Sallys Flat is a locality in the Australian state of
New South Wales
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The area now known as Sallys Flat is on the traditional land of the
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales
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Sallys Flat was a small gold-mining village established in 1872 at the same time as nearby
Hill End boomed during the
New South Wales gold rush
New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the econom ...
. It produced gold for many years but was not a large producer. It is now a farming area.
In late 2015, Sallys Flat was one of six locations on an Australian Government shortlist for a
nuclear waste
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons r ...
repository. However the Government soon found the idea unpopular with locals
and removed Sallys Flat from the list.
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