Bourke, New South Wales

Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in Bourke Shire, Bourke is approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) north-west of the state capital, Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River. At the 2006 census, Bourke had a population of 2,047, of whom 762 (or 37%) identified as Indigenous Australians.