbane Line

Proponents of the existence of the Brisbane Line proposal often refer to the existence of concrete tank traps near places such as Tenterfield, which were constructed in the late 1930s, as evidence.

Castle Coole

Lady Belmore found the summer climate of Sydney oppressive and despite frequent retreats to Moss Vale, concern over his wife’s health prompted the Lord Belmore to resign his governorship on 26 June 1871 allowing the Belmore family to return to Castle Coole the following year.

Catherine Gaskin

When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up.

Clarke brothers

Thomas (1840?-1867) and John Clarke (1846?-1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales responsible for a series of high-profile robberies and killings in the late 19th century so notorious that they led to the embedding of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry and authorised citizens to kill criminals on sight.

Dainty green tree frog

It ranges from northern Cape York in Queensland to Gosford in New South Wales, with a small and most likely introduced population in Hornsby Heights in Sydney.

Dalgety

Dalgety, New South Wales, a town in the Monaro Region of New South Wales, Australia

Dame Mary Cook

Sir Joseph Cook died in 1947, and Dame Mary Cook died on 24 September 1950, aged 87, at her Bellevue Hill, New South Wales.

Dave Gleeson

The Screaming Jets moved from their hometown Newcastle to Sydney's notorious Kings Cross district in early 1990, and recorded their debut album All For One in mostly midnight to dawn sessions at a local studio, after playing live shows seven nights a week.

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

Display case

On occasion, display cases are built into the floor, such as in the Museum of Sydney (in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), where the remains of drains and privies are shown in their original context, along with other archeological artifacts.

Division of Hume

It extends from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.

Dockrillia linguiforme

Dockrillia linguiforme, the Button Orchid , Tongue Orchid or Tick Orchid is a common small orchid, growing north from Ulladulla in south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Edge 96.1

Since Australian Radio Network Owned OneFM, the station studio from Penrith was then moved to Seven Hills with WSFM 101.7.

Escort Way

Escort Way is a New South Wales state arterial road running from the western end of the Northern Distributor Road in Orange to Eugowra, where it becomes Eugowra-Forbes Road.

Festa del Santissimo Salvatore a Pazzano

Pazzano-Australian emigrates in Sydney (Australia) in Narrawena suburb celebrate Santo Salvatore's fiest with a similar statue of the St John the apostole parish.

Fusaichi Pegasus

For several years, Fusaichi Pegasus served as a "shuttle stallion" standing at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and at Coolmore Australia near Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, but since the 2010 breeding season has stood exclusively in Kentucky.

Gary Punch

Punch was born in Arncliffe, New South Wales and educated at Hurstville Boys High School and subsequently obtained a commerce degree.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

The district of Minto in New South Wales, Australia, was named after him in 1809.

Grafton Express

The Grafton Express is an Australian passenger train operated by NSW TrainLink between Sydney and Grafton via the North Coast line.

Grant Balfour

Balfour spent his first years at school attending Kings Langley Public School and high school years at William Clarke College in Kellyville, New South Wales.

Habitat fragmentation

In the wheat belt of central western New South Wales, Australia, 90% of the native vegetation has been cleared and over 99% of the tall grass prairie of North America has been cleared, resulting in extreme habitat fragmentation.

Hazelton Airlines

Founded in 1953 by Max Hazelton with a single Auster Aiglet aircraft offering charter services from a farm near Toogong, New South Wales, the fledgeling organisation was in 1959 relocated to Cudal (near Orange) in NSW.

Helensburgh railway station

It serves the small town of Helensburgh, although despite the name, the station is located in the neighbouring suburb of Lilyvale, which is some five minutes drive to the Helensburgh town centre and about 15–20 minutes by bus.

Holroyd-Parramatta Blacktown AFC Goannas

The Goannas home ground is Gipps Road Oval located in the western Sydney suburb of Greystanes, part of the local city of Holroyd.

Horn car

Horn cars were an initiative taken by Max McLeod, who owned a Ford dealership in Rockdale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

HRR 98.5FM

HRR 98.5FM is a hard rock/heavy metal show on radio broadcasting from the studio of 2000FM from the suburb of Burwood, Australia.

J. B. Young Ltd

By the 20th century, James Young had settled in country NSW and was working for Dutton Brothers, in Blayney.

James Packman

James Russell Packman (born 21 August 1979 in Paddington) is an Australian cricketer who is currently a New South Wales Blues squad member.

John Henry Pepper

Pepper heard tales of Fred Fisher, a farmer in nearby Campbelltown who had mysteriously disappeared in 1826.

John Szczerbanik

He was born in Liverpool, Sydney, and worked as a registered nurse before entering politics.

John Towill Rutt

Concern for the reformers Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer and William Skirving led him to visit them as convicts on board the hulks, when awaiting transportation, and he sent papers and pamphlets to them in New South Wales.

John William Cotter

Cotter died on 7 August 1957 at age 60 and is now buried at the Waugh Road Monumental Cemetery, North Albury.

Johnny Jarrett

In the early 1980's Patten was instrumental in the redevelopment of the Pippi Beach Aboriginal community at Yamba in northern New South Wales, ensuring the community had new homes built and access to council amenities they were previously denied.

Koori Radio

In 2008 Koori Radio received Australian Government funding to renovate and move into purpose built studios in the Black Theatre in Redfern.

Lenka discography

The discography of Lenka Kripac, best known as simply Lenka, a singer-songwriter from New South Wales, Australia, consists of three studio albums, and five singles.

Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster

Many former Australian New South Wales Public Transport Commission and State Transport Authority Worldmasters upon withdrawal, were rebodied by private operators including Brisbane Bus Lines, Fearne's of Wagga Wagga, Menai Bus Service and Toongabbie Transport up until the mid-1980s.

Margaret Bailey

Margaret Ann Montgomery Bailey (9 June 1879 – 5 June 1955) was the headmistress of Ascham School in Edgecliff, New South Wales.

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Marshall Rosen

Marshall Frederick Rosen, born 17 September 1948, in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a former cricket player for New South Wales, and a member of the NSW Cricket Association Board.

Mary Hughes

Their car crashed where the Sydney-Melbourne road crossed the Sydney-Melbourne railway north of Albury, leading to the crossing being named after Billy Hughes; it was later replaced by the Billy Hughes Bridge.

Matthew Pascoe

Matthew David Pascoe (born 10 January 1977 in Camperdown, New South Wales, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played for Tasmania and Queensland.

Max Cullen

Cullen was born in Wellington, New South Wales in 1940, but when he was one year old his family moved to Lawson in the Blue Mountains.

Max Pettini

He has worked in the UK ever since, apart from four years at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Epping, New South Wales from 1987 to 1991, and has British citizenship.

Megalurus

The most widespread species, the Tawny Grassbird, ranges from the Philippines to southern New South Wales, whereas the Fly River Grassbird is restricted to swampland in the southern part of New Guinea.

Ministry of Dance

Ministry of Dance is an Australian dance school based in Penrith, New South Wales.

Mogo

:For the town of the same name in New South Wales, Australia, see Mogo, New South Wales.

Mosler MT900

Martin Short's Rollcentre Racing team also took their MT900R to a second place finish in the inaugural Bathurst 24 Hour in 2002 at the famous Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia.

MV Nimbin

The steamer Arakoon which had been loaded a quantity of salvage gear and had dispatched from Sydney late on the Monday night to assist the Nimbin was advised the same morning that the Nimbin was refloated by a message sent from the lighthouse-keeper at Seal Rocks.

My Restaurant Rules

In addition, despite Sydney's defeat in series two, contestants Evan and Bella of Pink Salt opened a new restaurant (under the same name) on 22 March 2006, at a new location in Double Bay from the original suburb of Manly.

New South Wales 85 class locomotive

The New South Wales 85 class were a class of 10 electric locomotives built by Comeng, Granville between May 1979 and July 1980 for the State Rail Authority.

Nicholas Devine

Cavan, Ireland (also spelt Divine) was superintendent of convicts for Newtown, New South Wales.

No. 22 Squadron RAAF

Operating out of Schofields, New South Wales, No. 22 Squadron undertook its own training and carried out various duties including air defence and naval and ground support tasks.

Northern Tablelands Express

In June 1959 it was converted to DEB set railcar operation dividing at Werris Creek with one portion for Glen Innes or Tenterfield and the other for Moree.

Oscar and Lucinda

Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast.

Oxley River

Formed by the confluence of the Hopping Dicks Creek and Tyalgum Creek, Oxley River rises below Mount Durigan on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, near Tyalgum, and flows generally south by east, and then east, before reaching its confluence with the Tweed River near Murwillumbah.

Patti Miller

Patti Miller (born 1954), an Australian writer, was born and grew up near Wellington, New South Wales, Australia.

Placer Dome

In New South Wales Australia, Placer Dome obtained ownership of the defunct Timbarra Gold Mine, where it achieved some local acclaim for setting new, higher State standards for mining rehabilitation.

Pommerhelix monacha

The type locality is "Australia", which can be specified to Sassafras Gully, Springwood, New South Wales, Australia.

Richard Leplastrier

Leplastrier established his own practice in 1970 and works from his studio in Sydney's Lovett Bay.

Riverina Express

These were designed to split en route allowing carriages to detach for Cowra, Tumut, Lake Cargelligo and Hillston on selected days.

Rogans Hill railway line

A steam tramway opened between Parramatta and Baulkham Hills in 1902, and was extended to Castle Hill in 1910, carrying passengers and produce to and from the area.

Ropes Creek railway line

Overhead wiring was still installed at the St Marys end of the branch where it turned off the main western line for approximately 10 cars to provide a terminating point for trains used on "Y" Link services.

Royal Australian Air Force Ensign

Although the flag is only flown by the RAAF, dispensation was granted to New Lambton Public School, NSW on 18 May 1995 to fly the RAAF ensign.

Russ McCool

He was born while his father was engaged as a professional cricketer for Somerset, but brought up in Australia where he attended schools in Woy Woy, New South Wales.

Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.

Ryde Road

Its name was derived from the simple fact that it leads to Ryde.

Saddled swellshark

The saddled swellshark is found off the eastern coast of Australia, as far north as Rockingham Bay in Queensland and as far south as Tathra in New South Wales, and perhaps also the Britannia Seamount near Brisbane.

Sillitoe Tartan

For example, in New South Wales (NSW) the Ambulance Service uses red and white chequers on ambulances and paramedic's uniforms, while the State Emergency Service uses orange and white Sillitoe Tartan.

Silverdale, New South Wales

Approximately 30 minutes from the city of Penrith, New South Wales, Silverdale is close to the historic township of Warragamba, and the main water supply for Sydney, Warragamba Dam.

Silverwater, New South Wales

Silverwater is serviced by several bus services including routes to Parramatta, Strathfield, Auburn, Ryde and of course Sydney Olympic Park.

Skulker

The group's original members met at Cheltenham Girls High School, North Sydney in 1994 and decided to form a band.

Skycraft Scout

Using sources referenced from the library at Sydney Technical College and Hurstville local Library he built up a working knowledge of aerodynamics.

SS Cawarra

Along with other wrecks they were used in the construction of the Stockton breakwall where plaques commemorate the loss of each of the ships including the Cawarra.

Suzy Batkovic

Suzy Batkovic-Brown (née Batković) (born 17 December 1980 in Lambton, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian women's basketball player.

Tareelaroi Weir

It is used for the mitigation of water from the Gwydir River upstream, between the Gwydir River, which runs through the village of Yarraman and the Mehi River, downstream which runs through the town of Moree.

Ted Noffs

Theodore Delwin "Ted" Noffs (1926–1995) was a Methodist (later Uniting Church) minister, writer and founder of the Ted Noffs Foundation and the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney, in 1964.

The Oaks, New South Wales

An expedition was undertaken in 1795 which included Governor Hunter and George Bass, due to the sighting of some cows which had strayed from the Government Farm at Farm Cove.

The Overtones

Lachlan Alexander "Lachie" Chapman was born 7 February 1981, and comes from Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

Tonga Lea'aetoa

Lea'aetoa's parents came from Tonga, he spent his childhood in Australia in Manly, Sydney.

Uriarra, Australian Capital Territory

The village is located in rural ACT off Brindabella Road that connects Canberra to Brindabella and Tumut via the Brindabella Ranges.

Warnervale, New South Wales

Warnervale train station lies on the Main North line of the CityRail network allowing transport between Newcastle and Sydney.

Wentworth Falls, New South Wales

In July 1867, the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains left Penrith and traveled through to Weatherboard Station, where the train terminated.

William Goodsir-Cullen

William "Willie" James Goodsir-Cullen (29 March 1907 in Firozepur – 15 June 1994 in Wyoming, New South Wales, Australia) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

William Sandford

Exhausted by his repeated business failures, Sandford retired to Darling Point in 1908, later moving to an orchard in Castle Hill and then Eastwood.

William Snell Chauncy

In 1868 Chauncy was appointed road superintendent at Goulburn, New South Wales with one of his responsibilities being improvements to the main Sydney to Melbourne Road (now the Hume Highway).


1971 Australian Open

The 1971 Australian Open, also known under its sponsored name Dunlop Australian Open, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 7 to 14 March.

Australian International School Hong Kong

It follows the New South Wales curriculum where final year (grade twelve) students can either pursue the Higher School Certificate of the New South Wales Board of Studies or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (since September 2005 when it became an IB World School).

Australian Plague Locust Commission

With 19 staff members at its headquarters in Canberra and field offices in Narromine, Broken Hill and Longreach, the Commission is funded half by the Commonwealth government and half by the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Bogangar, New South Wales

Bogangar is a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Bruce Petty

He is married to Australian award-winning novelist, Kate Grenville; they live in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.

Canadian Lead, New South Wales

Canadian Lead is a 19th-century gold rush town in the country of New South Wales, Australia.

Casual vacancies in the Australian Parliament

On 9 February 1975, the New South Wales Labor Senator Lionel Murphy resigned from the Senate to take up an appointment as a judge of the High Court of Australia.

Casuarina, New South Wales

Casuarina is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Charles James Melrose

Melrose Park in New South Wales and Melrose Park in South Australia are both suburbs named after him, as well as James Melrose Road, which travels along the southern boundary of Adelaide Airport.

Charles La Trobe

In February 1839 he was appointed superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales though he had little managerial and administrative experience.

Clonoulty

Boorowa, New South Wales (the Tipperary of the South) was settled by Europeans who were mainly Irish convicts transported from Clonoulty after political activity against the British in 1815.

Conscription in Australia

Such work would have been menial labouring jobs in remote locations such as north and western Queensland, western New South Wales, and northern South Australia.

Cyril Connell, Snr.

Connell was born in Sydney, New South Wales and in his youth he served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War I in France.

Damien Brown

Damien graduated from St. Edward's College, East Gosford in 1990 with a school certificate and Corpus Christi College (now St Peter's College), Tuggerah, with a higher school certificate in 1992.

Dennis Charter

Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for Go-Set Go-Set magazine before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and throughout country regions of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.

Edmund Carter

Carter made his highest score of 63 in this game, on debut, against New South Wales.

Eduard Haber

Together with 11 other German prisoners of war, he was brought to Sydney on the captured steamer SMS Komet and interned on 29 October in a camp at Holsworthy, New South Wales.

Electoral district of Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1904, partly replacing Sydney-Gipps in the vicinity of Darling Harbour.

Helena Scott

In 1846 the family moved from Sydney to the remote Ash Island in the Hunter River estuary, near Hexham.

Highways in Australia

By the end of his term in 1822 the colony had a network of three major roads, with the Great Western Road as the most important link, traversing the Blue Mountains from Sydney to Bathurst.

Inigo Triggs

His older brother was Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868–1936) born in Chelsea, who in 1887 emigrated to Australia, becoming a wealthy New South Wales grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.

Kielvale, New South Wales

Kielvale is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Large toadlet

The Large Toadlet or Great Toadlet or Major Toadlet (Pseudophryne major) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to eastern Queensland (including Moreton and North Stradbroke Island and northern New South Wales, Australia.

Mark Renshaw

Renshaw, who was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, began his career as a track cyclist riding for the Bathurst Cycle Club.

Piggabeen, New South Wales

Piggabeen is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Private member's bill

It received very wide support from New South Wales organisations related to child health and welfare and was backed by several prominent members of the medical profession, particularly in the paediatric field, notably Dr. John Yu, CEO of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney (who had been honoured by the Australian Government with the prestigious Australian of the Year award in 1996).

Red-legged pademelon

In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales.

Salt Pan Creek

Salt Pan Creek rises west southwest of the suburb of Mount Lewis, within the Bankstown local government area, and flows generally south by east through the Canterbury and Hurstville local government areas, before reaching its confluence with the Georges River, at Riverwood.

Sir Walter Buffalo Turf

Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf is a variety of Australian-bred soft-leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) first developed in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

Tertiary Entrance Rank

Although directly equivalent to the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) in Victoria, and the Universities Admission Index (UAI) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, the terms ENTER and UAI were only used in their respective states or territories.

Victor Dominello

Victor Michael Dominello MP (born 30 July 1967 in Ryde, New South Wales), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the Coalition state government.

White-fronted Chat

It is endemic to Australia, being found across southern Australia (including Tasmania) from Shark Bay in Western Australia around to the Queensland/New South Wales border.

Wodonga railway station

The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.

World's longest cricket marathon

# Raymond Terrace District Cricket Club (RTDCC), at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia - 66 hours and 16 minutes on 24 to 27 January 2009