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New South Wales

New South Wales
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About New South Wales

New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. As of September 2025, the population of New South Wales was over 8.6 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population live in the Greater Sydney area.

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This is in New South Wales, and it's the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital. They had a lot of fires in Australia recently and a lot of the koalas got burned, and they found that by feeding them poo milkshakes the koalas are getting better a lot quicker.

from No Such Thing As Heavy Snuggle-Pupping, 2020-01-31 at 00:39:44 · read transcript

Other times New South Wales came up

  1. What's particularly exciting about this is that, in the 1970s, Cox and Zucker met each other and went, oh, we've got to ride a paper. LAUGHTER The invention came after the juvenile dream of having a Cox-ucker paper. Dan, these things are coordinate rings and algorithms as the greatest mathematician New South Wales has ever produced. LAUGHTER Can't you explain perhaps what they are? Yes, I would, James.

    493: No Such Thing As An X, 2023-08-24 · listen

  2. Done. Do you want to hear? This is a great one. This is an Australian one. We're going to Australia soon. This might be helpful from Will Davies from Emerald Beach, New South Wales. Familiar to? It's by the coast, I think. I'll do this one as a riddle as well, actually. The third largest airline in Australia does not charge its passengers to fly. It's gonna be animals that it's...

    548: No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 · listen

  3. That's so good. Brilliant. Done. Do you want to hear, this is a great, this is an Australian one. We're going to Australia soon. This might be helpful. From Will Davies from Emerald Beach, New South Wales. Familiar to? It's by the coast, I think. I'll do this one as a riddle as well, actually. The third largest airline in Australia does not charge its passengers to fly. What?

    No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 · listen

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