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Bourke, New South Wales

Index Bourke, New South Wales

Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. [1]

60 relations: Ardsilla, Australia at the Commonwealth Games, Barrow Creek, Northern Territory, Bourke Airport, Bourke Court House, Bourke Post Office, Bourke Shire, Bradley John Murdoch, Breaker Morant, Brewarrina, New South Wales, Cathy Freeman, Charles Sturt, Cobar, Commonwealth Games, Cotton, Cunnamulla, Darling River, Division of Parkes, Dubbo, Electoral district of Barwon, Fred Hollows, Goondiwindi, Governor of New South Wales, Henry Lawson, Indigenous Australians, J. F. Archibald, Judas Maccabaeus (Handel), Kamilaroi Highway, Kidman Way, List of disasters in Australia by death toll, Main Western railway line, New South Wales, Menindee, New South Wales, Mitchell Highway, Moree, New South Wales, Murder of Janie Perrin, Murder of Peter Falconio, New South Wales, Newell Highway, Nyngan, Old London Bank Building, Outback, Paakantyi, Percy Hobson (athlete), Ralph Darling, Rebel FM, Rebel Media, Richard Bourke, Semi-arid climate, Sheep, St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church and Convent, Bourke, ..., Sydney, The Breeze (Australia), The Sydney Morning Herald, Thomas Mitchell (explorer), Towers Drug Company Building, Walgett, New South Wales, Wangkumara language, William Henry Ogilvie, 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 2CUZ. Expand index (10 more) »

Ardsilla

Ardsilla is a heritage-listed house at 5 Richard Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Australia at the Commonwealth Games

Australia has won 13 Commonwealth games.

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Barrow Creek, Northern Territory

Barrow Creek is a very small town, with a current population of 11, in the southern Northern Territory of Australia.

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Bourke Airport

Bourke Airport is an airport located north of Bourke, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bourke Court House

Bourke Court House is a heritage-listed courthouse at Richard Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bourke Post Office

Bourke Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 47 Oxley Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bourke Shire

Bourke Shire is a local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bradley John Murdoch

Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia.

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Breaker Morant

Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant (9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet, military officer and convicted war criminal.

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Brewarrina, New South Wales

Brewarrina (locally known as "Bre") is a town in North West New South Wales, Australia on the banks of the Barwon River in Brewarrina Shire.

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Cathy Freeman

Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event.

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Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.

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Cobar

Cobar is a town in central western New South Wales, Australia whose economy is based mainly around copper mining.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cunnamulla

Cunnamulla (Aboriginal meaning "long stretch of water") is a small town that lies on the Warrego River in South West Queensland, Australia, south of Charleville, and approximately west of the state capital, Brisbane.

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Darling River

The Darling River is the third longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales.

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Division of Parkes

The Division of Parkes is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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Dubbo

Dubbo is a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Electoral district of Barwon

Barwon is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Fred Hollows

Frederick Cossom Hollows, AC (9 April 192910 February 1993) was a New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries.

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Goondiwindi

Goondiwindi is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.. At the, the town had an urban population of approximately 5,500. The name Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word with goondi indicating droppings or dung and windi indicating duck, probably connected with the roosting place on a large rock in the Macintyre River. The name was believed to be first used for a pastoral run in the area.

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Governor of New South Wales

The Governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the state of New South Wales.

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Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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J. F. Archibald

Jules François Archibald, known as J. F. Archibald, (14 January 1856 – 10 September 1919), Australian journalist and publisher, was co-owner and editor of The Bulletin during the days of its greatest influence in Australian politics and literary life.

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Judas Maccabaeus (Handel)

Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) is an oratorio in three acts composed in 1746 by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto written by Thomas Morell.

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Kamilaroi Highway

The Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway located in the north-western region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Kidman Way

The Kidman Way is a state rural road in the western Riverina and western region of New South Wales, Australia.

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List of disasters in Australia by death toll

This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Australia sorted by death toll.

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Main Western railway line, New South Wales

The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia.

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Menindee, New South Wales

Menindee, frequently but erroneously spelled "Menindie", is a small town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia, in Central Darling Shire, on the banks of the Darling River, with a sign-posted population of 980 and a population of 551.

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Mitchell Highway

The Mitchell Highway is a state highway located in the central and south western regions of Queensland and the northern and central western regions of New South Wales in Australia.

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Moree, New South Wales

Moree is a large town in Moree Plains Shire in northern New South Wales, Australia.

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Murder of Janie Perrin

The murder of Janie Perrin was an event that occurred on 2 November 1990, when Perrin, a 73-year-old grandmother was sexually assaulted and murdered in her home in Bourke, a town in the Far West of the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Murder of Peter Falconio

Peter Falconio was a British tourist who disappeared in a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in the Australian outback on the evening of 14 July 2001, while travelling with partner Joanne Lees.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Newell Highway

The Newell Highway is a national highway in New South Wales, Australia.

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Nyngan

Nyngan is a town in the centre of New South Wales, Australia, in the Bogan Shire local government area within the Orana Region of central New South Wales.

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Old London Bank Building

The Old London Bank Building is a heritage-listed former bank building and boarding house and now guesthouse at 17 Sturt Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Outback

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Paakantyi

The Paakantyi, or Barkindji, are an Australian Aboriginal tribal group of the Darling River basin in Far West New South Wales, Australia.

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Percy Hobson (athlete)

Percy Francis Hobson is a former Australian high jumper.

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Ralph Darling

General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831.

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Rebel FM

Rebel FM (callsign: 4RBL) is an Active rock-formatted radio station, based in the Gold Coast suburb of Helensvale, Queensland, and broadcasting across regional and rural areas of Queensland and New South Wales.

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Rebel Media

Rebel Media is an Australian media group, based in Gold Coast, Queensland, that owns and operates two radio networks.

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Richard Bourke

General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB (4 May 1777 – 12 August 1855) was an Irish-born British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church and Convent, Bourke

St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church and Convent is a heritage-listed church and convent at 3-7 Meek Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Breeze (Australia)

The Breeze (callsign: 4BRZ) is an oldies and classic hits formatted radio station, based in the Gold Coast suburb of Helensvale, Queensland, and broadcasting across regional and rural areas of Queensland and New South Wales.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Thomas Mitchell (explorer)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Towers Drug Company Building

Towers Drug Company Building is a heritage-listed commercial building and former medical centre and residence at 45 Mitchell Street, Bourke, Bourke Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Walgett, New South Wales

Walgett is a town in northern New South Wales, Australia, and the seat of Walgett Shire.

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Wangkumara language

Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language of the widespread Pama–Nyungan family.

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William Henry Ogilvie

Will H. Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion.

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1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

The 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Perth, Western Australia, from 22 November to 1 December 1962.

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2CUZ

2CUZ FM is an Indigenous community radio station in the North-Western NSW town of Bourke.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke,_New_South_Wales

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