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  2. Time in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian ...

  3. Daylight saving time in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Western Australia also had a particularly involved debate over daylight-saving time, with the issue being put to a referendum four times, 1975, 1984, 1992 and 2009. All were defeated. Voters returned a "no" vote of 54.57% in 2009, the highest in all four referendums.

  4. List of tz database time zones - Wikipedia

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    The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [2]

  5. 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum - Wikipedia

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    In Western Australia, three referendums were held in 1975, 1984 and 1992 on the issue, with daylight saving being rejected each time. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 25 October 2006, two members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly , former Labor minister turned independent member John D'Orazio and Liberal leader Matt Birney , introduced a private ...

  6. List of Australian capital cities - Wikipedia

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    Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its own territory within New South Wales, at least 100 miles (161 km) from Sydney. The Constitution specified that until this national capital was ready, the Parliament would sit in Melbourne.

  7. Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. ... At that time, its local projects—such as the Group Settlement Scheme of the 1920s, ...

  8. List of time zone abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...

  9. List of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement

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    Western Australia 1965 Goldsworthy: Western Australia Former mining town. Abandoned in 1992. 1966 Newman: Western Australia Originally named Mount Newman until 1981. 1967 Exmouth: Western Australia 1968 Karratha: Western Australia 1969 Moranbah: Queensland 1970 Ravenswood: Western Australia 1971 Nhulunbuy: Northern Territory [29] 1972 Shay Gap ...