Terry Hie Hie is a very small farming town in the north of
New South Wales, Australia
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within the
Moree Plains Shire Council. Terry Hie Hie is south of the
Gwydir Highway
Gwydir Highway is a state highway in northern New South Wales, Australia. The highway was named after the Gwydir River, which in turn was named after a locale in Wales.
Route
Gwydir Highway traverses the New England region from the inland pl ...
, east of the
Newell Highway
Newell Highway is a national highway in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. It provides the major road link between southeastern Queensland and Victoria via central NSW and as such carries large amounts of freight. At in length, the Newell is th ...
and 47 km south-east of
Moree, the nearest large town.
Tycannah Creek also flows through the village of Terry Hie Hie. In times of flood, Tycannah Creek has been known to inundate some houses. This last happened during the November 2011 floods and the February 2012 floods.
In February 2012 floods 12 people were ordered to evacuate from their homes during a large downpour in the Tycannah Creek catchment.
Local
Aboriginal groups and
conservationists
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were petitioning as recently as 2005 for a 160 square kilometre
national park
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to be set aside and added to the schedule of
Aboriginal ownership. The park would comprise seven existing
State forests
A state forest or national forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign state, sovereign or federated state, or territory (country subdivision), territory.
Background
The precise application of the terms va ...
and one
existing nature reserve. Logging ceased in the
Mission State Forest during 2004. The area is seen as "the last big bit of bush that Aboriginal people can connect with in the Moree area".
See also
*
List of reduplicated Australian place names
These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" ''many cr ...
References
External links
* Media Release 24 February 200
from "Terry Hie Hie Traditional Owners" and "Western Conservation Alliance"
ABC news story on the anti-logging protests in February 2004
Towns in New South Wales
Indigenous Australian politics
Moree Plains Shire
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