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Where in South Australia would you witness people tossing Tunas as part of the Tunarama Festival?
Where along the NSW coast would you find the Koala Hospital?
The name of which inland city means 'place of many crows'?
Which Tasmanian convict settlement was named Carnavon from 1877 to 1927?
In which city would you find Cataract Gorge?
Where is Kardinia Park, home of the Cats Australian Rules team?
In which city does the Australian Cricket team play the annual Boxing Day Test?
Which QLD town is regarded as the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party?
The Western plains Zoo can be found in which NSW city?
Where is the Mount Panorama motor racing circuit?
Which city is nicknamed the 'Silver City'?
Which NSW city lies between Mount Keira and the pacific Ocean?
Which Northern NSW town had a whaling station from 1954 to 1962?
In which Queensland town did a herd of starving goats eat part of the local church in 1908?
Which QLD city grew from a settlement known in the 1850s as 'The Swamp'?
Which outback township sits at the junction of the Birdsville and Oodnadatta tracks?
Where was pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler born?
Which Remote QLD township attracts thousands of spectators to its annual race meeting?
Where in QLD is the Lavarack Barracks Army Base?
Where in SA did John Flynn open the first Australian Inland Mission medical service?
Where would you find South Australia's only commercial eucalyptus oil distillery?
Where can you travel to a goldmine on a 'talking' tram?
Which town sits at the junction of the Barrier Highway and Kidman Way?
Where was the Eureka Stockade?
Which state capital has the nickname 'Emerald City'?
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Which QLD city is known as the Beef Capital of Australia?
Where in VIC did the Chaffey brothers establish a water irrigation scheme in the 1880s?
Which NSW town boasts having Australia's 'most inland' shipwreck?
Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal is located near which NT town?
The name of which mining town is to come from the Aboriginal wprds meaning 'white man in a hole'?
Which city hosts the annual Beer Can Regatta?
What is the second oldest capital city in Australia?
Which QLD town was built to house miners working on one of the largest known bauxite deposits?
Which QLD town was named for the colour of its grass after rain?
Where is the 12m Golden Guitar?
The radio telescope featured in the film 'The Dish' is in which NSW town?
Which twin cities stand on either side of the Murray River?
Where would you find the Questacon science museum?
Which QLD town is the northern terminus of the 5000km Bicentennial National Trail?
Fort Scratchley was built in the 1880s to protect which city from a feared Russian invasion?
Which town on the Micthell River was a port for the Omeo region goldfields in the 1850s and '60s?
Which WA port is named after a French ship that sheltered there in 1792?
Tennis player Pat Rafter hails from which QLD mining centre?
Which SA city is a crossroads for the highs heading to Perth, Adelaide and Darwin?
All the streets of which outback QLD town are named after birds?
In which city is the Gabba sporting ground?
Which WA town was built in the late 1960s to house iron ore miners at Mount Whaleback?
Which mining centre boomed followed the discovery of gold in 1983 by Paddy Hannan?
Which outback town was established in 1947 to house personnel working at a nearby rocket range?
Where was the failed trading port of Somerset, set up in the 1860s as a rival to Singapore, located?

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