Describe The Differences Between Murray Bridge And Queanbeyan

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The communities of Murray and Queanbeyan have similar demographic feature, especially in ethnic and religion composition. Both of Murray Bridge and Queanbeyan communities, the most dominant ethnic are Australian and English. Australians are the origin people, so Australian live in all region. Meanwhile, England historically had invaded Australia so English might prefer to stay and to have family in Australia because they felt Australia as their second home. Most of English has Western Catholic as their religion since their convicts, that is why it become the most dominated religion, not only in Murray Bridge and Queanbeyan, but also in Australia wide.

However, there are some differences between the communities of Murray Bridge and Queanbeyan.

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