New England (New South Wales)
New England is the name of a region in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. New England has no defined boundaries and thus many possible definitions. In the scarcest New England can be defined as the area that is south of the border of Queensland Quirindi to contract and neither the coastal areas of northern New South Wales includes, yet the area west of the line Inverell - Gunnedah. A wider definition would be the area between Queensland and the Pacific Ocean, on the east coastal areas and in the west the area up to the line Boggabilla in the north - including Coonabarabran - Moree - Narrabri.
History
For several thousand years ago there lived in this area, particularly in the West, the Aboriginal tribe of the Kamilaroi. In the highlands the original languages Anaiwan were (or Nganaywana ) in the south (south of Guyra ) and Ngarrabal and Marabal in the north. These languages nowadays no longer exist.
The first white man who explored New England was John Oxley, who crossed the southern part of New England and in 1818 Port Macquarie discovered and named. 1827 Allan Cunningham, the botanist traveled in the western part of New England north to Darling Towns in Queensland. In the 1830s, the area was released for settlement, although the semi-tropical coastal areas remained poorly developed for many years.
Geography
The two traditional centers of New England Armidale and Tamworth are. In Armidale, the University of New England, Australia's oldest regional university is located. Tamworth is known as the center of the Australian country music industry. Nowadays, however, the growing on the coast centers Ballina, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie surpass them domestic centers.
The region lying inland includes some of Australia's largest wool -producing areas. The coastal areas support semi-tropical agriculture, for example, sugar cane, and are also important tourist destinations, especially the northern coastal towns like Byron Bay and Murwillumbah.
New England is crossed by the New England Highway, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes and Tenterfield links and a main route between Queensland and New South Wales. The New England railway line follows the same route and was the first railway line, which connected the two countries. Nowadays mainly the railway line is used at the coast, the New England railway line north of Armidale is out of service. The Oxley Highway, the Gwydir Highway and Bruxner Highway passing through New England from west to east.
The New State Movement
New England was the home of Australia's beharrlichstem attempt to form a new state in the Australian community. Many residents of New England's long resented the fact that they were governed from Sydney, especially if - as was usually the case - a workers' government in New South Wales ruled, dominated by urban interests. In the 1930s and again in the 1960s, the New State Movement called for the separation of New England from New South Wales. The movement was closely allied with the Country Party, expected to be able to form the government of such a new state.
Although Chapter VI of the Australian Constitution permits the formation of new states, but only with the consent of the Parliament of the State concerned. This agreement has never been the Parliament of New South Wales.
Cities in New England
- Armidale
- Tamworth
- Glen Innes
- Tenterfield
- Inverell
- Warialda
- Walcha
- Guyra
- Ben Lomond
- Uralla
- Manilla
- Barraba
- Bingara
- Bundarra
- Ebor
- Deepwater
- Bendemeer
- Werris Creek
- Quirindi
- Geography (New South Wales)