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This is a list of cities and towns in the Australian state of New South Wales with a population of 5,000 or greater as at the 2021 Census. The below figures represent the populations of the contiguous built-up areas of each city or town.
A peak body, WDVCAS Inc. was established with funding from Legal Aid in 2011 (subsequently renamed Women's Safety NSW [12]) and began to engage more closely with government agencies including the Department of the Attorney-General and Justice, NSW Victims Services, FACS and NSW Police. [13]
The New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice, a department of the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the delivery of services to some of the most disadvantaged individuals, families and communities; and the administration and development of a just and equitable legal system of courts, tribunals, laws and other mechanisms that further the principles of justice in the ...
The Victims Compensation Tribunal of New South Wales is a former tribunal of the Government of New South Wales that was established to determine the amounts that may be awarded to victims of crime for personal injury in New South Wales, a state of Australia. The tribunal had exclusive jurisdiction to determine the amount which the Victims ...
The NSW Supreme Court ordered re-run elections in Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A. In Kempsey, the highest placed non-elected candidate from 2021, Dean Saul, was instead one the first councillors elected. [22] This failure caused the NSW Government to suspend the iVote system from use in the 2023 New South Wales state election.
Between 2016 and 2017, the number of homicide and attempted victims across Australia decreased from 453 victims to 414 victims (down 39 victims or 9%). [14] Since 2017 the homicide rate has stabilised around 0.87 per 100,000 as of 2020. [15]
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:
In other capital cities, the central LGA covers a much smaller proportion of the total urban area. The populations of the central local government areas in other capitals are relatively small. As of June 2020, Darwin had a population of 82,030, Hobart 55,250, Perth 30,971, and Adelaide 26,177. [ 150 ]