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Australian regional rivalries refers to the rivalries between Australian cities or regions. ==Sydney–Newcastle rivalry== The oldest Australian regional rivalry dating back to 1804. Sydney has traditionally been politically right-winged compared to Newcastle being politically centre-left. Newcastle has a continued resentment of Sydney due to Sydney's continued mistreatment of Newcastle. This may be due to Newcastle's population was mainly working class, whereas, Sydney was home to the rich politicians and bureaucrats. Even after more than 200 years, Newcastle's culture is still very independent from Sydney's culture even though they are only approximately 160 km apart. In the last 20 years, Sydney has been jealous of Newcastle dramatic increase of tourism and popularity from around the world, and has actively tried to sweep Newcastle under the figurative rug to attempt to keep as much revenue from tourism in Sydney. On the New South Wales official tourism webpage, Newcastle has intentionally been made extremely difficult to find by listing it under an area it isn't in, and intentionally limiting the word Newcastle to only being mentioned once on the entire webpage. This is evidence of Sydney's contempt of Newcastle.〔http://www.visitnsw.com/〕 Regardless of Sydney's sabotage attempts on Newcastle tourism, Newcastle has been listed as #9 in the 2011 Lonely Planet's top 10 cities for 2011 stating: ''9. Newcastle. Is it Australia's most underrated city? Anyone surprised to see Newcastle on the list of 2011's hottest cities (and there's a few of you, right?) probably hasn't pulled in off the Pacific Highway, or at least not for a while. Newcastle flies under the radar of Aussies and international travellers in part because it's overshadowed by its bigger, bolder and better-known sibling, Sydney, 150km south. But, at around one-tenth the size, Australia's second-oldest city has Sydney-like assets: surf beaches, a sun-drenched subtropical climate, and diverse dining, nightlife and arts. Not only is Newcastle ideally located just two hours by road or rail or 30 minutes by plane or seaplane from Sydney, it's less than an hour's drive west to the Hunter Valley wineries, south to sailboat-filled Lake Macquarie, north to whale-watching and sharkfeeding at Port Stephens and to sandboarding at Stockton Beach (the southern end of the 32km-long beach is a five-minute ferry ride across Newcastle's harbour)''.〔http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-tips-and-articles/76165〕 Lonely Planet also has a separate page for Newcastle with this description: ''For many years the port city of Newcastle has been on the brink of big things. Coal, steel and timber was her lifeblood but the cultural, the gastronomical and the creatively entrepreneurial have been on the rise for a long while, and now Newcastle's time has finally come. Newcastle may be one-tenth the size of Sydney, but Australia's second-oldest city is punching well above its weight. Superb surf beaches, historical architecture and a sun-drenched climate are only part of the city’s charms. There is fine dining, hip bars, quirky boutiques, and a diverse arts scene. And did we mention the laid-back attitude? Yes, Newcastle is definitely worth a day or two of your time.''.〔http://www.lonelyplanet.com/australia/new-south-wales/newcastle#ixzz3s9aoqydl〕 In 2015, (much to Sydney's resentment) Newcastle became Australia, Oceania & (with exception to Kuala Lumpur) South East Asia's, only United Nations city.〔https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured-news/newcastle-to-become-a-united-nations-city-and-asia-pacific-training-hub〕 In 2014, Sydney sold the port of Newcastle on a '99-year lease'. In 2015, Sydney sold Newcastle rail's, even though more than 80% of Novocatrians wanted the rail to remain. Sydney then announced to sell all public transport in Newcastle and to discontinue the Newcastle ferries. These actions were taken even though the party in power (Liberal National Party) was found guilty of corruption and accepting bribes, and did not have an elected member anywhere near Newcastle (more than 100 km away) . Even though it had been revealed that the sale of Newcastle and its assets was the result of Sydney corruption, Sydney continued to sell off Newcastle, to produce more revenue for Sydney's economic black hole. The Newcastle-Sydney rivalry is not only symbolic but it is also very vicious and vindictive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian regional rivalries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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