Wagga Wagga is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales,Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River,with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021,Wagga Wagga is the state's second largest inland city after Maitland,and is an important agricultural,military,and transport hub of Australia. The ninth largest inland city in Australia,Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia—Sydney and Melbourne—and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
Group 9 is a rugby league competition based in Wagga Wagga,New South Wales,Australia,and surrounding areas. The competition is played in six grades,with these being Under 16s,Under 18s,Women's Tackle,Women's League-Tag,Reserve-Grade and First-Grade.
The Division of Riverina is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Leeton is a town located in the Riverina region of New South Wales,Australia. It is situated in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. It is the administrative centre of the Leeton Shire Council local government area,which includes neighbouring suburbs,towns and localities such as Yanco,Wamoon,Whitton,Gogeldrie,Stanbridge and Murrami.
Turvey Park is an inner southern suburb of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales,Australia. Its boundaries are defined by Fernleigh Road to the south,Glenfield Road to the west,Coleman Street to the north and to the east by Willans Hill. Turvey Park is characterised by single detached dwellings,constructed in the period from the early 1900s through to the 1960s. These dwellings vary from the very substantial,as found in parts of Coleman Street and Grandview Parade,to the brick bungalows of the northern end of the suburb between Urana and Coleman Streets,to modest public housing,and a mixture of brick and fibro and weatherboard cottages at the southern end of the suburb. Another feature of Turvey Park are many corner shops,such on the corner of Heath and Urana Street,the corner of Norman and Coleman Streets,and the Corner of Bourke and Urana Streets.
Wagga Wagga Airport is a regional airport serving Wagga Wagga in New South Wales,Australia. The airport is located in the suburb of Forest Hill,11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south-east of the city centre,on land leased from the Department of Defence. It shares runways and some aviation facilities with the adjacent RAAF Base Wagga,which hosts ground training establishments and supporting military air traffic. Rex Airlines maintain a strong presence with its main engineering and maintenance base for its Saab 340 aircraft. The airline also conducts an in-house program to train cadet pilots through a campus of the Australian Airline Pilot Academy at the airport. In the 2020-21 financial year the airport recorded 71,862 passengers which made it the 36th busiest airport in Australia.
Mater Dei Catholic College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school catering for students in Year 7 to Year 12,located in the Wagga Wagga suburb of Lake Albert,in New South Wales,Australia.
AMV is an Australian television station licensed to,and serving the regions surrounding Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga in south western New South Wales and north eastern Victoria. The station was,for many years,merged with RVN-2 as the Riverina and North East Victoria Television Service.
Eric Weissel Oval was a multi-use stadium in Wagga Wagga,New South Wales,Australia. It was named after local rugby league footballer Eric Weissel and opened in 1959. It was used mostly for rugby league matches and had a capacity of 10,000 people,with a record crowd of 11,685 recorded on 20 July 1988 for the Australia vs Papua New Guinea as part of the 1985–1988 Rugby League World Cup where the Aussies defeated the Kumuls by a then world record score of 70–8. The oval has hosted City vs Country (ARL),National Rugby League premiership and trial games,Brumbies vs Waikato Chiefs.
Ladysmith is a village approximately 19 km east of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales,Australia. At the 2016 census,Ladysmith had a population of 352 people.
The Hampden Bridge was a heritage-listed wooden Allan Truss bridge over the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga,Australia. It was officially opened to traffic on 11 November 1895 and named in honour of the NSW Governor Sir Henry Robert Brand,2nd Viscount Hampden. The bridge carried the Olympic Highway,formerly the Olympic Way,between 1963 until the bridge's closure to highway traffic in October 1995,replaced by the Wiradjuri Bridge. The Hampden Bridge was subsequently converted to local traffic use,then pedestrian use only,and finally demolished in 2014.
City of Wagga Wagga is a local government area in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales,Australia.
Daryl William Maguire is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Wagga Wagga for the Liberal Party from 1999 to 2018. On 30 March 2011,Maguire was appointed to Government Whip in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalition government;he had been Opposition Whip for the Coalition since 2003. On 13 July 2018,after admitting at a corruption inquiry that he sought payment over a property deal,Maguire resigned from the Liberal Party. He resigned from Parliament on 3 August. Between 2013 and August 2020,Maguire had an "intimate" relationship with Gladys Berejiklian,who became Premier of New South Wales during that time. He had been estranged from his wife since 2013,and divorce proceedings started in 2018.
The Daily Advertiser is the regional newspaper which services Wagga Wagga,New South Wales Australia and much of the surrounding region. It is published Monday to Friday but also appears as a sister publication called The Weekend Advertiser on Saturdays. The paper reaches about 31,000 people during its Monday to Friday printing,equating to 85% of all people aged over 14 who live in the paper's main coverage area.
HMAS Wagga (J315),named after the city of Wagga Wagga,New South Wales was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II,and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). During the war,the ship operated primarily in New Guinea waters. After war service,the corvette was placed in reserve,but she was recommissioned in 1951 as a training vessel,and was repeatedly moved into and out of reserve. Wagga was decommissioned in 1960,making her the last of the Australian-operated corvettes.
The Farrer Football Netball League (FFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing nine clubs based in the Riverina region of New South Wales,Australia. The league features three grades in the Australian rules football competition,with these being First-Grade,Reserve-Grade and Under 17s. In the netball competition there are four grades,with these being A-Grade,A-Reserve Grade,B-Grade and C-Grade.
Noel Jeffrey Hicks is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1980 to 1998,representing the New South Wales seats of Riverina and Riverina-Darling for the National Party. He also served as mayor of Broken Hill,New South Wales,in the 1970s.
Donald Moreton Kendell AM was the founder and chairman of Kendell Airlines,which,in the 1990s,was Australia's largest regional airline.
Michael Francis McCormack is an Australian politician who served as the 18th deputy prime minister of Australia from 2018 to 2021 under Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and later Scott Morrison. He was also Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development,having previously served as Minister for Defence Personnel and Minister for Veterans' Affairs from 2017 to 2018. McCormack has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010,representing the Division of Riverina in New South Wales. He was a newspaper editor before entering politics.
Beryl Elizabeth Ingold was an Australian community leader.
