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St George, Queensland
St George is a rural town and locality in the Balonne Shire, southwest Queensland, about 550 km west of Brisbane, on the Balonne River. Administrative centre of the shire, cotton-irrigation hub, 3,130 residents (2021), recurrent major floods.
Sydney
Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, is Australia's most populous city with over 5 million residents; it began in 1788 as a British penal colony on Gadigal land.
Tocumwal
Tocumwal, a Murray River town in Berrigan Shire, NSW, site of the Southern Hemisphere's largest 1942 wartime aerodrome, RAAF base to 1960, the Tocumwal Aviation Museum, gliding, and a 2021 population of 2,862.
Toowoomba
Toowoomba, the Garden City, is Queensland's largest inland city on the Darling Downs, settled from the 1840s, municipality 1860, railway 1867, GRP $15.54 billion in 2025.
Torquay, Victoria
Torquay, Victoria: Surf Coast town on Wadawurrung country, formerly Spring Creek/Puebla, renamed 1892. Home of Bells Beach, the Rip Curl Pro, Rip Curl and Quiksilver, and the start of the Great Ocean Road.
Townsville
Townsville, North Queensland city on Cleveland Bay, largest regional city outside Queensland's southeast; population 206,260 (2025), founded 1864, named for Robert Towns, dry tropical climate, major port and defence centre.
Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads is a NSW city at the Tweed River mouth, twinned across the state border with Coolangatta, Queensland. Key facts: 2021 census population 63,721, median age 48; Major Regional Centre of Tweed Shire; tourism worth about $1 billion a year.
Ulverstone, Tasmania
Ulverstone is a seaside town on Tasmania's northwest coast, at the mouth of the Leven River between Devonport and Burnie. Gazetted in 1861, it had 12,723 people in 2021.
Victor Harbor, South Australia
Victor Harbor, South Australia: coastal city on the Fleurieu Peninsula 80 km south of Adelaide, largest Fleurieu population centre (16,139 in 2021), known for Granite Island's horse-drawn tram, whaling-era history, southern right whales, and Australia's first public railway.
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, colloquially Wagga, is NSW's largest inland city, on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. Wiradjuri country; gazetted 1849, city 1946; population over 64,000; known for the Tichborne claimant, the Chiko Roll and Murrumbidgee flooding.
Walgett, New South Wales
Walgett, NSW: outback town on the Namoi River near its Barwon junction; name means meeting place of two rivers. Seat of Walgett Shire (22,308 km², 5,497 people), farming, opal-mining gateway, 1965 Freedom Ride site.
Windsor, New South Wales
Windsor, NSW: historic Hawkesbury River town about 50 km northwest of Sydney, formerly Green Hills, renamed by Macquarie in 1810 as one of five Macquarie towns; noted for colonial heritage and severe flooding.
Wollongong
Wollongong, a coastal city in New South Wales about 80 km south of Sydney and capital of the Illawarra Shoalhaven region; Dharawal country, coal and port history, $17.6B GRP, population forecast near 300,000 by 2046.
Yulara, Northern Territory
Yulara is a purpose-built tourist town in the Northern Territory near Uluru, named from Pitjantjatjara for "howling dingo"; gazetted 1975, resort opened 1984, now the Ayers Rock Resort base for Uluru-Kata Tjuta visitors.