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City map plan of Canberra. Canberra. Coordinates Population: 466,566 (June 2023) [1] ... Newcastle and Port Macquarie in New South Wales. Canberra Airport is, ...
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Map of part of the Australian Capital Territory, with labels in red font denoting some (but not all) suburbs This is a list of suburbs in the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia. Suburbs are listed according to the districts in which they are located. Town centres, Group Centres, or suburbs containing group centres, appear in bold. (Some group centres or town centres have names ...
In 1906 and after significant deliberations, New South Wales agreed to cede sufficient land on the condition that it was in the Yass-Canberra region, [22] this site being closer to Sydney. [32] Initially, Dalgety, New South Wales remained at the forefront, but Yass-Canberra prevailed after voting by federal representatives. [27]
One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its own territory within New South Wales, at least 100 miles (161 km) from Sydney.
"Civic" is a common name for the district, but it is also called Civic Centre, City Centre, Canberra City and Canberra, and its official division name is City. [2] Canberra's City was established in 1927, although the division name City was not gazetted until 20 September 1928.
Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. [1] Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, [2] a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:
The New South Wales section of Federal Highway was declared (as Main Road No. 3) on 8 August 1928, from its interchange with Hume Highway in Yarra, via Collector and Geary's Gap, to the interstate border; [4] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929 [6] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads ...