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Collarenebri is a town of approximately 800 persons in north central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in Walgett Shire, on the Barwon River approximately 75 km northeast of Walgett on the Gwydir Highway.

The name Collarenebri comes from Gamilaraay galariinbaraay, literally "having acacia blossoms".

Industries in the area include cotton, wheat and cattle farming. Other activities include fossicking for gemstones such as topaz, agate and petrified wood.

Some fishing is also done on the Barwon River.

Collarenebri was among the last places in Australia to be converted from a manual switchboard to an automatic telephone exchange.

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New South Wales

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Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State
Motto(s): "Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites"
(Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine)

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Walgett Shire
New South Wales

Location in New South Wales

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• Density: 8,279
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  • The Barwon River (New South Wales) is a river in New South Wales, Australia.
  • The Barwon River (Victoria) is a river in Victoria, Australia.


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Walgett
New South Wales

Population: 1821[]

Postcode: 2832

Elevation: 133 m

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Gwydir Highway

Length 580 kilometres
General direction: West-East
From: Walgett, NSW
To: Grafton, NSW
Towns along highway: Collarenebri, Moree, Inverell, Glen Innes The Gwydir Highway
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The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi (see below for other spellings) language is a Pama-Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in South East Australia.
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Acacia
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About 1,300; see List of Acacia species

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Linnaeus in 1773.
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Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India, and Africa.
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Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic group and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces, the basal pinacoid often being
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Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks but can be common in certain metamorphic rocks.
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Petrified wood (from the Greek root "petro" meaning "rock" or "stone", literally "wood turned into stone") is a type of fossil: it consists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the
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Anthem
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Capital Canberra

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The telephone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly speech). Most telephones operate through transmission of electric signals over a complex telephone network which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost anyone.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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