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Western New South Wales is a very different proposition from the other parts of the state. For a start, there's hardly anyone living here. Beyond the Great Dividing Range are a few towns with a pioneer heritage, such as Bathurst and Dubbo , where there are still small agricultural communities and green fields; beyond them it begins to get increasingly desolate and arid, and even apparently large towns turn out to be tiny communities. Out beyond the Blue Mountains, the Great Western Highway takes you as far as Bathurst; from there the Mid-Western Highway goes on to join the Sturt Highway , which heads, via Mildura on the Victorian border, to Adelaide. Any route west is eventually obliged to cross the Newell Highway , the direct route between Melbourne and Brisbane that cuts straight across the heart of central New South Wales. The most exciting Outback routes head north and west, though, passing through Dubbo, at the junction of the Newell and Mitchell highways, and then plunging into real isolation: north to Lightning Ridge or Bourke and western Queensland, or west on the Barrier Highway , right across the state to Broken Hill , almost at the South Australian border.
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