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Australia has a highly dispersed population, with settlements across the entire country, as opposed to just in Sydney and Melbourne.
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'''South Australia'''
* Adelaide, the city of churches. Every second block is a church as a result of the migration of people of a lot of faiths in the city's early history. Every other one is used as a dumping ground for the mob... the water is horrible (no thanks to the upstream states, QLD, VIC & NSW), but the women look fantastic. It's practically surrounded by the source of most of Australia's wine. <ref>Barossa Valley and
** And they throw great motor sports events (Pre 1995 Australian Grand Prix [F1], and the Adelaide 500 [V8 Supercars]. Melbourne received the rights to host the Grand Prix in 1995; Adelaideans are still a little bit bitter about that, although some other Adelaideans point out that the bitterness is misdirected due to the fact that the Adelaide city council didn't even bother trying to keep the Grand Prix in the first place because they [[Smug Snake|were so sure Adelaide would be picked again when the contract was up.]]
** As of late, they've also had quite the problem with bikie gangs.
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'''Western Australia'''
* Perth, the city synonymous with bogans. Famous for being ''really'' far away from every other capital city, it's also home to [[ACDC]].
** Technically Fremantle (Freo) is home to AC/DC, specifically Bon Scott.
** Perth is actually classified as the most isolated city in the world. Probably not helped (psychologically) that the Easterners still think that the locals live in tin sheds.
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** Fun fact: large portions of Ipswich sit over an old abandoned coal mine (it's why the city was founded in the first place). The mine was abandoned because of an accident that set the coal seam ''on fire''. And its still burning (or smouldering anyway. It doesn't get much oxygen).
** Also the home of RAAF Base Amberly, the largest, by area, military airfield in the Southern Hemisphere, though a lot of that is empty space. Former home of the F-111 fighters.
* Bundaberg, the home of Bundaberg Rum and not much else.
* Mount Isa, aka The Isa, once the largest city in the world by area according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Situated in the state's northwest and supported by mining lead, silver, copper and zinc.
* Townsville, the 'capital city' of the North folks. Sure, Cairns has all the shopping... and tourists... and fun things. But Townsville's still bigger! It's also the largest garrison city in Australia, and it's home to a hideous hotel dubbed the 'sugar shaker' after its shape. It also has a huge white stick-figure of The Saint painted on the giant stone hill in the middle of town. If you need to ask why anyone would rappel down a sheer cliff to paint a giant stick-figure, [[Crazy Awesome|you don't understand Australia]].
* Caboolture. ...Er, [[Keith Urban]] comes from there. Which lead to a number of people thinking the Urban Country Music festival was named for him (it wasn't). One of the local schools is the only state-run school with an original classroom still in use as a classroom since its foundation 140 years ago.
* The Fraser Coast, home to the twin cities of Maryborough and Hervey Bay. The former is known for being the birthplace of [[Mary Poppins|P. L. Travers]] and its large proportion of historical buildings, while the latter is known for its status as a tourist magnet and whalewatching spot, and for having far too many roundabouts. The region also includes Fraser Island.
* Charleville, the largest town in the south west of the Outback region. The only reason it ever makes the news is when it floods. The only people that go there are tourists going to see the the Cosmos Centre and the Bilby Centre at National Parks and Wildlife.
* The Gold Coast has almost all the major theme parks in Australia: Dream World, Warner Bros Movie World, Sea World, and Wet n' Wild Water World. It used to have hot meter maids in golden bikinis, but instead it now has oldies and screaming brats.
* Weipa. You know those small towns in American programs that all band together to cover up a murder? Here's the [[Land Down Under]]'s one. Weipa is a mining town, a military base, and has crocs, sharks, snakes and spiders... and they all eat each other. And they sell guns at the corner shop. ''Lots'' of guns. Pretty much everyone who lives there is either military or mining, and are rumoured to make a sport of shooting people in boats.
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* Fact: 'Canberra' [[Meaningful Name|means meeting place in an Aboriginal dialect.]]
* Though actual residents of Canberra like it just fine, dislike for Canberra is so great among other cities that it is common for people who live and work there to refer to themselves as being from Sydney or Melbourne, even if they haven't live in those cities in the last decade they will still think of themselves as from a place other than Canberra!
** Many Sydneysiders agree that Canberra, as a whole, is a hole, most likely due to the fact it is dead boring, except for Questacon. Another possible reason why the capital is considered a hole by them; they are upset Sydney isn't the capital.
** Likewise, many Melbournians consider Canberra a hole due to its lack of sporting events and places to bet on sporting events while extremely drunk; this is probably due to the perceived crappiness of Casino Canberra compared to Melbourne's own Crown Casino. The other main gripes are that [[Did Not Do the Research|apparently]] Canberra has no bars worth a damn if one desires something other than weak indie beer, bogan filled clubs staffed with bouncers running other "''business''" on the side, and a distinct lack of variety in ethnic food resturants. Like Sydney, they're probably ''also'' pissed that Melbourne's not the capital.
* Pretty much the main thing Canberra has going for it is its ''ridiculous'' number of universities concentrated within a tiny area - it's practically a ten minute drive between any two of the biggest three, the University of Canberra, the Australian Catholic University, and the Australian National University. The practical upshot is a fairly elevated sense of rivalry; on Facebook, flame wars between UC and ANU students are incredibly common on both universities' profiles, with [[Hate Dumb|neither side proving that their "superior" education is paying off]]. <ref>UC's [[Hate Dumb]] does have the slight edge in that, unlike ANU's, it doesn't sink so low as to [[Kick the Dog|claim that ANU students will have no future]].</ref> A common hobby for students who actually know better is to sit back and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|laugh]] as the mutual [[Hate Dumb]] makes both universities look like shit.
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'''Other Islands'''
* The Torres Strait islands, home to the other major group of [[
* Christmas Island, [[All There in the Manual|apparently]] the birthplace of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. Formerly used as a processing area (read: prison camp, at least during the Howard government) for refugees.
* Norfolk Island, a.k.a. the Australian territory that demands passports for locals from the mainland and would tell the rest of us to sod off if they could. Oddly and totally unconnected to this is that it was founded by the [[Mutiny on the Bounty|mutineers from the HMS Bounty]].
* The Whitsunday Islands are considered to be ''the'' place for island resorts in Australia. They're home to utterly gorgeous beaches and really swanky resorts.
* Rottnest Island, named after the adorable little quokkas that roam the island after they were mistaken for giant rats. It's used as a cheap and affordable holiday resort for Perth families, and a place to have fun at <s> Schoolie's</s> Leaver's Week. Has the [[Old Shame|sad history]] of being an 'Aboriginal Prison'.
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