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  2. List of towns in Australia - Wikipedia

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    As of 21 February 2019 the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW, which is maintained by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, lists 265 places that are assigned or recorded as towns in New South Wales. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Maitland Town Hall - Wikipedia

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    The town hall project was initiated by the then-West Maitland Borough Council. [2] The foundation stone for the town hall was laid on 26 January 1888, and it formally opened on 28 February 1890. It was designed by local architects Lee and Scobie, who beat out prominent local architect John W. Pender in a design competition, and built by Henry Noad.

  4. List of locations in Australia with an English name - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, Kenilworth is a place name in England, but Kenilworth, Queensland is reportedly named after a novel of that name. In some cases the place name in England is that of a residence or farm; for example, Hughenden, Queensland is derived from Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire.

  5. List of reduplicated Australian place names - Wikipedia

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    1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...

  6. Sydney - Capital New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Standing on the west side of Sydney Cove, looking towards the Heads, Sydney town's success is reflected in the buildings and carefully laid out gardens. On the right of the painting on what is now Bridge Street, are the homes and offices of Government administrators, with the two-storeyed Government House, now the site of the Museum of Sydney. [3]

  7. Street art in Melbourne - Wikipedia

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    Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and the second largest city in Australia, has gained international acclaim for its diverse range of street art and associated subcultures. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, much of the city's disaffected youth were influenced by the graffiti of New York City , which subsequently became popular in Melbourne's ...

  8. The Foundation of Perth 1829 - Wikipedia

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    The painting took George Pitt Morison almost eighteen months to research and paint. He studied a number of contemporary accounts of the ceremony, and had access to photographs of the people present. The official ceremony depicted in the image was held on a small hill overlooking the Swan River , in the immediate vicinity of the present Perth ...

  9. List of Australian place names changed from German names

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    The Nomenclature Act 1935 restored the former names of the towns of Hahndorf and Lobethal, and the Adelaide suburb of Klemzig. [15] About 20 other names were reverted in the 1970s and 1980s; some of them were assigned to larger localities rather than reverting to the original place name, as also shown in the table.

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