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General Facts and Information - New South Wales + ACT
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USEFUL WEBSITES about New South Wales + ACT

Useful websites to visit are:
Tourism New South Wales www.tourism.nsw.gov.au
NSW Visitors Centre www.visitnsw.com.au

Visit Canberra www.visitcanberra.com.au
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au which manages NSW’s national parks.
Namadgi National Park www.australianalps.deh.gov.au/parks/namadgi in the ACT
National Roads and Motorists' Association (NRMA) www.nrma.com.au
 Public Toilet Maps for NSW www.toiletmap.gov.au(NSW)
Public Toilet Maps for the Australian Capital Territory www.toiletmap.gov.au - part of a very quirky Australian government website

NEWSPAPERS in New South Wales + ACT
NSW’s broadsheet daily newspaper is The Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au. The major tabloid in NSW is The Daily Telegraph www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au.   In the ACT there is The Canberra Times http://canberra.yourguide.com.au.  The national newspaper, The Australian www.theaustralian.news.com.au, is available in both NSW and the ACT.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS in New South Wales + ACT

Public holidays, school terms and holidays in Australia are designated on a state and territory basis with the exception of national public holidays such as Australia Day, ANZAC Day, Christmas Day, New Years Day, etc.
Links to holidays dates for NSW and the ACT are found on the following Government site www.australia.gov.au/302

MISCELLANEOUS - New South Wales + ACT
NEW SOUTH WALES is the birthplace of modern Australia and is now the most populated state and probably the most diverse with spectacular Sydney at the epicentre of it all. An extraordinary range of attractions, along with excellent road, rail and air connections to the rest of the country, ensures that NSW is the main gateway for international visitors to Australia.
Although many areas along the east coast have seen escalating and not always well planned development in the past 30 to 40 years, the natural barrier of the Great Dividing Range and the establishment of a series of national parks have helped to restrain some of the worst excesses of the developers. Once you get away from the urban sprawls, the great outdoors is never far away in NSW.
The AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (ACT), excised from NSW in the south east of the state, was conceived by bureaucrats in the early 1900s to confine a new national capital city (Canberra).  This was largely to appease Melbourne and Sydney who both hated the idea of the other becoming the capital.  Canberra is set around an inspired man-made lake and boasts some superb architecture, particularly the public buildings.
New South Wales State Emblems:
Floral - Waratah
Fauna - Platypus		 Australian Capital Territory Emblems:
Floral - Royal Bluebell
Fauna - Gang Gang Cockatoo
 
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