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Federation Council, New South Wales
The Federation Council is a local government area located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. This area was formed in 2016 from the merger of the Corowa Shire with its neighbouring Urana Shire. The council comprises an area of and covers the urban areas of Corowa and Mulwala and the surrounding cropping and pastoral region to the north. It is bounded to the south by the Murray River and the state of Victoria. At the time of its establishment the council had an estimated population of . The inaugural mayor of Federation Council is Patrick Bourke from Urana, elected by his fellow councillors on 26 September 2017. Main towns and villages In addition to the main urban centres of Corowa, Urana and Mulwala, localities in the area include Balldale, Boree Creek, Buraja, Coreen, Daysdale, Hopefield, Howlong, Lowesdale, Morundah, Oaklands, Rand, Rennie and Savernake. Heritage listings The Federation Council has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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Corowa Shire
Corowa Shire was a local government area in the Riverina region in southern New South Wales, Australia. The area was located adjacent to the Murray River and the Riverina Highway. The Shire included the towns of Corowa, Howlong, Balldale, Coreen and Daysdale, Rennie and Mulwala. It was established in 1955 through a merger of the Corowa Municipality and Coreen Shire. Amalgamation A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that the Corowa Shire merge with the Lockhart and Urana shires to form a new council with an area of and support a population of approximately 16,000. The council was dissolved on 12 May 2016 and along with Urana Shire the area became part of the new Federation Council Council Composition and election method At the time of dissolution, Corowa Shire Council was composed of nine councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowesdale, New South Wales
Lowesdale is a town community in Australia in the central south part of the Riverina and situated about 2 kilometres north of Buraja and 92 kilometres east of Berrigan on the Riverina Highway. At the 2021 census, Lowesdale had a population of 100. Lowesdale Post Office opened on 1 August 1876 and closed in 1994. Sport and recreation In 1915, the small community of Lowesdale entered two football teams in the Coreen & District Football Association, Lowesdale FC and the Lowesdale Military FC who went onto win the 1915 premiership. Both teams went into recess in 1916 due to WW1 World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighti ... and neither team was ever re-established. Notes and references {{authority control Towns in the Riverina Towns in New South Wales Fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howlong
Howlong is a town west of Albury, and is situated on the Murray River which separates the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. The town is located on the Riverina Highway. There is a bridge across the Murray into Victoria. Howlong is in the Federation Council local government area. At the , Howlong had a population of 2,551. History Prior to the founding of the township the Surveyor-General of New South Wales at that time Major Thomas Mitchell crossed the Murray River during his exploration of the area. There is a monument to Mitchell on the Victorian side of the river which states that Mitchell and his party camped at the location on 17 October 1836 and then crossed the river slightly downstream of their camping point on the following day. Three years later two men with a property in the area set off on the second longest cattle drive of its kind attempted in Australia at that time driving 300 head to South Australia. Also in 1838 the site of the Mitchel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopefield, New South Wales
Hopefield is a rural community in the central south part of the Riverina. It is situated by road, about 12 kilometres south west of Balldale and 12 kilometres north east of Corowa. At the 2006 census, Hopefield had a population of 308 people. History Hopefield Post Office opened on 1 October 1882 and closed in 1954. In 1915, the Hopefield Hotel was built by local builder, J Mills and was situated right near the Railway Station. In 1946, the Hopefield Hotel, a brick building was completely destroyed by fire. In 1948, the transfer of the Hopefield Hotel's liquor license to Forster, NSW was refused, then in 1953, the license transfer was finally approved to a new hotel in Forster. Sports and recreation The Hopefield Football Club was established in 1922 and played in the Coreen & District Football Association for that one season only. After a 21 year break Hopefield FC reformed in 1943 to play several games against the Corowa Royals FC in the "Corowa Hostelr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daysdale
Daysdale is a locality in the central south part of the Riverina region of the Australian state of New South Wales. The locality is about south west of the state capital Sydney and north of Melbourne. At the 2021 census, Daysdale had a population of 83. History Daysdale Post Office opened on 15 February 1876 and closed in 1993. In 1876, the NSW Treasury issued a Return of Publican's Licence to William Curran Green of the Daysdale Hotel. In 1878, Price's Hotel, Daysdale was completely destroyed by fire in 1878. In 1883, the Daysdale School was established, thanks to the efforts of local MP, Mr. George Day, MLA. The Exchange Hotel was completely destroyed by fire in 1899, which was later rebuilt and opened in late 1900, with an enlarged cellar, fitted out with a bar in it. In 1913, Daysdale had a blacksmith's shop, hotel, post office, school and a store. Sports and recreation The Daysdale Football Club was first established in 1894. Daysdale FC won the Clear Hills F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coreen
Coreen is a locality in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The locality is about south west of the state capital, Sydney and north of Melbourne. Coreen is located just past the turn off to Berrigan along the Riverina highway. History Coreen Post Office opened on 1 January 1900 and closed in 1976. Mr. W A Martin from the Coreen Wine Hall purchased the liquor licence from the Phoenix Hotel in Corowa in 1912 and then built and opened the Coreen Hotel in 1913. Sport and recreation The Coreen Football Club was established in 1906 when they joined the Federal Football Association where they played up until 1908. Coreen then joined the Coreen & District Football Association in 1909. Coreen also supplied a second team in the Coreen & DFA between 1910 and 1915 in the Coreen Settler's FC who went onto win premierships in 1913 and 1914. The Coreen Settler's side was established from players from a Government land sub-division settlement in the Coreen Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buraja
Buraja ( ) is a town community in the central south part of the Riverina. It is about east of Berrigan on the Riverina Highway. The Aboriginal name Buraja means ‘a swamp with young trees growing.’ When people settled in the Buraja district in the 1860s there were two parishes – Lowes and Buraja. The name Lowes (Lowesdale) was taken from one of the owners of ‘Buraja Station,’ a local farm. The small town of Burrajaa or Burryjaa or Burryja, was spelt in a variety of ways in various newspapers between 1900 and 1950, with the most recent spelling of the town being settled as - "Buraja". History There was a Burryjaa Station, situated near Corowa, with an area of 26,000 acres, was initially owned by Mr. W F Martin in 1857. The property was later auctioned in March, 1876. The earliest reports of a hotel in Burraja was in 1876, when the license changed hands. Then in 1877 a Publican's License was approved for the Burraja Hotel. The first recorded race meeting was in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boree Creek
Boree Creek is a town in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located south west of the state capital, Sydney and west of the regional centre, Wagga Wagga. Boree Creek is situated in the Federation Council local government area but is closer to the town of Lockhart. At the , Boree Creek had a population of 64.Based on the resident population of meshblocks 10793330000, 10793340000, 10793350000, and 10793320000 fro2074.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016/ref> Like many of the smaller towns of the Riverina, it has seen its population decline in recent years. Boree Creek is most famous for being the home town of former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer. At times when Fischer was acting as Prime Minister, his property at Boree Creek became the "seat of power" of Australia. History Boree Creek Post Office opened on 1 August 1884 (it was closed between 1906 and 1911). Boree Creek is the last operating section of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balldale
Balldale is a village in the mid-southern part of the Riverina in New South Wales, Australia. It is about north-east of Corowa and about west of Brocklesby. Balldale was established when the large farm holding of the Quat Quatta Estate was sub-divided in the early 1900s, and named in honour of local politician Richard Ball (1857-1937). Balldale Post Office opened on 1 June 1905. The Balldale Hotel was built in 1905 by Albert Beard. Balldale Football Club Balldale FC commenced played in the following Australian Rules Football competitions in 1906, in the green and black colours initially, before the club eventually folded in 1977. In early April, 1927, Alby Anderson was appointed as the coach of Balldale in the Riverina Football Association; his father Bill owned the Carnsdale Hotel in Balldale at the time. Interestingly, in late April 1927, Anderson was granted a permit by the VFL from Richmond to the Albury Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League, but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corowa, New South Wales
Corowa is a town in the state of New South Wales in Australia. It is on the bank of the Murray River, the border between New South Wales and Victoria, opposite the Victorian town of Wahgunyah. It is the largest town in the Federation Council and was the administrative centre of the former Corowa Shire. The name could have derived from an Aboriginal word referring to the curra pine which yielded gum used by Aboriginal people to fasten the heads of spears to the shafts. Another translation is "rocky river". There are two bridges over the Murray to Wahgunyah in Victoria: the heritage-listed John Foord Bridge and the Federation Bridge (opened on 2 April 2005). The town in conjunction with nearby town Rutherglen has an Australian Rules football team ( Corowa-Rutherglen) competing in the Ovens & Murray Football League. Corowa Cougars compete in the Murray Cup rugby league competition. History Bangerang The Aboriginal people from the area are the Bangarang people. The tribe of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urana
Urana is a small town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is in the Federation Council local government area. Urana is located between Lockhart and Jerilderie, about southwest of the state capital, Sydney. To the west lies Lake Urana and the Lake Urana Nature Reserve. To the east lies a smaller lake, Lake Uranagong. Urana was the major town and headquarters of the former Urana Shire. The shire included the localities of Boree Creek, Morundah, Oaklands and Rand. The Urana district is used for raising sheep and for growing wheat and other grain crops. In the , there were 298 people in Urana, of these 56.3% were male and 43.7% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.7% of the population. History Urana was first settled by Europeans during the 1850s. In May 1859 a design for the "Town of Urana" by Surveyor Hayes was approved by the New South Wales Executive Council. The name Urana comes from the Aboriginal word ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
