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Living and working in healthcare jobs in Wagga Wagga and Riverina NSW
The Riverina, with its distinctive well-irrigated fertile flat plains and healthy hot weather, makes it one of the most productive and agriculturally diverse areas in Australia. It includes the chunk of land bordered by the state of Victoria in the south, the alluvial rich Murray and Murrumbidgee drainage zones until their confluence in the west where it extends into saltbush outback and the softly rolling terrain up to the Great Dividing Range in the east. Wagga Wagga is the regional capital that provides its 64,000 residents with a contemporary rural lifestyle combined with an exciting urban outlook.
Located 450 kilometres south-west of Sydney and 460 kilometres north of Melbourne, Wagga Wagga remains an important agricultural, military, and transport hub.
The Riverina farming regions are famed to be the ‘food-bowl of Australia’, producing high quality rice, wheat, maize, canola, citrus and wine grapes. Wagga’s Gross Regional Product is estimated at $3.60 billion. Health care and social assistance is the largest employer, making up 14.4% of total employment and generating over 3,700 jobs.
Wagga houses the local campus of the Charles Sturt University. The Riverina Institute, a collection of TAFE institute campuses, has its headquarters here. People from all over Riverina and the wider NSW avail of Wagga’s ample shopping facilities. The region is a haven for food lovers, bustling with restaurants, cafes and wineries that feature the best of the local produce and legendary country hospitality. The scenic outdoors of the city are sprinkled with historic landmarks, buildings and museums.
Healthcare Jobs and Medical Careers in Wagga Wagga and Riverina NSW
The health service in Riverina is administered by Greater Southern Area Health Service, and Murrumbidgee Local Health District is responsible for the operation of public hospitals and health institutions. The Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (PHN) supports the health professionals in the area. A Referral Base Hospital and Health Service centre is located at Wagga Wagga. The Wagga Wagga Hospital is a large regional hospital with a state-of-the-art emergency department.
The region is well-connected through a network of roads and highways including Hume, Newell, Sturt Riverina, Cobb and Olympic Highways, and Kidman, Irrigation and Burley Griffin Ways. Bus, coach, taxi and railway services are readily available. Wagga Wagga Airport, one of the busiest regional airports, services daily flights to Sydney and Melbourne.
Wagga Wagga and Riverina, with their thriving arts, food and literary culture offer a myriad of opportunities and pleasures. Added to that are the unbeatable housing prices at Wagga Wagga, with a median housing price of $390,750 and median weekly rent of $240 only.
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