Blacktown City Council is a local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1906 as the Blacktown Shire and becoming the Municipality of Blacktown in 1961 before gaining city status in 1979, the City occupies an area of 246.9 square kilometres (95.3 sq mi) and has a population of 366,534, making it the second most populous local government area in Sydney.
Civil disturbances in Western Australia include race riots, prison riots, and religious conflicts – often Protestant versus Catholic groups.
Boulder is a suburb of Kalgoorlie in the Western Australian Goldfields, 597 kilometres (371 mi) east of Perth.
Kalgoorlie railway station is the easternmost attended station in Western Australia, located at the eastern terminus of the Eastern Goldfields Railway. It serves the city of Kalgoorlie. Beyond Kalgoorlie, the line continues east as the Trans-Australian Railway.
The Western Argus was a newspaper published in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, between 1894 and 1938.
George Victor "Mick" Pleass was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the VFA and Victorian Football League (VFL).
Richard Harry (Dick) Nash was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from 1943 until his death in 1951.
Beria is an abandoned town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Laverton on the Laverton-Leonora Road.
State Batteries in Western Australia were government owned and run ore-crushing facilities for the gold mining industry. Western Australia was the only Australian state to provide batteries to assist gold prospectors and small mines. They existed in almost all of the mineral fields of Western Australia.
The Westralian Worker was a newspaper established in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia in 1900 and published until its demise in 1951 in Perth, Western Australia.
Andrew Oswald Wilson (1866–1950), known professionally as A. Oswald Wilson, was an early-20th-century Western Australian architect. Born and trained as a carpenter in Victoria, he moved first to Perth and then to the Eastern Goldfields, where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins. He was president of the Mechanics' Literary and Debating Society in Boulder from 1904 to 1908, as well as active in the Boulder Benevolent Society. One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall for which he submitted designs in 1907. In December 1908 he moved back to Perth and practised from Forrest Chambers.
This is a list of newspapers published in, or for, the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Richard "Dick" Hamilton was a mine manager at Boulder, Western Australia.
The community of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia had an energetic newspaper publishing industry in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
The Evening Star was a daily newspaper published in the twin towns of Boulder and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia from 1898 to 1921.
Jabez Edward Dodd was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1910 until his death, representing South Province. He was elected as a member of the Australian Labor Party, but left the party in the 1917 Labor split and represented the Nationalist Party thereafter.
Robert Joseph Boylen was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1947 until his death, representing South Province (1947–1950) and South-East Province (1950–1955).
The Town of Kalgoorlie was a local government area in Western Australia, centred on the town of Kalgoorlie.
