Question: Which New South Wales town is larger, Port Macquarie or Bonny Hills?

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The Parramatta Female Factory, in the former penal colony of New South Wales, is located in the grounds of Cumberland Hospital, North Parramatta, New South Wales.  It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.  In New South Wales, female factories were also established in Bathurst, Newcastle, Port Macquarie and Moreton Bay (2 factories).  The factory idea was a combination of the functions of the British bridewells, prisons and workhouses. The 41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, (41 RNSWR), is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.  A Reserve unit, it is one of four battalions of the Royal New South Wales Regiment and is attached to the 8th Brigade, 2nd Division.  It is based in northern New South Wales, with its headquarters in Lismore and depots in a number of locations including Tweed Heads, Taree, Grafton, Kempsey, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour.  In its present form the battalion was raised in 1965, however, it can trace its lineage back to a Scottish Rifles unit formed in 1899.  It also perpetuates the battle honours and traditions of a battalion that served on the Western Front during the First World War. Eli James Harrison (12 October 1903 – 9 September 1976) was an Australian politician.  Born in Port Macquarie, New South Wales to farmer William Binney and Sophia Selina Turnbull, he was educated at state schools.  He then worked on a dairy farm before joining New South Wales Railways in 1925.  He was an official of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen from 1930 to 1949, and was its president in 1948.  He was active in local Labor Party politics, and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1943.  He held that position until 1949, when he transferred to federal politics, defeating former New South Wales Premier Jack Lang for the new seat of Blaxland.  He held the seat until his retirement in 1969.  He first married Una Grace May Brown at Pleasant Plains, near Port Macquarie, NSW, on 15 October 1924, three days after reaching adulthood.  This marriage was dissolved on 6 July 1968.  He subsequently married Joyce Ethel McGovern on 7 September 1975 at North Melbourne, but died the following year. Port Macquarie is a coastal town in the local government area of Port Macquarie-Hastings.  It is located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, about 390 km north of Sydney, and 570 km south of Brisbane.  The town is located on the Tasman Sea coast, at the mouth of the Hastings River, and at the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56).  The town with its suburbs had a population of 45,698 in June 2016. Port Macquarie Airport (IATA: PQQ, ICAO: YPMQ) is an airport in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.  The airport is 2.25 NM west of the city center and is owned and managed by the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council (ABN 11 236 901 601) on behalf of its owners - the constituents of the Hastings.  The ownership is not to be confused with the Port Macquarie Airport Proprietary Limited (ABN 88 002 323 122).  The airport had 218,897 revenue passengers, the 29th busiest in Australia, and 5,236 aircraft movements in the 2010-2011 financial year. Bonny Hills is a town in New South Wales, Australia about 30 minutes drive south of Port Macquarie.  As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,870 people. Atherosperma moschatum, the southern sassafras or blackheart sassafras, is an evergreen tree native to the cool temperate rainforests of Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales in Australia.  It is common in the rainforests of Tasmania and Victoria, but more scattered and rare in the higher altitudes of eastern New South Wales.  The northernmost area is at Mount Grundy, west of Port Macquarie. Leslie Gladys Williams (born on Kangaroo Island, South Australia), an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Port Macquarie since 2011 for the Nationals.  Williams has served as the New South Wales Assistant Minister for Education, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and Minister for Early Childhood Education since 2 April 2015. The dismissal of the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council on 27 February 2008 marked the end of a series of events involving a project which was initiated in 2001 in the New South Wales coastal town of Port Macquarie to build a cultural and entertainment centre, known to locals as the Glasshouse.  The project, initially a joint venture with the management of the neighbouring shopping centre, Port Central, was originally expected to cost the Council A$ 7.3 million.  However, by late 2007, despite the centre not yet having opened, the costs had blown out to over A$41.7 million, with interest repayments likely to extend the Council's liability to A$66 million. Macquarie County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia.  It is bordered to the north by the Apsley River, and to the south by the Manning River.  It includes Port Macquarie and the area around it.

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Bonny Hills is a town in New South Wales, Australia about 30 minutes drive south of Port Macquarie.  As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,870 people. Port Macquarie is a coastal town in the local government area of Port Macquarie-Hastings.  The town with its suburbs had a population of 45,698 in June 2016.