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Merredin, Western Australia

Index Merredin, Western Australia

Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the Central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway. [1]

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Arthur Upfield

Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 12 February 1964) was an English/Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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AvonLink

The AvonLink is a passenger train operated by Transwa between Perth and the Avon Valley.

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Bencubbin, Western Australia

Bencubbin is a town in Western Australia in the North Eastern Wheatbelt, 275 km north-east of Perth.

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Bill Walker (Australian footballer)

William Herbert John "Bill" Walker OAM (born 23 February 1942 in Huntly, New Zealand) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL).

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Burracoppin, Western Australia

Burracoppin is a townsite on the Great Eastern Highway, east of Merredin in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

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C. Y. O'Connor

Charles Yelverton O'Connor CMG (11 January 184310 March 1902) was an Irish engineer who is best known for his work in Western Australia, especially the construction of Fremantle Harbour, thought to be impossible, and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

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Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Charles Cooke Hunt

Charles Cooke Hunt (1833 – 1 March 1868, Geraldton) was an English explorer who led four expeditions into the interior of Western Australia between 1864 and 1866.

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China Southern Airlines

China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the Civil Aviation Administration of China that acquired and merged a number of domestic airlines, the airline became one of China's "Big Three" airlines (alongside Air China and China Eastern Airlines), the world's sixth-largest airline measured by passengers carried and Asia's largest airline in fleet size, revenue and passengers carried. With its main hubs at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport, the airline operates more than 2,000 flights to 208 destinations daily as a member of SkyTeam. The logo of the airline consists of a kapok flower (which is also the city flower of Guangzhou) on a blue tail fin. The parent company of China Southern Airlines Company Limited is China Southern Air Holding Company, a state-owned enterprise that was supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

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Coolgardie, Western Australia

Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, east of the state capital, Perth.

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Division of Canning

The Division of Canning is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia.

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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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Division of O'Connor

The Division of O'Connor is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia.

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Don Randall

Donald James Randall (2 May 1953 – 21 July 2015) was an Australian politician for the Liberal Party.

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East Perth Football Club

The East Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Royals, is an Australian rules football club based in Leederville, Western Australia, current playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

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Eastern Goldfields Railway

The Eastern Goldfields Railway was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.

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Electoral district of Central Wheatbelt

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

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Fossicking

In Australia, New Zealand and Cornwall, fossicking is prospecting, especially when carried out as a recreational activity.

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Geoff Gibbs

Geoffrey George Gibbs (25 November 1940 – 17 August 2006) was an Australian actor and acting teacher.

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Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail

Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail (also known as the Golden Pipeline Drive Trail) was a project conducted by the National Trust of Australia of Western Australia along the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme pipeline at the time the pipeline was being celebrated for its 100 years of operation.

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Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in Perth to communities in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.

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Goldfields-Esperance

The Goldfields-Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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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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Great Eastern Highway

Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie.

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Helena River

The Helena River is a tributary of the Swan River in Western Australia.

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Hendy Cowan

Hendy John Cowan, (born 25 April 1943), is a former Deputy Premier of Western Australia.

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Indiana Fever

The Indiana Fever are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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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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Jack Rutherford (cricketer)

John Walter Rutherford (born 25 September 1929, Bruce Rock, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1956–57.

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Jandakot Airport

Jandakot Airport is an Australian general aviation airport located in Jandakot, Western Australia.

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Jeff Garlett

Jeffrey Garlett (born 3 August 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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John Hampton

John Stephen Hampton (c. 1806 – 1 December 1869) was Governor of Western Australia from 1862 to 1868.

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John Septimus Roe

John Septimus Roe (8 May 1797 – 28 May 1878) was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia.

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Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, part of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Ken McAullay

Kenneth James "Ken" McAullay (born 29 September 1949) is a former Australian sportsman who played both first class cricket with Western Australia and Australian rules football for East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

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Laurie Mayne

Lawrence Charles Mayne (born 23 January 1942 in Westonia, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in six Tests.

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List of RAAF inland aircraft fuel depots

In 1939, with the commencement of World War II, the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) identified the necessity to increase bulk storage and supply of aviation fuel across Australia for the purpose of defending Australia.

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List of road routes in Western Australia

Road routes in Western Australia assist drivers navigating roads in urban, rural, and scenic areas of the state.

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Mangowine Homestead

Mangowine Homestead is an historic homestead in Nungarin, Western Australia, built by Charles Frederick and Jane Swain Adams.

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Merredin College

Merredin College is a comprehensive public high school located in Merredin, a regional centre east of Perth, Western Australia.

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Merredin railway station

Merredin railway station is located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway in Western Australia.

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Narembeen, Western Australia

Narembeen is a town in the Western Australia wheatbelt.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Nelly Thomas

Nelly Thomas is a comedian from Western Australia, now living in Melbourne, Australia.

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Nicole Trunfio

Nicole Trunfio (born 16 March 1986) is an Australian model from Merredin, Western Australia.

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Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or meritorious service.

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Perth

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

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Rick Hart (Australian businessman)

Rick Hart is a Western Australian businessman and former president of the Fremantle Football Club.

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Robert Juniper

Robert Litchfield Juniper, AM (7 January 192920 December 2012) was an Australian artist, art teacher, illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctor) is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).

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Sandover Medal

The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League.

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Santalum spicatum

Santalum spicatum, the Australian sandalwood, is a tree native to semiarid areas at the edge of Southwest Australia.

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Search for a Supermodel

Search for a Supermodel was a reality television series on Network Ten in Australia that aired from 2000 to 2002 where regional finalists competed for a contract with Ford Models.

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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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Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.

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Shire of Merredin

The Shire of Merredin is a local government area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about east of Perth, the state capital.

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Surveyor General of Western Australia

The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.

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Swan Districts Football Club

The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

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Tony Crook (politician)

Anthony John Crook (born 23 June 1959) is a retired Australian politician.

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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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Transwa Prospector

The Prospector is a standard-gauge passenger train operated by Transwa between East Perth and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

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Tully Bevilaqua

Tully Louise Bevilaqua (née Crook on 19 July 1972 in Merredin, Western Australia) is an Australian professional women's basketball player.

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United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941.

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University of Canberra Capitals

The University of Canberra Capitals are an Australian professional women's basketball team competing in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL).

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West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia.

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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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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Wheatbelt (Western Australia)

The Wheatbelt is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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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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York, Western Australia

York is the oldest inland town in Western Australia, situated on the Avon River, east of Perth, and is the seat of the Shire of York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merredin,_Western_Australia

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