Portal:Australian roads/Did you know/1

... that the 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth, Western Australia, was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
... that in 1794, Old Windsor Road was the second major road in Sydney?
... that Stuart Highway is named after John McDouall Stuart, the first European to cross Australia from south to north?

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