Some of our capital cities are in Woop Woop

The capitals of the Northern Territory and Tasmania, Darwin and Hobart, are not classified as major cities. In fact, on the Remoteness scale above, the busiest parts of the Northern Territory are in category 3: Outer Regional Australia.

 “In any given Remoteness Area there may be rich people, poor people, indigenous and non-indigenous, graziers, manufacturers, town dwellers and rural people.”

Some people who live in the middle of nowhere do live in towns, but still have extremely limited access to services, or opportunities for social interaction.

Although Tasmania is one of the oldest States and reasonably well developed, people who need specialist surgery or cancer treatments must either fly or travel by overnight ferry and car to Melbourne in Victoria.