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99 unusual facts about New South Wales


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

762 Pulcova

Photometric observations of this asteroid from Leura, Australia during 2006 gave a light curve with a period of 5.8403 ± 0.0005 hours and a brightness variation of 0.20 ± 0.02 in magnitude.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Alison Rehfisch

She and George moved to the country and took to painting landscapes around Berrima, Moss Vale and Goulburn but returned to Sydney in 1953 when George secured a position as director of David Jones Art Gallery.

Austin-Healey 3000

Austin Healey 3000's have a long competition history, and raced at most major racing circuits around the world, including Sebring (USA), Le Mans (France), and Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst (Australia).

Balmain Rowing Club

Balmain Rowing Club is the fourth oldest rowing club in continuous operation on Sydney Harbour, Australia, and was established in July 1882 at Balmain, Sydney.

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.

Bot Stanley

Stanley, a centre, was born in Bathurst, New South Wales and claimed a total of 14 international rugby caps for Australia.

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.

Bullaburra, New South Wales

The Railway Department had agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council from the power station at Lithgow and a transmission line was put through from Blackheath to Lawson with a track to provide maintenance access.

Canley Vale, New South Wales

The Cabravale Leisure Centre is located close to the railway station in Broomfield Street, but is technically in the adjacent suburb of Cabramatta.

Carlo

Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Carly Wicks

A month later, Carly sends Denise a postcard asking for Kevin's signet ring and it is revealed that Carly is living in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.

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.

Chelmsford Royal Commission

The Chelmsford Royal Commission (1988–1990), chaired by Justice John Patrick Slattery, was established by the New South Wales state government to investigate "Mental Health Services" in NSW.

Colin Scotts

Growing up in Palm Beach, Sydney, Scotts first played rugby union for The Scots College and was a member of the 1981 Australian Schoolboys Rugby team.

Cronulla railway line

The tramway closed to passengers in 1931 due to a competing bus service, which provided a faster service and through service to Hurstville.

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.

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.

Densified coal

The chemical and calorific values of densified coal derived from typical Victorian brown coal with a natural average moisture content of 60 per cent by weight compares well with typical high grade black coal exported from Tarong Queensland, and Newcastle New South Wales Australia.

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.

Dorothy Cottrell

Born in Picton she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

Eastgardens

Eastgardens, New South Wales - a suburb of Sydney in 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.

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.

Francis D. Nichol

F. D. Nichol was born 14 February 1897 in Thirlmere, New South Wales, Australia to John and Mary Nichol who became Adventists after reading a discarded copy of the Review and Herald (now the Adventist Review).

Frankie J. Holden

In 2010, Frankie and Michelle, with two other couples, purchased the Tathra Beach Family Park, a seaside holiday park in Tathra, NSW.

Frederick Augustus Forbes

Forbes was born in 30 September 1818 in Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales to Francis Ewen, a merchant and his wife Mary Ann Taboweur.

George Greenough

George Greenough is an innovative surfer and cinematographer from Santa Barbara, California who now resides in Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

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

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

Gladesville, New South Wales

A number of bus services run along Victoria Road, between the Sydney CBD and Ryde, with some services continuing as far as Parramatta.

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.

Green Cape Lighthouse

Aspinall first had to find a way to move the materials from Eden to the site.

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.

Hanging Rock, New South Wales

This former gold mining town is situated about 10 km south east of Nundle.

Hartley, New South Wales

Hartley's sister villages, Little Hartley and Hartley Vale, still survive as residential villages with a heritage of their own.

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.

HMAS Bathurst

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Bathurst, for the city of Bathurst, New South Wales.

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.

Ivan Petch

He was active in the Ryde local area as Chairman of the Ryde Red Cross Calling Appeal 1978–84, President of the Ryde Lions Club 1985–86, and honorary member of the North Ryde Rotary Club and received a Paul Harris Fellow award.

Jason Baitieri

The son of former player and coach Tas Baitieri, Jason was born in Paris, but played junior rugby league in Toulouse before returning to Castle Hill, New South Wales when he was 8 to play for the Hills District Bulls, a team in the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League competition, based in Baulkham Hills.

John Szczerbanik

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

John William Cotter

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

Koori Radio

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

Marc Hunter

For the last few months of his life, Hunter underwent various forms of treatment including several alternative medicine remedies but none were successful and he died in Berry near Kiama on 17 July 1998.

Marc Ongley

Born in Maitland, New South Wales, he became the first Australian to be awarded the Licentiate of the Trinity College of Music, London (LTCL) and the Fellowship of the Trinity College of Music London (FTCL), in 1974 and 1977 respectively.

Margaret Bailey

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

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.

Meelis Zaia

In 1990 he played a central role in obtaining a donation of $1.1 million to build a cathedral in Greenfield Park, and in 1999 assisted in the raising of funds for the construction of a reception hall on the cathedral property.

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.

Minto Parish, Cumberland

It includes Minto, Ingleburn, Glenfield and Macquarie Fields.

Mogo

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

Moyes Tempest

The Moyes Tempest, also referred to as the Bailey/Moyes Tempest, is an Australian high-wing, strut-braced, single-seat, microlift glider that was designed by Bob Bailey of Florida, United States and produced by Moyes Microlights of Waverley, New South Wales, 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.

Newcastle North Stars

The team plays its home games at the Hunter Ice Skating Stadium (nicknamed 'HISS') in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie located about 15 kilometres south-west of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Nick Kruger

Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983, Paddington, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played First-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania.

No. 30 Squadron RAAF

It was moved around a few times during this period, firstly to Schofields, New South Wales, RAAF Base Fairbairn and then back to Richmond.

Norfolk Southern Ry. v. James N. Kirby, Pty Ltd.

In August 1997, James N. Kirby, Pty Ltd., an Australian manufacturer, hired International Cargo Control Pty Ltd. (ICC) as a shipping intermediary to arrange a shipment of goods from Milperra, New South Wales to Athens, Alabama.

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.

Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta

The mini-series tells the turbulent story of Cabramatta, a suburb of southwest Sydney, whose ethnic blend eventually changed Australia's attitude to multiculturalism.

Orange Grove affair

In March 2002, Frank Mosca, an architect working on behalf of Sydney businessman Nabil Gazal, applied to change an existing development consent for a property in a light industrial area on Orange Grove Road in the Sydney suburb of Warwick Farm, just north of central Liverpool to change the permitted use of the site from "bulky goods/ warehousing" to "warehouse clearance outlet".

Oskar Speck

On release, Speck worked as an opal cutter at Lightning Ridge, before moving to Sydney and establishing a successful career as an opal merchant.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Sydney

It draws most of its students from the immediate local area and from Brighton-Le-Sands/Sans Souci.

Paul Benhaim

Zeo International Ltd. is currently on the list of Australian environmental companies supported by the Australian Technology Showcase and the New South Wales Department of State.

Pel-Air

Pel-Air Aviation Pty Ltd (trading as Pel-Air) is an airline based in Mascot, Sydney, Australia.

Phil Jaques

A junior with the Wests team in Wollongong he moved onto the Sutherland club while still attending Figtree High School to further his career.

Rail transport in New South Wales

The Clarence River at Grafton was the most difficult river to cross, and was the last section to be opened in 1932, upon completion of the Grafton Bridge.

Ralph Read

He was later to teach at "Richmond Temple's Bible College", and thereafter to minister in various AOG churches and, for a time, was editor of the AOG denominational magazine "The Evangel".

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.

Riverina Express

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

Rogallo wing

The flexible wing – called "Ski Wing" – was first flown in public at the Grafton Jacaranda Festival in September 1963 by Rod Fuller while towed behind a motorboat.

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.

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.

Shelly Beach

Shelly Beach, New South Wales, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia

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.

Simon Taufel

Simon James Arthur Taufel, (born 21 January 1971 in St Leonards, New South Wales), is a retired Australian cricket umpire who was a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas New

Thomas was a pioneer settler of the Dunedoo and Warren districts, and operated pubs and traded livestock.

Toll Global Logistics

In Australia, in 2012 Customised Solutions opened a new warehousing facility in Yennora in western 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.

Victoria Street Station

Victoria Street railway station, New South Wales, a railway station in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia

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.

Western Road Liners

Western Road Liners is an Australian bus and coach company operating route, school and charter services in Parkes.

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.

Argiope aetherea

The species is commonly found along the east coast of Australia, in particular Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Auskick

The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.

Australian angelshark

The Australian angelshark (Squatina australis) is a species of angel shark, family Squatinidae, found in the subtropical waters of southern Australia from Western Australia to New South Wales between latitudes 18°S and 41°S, at depths down to 255 m (840 ft).

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

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).

Bangalow Public School

Bangalow Public School (K-6) is a Primary School and is on Byron Street, Bangalow, New South Wales, Australia.

Bishop Druitt College

Bishop Druitt College is an independent, co-educational Kindergarten to Year 12 Anglican school situated in North Boambee on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.

Bogangar, New South Wales

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

Boomi, New South Wales

In earlier years the MacIntyre River was known as the Barwon River at the source of the Boomi River, but now reference is made to the Barwon River after the confluence with the Weir River.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Diadema palmeri

The species has also been found in other sub-tropical regions around the South Pacific at greater depths, including New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, and Australia's lower east coast - off Danger Point to Montague Island, New South Wales (at about 200 m), Lord Howe Island and the Norfolk Island Ridge.

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.

Drawn from Bees

In October 2009, Drawn from Bees released their third record, The Sky is Falling, an EP containing a series of vignettes revolving around a central theme of the sky falling down, touring throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

Drosera falconeri

Isotype specimens, those that are duplicates of the holotype, were distributed to several herbaria, including those at the University of North Carolina, the New York Botanical Garden, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Queensland Herbarium.

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 Blacktown

The current member for Blacktown is John Robertson, current Opposition Leader.

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.

Eremophila alternifolia

alternifolia occurs in arid areas of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory and the Barrier Range in New South Wales, in many different habitats with stony or red soil.

Finley High School

Finley High School is a school with 486 students, located in Finley in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

Goulburn, New South Wales

With a history of water shortages, an 84km underground water supply pipeline was constructed to pump water from the Wingecarribee Reservoir in the Southern Highlands to Goulburn.

Grevillea striata

In New South Wales, a tree still stands which bears an inscription in memory of a member of Charles Sturt's expedition in 1845.

Hadronyche formidabilis

Hadronyche formidabilis, the northern tree funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in Queensland and New South Wales.

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.

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.

Kielvale, New South Wales

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

Mark Renshaw

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

New South Wales Writers' Centre

Together with Varuna - The Writers' House and the Sydney Writers' Festival, the NSW Writers' Centre is the main support organisation for writers in New South Wales.

Orthodox Church in America Parishes in Australia

The Orthodox Church in America Parishes in Australia refers to an administrative district of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) located within two states in AustraliaNew South Wales and Queensland.

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).

Ron Gibbs

Ron Gibbs (born 14 April 1962 in Brewarrina, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league player who played professionally in Australia and England.

Shire of Bulloo

Cameron Corner, the point where New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, is located at the south west corner of the shire.

Tweed Heads West, New South Wales

Tweed Heads West is a suburb located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire.

Upper Crystal Creek, New South Wales

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

Warwick Moss

In 2007 Moss was commissioned by McCann Erickson Advertising to direct, write and Voice the entire National Party television campaign for the New South Wales State Elections.

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.