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Hi Geoff,
There are a few places in the outer Central west I can recommend.
Turn off Lachlan Valley Way about 3km before Boorowa onto Cunningar Rd. (First Photo) A few km along there is a bridge over the Boorowa River with a spot where you can get off the road near the bridge. It's a bypass road leading to a causeway crossing. There is a derelict rail bridge there. -34.466956, 148.676282. The cocky's pass by occasionally going to and from pub. Later after closing time, that traffic ceases. You can get accommodation in Boorowa is desired or pitch a tent or park a caravan there. Skies are at least Bortle 2 there. In cold weather, it's a little fog prone.
The Goldfields highway out near West Wyalong is much darker and drier. (2nd photo with wheat silo) Motels in WW are pretty cheap. There are many places you can go. Railway sidings at stand-alone wheat silos not located in towns are happy hunting grounds. They usually don't have much artificial lighting and you can drive in 100m off the main road to park. Back roads in this area are well off the highway and often have large verges on which you can set up. Skies are Bortle 1 or borderline Bortle 1/2. There are relatively few remote dark national parks out here, mostly private farmlands but many highway rest stops and broad verges.
Link highways that run north south connecting major east-west routes carry far less traffic especially trucks. The Olympic Highway and the Goldfields are two such examples.
Like Yass, WW Boorowa are accessible via the Hume Hwy which is much faster and free flowing to put distance between you and Sydney than going out through the Blue mountains. I live 230km east of Sydney as the crow flies rural midway between Young and Cowra well off the highway. Skies overhead are borderline between Bortle 1/2. Photographically, I can pick up a faint glow on the east horizon from Sydney, can't really see it visually.
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