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Adult Prisons and correctional facilities in Victoria are managed by Corrections Victoria. Two prisons are privatised and managed by G4S Australia Pty. Limited and GEO Group Australia Pty. Limited. Youth Justice custodial centres are managed by the Department of Justice and Community Safety. Victorian Prisons are mostly located in regional ...
Young is marketed as the Cherry Capital of Australia and every year hosts the National Cherry Festival. [3] Young is situated on the Olympic Highway and is approximately two hours' drive from the Canberra area. It is in a valley, with surrounding hills. The town is named after Sir John Young, the governor of NSW from 1861 to 1867. [4] [5]
Young County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales.It includes the area to the west of Wilcannia.The Darling River is the south-eastern boundary.. Young County was named in honour of the twelfth Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Young, First Baron Lisgar (1807-1876).
Victoria Barracks is an Australian Army base in the suburb of Paddington in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located between Oxford Street and Moore Park Road, it is just north of the Moore Park, the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium. Victoria Barracks houses the Headquarters Forces Command.
In 2014, the NSW Rural Fire Service began using Richmond as a base for its Large Air Tanker (LAT) and Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT) program. During the Australian summer, the NSW RFS will have a variety of aircraft available including a C-130 Hercules, Avro RJ85, Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 as well as smaller lead-in aircraft.
Some of the 1004 estate high rise buildings shown in the background. 1004 Housing Estate is an 11-hectare housing estate in Victoria Island, Lagos. [1] Originally named Federal Housing Estate, Lagos and designed by Isaac Fola-Alade, it was constructed in the 1970s as the biggest of its type at the time. [2]
Fort Denison, part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, is a protected national park that is a heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Garden and approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the Opera House in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Stand-alone houses accounted for 60.3% of occupied dwellings, while 21.2% were semi-detached (mostly townhouses) and 17.9% were flats, units or apartments. 42.8% of houses were rented – the rest were mostly owned with a mortgage (33.1%) or owned outright (21.9%). The average household size was 2.8 people.