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  2. Quarter acre - Wikipedia

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    House on a block in Adelaide, South Australia. In Australian and New Zealand English, a quarter acre is a term for a suburban plot of land. Traditionally, Australians and New Zealanders aspired to own a 3- or 4-bedroom house or bungalow on a section of around a quarter of an acre (about 1,000 square metres), also known locally as the Australian Dream or the New Zealand dream.

  3. Australian Dream - Wikipedia

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    Typically the Australian dream focused upon ownership of a detached house (often single storey) on a quarter acre suburban block, surrounded by a garden, which featured in the back a Hills Hoist and a barbecue. Notably, this mirrored the fact that while almost 50% of Australian households owned their homes through the first half of the century ...

  4. Glenelg East, South Australia - Wikipedia

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    Glenelg East Streetscape. Glenelg East is a residential suburb 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south-west of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.It is characterised by quarter-acre blocks with heritage homes and parks intermingled with contemporary modern homes and low-rise multi-dwelling units.

  5. Urban renewal in Sydney - Wikipedia

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    Following World War II, there was an influx of immigrants that tripled Sydney's population and brought rise to the "Australian dream" of living in a suburban home on a quarter acre block. As Sydney's population grew, the city continued to sprawl to the west and south-west, where new "garden suburbs" were developed 50 km from the city centre.

  6. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In Australia and New Zealand, most building lots in the past were a quarter of an acre, measuring one chain by two and a half chains, and other lots would be multiples or fractions of a chain. [19] The street frontages of many houses in these countries are one chain wide—roads were almost always 1 chain (20.1 m) wide in urban areas, [ 19 ...

  7. Cowirra, South Australia - Wikipedia

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    Ten quarter-acre blocks sold for an average of 5 shillings above the reserve price of £2 10/ in April 1907. [4] The boundaries of the locality were formalised in 2003. [2] The Cowirra Swamp was drained in 1919 to allow for controlled irrigation. [5]

  8. Farina, South Australia - Wikipedia

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    Farina, formerly Farina Town and originally Government Gums, is an abandoned town in the Australian state of South Australia. The name also applies to an area of about 8500 square kilometres (3300 square miles) in which the town is located. At the 2006 census, 55 people lived in the larger area; by the 2021 census, the population had fallen to 15.

  9. Stafford, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Stafford is predominantly a residential suburb, including some original Queenslander-style homes and a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre blocks built around the 1940s and 1950s. [citation needed] Stafford lies to the west of Lutwyche Road, along the banks of Kedron Brook. Being an area of that ...