Talk:List of towns in Australia

2019 update
It's been a while since I did this so I've updated the NSW section based on the New South Wales Geographical Names Register (GNR) which lists towns in NSW with the status "ASSIGNED", "RECORDED" or "VARIANT" with both "ASSIGNED" and "RECORDED" directly identifying valid towns. However, there are several towns that are not listed on the GNR as "ASSIGNED" or "RECORDED". There are various reasons for this, one of which is that some LGAs have listed all places as either a suburb or a locality, even if it is a town. My town of Raymond Terrace is one such example, which is how I came to discover the anomaly. While the direct entry has been changed the "VARIANT" (i.e. other name(s) by which the town is or was called) has not. This is how the remaining towns are identified. For convenience, I have listed how the towns are assigned in the following table. Towns listed as "Variant" are only identified on the register as a town by their variant name. Many towns have both "Assigned" and "Variant" entries but these are not identified here.


 * Notes

There are a number of places in the table marked as "not listed" as they are not shown on the GNR as "ASSIGNED" or "RECORDED" and there are no "VARIANT" names listed. However, their entries do state that they are towns despite registration as a locality or suburb so they are listed here. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 12:15, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Missing towns
A lot of places are missing. Why? 2001:8003:E105:1F00:8579:B54C:8F6D:3A28 (talk) 10:36, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Links to towns don't show any list
the links say list but there us no list coming 2.205.250.53 (talk) 10:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)