Despite West Adelaide playing their 400th game at Richmond Oval when they faced Sturt on 7 April 2006, neither season would bring any joy for The Bloods or their supporters as they finished with the wooden spoon in each season.

From the time he returned in 1962 until 1968 Port Adelaide appeared in every SANFL Grand Final, unfortunately losing the last 3 in a row ( 1966 – 68 ) to the Jack Oatey coached Sturt who would go on to win 5 in a row ( adding 1969 and 1970 ) equalling the 5 in a row won by Williams and Port from 1954-58.

The deserts that have formed in the basin, including Sturt Stony Desert, Tirari Desert and the Strzelecki Desert, are most probably the southern hemisphere's largest source of airborne dust.

SA members are, or have previously been active in student unions such as the Queensland University of Technology Student Guild, Swinburne Student Union, La Trobe Student Union, Monash Student Association, University of Melbourne Student Union, RMIT Student Union, University of Western Sydney Students ' Association, University of Sydney Union, Charles Sturt University Students ' Association, Curtin University of Technology Student Guild, University of New South Wales Student Representative Council, University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association and Victorian College of the Arts Student Union.

Since 1974 radio communications installations erected at the summit have serviced the Civil Aviation Authority, ambulance, fire brigade, police, state emergency services and customs. 1952 photograph of the quarry near Sturt Street

In recent years, Centrals have built a dynasty rivalled in SANFL history only by the great Port Adelaide teams of the 1950s and 1990s and Sturt teams of the 1960s.

The Liberal Movement's successor party, the Australian Democrats, have traditionally polled well in Sturt, highlighted by 13. 5 percent at their first showing in the 1977 election and 15 percent in the 1990 election, the best result by a minor party in Sturt.

Founded as a rural village in 1838 on the banks of the Sturt River, Marion was found to have rich soil and the population expanded rapidly.

He maintained that Charles Sturt and Edward John Eyre were overrated as explorers as they seemed " generally to have a knack of getting into the most dismal places and finding barrenness from Dan to Beersheba ".

In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.

In November 1828, Hume journeyed with Charles Sturt into western New South Wales, where they discovered the Darling River, the Murray River's longest tributary.

Hume was able to communicate with some aborigines they met early in their journey who consented to act as guides, and later, when the aborigines left them, Sturt speaks with appreciation of Hume's ability in tracking their animals which had strayed.

He later accompanied Sturt and Hume in 1828.

Sturt became friendly with John Oxley, Allan Cunningham, Hamilton Hume and other explorers.

It consisted of Sturt, his servant Joseph Harris, two soldiers and eight convicts ; on 27 November Sturt was joined by Hamilton Hume as his first assistant.

Sturt proposed to travel down the Murrumbidgee River, whose upper reaches had been seen by the Hume and Hovell expedition.

In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River.

The Sturt Highway, part of Australia's National Highway network, also passes through the city on its way from Adelaide to its junction with the main Sydney – Melbourne route, the Hume Highway, a further 45 kilometres east.

* In Australia, Charles Sturt proves that the Hume and Murray are the same river.

The Sturt Highway commences at its junction with the Hume Highway near Gundagai south west of Sydney.

As well as linking with the Hume Highway, the Sturt Highway connects with:

The Mid-Western Highway is the most direct route between Sydney and Adelaide, however since the Hume Highway has been improved, the route via the Hume Highway and Sturt Highway through Wagga Wagga is probably superior and quicker despite being around 20km longer.

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The 11 kilometre section of the Hume Highway at Coolac was the last two-lane section of highway between Sydney and the Sturt Highway interchange.

Sturt briefly served as Commander on Norfolk Island where mutiny was brewing among the convicts, but in 1832 he was obliged to go to England on sick leave and arrived there almost completely blind.

With a small group of men, including explorer John McDouall Stuart as his draughtsman, Sturt pressed on across Sturt's Stony Desert and into the Simpson Desert, at which point he was unable to go further and turned back to the depot.

Memorable moments in the match include Neil Button's effort in ruck against Sturt's Rick Davies, John Wynne's charge into the Sturt coaches box, Michael Taylor's mark 1 metre out from Sturt's goal with a minute to go, Danny Jenkin's leaping smother of a shot for goal with just seconds left to play and Brian Adamson's five goals from centre half forward.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

Image: Sturt National Park5 with Western Grey Kangaroos. jpg | Sturt National Park with Western Grey Kangaroos

Gong played at the Big Chill festival in the UK between on 9 August 2009 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Sturt, Taylor and Travis in the line up, at the Beautiful Days Festival in Devon, 23 August 2009, and at the Lounge on the Farm festival near Canterbury in the summer of 2009.

Gong played four UK live shows in September 2010 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Sturt, Taylor and Ian East: O2 ABC Glasgow ( 9th ), Manchester Academy ( 10th ), HMV Forum London ( 11th ) and HMV Institute Birmingham ( 20th ).

Gong will be touring Europe in the fall of 2012 with the lineup of Allen, Smyth, Sturt, East, Orlando Allen on drums, and Fabio Golfetti on guitar.

Along with Sturt in 1828, he was part of an expedition of the first Europeans to discover the Darling River.

In 2006 Australian historians and scientists authenticated a tiny brass plate ( 15 cm x 2 cm ) marked " LUDWIG LEICHHARDT 1848 ", discovered in around 1900 by an Aboriginal stockman near Sturt Creek, between the Tanami and Great Sandy deserts, just inside Western Australia from the border with the Northern Territory.

A short documentary, Inland with Sturt ( 1951 ), was based on it.

* Inland with Sturt ( 1951 )

On the evening of December 20, as recorded in the minutes, Sturt could see Accum tear out and walk off with a paper concerning the ingredients and uses of chocolate.

An aunt made an appeal to the Prince Regent, and on 9 September 1813, Sturt was gazetted as an ensign with the 39th ( Dorsetshire ) Regiment of Foot in the British Army.

Sturt saw action with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and against the Americans in Canada, returning to Europe a few days after the Battle of Waterloo.

Sturt then proceeded down the Murray, until he reached the river's confluence with the Darling.

Sturt returned to Adelaide with his family, arriving back in August 1849.

But Sturt had renewed trouble with his eyes.

To capitalise on Bathurst's growth, education facilities and youthful population the Regional Council is progressing plans for a new Australian Centre for Science, Technology and Emerging Industries ( ACSTEI ), also known as the Technology Park, to be established adjacent to the Charles Sturt University Campus with the centre featuring next generation emerging industries.

Government sector employers with large local workforces include Country Energy with their District Field Office and Corporate Office, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Regional Council, the Land and Property Management Authority that provide mapping and survey data across NSW, the Greater Western Area Health Service – Regional Office, Bathurst Correctional Centre, Department of Education and Training – Regional Office, Police Service – Chifley Local Area Command, and NSW State Forests – Regional Office, and RailCorp's rail manufacturing workshops.