Cheero Point is a residential

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of the Central Coast region of

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, Australia, located on the west bank of the Mooney Mooney Creek north of

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. It is part of the

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History

The area was created by a land subdivision in 1918. In 1977, the Geographical Names Board included the small locality within the suburb of

Mooney Mooney Mooney Mooney is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, at the end of a peninsula extending southwards into the Hawkesbury River estuary situated north of Sydney. It is where the Pacific Motorway and Pacific ...

. However, community pressure from residents and the Mooney-Cheero Progress Association Inc. led to Gosford City Council recommending the separate gazettal of Cheero Point in its meeting on 5 November 2002, and the suburb name was officially reassigned on 21 March 2003. The suburb made headlines when

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s near Jolls Bridge forced the closure of a 250-metre section of the Pacific Highway for several years. By March 1990, only one lane remained open, and in April 1991 the highway was closed to traffic following investigations by the Roads and Traffic Authority. As the road was the only alternative route to the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway between

Gosford Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extre ...

and

, which itself was prone to congestion, local service station owner

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collected 60,000 signatures demanding the re-opening of the road. The cost of restoring the highway was estimated at A$2.3 million in May 1993. The road was eventually re-opened in June 1994, and in the 1996 federal elections, Jim Lloyd was elected to represent the

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within which Cheero Point is located.

Geography

Cheero Point is bounded by the M1 Pacific Motorway to the west, Mooney Mooney Creek to the east, and the southern boundary of the

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to the north. It is traversed by the Pacific Highway.

References

Suburbs of the Central Coast (New South Wales) Hawkesbury River {{CentralCoastNSW-geo-stub