Other Australian Towns and Cities: Difference between revisions

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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 (Music)|~~ACDC]].

* 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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* 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.

* Birdsville, a tiny south-western Queensland town with a population of around 120 people. It's home of one of the more prominent Horse racing events in Australia.

* Longreach, the birthplace of Qantas, Australia's national airline. Anyone in Brisbane will tell you the name is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].

* Longreach, the birthplace of Qantas, Australia's national airline. Anyone in Brisbane will tell you the name is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

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'''Other Islands'''

* The Torres Strait islands, home to the other major group of [[Useful Notes/First Australians|Indigenous Australian people]], [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|the Torres Strait Islanders.]] They've been campaigning to secede from the state of Queensland and have their own territory for yonks.

* The Torres Strait islands, home to the other major group of [[Useful Notes/First Australians|Indigenous Australian people]], [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Torres Strait Islanders.]] They've been campaigning to secede from the state of Queensland and have their own territory for yonks.

* 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]].

* 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'.