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Every plane over Australia, one Wednesday ✈️ This is one whole day of Australian sky, Wednesday 7 October 2026, midnight to midnight Sydney time: every aircraft the open ADS-B receivers tracked, moving minute by minute. The chart fills in with how many are in the air. 🌙 2:37 am: just 21 in the air, about half of them international jets. ⏰ 11:50 am: 409 in the air at once, the busiest minute. 214 of them small planes and helicopters, 146 domestic airliners, 49 international. ✈️ In one day: 2,109 different aircraft, about 1,694 domestic airline flights and 820 international ones over the map. Watch the middle of the country: planes vanish and reappear. That's not empty sky, it's where no ground receiver reaches, so a flight from Perth goes dark over the Nullarbor. Planes without ADS-B aren't shown. Is your suburb under a flight path? Sources: aircraft positions from adsb.lol's open ADS-B data (Open Database Licence); Microburbs. Check any address at microburbs.com.au #australia #flights #aviation #planes #maps

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Were both your parents born in Australia? In Sydney, you're in the minority 🌏 About two in three Sydneysiders are migrants, or the children of migrants. If Sydney were 100 people: 39 were born overseas (the first generation), 25 were born here to a mum or dad from overseas (the second generation), 31 have both parents born in Australia, and 5 didn't say. From migrant families, share of residents (2021 Census): Sydney 64% Melbourne 61% Perth 61% Canberra 51% Adelaide 50% Brisbane 47% Darwin 46% Hobart 33% Inside Sydney: Auburn North 91%, the Central Coast 34%. In Greenacre, 2 in 5 are second-generation migrants. And every wave becomes local in time. Among people with Italian heritage, fewer than six in ten still come from migrant families. Greek 68%, Lebanese 83%, Vietnamese 98%, Indian 99%. The typical Sydneysider comes from a migrant family. That's what makes the city. Which generation are you? 👇 Notes: from a migrant family = a migrant, or the child of one. First generation = born overseas; second generation = born in Australia with at least one parent born overseas (ABS terms). Counted as people with at least one parent born overseas, as a share of everyone counted, so slightly conservative. Heritage is self-described ancestry and people can give two. Source: ABS Census 2021 via Microburbs. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 #sydney #australia #census #multicultural #migration

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Every train and Metro in Sydney, one Tuesday 🚆🚇 This is the whole timetable for one ordinary weekday, Tuesday 13 October 2026: every train and Metro, moving along its route, minute by minute. The chart fills in with how many are running at each moment. 🌙 3:09 am: the first train of the day sets off. ⏰ 8:04 am: 192 trains running at once (Metro included), the busiest minute of the day. 🌃 2:01 am Wednesday: the last train finishes its run. In one weekday: 3,175 timetabled trips (2,741 trains and 434 Metro). Which line gets you to work? That's the published timetable, not live running. Trains include Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink intercity services within the frame. Sources: Transport for NSW GTFS timetable (open data, CC BY 4.0); ABS boundaries via Microburbs. Check how close any address is to transport at microburbs.com.au #sydney #trains #sydneymetro #publictransport #maps