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New South Wales Aboriginal History Aboriginals were estimated to have come to Australia 120,000 years ago. They lived in separate groups. Each group had their own language and traditions but they came together for trade, ceremonies, marriage and sometimes war. It is thought that the aboriginal population was 40,000. Some people even thought it was even bigger than 750,000. All groups had responsibilities for their own land and helped gather food up.

**The effect of European settlement** Europeans arrived in New South Wales and they didn’t really know the realationship that the aboriginals had with their own land. The Europeans cleared their land and began building crop and cattle. The aboriginals had to go onto more places and they had to move away from the places that they settled into. The aboriginals found it impossible to link to land it was terrible to die outside ones territory. When the aboriginals moved to different groups they would be conflicted. Diseases came with white settlers and made aboriginals sick and most aboriginals couldn’t survive so most died.

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In Australia there are three levels of government federal, state and local. In New South Wales the state government legislate makes laws on all affecting matters in New South Wales. Capital City Sydney is the largest city in Australia. Its population is approximately 4.34 million in 2008. It is the state capital of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British colony in Australia. Situated on an inlet of the Tasman Sea, Sydney is built on low hills surrounding Port Jackson. It was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip, admiral of the First Fleet from Britian. Sydney is situated on Australia's south-east coast. The city is built around Port Jackson, which includes Sydney Harbour, leading to the city's nickname, "the Harbour City". The city is home to the iconic Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge and its beaches. The metropolitan area is surrounded by national parks, and contains many bays, rivers and inlets. Sydney is considered an alpha world city, listed by the Loughborough University group's 2008 inventory and ranked 16th among global cities by Foreign policy's 2008 Global Cities Index.The city has hosted international sporting events, including the 1938 British empire games, 2000 summer olympics and the final of the 2003 rugby world cup. The main airport serving Sydney is Kingsford Smith internatinal airport, as Sydney Airport. The premier of New South Wales is Nathan Rees. The population of New South Wales is 6,869.
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**Landmarks and Tourist attractions**

Tourism is an important part of the economy of New South Wales. People who came to the state from overseas or from interstate put a great deal of money into the economy. They stay in hotels, buy souvenirs and pay entry fees to attractions. All these activities also provide jobs for the states residence. Sydney was named as the host city for the year 2000 Olympic games. Two of the most recognisable symbols of Australia are the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, both which are located in Sydney. Over four million tourists visit Sydney each year. The most popular attractions are the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, the Rocks, Bondi Beach, Darling Harbour, the Powerhouse Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Blue Mountains, Stanwell Park, and Taronga Zoo. They also visit the Harbour itself. The Harbour is really three harbours. Port Jackson, Middle Harbour, and Sydney Harbour. It also contains many bays and beaches and forested headlands

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**Native Plants and Animals** Plants //Dicksonia antarctica// is a soft green fern. It is wide-spread species growing from south-eastern Queensland, and through the NSW region. In Australia there are no other Dicksonia besides NSW. In the wild this species likes to live in moist areas with high water content in wet forests, along creek beds, in gullies and also in cloud forests. ===== The glossy black-cockatoo is smaller than a black cockatoo. It is about 46-50 cm long, it has a small crest. The male is browner on the head and a black tail. The female has a wider tail it is reddish yellow neck, barred with black, it also has yellow mark around its head.
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The road between Melbourne and Sydney travels for much of the way along the Great Dividing Range. It go’s through the Murray River towns of Albury and Wodonga developed when paddle steamer boats were made that are along the river. Which was the only way of marketing the bounties of the river land soils. The road passes near the Snowy Mountains, through the Riverina, Bushranger Country, and the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. From Yass or Goulburn you can take a longer road to visit the capital of Australia, Canberra.
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* Wikipedia [] Morrissey, D 1984, //New South Wales,// National library of Australia
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 * Gott, R 1997, //New South Wales// **//, H ** einemann **// library, Melbourne
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