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Dubbo is a city in the Central West Region of NSW, Australia with a population of more than 30,500.  Evidence of habitation by aboriginal Australians dates back approximately 40,000 years.  John Oxley was the first European to report on the area now known as Dubbo in 1818.  The first permanent settler in the area was Robert Dulhunty, described as one of the wealthiest citizens in the Australian colony at the time. Dulhunty occupied a property, known as Dubbo station, from the early 1830s on a squatting basis, then after 1836, with the passing of the Squatting Act in 1836 he took out a licence on the property.  Dulhunty showed an affinity with the local natives - his party included some 40 Aborigines and he favoured using Aboriginal names for properties, including Dubbo. Dubbo is now thought to be a mispronunciation of the local Wiradjuri word "Thubbo".

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Perth is the capital of Western Australia with a population of 1.65 million.  Perth was founded on 12 June 1829 by Captn. James Stirling as the political centre of the free-settler Swan River Colony - free from convict transportees.  Perth became known worldwide as the "City of Lights" as city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut, John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on "Friendship 7" in 1962.  The city repeated its feat as Glenn passed overhead on the Space Shuttle in 1998.

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Stanley - An attractive fishing port situated on the north-west coast of Tasmania, established in 1826 by the Van Diemen's Land Company. In 1832 the company built the nearby Highfield House as its first headquarters.  This historic little town, with its original cottages and other buildings, has been well preserved. It is dominated by The Nut, an unusual flat-topped circular headland 152 metres high.  It is also where Nola's ancestors first settled in 1841.

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