Hay Town Centre
by Klaus Mayer
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The outback town of Hay is located on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina district of New South Wales, halfway between Sydney and Adelaide or 400 kilometres north of Melbourne.
The town has a population of about 2,500 and due to its location at the junction of Sturt, Cobb and Mid-Western highways, the town is an important hub supporting the surrounding agriculture industry.
The heritage listed Hay Post Office constructed in 1882 was designed by James Barnet. The two-storey ...
Lachlan Street is the main road of outback town Hay with numerous shops, pubs, cafes and eateries. Co...
Panorama of Moppet Street in Hay with courthouse and St Pauls Anglican Church built in 1885. The pres...
Visitors of the Bushy Bend Reserve will find colourful Warakirri Murals painted on the concrete pilla...
Panorama of the tree lined Murrumbidgee river at Hay. The 900 kilometre long river starts in the Snow...
The Hay Gaol was constructed 1879-1880 is a small country prison that houses now a museum for artifac...
The outback town Hay is located on the tree lined banks of the 900 kilometre long Murrumbidgee River ...
The railway arrived in Hay from Narrandera in 1882. The railway station (1882) is a Victorian bonded ...
Panorama of the railway station platform and the old carriages which feature now a museum for the int...
Shearing is a back breaking hard job and shearers have legendary status in Australia. Shear Outback i...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.
