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Central West Australian Football League
The AFL Central West (formerly, Central West Australian Football League) is an Australian rules football competition containing six clubs based in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. All teams qualify for the finals in seniors. Current clubs Defunct clubs List of premiers First-grade/Seniors/Tier 1 Reserve-grade/Tier 2 *1984: Dubbo *1985: Dubbo *1986: Dubbo *1987: Cowra *1988: Lithgow *1992: Dubbo *1993: Orange *1994: Dubbo *1995: Bathurst Eagles *1996: Orange *1997: Parkes *1998: Kelso *1999: Parkes *2000: Dubbo *2001: Orange *2002: Dubbo *2003: Cowra *2004: Bathurst Bushrangers *2005: Mudgee *2006: Cowra *2007: Bathurst Bushrangers *2008: Cowra *2009: Bathurst Bushrangers *2010: Young *2011: Bathurst Bushrangers *2012: Orange *2013: Bathurst Bushrangers *2014: Bathurst Bushrangers *2015: Young *2020: Parkes *2021: Parkes *2022: Parkes *2023: Cowra *2024: Cowra Under 16s/17s/18s *1983: Young *1984: Orang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the Football (ball)#Australian rules football, oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or between a central and outer post (worth one point, otherwise known as a "behind"). During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kick (football), kicking, handball (Australian rules football), handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for example, players running with the ball must intermittently running bounce, bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
Charles Sturt University is a suburb and location for Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain (British Army and Royal ...'s Wagga Wagga Campus and is located in the suburb of Estella. References External links {{coord, 35, 03, 28, S, 147, 21, 16, E, display=title Suburbs of Wagga Wagga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudgee
Mudgee () is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local government in Australia, local government area as well as being the council seat. At the 2021 Census, its population was 11,457. The district lies across the edge of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, geological structure known as the Sydney Basin. History Wiradjuri people The Mudgee and Dabee clans of the Wiradjuri people lived at and around the site of what is now the town of Mudgee on the Cudgegong River. Some cultural and tool-making sites of these Aboriginal people remain, including the Hands on the Rocks, The Drip and Babyfoot Cave sites. Significance of local names Many place-names in the region are derived from the original Wiradjuri language, including Mudgee itself, which was named by the Wiradjuri clan wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkside Junior Football Club Colours
Parkside may refer to: Australia *Parkside, Queensland, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa *Parkside, South Australia Canada * Parkside, Saskatchewan, a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan New Zealand * Parkside, New Zealand, a suburb of Timaru United Kingdom * Parkside, Barrow-in-Furness, an area and ward in Cumbria *Parkside, Cambridge, one of the streets that bounds Parker's Piece *Parkside, an area of Cleland, North Lanarkshire * Parkside, County Durham, a community *Parkside, Hunslet, a former rugby league stadium in Hunslet, Leeds * Parkside, Shotts, a football ground in Shotts United States *Parkside, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood * Parkside, Camden, New Jersey, a neighborhood * Parkside, Trenton, New Jersey, a neighborhood * Parkside, Pennsylvania, a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States * Parkside, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia area *University of Wisconsin–Parkside, Kenosha, Wisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelso, New South Wales
Kelso is a suburb of Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia, located within the Bathurst Regional Council area. History Kelso was the original European settlement in the area. In 1816, the initial settlement of Bathurst was established on the eastern banks of the Macquarie River, in current-day Kelso. The first ten farmers in Kelso were each given ; five were newborn colonials and five were immigrants. Heritage listings Kelso has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 71-85 Gilmour Street: Holy Trinity Anglican Church Sights Holy Trinity Church was the first inland church in Australia. It was built in 1835 to serve the Anglican parish of Kelso. It was the first Australian church consecrated by a bishop. The church has a close association with early settlement west of the Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide AFLW Icon
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely settled British provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithgow, New South Wales
Lithgow is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and is the administrative centre of the City of Lithgow local government area. It is located in a mountain valley named Lithgow's Valley by John Oxley in honour of William Lithgow. Lithgow is on the Great Western Highway, about west of Sydney, or via the old mountain route, Bells Line of Road, from Windsor. At June 2021 Lithgow had an urban population of 11,197. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Lithgow is surrounded by a varied landscape characterised by seven valleys which include national parks, one of which, the Blue Mountains National Park, is a World Heritage Area. The Wollemi National Park is home to the Jurassic-age tree the Wollemi Pine, which was found growing in a remote canyon in the park. Location The city sits on the western edge of the sandstone country of the Blue Mountains and is usually considered the first true country town west of Sydney. Immediate surrounding a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katoomba, New South Wales
Katoomba is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of City of Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains City Council. Situated on the Great Western Highway and the Main Western railway line, New South Wales, Great Western Railway, Katoomba is home to the Three Sisters (Australia), Three Sisters, by road west of Sydney Central Business District and south-east of Lithgow, New South Wales, Lithgow. Katoomba railway station serves the town. Katoomba is located on the lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal peoples. Katoomba is a base for bush and nature walks in the surrounding Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains. At the 2021 census, Katoomba had a population of 8,268 people. Etymology Kedumba or Katta-toon-bah is an Aboriginal term for "shining falling water" or "water tumbling over hill" and takes its name from a waterfall that drops into the Jamison Valley be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes, New South Wales
Forbes is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the Newell Highway between Parkes and West Wyalong. According to the , Forbes has a population of 9,319. Forbes is probably named after Sir Francis Forbes, first Chief Justice of NSW. Located on the banks of the Lachlan River, Forbes is above sea-level and about west of Sydney. The district is a cropping area where wheat and similar crops are grown. Nearby towns and villages include Calarie, Parkes, Bedgerebong, Bundabarrah, Corradgery, Daroobalgie, Eugowra, Ooma North and Paytens Bridge. Forbes is subject to a pattern of flooding, generally occurring to a significant level once every seven years, including 2016 and 2022. History The area was home to the Wiradjuri people before non-indigenous settlement. John Oxley passed through in 1817 during one of the first inland expeditions. Oxley named the site Camp Hill. He was unimpressed with the clay soil, poor timber and swamps a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Geelong ( ) ( Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne. With an estimated population of 282,809 in 2023, Geelong is the second-largest city in the state of Victoria. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality, which is Port Phillip's only regional metropolitan area, and covers all the urban, rural and coastal reserves around the city including the entire Bellarine Peninsula and running from the plains of Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south, with Corio Bay to the east and the Barrabool Hills to the west. The traditional owners of the land on which Geelong sits are the Wadawurrung (also known as Wathaurong) Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation. The modern name of Geelong, first recorded in 1827, was derived from the local Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
