Regional centres
Increasingly regional centres are acting like sponges, sucking populations, employment, and populations from small towns.
Dubbo
Dubbo in central-western NSW is one of Australia’s fastest growing inland provincial cities. Dubbo lies at the junction of road transport routes which link Sydney to Perth and Melbourne to Brisbane. It is central to a large part of inland NSW and is best likened to a sponge, soaking up population and services from surrounding areas, including towns such as Gilgandra to the north. The town now has grown to be a hinterland centre, providing services such as banking, stock selling as well as government offices. Unlike many NSW towns which have lost a manufacturing industry, Dubbo now sustains small manufacturing activities such as a winery, and local wool scour and breweries. The growth of Dubbo is reasonably typical of the larger regional centres and is an exception to the rule of rural decline in NSW.
Bathurst
See video below.
Dubbo
Dubbo in central-western NSW is one of Australia’s fastest growing inland provincial cities. Dubbo lies at the junction of road transport routes which link Sydney to Perth and Melbourne to Brisbane. It is central to a large part of inland NSW and is best likened to a sponge, soaking up population and services from surrounding areas, including towns such as Gilgandra to the north. The town now has grown to be a hinterland centre, providing services such as banking, stock selling as well as government offices. Unlike many NSW towns which have lost a manufacturing industry, Dubbo now sustains small manufacturing activities such as a winery, and local wool scour and breweries. The growth of Dubbo is reasonably typical of the larger regional centres and is an exception to the rule of rural decline in NSW.
Bathurst
See video below.
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