Cooee is a small town on the north-west coast of

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immediately west of

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban pop ...

, to which it is in effect a dormitory suburb. At the 2011 census, Cooee had a population of 559. The Burnie GP Super Clinic is located in Cooee as well as a pharmacy and North West Pathology.

History

Cooee Creek Post Office opened on 1 April 1906 and was renamed ''Cooee'' in 1912. During the 1970s it proudly promoted its "Golden Mile" of new and used car lots and service stations. One of Burnie's two State Schools is situated on its western edge.

Community

Coastal pathway

The development of a coastal pathway will connect Cooee and

Wynyard Wynyard may refer to: Australia: *Wynyard, Sydney, the district of Sydney CBD around Wynyard railway station, Sydney *Wynyard Park, Sydney *Wynyard, Tasmania *County of Wynyard, in the Murrumbidgee–Tumut region of New South Wales Canada: *Wynya ...

and Latrobe as part of a State Government initiative to upgrade infrastructure on the northwest coast of Tasmania.

Education

* Cooee Primary School *

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Est. 1916

Sport

The Cooee Bulldogs and Burnie Tigers joined the

North Western Football Association The North Western Football Association is an Australian rules football competition based on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. Origins The North Western Football Association was formed at a meeting at the Formby Hotel in 1894 and is ...

in the 1940s. They merged in the 1980s and become the Burnie Hawks. They merged again in 1995 to become the

Burnie Dockers Burnie Dockers Football Club is an Australian rules football club in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. The club currently competes in the North West Football League (NWFL). Club history The Burnie Dockers were formed as a result of a merger betwee ...

In 2007 the merged club Burnie-Cooee was inducted into the

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame The Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame was established to help recognise outstanding services and overall contribution made to the sport of Australian rules football in Tasmania. Any participant of the sport, including players, umpires, media pers ...

Notable people

* Harold Dowling Games Record Holder – Cooee F.C. was inducted into the

in 2008. * Joshua Thomas Hoskins Whitsitt – Politician MHR 1909–22 * Hon.

Ron Cornish Ronald Cornish (born 21 March 1944) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Burnie, Tasmania. In 1976, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing Braddon for the Liberal Party. He served as Speaker of the House ...

– Politician ( Liberal); Former member of the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 ...

for Braddon * Bryan Green – Politician ( ALP); Member of the

for the Braddon *

Alastair Lynch Alastair Graeme Lynch (born 19 June 1968) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is best known as a three-time premiership full-forward for the Brisbane Lions. The Tasmania ...

– AFL football player for

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, the

Brisbane Bears The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, was a professional Australian rules football club based in Queensland on the Gold Coast (relocated to Brisbane in 1993). The club participated in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL ...

and

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of t ...

* Frank Neasey –

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of the

Supreme Court of Tasmania The Supreme Court of Tasmania is the highest State court in the Australian State of Tasmania. In the Australian court hierarchy, the Supreme Court of Tasmania is in the middle level, with both an appellate jurisdiction over lower courts, and d ...

*Ian Rist – National and Commonwealth Clay Target Shooting Champion. Australian International Shooting Team member 1975.

Notes and references

External links

Cooee PrimaryBurnie High SchoolBurnie GP Super ClinicNorth west PathologyBurnie Football Club official site
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