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Parkes, New South Wales

Index Parkes, New South Wales

Parkes is a town in New South Wales, Australia. [1]

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ABC Central West

ABC Central West (call sign: 2CR) is the ABC Local Radio station for the Central Tablelands region, based in Orange, New South Wales, owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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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 Comedy

ABC Comedy (stylised as ABC COMEDY) is a national public digital television multichannel in Australia.

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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 Me

ABC Me (stylised as ABC ME) is an Australian children's public digital television multichannel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC News (TV channel)

ABC News (also referred to as the ABC News channel) is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon.

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Ashburnham County

Ashburnham County, New South Wales is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales.

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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 Railway Historical Society

The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.

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Brachychiton

Brachychiton (kurrajong, bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia (the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species).

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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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Broadcast Operations Group

Broadcast Operations Group is an Australian media company, operating radio stations across various centres across regional New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.

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Broken Hill railway line

The Broken Hill railway line is now part of the transcontinental railway from Sydney to Perth.

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Broken Hill railway station

Broken Hill railway station is located on the Broken Hill line in New South Wales, Australia.

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Bryson Goodwin

Bryson Goodwin (born 30 December 1985) is a New Zealand international rugby league footballer who plays for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Central railway station, Sydney

The Central railway station is a railway station located at the southern end of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Cold front

A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air, replacing at ground level a warmer mass of air, which lies within a fairly sharp surface trough of low pressure.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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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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David Field (actor)

David Field is an Australian character actor and film director who has appeared in numerous film and television roles, including Chopper, Two Hands and Gettin' Square.

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David Nash (linguist)

David Nash is a prominent Australian field linguist, specialising in the Aboriginal languages of Australia.

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Dianna Corcoran

Dianna Elizabeth Corcoran (born 20 June 1979 in Parkes, New South Wales) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter.

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Digital terrestrial television in Australia

Digital terrestrial television in Australia commenced on 1 January 2001 in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth using DVB-T standards.

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Division of Calare

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

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Electoral district of Orange

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

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Eleven (Australian TV channel)

Eleven (stylized as ELEVEN) is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel operated by Network Ten.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Essential Energy

Essential Energy is a state-owned electricity infrastructure company which owns, maintains and operates the electrical distribution networks for much of New South Wales, covering 95 percent of the state geography.

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Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Forbes, New South Wales

Forbes is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the Newell Highway between Parkes and West Wyalong.

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Gold rush

A gold rush is a new discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Gordon Watson (pianist)

Gordon Charles Watson AM (28 February 192116 April 1999) was an Australian classical pianist and teacher.

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Henry Parkes

Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Ian Evans (historian)

Ian Joseph Evans OAM, PhD (born Parkes, New South Wales, 1940) is an Australian author, publisher and historian.

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Indian Pacific

The Indian Pacific is an Australian passenger rail service that operates between Sydney, on the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the Indian Ocean.

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James Pritchard (rugby)

James Gordon Pritchard (born 21 July 1979) is an Australian-Canadian rugby union player and former rugby league footballer, who currently plays his club rugby union for Ampthill in National League 1 following short spells with Old Albanian and Coventry (where he was player-coach).

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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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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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Local government in Australia

Local government in Australia is the third tier of government in Australia administered by the states and territories, which in turn are beneath the federal tier.

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Mariah Williams

Mariah Williams (born 31 May 1995) is an Australian field hockey player.

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Molong railway station

Molong railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station on the Main Western railway line at Molong, Cabonne Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Morris Iemma

Morris Iemma (born 21 July 1961) is a former Australian politician who was the 40th Premier of New South Wales, serving from 3 August 2005 to 5 September 2008.

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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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Nine (Southern Cross Austereo)

Nine Regional is an Australian television network owned by Southern Cross Austereo that is broadcast in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia.

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Northparkes

Northparkes is a copper and gold mine in central New South Wales, Australia, approximately 27 kilometres north-northwest of the town of Parkes.

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NSW TrainLink

NSW TrainLink is an Australian brand for the medium and long distance passenger rail and coach services in New South Wales.

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One (Australian TV channel)

One (stylised as ONE) is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by Network Ten on 26 March 2009.

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Outback Xplorer

The Outback Xplorer is an Australian passenger train operated by NSW TrainLink between Sydney and Broken Hill via the Main Western line.

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Parkes Airport

Parkes Airport is an airport located northeast of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

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Parkes Elvis Festival

The Parkes Elvis Festival is an annual event celebrating the music and the legend of Elvis Presley held in early January in the Australian New South Wales regional town of Parkes.

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Parkes High School

Parkes High School is a secondary school located in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

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Parkes Observatory

The Parkes Observatory (also known informally as "The Dish") is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

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Parkes railway station

Parkes railway station is located on the Broken Hill line in New South Wales, Australia.

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Parkes Shire

Parkes Shire is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Parkes Spacemen

The Parkes Rugby League Football Club (nicknamed the Spacemen) is a rugby league club that plays in Group 11.

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Peak Hill, New South Wales

Peak Hill is a town in Parkes Shire in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia.

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Premier of New South Wales

The Premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Prime7

Prime7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited, and an affiliate of the Seven Network.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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RAAF Station Parkes

RAAF Station Parkes was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) station located at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.

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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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Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy.

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Railway Digest

Railway Digest is a Sydney based monthly magazine covering the railways of Australia.

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Red Bend Catholic College

Red Bend Catholic College is a Roman Catholic secondary, day and boarding co-educational school run by the Marist Brothers located in in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Regional Express Airlines

Regional Express (also known as Rex) is an Australian airline based in Mascot, New South Wales.

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Roads and Maritime Services

Roads and Maritime Services (also known as Roads & Maritime Services) is an agency of the New South Wales Government responsible for building and maintaining road infrastructure and managing the day-to-day compliance and safety for roads and waterways.

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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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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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SBS (Australian TV channel)

SBS is a national public television network in Australia.

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SBS Radio

SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service...to inform, educate and entertain Australians, especially those of non-English-speaking backgrounds'.

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SBS Viceland

SBS Viceland (stylised as SBS VICELAND) is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel owned by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

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Scott Westcott

Scott Westcott (born 25 September 1975) is an Australian runner.

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SCT Logistics

SCT Logistics (Specialised Container Transport) is an Australian interstate transport company operating rail and road haulage, with facilities in Brisbane, Sydney, Parkes, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

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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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Sky Sports Radio

Sky Sports Radio is a commercial radio station based in Sydney, broadcasting throughout New South Wales and Canberra on a network of over 140 narrowcast transmitters as well as the main 1017 AM frequency in Sydney.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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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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Stephen Davies (field hockey)

Stephen John Davies (born 2 January 1969 in Parkes, NSW) is an Australian hockey player who represented his country at three successive Summer Olympic Games, winning a silver medal and two bronze medals.

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Sydney Airport

Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (colloquially Mascot Airport, Kingsford Smith Airport, or Sydney Airport) is an international airport in Sydney, Australia located 8 km (5 mi) south of Sydney city centre, in the suburb of Mascot.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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The Dish

The Dish is a 2000 Australian film that tells a somewhat fictionalised story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of man's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

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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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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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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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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Western Road Liners

Western Road Liners is an Australian bus and coach company operating route, school and charter services in Parkes.

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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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WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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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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2SM

2SM is an Australian radio station, licensed to and serving Sydney, broadcasting on 1269 kilohertz on the AM band.

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7mate

7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010.

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7TWO

7TWO is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 1 November 2009.

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9Gem

9Gem is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, launched by the Nine Network in September 2010.

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9Go!

9Go! is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Nine Network on 9 August 2009.

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References

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

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