New South Wales municipalities

Population growth has seen skylines creep ever higher and entire cities rise from ocean depths. The latest “ocean city” is the Chinese-developed Forest City project. By 2045, four artificial islands in Malaysia will cover 14sq kilometres of ocean (an area larger than 10,000 Olympic swimming pools), and ...

No long-range studies have yet been done on the changes in city noise over time, but many people have noticed that traffic, building works, planes and new ... According to Marion Burgess from the Acoustics and Vibration Unit at the University of New South Wales in an article on the Australian Academy of ...

PIECES of the past will be served up this weekend as the Bundaberg Antiques and Collectables Fair rolls into town. Event organiser Allan Lawson said this was the fair's sixth year and it would be the biggest event. "It will be a third bigger than last year with additional stall holders,” he said. "The fair is ...

The Gold Coast will play host to another key sporting event in June this year, with the NRL confirming the 2018 Harvey Norman Women's National Championship will be played at Owen Park in Southport between 1 – 3 June. The Championship will involve six teams, with an Australian Defence Force team ...

The researchers considered the dozens of cities in California that have instituted local ordinances that require developers to provide affordable housing as part of their development projects. California obliges its municipalities to offer density bonuses, which allow additional building height or floor space to ...

The most populous city in Australia has announced that it wants to split into three cities -- in as little as 20 years' time. ... Searle, an associate professor in planning at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland, who formerly worked in planning policy for the New South Wales government.

For a city weighed down by its gong as the “world's most liveable city” for seven years straight, it's uneasy about where it's going, uncertain whether it ... Unlike New South Wales (NSW), Queensland and Tasmania, the state of Victoria was never a penal colony and Melbourne was never a convict town.

We then met Dr. Plant in Scone, a town of just 6,000, which is the center of New South Wales' big breeding farms, and spent last week meeting breeders and seeing farms. We went to the Scone races March 18, which was brilliant in spite of the 98-degree heat, and the following week visited six of the ...

Should we retain the current listing of 83 heritage buildings in Invercargill? And, at what cost to modernisation? We should have some key buildings like the Water Tower, Andersons Park, and First Church, but the rest should be able to make way for modern developments. The classic example of how things ...

A culture of self-reliance, the effects of small town gossip, fewer employment opportunities, a workplace culture of victim blaming and geographic isolation from ... In rural towns where the line between private and public spheres is blurred, women's reporting of sexual harassment and discrimination can ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said The Western Sydney City Deal, made in partnership with the State Government, would see a trial of 5G mobile technology, rapid bus services introduced and 200,000 jobs created. Mr Turnbull, along with New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, announced the ...

But somebody down south thought amalgamation was a good thing, trouble is I feel that all the towns that got amalgamated lost a little bit of their identity. The flag of the City of Gladstone was established on March 4, 1976, following the Proclamation of the Town to a City by the State Governor, Sir Colin ...

A BABY girl has been mauled to death by a pet dog in the outback town of Inverell, New South Wales. The one-year-old child died after being attacked by the family's rottweiler this afternoon. Emergency services were called to a home on Greaves Street, Inverell, about 2.20pm. “On arrival officers found the ...

A small country town in south west New South Wales has given the Sydney Mardi Gras a run for its money this weekend — by hosting its own. Hay has a population of just over 2,000 people and is usually known for its celebrated shearers and farmers. But this weekend, it is celebrating its gay, lesbian and ...

Fifteen elderly people have now been infected in the outbreak, which is being linked to a melon-grower in the state of New South Wales. The first two fatalities were from New South ... The contamination has been traced to a farm near the city of Griffith in New South Wales. Rockmelons have been withdrawn ...

The mullet has largely fallen out of favour since its 1970s and 80s heyday, when the “business in front, party in the back” style was sported by everyone from Mel Gibson to Tina Turner. However, the retro 'do has never gone out of style in parts of Australia, where it “became a symbol of working-class Aussie ...