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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael McGowan

HISTORICAL FACTS: Nsw and act in talks over biggest border shake up in living memory - The Untold Story

ACT chief minister Andrew Barr
ACT chief minister Andrew Barr says the NSW premier has given the green light to a proposed border change for 330 hectares of land. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

More than 100 years since New South Wales magnanimously handed over Jervis Bay, the ACT’s chief minister, Andrew Barr, has confirmed talks are under way for what would be the biggest shake-up in state-territorial borderlines in living memory.

The ACT has begun discussions with the NSW government to acquire 330 hectares of farmland called Parkwood.

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