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Alice Springs

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Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. [1]

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A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.

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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 Television

ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Adam Giles

Adam Graham Giles (born 10 April 1973) is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013-2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Adelaide–Darwin railway

| | The Adelaide–Darwin railway is a 2,979 kilometre south-north transcontinental railway in Australia, between the cities of Adelaide and Darwin.

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Afghan (Australia)

The "Afghans" or "Ghans" were camel caravanners who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s.

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Albert Namatjira

Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was a Western Arrernte-speaking Aboriginal artist from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

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Alice Springs Airport

Alice Springs Airport is an Australian regional airport south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

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Alice Springs Celtic FC

Alice Springs Celtic FC is an Australian soccer club based in Alice Springs, the Northern Territory.

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Alice Springs Correctional Centre

The Alice Springs Correctional Centre, an Australian medium to maximum security prison for males and females, is located outside Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Alice Springs Desert Park

The Alice Springs Desert Park is an environmental education facility in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Alice Springs Public Library

The Alice Springs Public Library is a free public library service in Australia.

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Alice Springs railway station

Alice Springs railway station is located on the Adelaide–Darwin railway in Alice Springs.

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Alice Springs Reptile Centre

The Alice Springs Reptile Centre is a privately operated reptile centre and environmental education facility in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Alice Springs Telegraph Station

The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre

The Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre formerly known as Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre, an Australian medium to maximum security prison for juvenile males and females, is located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Alyawarre

Alyawarre otherwise known as the Iliaura, are an Indigenous Australian people, or language group, from the Northern Territory.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Anzac Hill

ANZAC Hill is located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

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Araluen Cultural Precinct

The Araluen Cultural Precinct, formerly the Araluen Centre for Arts & Entertainment, in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, is a cultural centre incorporating museums and a theatre.

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Arrernte (area)

The Arrernte land is aboriginal land in central Australia.

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Arrernte people

The Arrernte people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta, or Arrarnta are an Aboriginal Australian people who live in the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Some Aranda live in other areas far from their homeland, including the major Australian cities and overseas. Aranda mythology and spirituality focuses on the landscape and the Dreamtime. Altjira is the creator being of the Inapertwa that became all living creatures. Tjurunga are objects of religious significance. The Arrernte Council is the representative and administrative body for the Aranda Lands and is part of the Central Land Council. Tourism is important to the economy of Alice Springs and surrounding communities.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force.

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Australian Baseball Federation

The Australian Baseball Federation is the national governing body of Baseball in Australia.

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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 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 Geographic

Australian Geographic is a media business that produces the Australian Geographic magazine, DMag magazine, specialist book titles, travel guides, diaries and calendars and online media.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two Houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Overland Telegraph Line

The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia.

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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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Australian Sidecar Speedway Championship

The Australian Sidecar Championship is a speedway championship held each year to determine the Australian national champions.

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Australian Solo Championship

The Australian Solo Championship is a motorcycle speedway championship held each year to determine the Australian national champion.

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Bill Bryson

William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Bruce Chatwin

Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist.

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Cairns

Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitter station.

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Camel

A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

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Camel Cup

The Camel Cup is an annual camel racing festival held in Australia.

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Canoe polo

Canoe polo, also known as Kayak polo, is one of the competitive disciplines of kayaking, known simply as "polo" by its aficionados.

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CDT (TV station)

CDT is an Australian digital television station broadcasting in remote central and eastern Australia.

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Central Australia

Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Central Australia Railway

| The former Central Australia Railway was originally a 1241 km narrow gauge (3'6") railway between Adelaide and Alice Springs.

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Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia.

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Central Australian Football League

The Central Australian Football League (CAFL) is an Australian rules football competition operating out of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Central Ranges xeric scrub

The Central Ranges xeric scrub is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of Australia.

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Centralian Advocate

The Centralian Advocate is a bi-weekly newspaper at Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Chambers Pillar

Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name Idracowra or Etikaura) is a sandstone formation some south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Chansey Paech

Chanston James "Chansey" Paech (born 1987) is an Australian politician.

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Charles Darwin University

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with about 22,083 students as of 2011.

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Charles Todd (pioneer)

Sir Charles Todd (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854.

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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 – 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists.

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Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or less formally the Pies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Common wallaroo

The common wallaroo (Macropus robustus) or wallaroo, also known as euro or hill wallaroo is a species of macropod.

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Community radio

Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.

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Country Liberal Party

The Country Liberal Party (CLP), officially the Country Liberals (Northern Territory), is a conservative political party in Australia founded in 1974, which operates solely in the Northern Territory.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Desert climate

The Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate.

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Dick Diver

Dick Diver is an Australian four-piece indie pop band from Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).

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Division of Lingiari

The Division of Lingiari is an Australian electoral division in the Northern Territory.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

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Electoral division of Araluen

Araluen is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Electoral division of Braitling

Braitling is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Electoral division of Namatjira

Namatjira is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Electoral division of Stuart

Stuart is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an indigenous Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory.

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Equidistant

A point is said to be equidistant from a set of objects if the distances between that point and each object in the set are equal.

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Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration (ET) is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and ocean surface to the atmosphere.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Finke Desert Race

The Tatts Finke Desert Race, has the reputation of being one of the most difficult offroad courses in one of the most remote places in the world.

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Finke Gorge National Park

Finke Gorge is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1318 km south of Darwin.

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Francis Stewart Briggs

Francis Stewart Briggs (18 September 1897 – 21 July 1966) was a pioneering Australian aviator.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Great Southern Rail (Australia)

Great Southern Rail (GSR) is an Australian interstate passenger train operator.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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Heavitree Gap

The Heavitree Gap, or Ntaripe in the Arrernte language, is a water gap in the Northern Territory, Australia in the MacDonnell Ranges.

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Henley-on-Todd Regatta

The Henley-on-Todd Regatta (also called the Todd River Race) is a "boat" race held annually in the typically dry sandy bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Australia.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Imparja Cup

The Imparja Cup and National Indigenous Cricket Championships are Australian cricket tournaments based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

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Imparja Television

Imparja Television (IMP) is an Australian television station servicing remote eastern and central Australia, that began broadcasting on 2 January 1988.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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Indian people

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Indigenous Australian art

Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Australia and in collaborations between Indigenous Australians and others.

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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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John McDouall Stuart

John McDouall Stuart (7 September 18155 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers.

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Kaytetye language

Kaytetye (Kaititj) is an Australian Aboriginal language of central Northern Territory.

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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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King's College London GKT School of Medical Education

King's College London GKT School of Medical Education (abbreviated: GKT) is the medical school of King's College London.

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Kings Canyon (Northern Territory)

Kings Canyon is a canyon in the Northern Territory of Australia located at the western end of the George Gill Range about southwest of Alice Springs and about south of Darwin within the Watarrka National Park.

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Larapinta Trail

The Larapinta Trail is an extended walking track in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Lasseters Hotel Casino

Lasseters is an entertainment complex located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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List of films and TV series shot in Alice Springs

A list of movies filmed in Alice Springs, Australia, and surrounding areas.

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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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Little League Baseball

Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League International) is a nonprofit organization based in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, which organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Liz Phair

Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actress.

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Local government area

A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for.

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Luritja dialect

The Luritja dialect is the dialect of the Luritja people and an Indigenous Australian Western Desert Language.

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MacDonnell Ranges

The MacDonnell Ranges, a mountain range and an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory, comprising.

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MacDonnell Region

The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard), Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman (bass guitar).

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Military history of the North-West Frontier

The North-West Frontier (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) region of the British Indian Empire was the most difficult area to conquer in South Asia, strategically and militarily.

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Minnie Pwerle

Minnie Pwerle (also Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl; born between 1910 and 1922 – 18 March 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Motorcycle speedway

Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit.

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My Island Home

"My Island Home" is a pop song written by Neil Murray and originally performed by the Warumpi Band.

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Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets are an English indie rock band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London.

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Narrow-gauge railways in Australia

Rail transport in Australia involves a number of narrow-gauge railways.

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National Indigenous Television

National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian television channel that broadcasts programming produced primarily by indigenous peoples of Australia.

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National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame

The National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame is a museum located in the former Alice Springs Gaol in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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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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Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.

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Ngaanyatjarra

The Ngaanyatjarra, also known as the Nana, are an Indigenous Australian cultural group of Western Australia.

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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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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Northern Territory Football Club

Northern Territory Football Club, nicknamed NT Thunder, is a Northern Territory-based Australian rules football club competing in the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL).

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Northern Territory general election, 2016

The 2016 Northern Territory general election was held on Saturday 27 August 2016 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament.

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Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the only house of the Parliament of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Northern Territory National Emergency Response

The Northern Territory National Emergency Response (also referred to as "the intervention") was a package of changes to welfare provision, law enforcement, land tenure and other measures, introduced by the Australian federal government under John Howard in 2007 to address allegations of rampant child sexual abuse and neglect in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.

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NTD (TV station)

NTD is an Australian television station, licensed to and serving Darwin, Palmerston and surrounding areas.

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Olive Pink

Olive Muriel Pink (17 March 1884 – 6 July 1975) was an Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for Aboriginal rights.

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Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region.

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Outback

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Outstation

Historically, an outstation was a subsidiary homestead or other dwelling on Australian sheep or cattle stations (ranches) which were large enough to have more than a day's travel between different parts of the property.

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Oval track racing

Oval track racing is a form of closed-circuit automobile racing that is contested on an oval-shaped track.

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Paghman

Paghman (Pashto/Persian: پغمان) is a town in the hills near Afghanistan's capital of Kabul.

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Papunya

Papunya is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Pashtuns

The Pashtuns (or; پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (افغان, Afğān) and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān), are an Iranic ethnic group who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Perth

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

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Pine Gap

Pine Gap is the commonly used name for an Australian Earth station approximately south-west of the town of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the centre of Australia which is operated by both Australia and the United States.

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Pintupi

The Pintupi are an Australian Aboriginal group who are part of the Western Desert cultural group and whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia.

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Pitjantjatjara dialect

Pitjantjatjara is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia.

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Port Adelaide Football Club

The Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

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Power and the Passion (song)

"Power and the Passion" is the second single from Midnight Oil's 1982 album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (following "US Forces").

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical)

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a musical with a book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score.

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Qantas

Qantas Airways is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations.

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QQQ

QQQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in remote central and eastern areas of Australia, owned by Southern Cross Austereo.

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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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Red Sails in the Sunset (album)

Red Sails in the Sunset is a rock album by Australian group Midnight Oil which was released in October 1984 under the Columbia Records label.

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Regatta

A regatta is a series of boat races.

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Road movie

A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives.

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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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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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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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Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.

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School of the Air

School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia where some or all classes were traditionally conducted by radio, although this is now being replaced by internet technology.

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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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Serotonin (album)

Serotonin is the fourth album by Mystery Jets, released in the UK on 5 July 2010.

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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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Sidecar speedway

Sidecar Speedway is a motorcycle sport involving 4 crews of a rider and a passenger competing over 4 laps on an oval shale surface.

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Simpson Desert

The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.

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Socrates in Love

is a 2001 Japanese 206-page melodrama novel, written by Kyoichi Katayama and published by Shogakukan, which revolves around narrator Sakutaro Matsumoto's recollections of a school classmate whom he once loved.

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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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Spectator sport

A spectator sport is a sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its competitions.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Stuart Highway

Stuart Highway is one of Australia's major highways.

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Sun 969

Sun 969 is Alice Springs only local commercial radio station on the FM frequency.

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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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Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Ghan

The Ghan is an Australian passenger train service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin railway.

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The Real Thing (Midnight Oil album)

The Real Thing is a compilation of studio and live acoustic recordings by Midnight Oil, and includes a cover version of Russell Morris's classic "The Real Thing".

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The Residency, Alice Springs

The Residency holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory.

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The Songlines

The Songlines is a 1987 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction.

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Todd River

The Todd River is an ephemeral river in the southern Northern Territory, central Australia.

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Town of Alice Springs

The Alice Springs Town Council is a local government area in the Northern Territory.

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Traeger Park

Traeger Park (currently known under naming rights as TIO Traeger Park) is a sports complex located in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, and is named after Alfred Hermann Traeger.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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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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Tropic of Capricorn

The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point on the December (or southern) solstice.

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Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a protected area located in Northern Territory of Australia.

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Uluru

Uluru (Pitjantjatjara), also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as "UluruAyers Rock", is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia.

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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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Upper Arrernte language

Arrernte or Aranda or more specifically Upper Arrernte (Upper Aranda), is a dialect cluster spoken in and around Alice Springs (Mparntwe in Arrernte) in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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UTC+09:30

UTC+09:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:30.

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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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Vision Radio Network

Vision Christian Radio (formerly Vision Radio Network and Vision FM) is a Christian media ministry of Vision Christian Media (United Christian Broadcasters Australia Ltd.). Vision's motto is "Connecting Faith to Life" and the radio network is a means to that end.

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Warlpiri language

The Warlpiri language is spoken by about 3,000 of the Warlpiri people in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Warren Snowdon

Warren Edward Snowdon (born 30 March 1950) is an Australian politician.

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Warumpi Band

Warumpi Band were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory in 1980.

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Warumungu language

The Warumungu (or Warramunga) language is spoken by the Warumungu people in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Watarrka National Park

Watarrka is a national park in the Northern Territory (Australia), 1316 km south of Darwin and 323 km southwest of Alice Springs.

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Wenten Rubuntja

Wenten Rubuntja (c. 1923 – 2005) was an Australian artist and Aboriginal rights activist.

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World Masters Games

The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind.

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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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Yankunytjatjara dialect

Yankunytjatjara (also Yankuntatjara, Jangkundjara, Kulpantja) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

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102.1 FM

The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 102.1 MHz.

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1991 Australian Individual Speedway Championship

The 1991 Australian Individual Speedway Championship was the 1991 version of the Australian Individual Speedway Championship organised by Motorcycling Australia.

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2016 Australian census

The 2016 Australian census was the seventeenth national population census held in Australia.

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783 ABC Alice Springs

783 ABC Alice Springs (call sign: 8AL) is the ABC Local Radio station in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

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8HA

8HA is a radio station based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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References

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

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