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Geraldton is a coastal city in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of Perth. [1]

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ABC Classic FM

ABC Classic FM is a classical music radio station available in Australia, and internationally online.

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ABC Local Radio

ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt

ABC Midwest & Wheatbelt is an ABC Local Radio station based in Geraldton.

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ABC News Radio

ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the ABC Television Network in the United States.

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Advertorial

An advertorial is an advertisement in the form of editorial content.

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Albert Wolff (judge)

Sir Albert Asher Wolff Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (30 April 1899 – 27 October 1977) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.

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Alfred Carson

Alfred Carson OBE (7 November 1859 – 24 August 1944) was an Australian journalist and social worker.

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Anglican Church of Australia

The Anglican Church of Australia is a Christian church in Australia and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Augustus Charles Gregory

Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, KCMG (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station

The Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station (ADSCS), an Earth station in Australia is located at Kojarena, east of Geraldton, Western Australia.

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian Human Rights Commission

The Australian Human Rights Commission is a national human rights institution, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and renamed in 2008.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Batavia (ship)

Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

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Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran

The battle between the Australian light cruiser and the German auxiliary cruiser was a single ship action that occurred on 19 November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia.

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Boating

Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.

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Brett Sheehan

Brett Sheehan (born 16 September 1979) is an Australian rugby union footballer.

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Bunbury, Western Australia

Bunbury is a coastal city in Western Australia, approximately south of the state capital, Perth.

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Carnarvon, Western Australia

Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Champion (schooner)

H.M. Colonial Schooner Champion was in service with the Colony of Western Australia from 1836 until 1852.

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Champion Bay

Champion Bay is a bay facing the port and the northern part of the city of Geraldton, Western Australia, between Point Moore and Bluff Point.

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Charles Fitzgerald

Captain Charles Fitzgerald (1791 – 29 December 1887) was the Governor of The Gambia from 1844 until 1847, then Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855.

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Chief Justice of Western Australia

The Chief Justice of Western Australia is the most senior judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Chief of Army (Australia)

The Chief of Army is the most senior appointment in the Australian Army, responsible to both the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) and the Secretary, Department of Defence (SECDEF).

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Chris Mainwaring

Christopher Douglas Mainwaring (27 December 1965 – 1 October 2007) was an Australian rules footballer.

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City of Greater Geraldton

The City of Greater Geraldton is a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth on the Indian Ocean.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research.

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Division of Durack

The Division of Durack is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia.

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Doris Pilkington Garimara

Doris Pilkington Garimara (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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Edith Cowan

Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (née Brown; 2 August 18619 June 1932) was an Australian social reformer who worked for the rights and welfare of women and children.

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Electoral district of Geraldton

Geraldton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian book by Doris Pilkington, published in 1996.

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Francisco Pelsaert

Francisco Pelsaert (first name also spelled as "François", surname also spelled as "Pelsart") (c. 1595 – September 1630) was a Dutch merchant who worked for the Dutch East Indies Company, who became most famous as the commander of the ship Batavia, which ran aground in the Houtman Abrolhos off the coast of Western Australia in June 1629.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop AC (born 27 September 1951) is Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.

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George Fletcher Moore

George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000).

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George Grey

Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer.

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Geraldton Airport

Geraldton Airport is an airport located east of Geraldton, Western Australia, along the Geraldton – Mount Magnet Road.

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Geraldton Gold Cup

The Geraldton Cup is an unlisted Thoroughbred horse race, which was first run on 8 December 1887 with a winner's purse of £300.

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Geraldton Guardian

The Geraldton Guardian was established at Geraldton, Western Australia on 1 October 1906 to serve the Victoria and Murchison Districts.

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Geraldton railway station

Geraldton railway station was located on the Kwinana-Geraldton and Northampton lines in Western Australia.

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Geraldton Senior College

Geraldton Senior College is a comprehensive public high school located in Geraldton, a regional centre north west of Perth, Western Australia.

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German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran

The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8) was a Kriegsmarine (German navy) merchant raider of World War II.

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Governor of Western Australia

The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of the Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II.

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GWN7

GWN7 is an Australian television network owned by the Prime Media Group serving all of Western Australia outside metropolitan Perth.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Houtman Abrolhos

The Houtman Abrolhos (often informally called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands, and associated coral reefs, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia.

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John Hawes

Right Reverend Monsignor John Cyril Hawes (7 September 1876–26 June 1956) was an architect and priest.

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John Lort Stokes

Admiral John Lort Stokes, RN (1 August 1811 – 11 June 1885)Although 1812 is frequently given as Stokes's year of birth, it has been argued by author Marsden Hordern that Stokes was born in 1811, citing a letter by fellow naval officer Crawford Pasco congratulating him on his birthday in 1852.

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John Sanderson

Lieutenant General John Murray Sanderson, (born 4 November 1940) is a retired senior Australian Army officer who served as Chief of Army from 1995 to 1998, and later as the 29th Governor of Western Australia from 2000 to 2005.

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John Willcock

John Collings Willcock (9 August 1879 – 7 June 1956) was the 15th Premier of Western Australia.

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John Willcock College

John Willcock College is a comprehensive public middle school located in Geraldton, a regional centre north west of Perth, Western Australia.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Local government areas of Western Australia

The local government areas (LGAs) in the Australian state of Western Australia describes the 139 institutions and processes by which towns and districts can manage their own affairs to the extent permitted by the Local Government Act 1995.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Menin Gate

The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown.

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Mid West (Western Australia)

The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)

The Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs is The Hon. Darren Chester, since 5 March 2018.

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Mullewa, Western Australia

Mullewa is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of Perth and east-northeast of Geraldton.

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Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory

The Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO) is a designated radio quiet zone located near Boolardy station in Western Australia.

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Murchison River (Western Australia)

The Murchison River is the second longest river in Western Australia.

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Nagle Catholic College

Nagle Catholic College commonly known as Nagle or NCC, is a private Catholic secondary school, located in the coastal town of Geraldton, Western Australia.

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National Broadband Network

The National Broadband Network (NBN) is an Australian national wholesale open-access data network project.

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National Rugby League

The National Rugby League (NRL) is a league of professional men's rugby league teams in Australasia.

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Nene Gare

Nene Gare (9 May 191929 May 1994) was an Australian writer and artist, best known as the author of the novel The Fringe Dwellers (1961), which was made into the 1986 Australian film of the same name directed by Bruce Beresford.

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Network Ten

Network Ten (commonly known as Channel Ten or simply Ten, officially stylised as TEN) is an Australian commercial television network.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF

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Ochre

Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.

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Optus

Singtel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia.

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Patagonian toothfish

The Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides, is a species of cod icefish found in cold waters between depths of in the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and Southern Ocean on seamounts and continental shelves around most sub-Antarctic islands.

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Patricia Gallaher

Patricia "Pat" Evelyn Gallaher OAM (1937 – 11 December 2014) was an Australian librarian who established the Randolph Stow Young Writers award and promoted the arts in regional parts of Western Australia.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Ports Australia

Ports Australia is the peak body representing Australia's port authorities and corporations.

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Premier of Western Australia

The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive branch of government in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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QantasLink

QantasLink is a regional brand of Australian airline Qantas and is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.

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Rip current

A rip current, often simply called a rip, or by the misnomer rip tide, is a specific kind of water current which can occur near beaches with breaking waves.

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Ronald Wilson

Sir Ronald Darling Wilson, (23 August 192215 July 2005) was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission between 1990 and 1997.

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Rove McManus

John Henry Michael McManus (born 21 January 1974), better known by the stage name Rove McManus, is an Australian triple Gold Logie award-winning television presenter, producer, comedian and media personality.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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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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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Shark Bay

Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

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Shire of Greenough

The Shire of Greenough was a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth surrounding the city of Geraldton.

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Shire of Mullewa

The Shire of Mullewa was a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia, about east of the city of Geraldton and about north of the state capital, Perth.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Spirit Radio Network

Spirit Radio Network is a commercial radio network covering regional Western Australia.

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Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a large multi radio telescope project aimed to be built in Australia and South Africa.

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Standup paddleboarding

Stand up paddle surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP) is an offshoot of surfing that originated in Hawaii.

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Stele

A steleAnglicized plural steles; Greek plural stelai, from Greek στήλη, stēlē.

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Strathalbyn Christian College

Strathalbyn Christian College is a Christian college located in Geraldton, Western Australia.

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Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore.

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Tasma Walton

Tasma Walton (born 19 August 1973) is an Australian television and film actress.

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Technical and further education

In Australia, technical and further education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses, mostly qualifying courses under the National Training System/Australian Qualifications Framework/Australian Quality Training Framework.

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Telstra

Telstra Corporation Ltd. (known as Telstra) is Australia's largest telecommunications company which builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services.

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The Fringe Dwellers

The Fringe Dwellers is a 1961 novel written by the Western Australian author Nene Gare.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Thiepval Memorial

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).

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TransGeraldton

TransGeraldton is a system of bus transport in Geraldton, Western Australia.

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Transwa

Transwa is Western Australia's regional public transport provider, linking 240 destinations, from Kalbarri in the north to Augusta in the south west to Esperance in the south east.

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Triple J

Triple J (often triple j) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 34 which began broadcasting in January 1975.

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UWA Publishing

UWA Publishing, formerly known as the University of Western Australia Press, is a Western Australian publisher established in 1935.

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Vergulde Draeck

The Vergulde Draeck or Gilt Dragon was a 42-metre, 260-tonne 'Jacht' constructed in 1653 by the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC).

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Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia's second-largest airline after Qantas and it is the largest airline by fleet size to use the Virgin brand.

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Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications conglomerate, with headquarters in London.

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WAFM (Australia)

WAFM was a commercial radio network serving major regional towns in Western Australia, north of the capital Perth, and was part of the Redwave Media group, which also includes the Red FM and Spirit Network stations owned by Seven West Media.

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West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles, also known as West Coast, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.

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West Digital Television

West Digital Television is an Australian digital television network jointly owned by Prime Media Group and WIN Corporation.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Windsurfing

Windsurfing is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WOW (TV station)

WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia.

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Wreck diving

Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored.

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Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert (15 May 190110 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975).

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Yamatji

Yamatji (or Yamaji) is a Wajarri language word that has at least three different meanings.

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Ypres

Ypres (Ieper) is a Belgian municipality in the province of West Flanders.

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Zeewijk

The Zeewijk (or Zeewyk) was an 18th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727.

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Zuytdorp

The VOC Zuytdorp also Zuiddorp (meaning 'South Village' after Zuiddorpe a still existing village in the South of Zeeland, near the Belgian border) was an 18th-century trading ship of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated VOC).

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3G

3G, short for third generation, is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.

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4G

4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G.

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Geraldton, Western Australia, History of Geraldton.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldton

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