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* The largest inland city in New South Wales: is either Maitland (pop 60 000) or Wagga Wagga (46 000). Wagga is technically smaller, but some (Waggarinos, or whatever noun they have for themselves) say Maitland doesn't count due to being only 20 minutes inland.
** Also: Maitland is not part of Newcastle. This is important, you'd be surprised how often people need to be reminded of this.
* Tamworth, the country music capital of Australia. Home of the Golden Guitar (with no strings) and... very little else. Annually overrun with tourists during the Country Music Festival, but an utter hole the rest of the year. Once regaled as 'The City of Lights' for being the first city in Australia to have widespread electrical lighting, but virtually forgotten in modern times. Large enough that people notice it, small enough that people realise there's very little to notice. [[So Okay
** And suddenly one of the Rotary Clubs in Tamworth being called 'First Light' makes SO much sense. [[The More You Know]].
* Armidale (to the north of Tamworth), notable for having Australia's first regional University ([http://www.une.edu.au/ The University of New England]).
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'''Victoria'''
* Melbourne, Sydney's arch-nemesis. Home of [[Australian Rules Football]] and where all the V8 cars get built. Note: it's pronounced Mel-bun or -burn, not Mel-born. It's considered the cultural capital of Australia, [[Self
** Victoria in general tries to have a sporting event going on every weekend, with most of these occurring in Melbourne; some events are held elsewhere, such as Philip Island's hosting of the Grand Prix.
** Important suburbs that frequently appear in media: St Kilda (famous for the beach and music Mecca Esplanade Hotel) and the separate city of Geelong, which will soon get absorbed into the Melbourne metro area.
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* Ballarat, [[Department of Redundancy Department|Victoria's largest inland city. A major regional centre, it is well known for its history and heritage, being located in the goldfields region of the state. It is a major tourist destination due to its grand heritage listed buildings, both public and private, monuments, statues and gardens.]]
** Also the origin of the children's rhyme "Copy Cat from Ballarat". The towns are have essentially the same history (save Ballarat being the site of Australia's only armed rebellion), and the debate over which is larger is confusing as the 2006 Census states Ballarat, but later unofficial sources state Bendigo.
* Sale, a reasonably large and well-serviced city located virtually in the middle of nowhere. Its primary draw is its status as the home of the [[Aussies With Artillery|Royal Australian Air Force's]] primary training school, the former site of a major oil mining operation, [[What Do You Mean
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* Broome, a small town that's popular with tourists due to its winter weather, history and large numbers of crocs. It was also bombed by the Japanese in [[World War II]].
** It is the biggest pearling site in Australia.
* Kalgoorlie, the home of the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. It's [[Money, Dear Boy|the REAL reason]] why the eastern states don't want the west to secede.
* Esperance, home to beautiful pristine beaches that are full of biting march flies. It was also the crash site for parts of the American research satellite Skylab. [[What Do You Mean
* Marble Bar, known for being so incredibly hot that even the rest of Australia gapes in horror. It's known to get up to ''49.2 °C (121 °F)'' and got a world record of the longest consecutive days of maximum temperatures that went for ''160 days''.
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