Deniliquin () is a town in the western

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region of south-western

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, Australia, close to the border with Victoria. It is the largest town in the Edward River Council local government area. Deniliquin is located at the intersection of the

and Cobb Highway approximately south west of the state capital,

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and due north of

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. The town is divided in two parts by the

Edward River Edward River, or Kolety is an anabranch of the Murray River and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the western Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The river rises at Picnic Point east of Mathoura, as a r ...

, an

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of the

Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray; Ngarrindjeri language, Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta language, Yorta Yorta: ''Dhungala'' or ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is List of rivers of Australia, Aust ...

, with the main business district located on the south bank. The town services a productive agricultural district with prominent dairy, rice, wool and timber industries. At the , the urban population of Deniliquin was .

Prehistory

Deniliquin is the namesake of the deeply buried Deniliquin multiple-ring structure, which is suggested to be at the core of a 320 mile diameter

impact structure An impact structure is a generally circular or craterlike geologic structure of deformed bedrock or sediment produced by impact on a planetary surface, whatever the stage of erosion of the structure. In contrast, an impact crater is the surface e ...

formed by a meteor strike over 400 million years ago, possibly responsible for the

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History

Prior to European colonisation, the

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traditional owners of the Deniliquin area are the

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people. In 1843, the entrepreneur and speculator

Benjamin Boyd Benjamin Boyd (21 August 180115 October 1851) was a Scotland, Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, Squatting (Australia), grazier, politician and Blackbirding, blackbirder in the British colony of New South Wales. He wa ...

acquired land in the vicinity of present-day Deniliquin (probably via his agent Augustus Morris). The location was then known by colonists as The Sandhills. Although there are several origin stories for the name Deniliquin, the most common suggests Boyd (or Morris) named it after 'Denilakoon', a local Indigenous Elder, famed for his wrestling prowess. An inn and a punt were established on the site between 1845 and 1847; the town site was surveyed in 1848, and gazetted in 1850. The original

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force of Frederick Walker was organised at Deniliquin in 1848. The Deniliquin Post Office opened on 1 January 1850. In 1853,

William John Wills William John Wills (5 January 1834 – ) was a British surveyor who also trained as a surgeon. He was the second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a ...

of the

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worked as a shepherd at the Royal Bank sheep station near Deniliquin. As Deniliquin was established on the convergence of major stock routes between the colonies of

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and the

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centres of Victoria, it soon became an important river crossing and the first bridge was built over the Edward River in 1861. The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company built a private railway in 1879 to connect with

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, across the Murray River from the busy river port of

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, connected by rail to Melbourne. Deniliquin water trough

Wool Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal w ...

growing quickly became a major industry and the area around Deniliquin was home to several

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studs. In 1861, George Hall Peppin and his two sons, experienced English sheep breeders, established a Merino stud at Wanganella station, north of Deniliquin. There, the brothers developed the Peppin Merino, able to thrive in drier inland regions. Today, as many as 70 per cent of Merinos in Australia are said to be directly descended from these sheep. In the 1860s, Deniliquin was the centre of a short-lived campaign by wealthy pastoralists including Peppin, George Desailly, Robert Landale and William Brodribb for secession from New South Wales and the creation of a new Riverina colony. This campaign was supported by David Jones, proprietor of the local newspaper, the ''Pastoral Times''. A Post Office was opened in Deniliquin on 1 January 1850. The first Telegraph Office was a privately constructed and operated office in concert with Moama. In March 1858, the Victorian Government had extended its telegraph line from Bendigo (Sandhurst) through Castlemaine to Echuca. The nearest New South Wales telegraph lines to the Echuca-Deniliquin area at that time were at Albury, Gundagai and Bathurst. Hence the pro-active citizens of Echuca and Deniliquin formed the Deniliquin and Echuca Telegraph Company and built and operated their own private line across the border to Echuca and Bendigo through to Melbourne and beyond from 24 March 1859. Finally the N.S.W. Government took the private company over and created its own offices and telegraph lines. The Government Telegraph Office at Deniliquin opened on 1 August 1861. It merged with the Post Office on 1 January 1870 before separating on 1 August 1875 and then getting back together on 29 June 1901. On 19 December 1868, Deniliquin was constituted as the Municipality of Deniliquin, and the first municipal election was held on 23 February 1869. In 1993, the enactment of the Local Government Act (NSW) saw the name of the council changed from the Municipality of Deniliquin to the Deniliquin Council. Large-scale irrigation schemes came to the Deniliquin area with the establishment of the Deniboota and Denimein Irrigation Districts in 1938 and the Berriquin Irrigation District in 1939, using water diverted from the Murray River at

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through the Mulwala Canal. An ample and reliable water supply led to the development of water-intensive industries such as rice growing. During the

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, RAAF Station Deniliquin was home to No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF. It was also a final disbanding site for squadrons returning from active duty against the Japanese in the Pacific. No. 22 Squadron RAAF and No. 30 Squadron RAAF were disbanded here in 1946, and in 1945 and 1946 it was also a base for No. 78 Squadron RAAF before it was finally disbanded in Williamtown. Also during World War II, Muswellbrook was the location of RAAF No.15 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed on 29 August 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the

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and the

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at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000). In April 2006, the ''

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'' reported on its front cover that the Edward River was dry, with an accompanying photograph showing a dry creek. This was later revealed to be erroneous; the photograph was of an unknown channel on a farm within of Deniliquin, while the Edward River was in fact still running. Deniliquin Council and members of the Deniliquin community have since attempted to rectify the damage to local tourism by improving the profile of Deniliquin in various media outlets.

Heritage listings

Deniliquin has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Cressy Street (South): Old St Paul's Anglican Church * Cressy Street: Waring Gardens * 72 End Street: Deniliquin 12 Pounder Rifled Breech-Loading Gun * 72 End Street:

Deniliquin 75mm Field Gun Deniliquin 75mm Field Gun is a heritage-listed Artillery#Artillery piece, artillery piece and war trophy located in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Deniliquin, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built during ...

* George Street:

Deniliquin Public School and School Master's Residence Deniliquin () is a town in the western Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia, close to the border with Victoria. It is the largest town in the Edward River Council local government area. Deniliquin is located at the inte ...

* Poictiers Street: St Andrew's Uniting Church

Population

According to the , there were 6,431 people in Deniliquin. *

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people made up 5.6% of the population. * 82.9% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England at 1.1%, New Zealand 0.9%, India 0.6%, Germany 0.3%, and the

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0.3%. * 86.8% of people spoke only English at home, the next most common languages spoken at home included

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0.3%, Sinhalese 0.2%,

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0.2%,

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0.2%, and

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0.2%. * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 37.4%,

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21.8%,

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14.6 and

Uniting Church The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) is a united church in Australia. The church was founded on 22 June 1977 when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost a ...

6.5%; a further 10.5 per cent of respondents elected not to disclose their religion.

Industry

Deniliquin is a service centre for the surrounding agricultural region. The region includes both

dryland Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water. Drylands are zones where precipitation is balanced by evaporation from surfaces and by transpiration by plants (evapotranspiration). The United Nations Environment Program defines drylands as tropical ...

and

irrigated Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has be ...

areas. The dryland areas support grazing, in particular beef cattle and wool growing. Deniliquin is home to many famous Merino studs and the saltbush plains produce quality medium class wool. The irrigated areas produce a range of high-yield crops. Rice was a major crop until the recent drought. The largest rice mill in the southern hemisphere is in Deniliquin, producing large packs and bulk rice for export markets. The rice mill closed in December 2007 and will reopen in April 2011. Deniliquin is also the headquarters of Murray Irrigation Limited, an irrigator owned private company and one of the largest privately owned irrigation supply companies in the world. Murray Irrigation manages the operations of the Berriquin, Deniboota, Denimein and Wakool Irrigation Areas in the Murray Valley. These areas produce 50% of Australia's rice crop, 20% of New South Wales's milk production, 75% of New South Wales's processing tomatoes and 40% of New South Wales's potatoes. Sawmills in the area process timber harvested from the River red gum forests lining the Edward and Murray floodplains. As the largest town in the south western Riverina, there is a range of government and commercial services to residents of the town and the surrounding area.

Climate

Deniliquin has a cold semi-arid (''BSk'') climate with hot, sunny summers and cool, mostly cloudy winters. The town's highest temperature of was reached on 12 January 1878, and is one of the highest ever recorded in Australia. Despite the stretches of extreme heat, Deniliquin is prone to

cold fronts A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air and lies within a pronounced surface trough of low pressure. It often forms behind an extratropical cyclone (to the west in the Northern ...

in the summer due to its south-western location, making for an extreme variation at times. In contrast, the lowest daytime maximum in summer was on 2 February 2005 at the new airport site. This reading was substantially colder than the previous February low maximum of set in 1951, and colder than even the March record low of .

Notable people

Notable people from, or who have lived in, the Deniliquin area include: *

Adam Alexander Armstrong Adam Alexander "Bill" Armstrong (1 July 1909 – 22 February 1982) was an Australian politician. Born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, he was a grazier before serving in the military 1939–45 (during World War II). Subsequently, he became invol ...

, former Member for Riverina, official Victoria Racing Club starter (21 Melbourne Cups), Military Cross awarded WW 2 for bravery in New Guinea *

Leo Barry Leo Barry (born 19 May 1977) is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL) with the Sydney Swans. Originally from Deniliquin, New South Wales, Barry attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, before being d ...

, an

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player with

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* Eileen Mary Casey (1881–1972),

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*Michael Cavanagh, drummer for Australian

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band

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* Aileen Dent (1890–1978), artist * Ian Egerton, Australian rules footballer *

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, a former Liberal

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, test and one day cricket wicket keeper and sports commentator * Roy Higgins,

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winning

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* Bob Henderson, Australian rules footballer * Patrick Jennings, a former

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, an

player with Richmond Tigers * Todd Marshall, an

player with Port Adelaide Power * Peter McIntyre, an

player with

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* Eric Moore, drummer and manager for Australian

band

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, Axis of Awesome

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* Simon O'Donnell, test and one day cricket player,

player and media personality * Taimus Werner-Gibbings, member of the

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Education

Deniliquin has three public primary schools (Deniliquin South, Deniliquin North and Edward), one Catholic primary school (St Michael's primary school), one public high school (Deniliquin High School) and one independent K-10 school (Deniliquin Christian School) It has a TAFE NSW Campus, which is part of the Riverina Institute of TAFE. Deniliquin is also the base for the NSW Department of Education South West Riverina regional office. South West Music Regional Conservatorium, part of a network of regional Conservatoriums in NSW, also offers a range of music tuition.

Sport

Sporting clubs in the area include: *

** Deniliquin Rams Football Club, have competed in the Murray Football League since 1933. ** Deniliquin Rovers Football Club competing in the Picola & District Football League. The Deniliquin Football Association ran from 1900 to 1932. *

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*
Deniliquin Drovers
competing in Southern Inland Rugby Union. *

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** Deniliquin Blueheelers rejoined Group 17 Rugby League in 2025 for the first time since 1977. *Cricket ** Deniliquin Rhinos Cricket Team, competing in th
Murray Valley Cricket Association
*Soccer **Deniliquin Wanderers Soccer Club - formed in the 1960s. Currently playing in the Griffith and District Football Association. The Deniliquin Blue Heelers previously competed in Group 17 Rugby League from the early 1960s until 1977. They won three premierships in a row in 1969, 1970 and 1971. However the town had another now-defunct Club called Deniliquin Raiders which competed in the Goulburn Murray Rugby League Competition in the late 90’s to early 2000’s.

Deni Play on the Plains Festival

Deniliquin is home to the Play on the Plains Festival, held each September/October on the New South Wales

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long weekend. The festival includes the well-known Deniliquin Ute Muster. The Deni Play on the Plains Festival has set a number of world records, including the following:

Music

Deniliquin has had many local bands, some notable ones being the Lincolns, the Stormtroopers and the Lexies. Attempts been made to encourage other bands to come to Deniliquin to perform, with varying success. Solo performers who came from Deniliquin include Shane McGrath, Michael Gorham and Joel Sulman, with local artists often showcased at the Deniliquin Ute Muster.

Music festivals

Deniliquin has been home to many music festivals. These include: *Deniliquin Blues and Roots Festival: Held over the Easter long weekend and has bought acts such as Status Quo, Santana, Jason Mraz (2013) and held in 2014 John Mayer, Elvis Costello, local artist Michael Gorham and previous local blues artist Joel Sulman. It won Best Inland Festival in 2013. *The Flat Earth Festival, organised by a youth committee under the auspices of South West Music, beginning in 1999 and running until 2003. The aim of the Flat Earth Festival (so named because Deniliquin is on the Hay Plains, the area with the smallest deviation of elevation on Earth) was to provide a music festival accompanied by other activities (such as motocross demonstrations) in a drug- and alcohol-free environment. The Flat Earth Festival youth committee failed to attract new members as previous members moved on, and the event recessed. Bands attending the Flat Earth Festival included

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and Sunk Loto. *Shakedown Festival, which involves live bands and DJs. It is organised by the Deniliquin Youth Council, a sub-committee of the Deniliquin Municipal Council, and is held during National Youth Week, on 14 April. Notable acts appearing at Shakedown include

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, Behind Crimson Eyes and Andy Van. *Spring Blues Festival, inaugurated in 2006. The aim of the festival is to expose Deniliquin residents to talented blues musicians performing in Australia, as well as providing music workshops and impromptu jam sessions. Notable acts appearing at The Spring Blues Festival have included Dutch Tilders and Jeff Lang.

Media

The local newspaper is the ''Deniliquin Pastoral Times''. It is published on Tuesdays and Fridays and – on each of these days – has a circulation of 2787, with an estimated readership of 10,260. Other newspapers circulated throughout the Deniliquin region include the ''Herald Sun'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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.'' There are two local commercial radio stations: 102.5 Edge FM (Music that makes you feel good), 1521

2QN 2QN is a radio station based in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. It broadcasts on the medium wave radio band, at a frequency of 1521 kHz. 2QN combines a Classic Hits music format with talk radio, news broadcasting and a heavy emphas ...

(News, Talk and only the hits you love) and also broadcast on 106.1FM, while

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's ABC Riverina service (broadcast from

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) is available on AM675. Other stations broadcasting throughout the region include

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and Sky Sports Radio. Locally available TV stations include

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(ABC TV, ABC Family, ABC Entertains and ABC News),

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(SBS TV, SBS Viceland, SBS Food, NITV, SBS WorldWatch, SBS World Movies), Seven (7HD, 7two, 7mate, 7flix and Racing.com),

WIN Television WIN Television is an Australian television broadcasting, Australian television network owned and operated by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television stat ...

(WIN HD, 9Go!, 9Gem, TVSN, WIN Gold and 9Life) and Southern Cross 10 (10 HD, 10 Peach Comedy, 10 Bold Drama, 10 Shake, SBN and Sky News Regional).

produces a half-hour-long regional news bulletin which screens from Monday to Friday at 6pm. The thriller '' The Clinic'' was filmed in Deniliquin in 2008. The producers used many locations in the town while shooting, including the Peppin Motor Inn, Warbreccan Homestead, Deniliquin abattoirs and the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere.

References

External links

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