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lionking said:
My only night in Wagga was many years ago, when we stayed with one of my wife's bridesmaid. It was thought to be a good idea if I went out with her husband and his mates to the pub. At the end of an otherwise unmemorable time, I asked what was on now. "Looking for a fight" was the response. Standard fare on a Saturday night I found.

Yeah, not fair to judge a town by one sad night, but from what I've heard since, including from my daughter's partner who was a MP (whoops Military Police, not Member of Parliament) there for a couple of years, pretty standard behavior.
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I've been there multiple times without a problem visiting family friends who lived there. I was underage at the time though, so I didn't see much around town after about 8 pm. I will concede it certainly has more than a whiff of Bogan about it though.

Also, it seems to be the city where Aussie Rules and League meet 50/50. Further north is League dominated, further South is Aussie Rules dominated.
 
MG1962 said:
The worst town I have been too in Manilla, bunch of us went up there for a wedding. The fact we were from Sydney automatically made us pariah's. When we were leaving we gave another guest a lift to Tamworth, now this person has never lived in any town bigger than 20,000 people.

As we left she remarked that Manila was the most inward looking backward town she'd ever been in. I laughed when I realized it just wasn't just us. They hated every body.

Other serious contenders. Sofala and Bourke....which when I was in the industry, was considered such a dangerous town, there was no freight delivery. You had to go and pick your freight up from the depot.

Oh and for the record I missed 1 and 4 :(
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Sofala. That's the place with a suspicious number of car accidents, isn't it?
 
Stephen Leacock was once introduced at one of his lectures in England with the words "Not so long ago, ladies and gentlemen, we used to send out to Canada various classes of our community to help build up that country. We sent out our labourers, we sent out our scholars and professors. Indeed we even sent out our criminals. And now, they are coming back."
 
Sideroxylon said:
Sofala. That's the place with a suspicious number of car accidents, isn't it?
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I was there for a school trip about a year before the film was released. The town looked better in the film lol. They have supposedly spent a lot of money redeveloping the main street, but I have not been there since to judge
 
Damien Evans said:
Also, it seems to be the city where Aussie Rules and League meet 50/50. Further north is League dominated, further South is Aussie Rules dominated.
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Yeah thats definitely one of the sport border towns. Closer to the coast it runs a lot further south. Group 7 and Group 16 have supplied a pretty consistent stream of players into the NRL
 
Here's a different one. See if you can pick out who these memorials honour, and where they are.

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Mont St Quentin, Second Australian Division Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/mont-st-quentin/index.html


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Sailly–le–Sec, Third Australian Division Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/sailly-le-sec/index.html


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Australian Corps Memorial, Le Hamel
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/le-hamel/index.html


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Bellenglise, Fourth Australian Division Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/bellenglise/index.html


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Zonnebeke, Fifth Australian Division Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/zonnebeke/index.html


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This one at least you should know:
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Villers-Bretonneux, Australian National Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/villers-bretonneux/index.html


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Fromelles, VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/fromelles/fromelles-casualties.html


WW2 to follow, maybe.
 
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Vale Alan Saunders(22 July 1954 – 15 June 2012)

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This afternoon I go to catch up on my backlog of podcasts, starting with my favourite in The Philosopher's Zone, only to find Alan Saunders has suddenly passed away. He was an excellent interviewer, always ready with an insightful question and an obvious passion that brought out the best in his guests.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/alan-saunders/2913272
 



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Basketball player Lauren Jackson leads the Australian team into the stadium
during the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games on 27 July, 2012

Photo: Lars Baron (Getty Images)/ABC​
 
I just posted this in the Eurovision thread in FC where it will be mercilessly panned so I'll post it here as well for the more discerning audience in this sub-forum to offest the bad vibes.


Kylie Minogue - 25 Years of Locomotion

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