Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the
Southern Tablelands
The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and generally west of the Great Dividing Range.
The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cl ...
of
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
, Australia, approximately south-west of
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
and north-east of
Canberra
Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ...
. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through
letters patent
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by
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...
in 1863. Goulburn had a population of as of the .
Goulburn is the seat of
Goulburn Mulwaree Council
Goulburn Mulwaree Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area located in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hume Highway and the Southern Highlands railway line ...
.
Goulburn is a
railhead on the
Main Southern line, and regional health & government services centre, supporting the surrounding
pastoral
The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target au ...
industry as well as being a stopover for travellers on the
Hume Highway. It has a central historic park and many historic and listed buildings. It is also home to the monument the
Big Merino, a sculpture that is the world's largest concrete sheep.
History
Goulburn was named by surveyor
James Meehan after
Henry Goulburn, Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies, and the name was ratified by Governor
Lachlan Macquarie
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; ; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Gove ...
.
The colonial government made land grants to free settlers such as
Hamilton Hume
Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria. In 1824, along with William Hovell, Hume participated in an expedition that first t ...
in the Goulburn area from the opening of the area to settlement in about 1820. Land was later sold to settlers within the
Nineteen Counties, including
Argyle County (the Goulburn area). The process displaced the local indigenous
Mulwaree population and the introduction of exotic livestock drove out a large part of the Aboriginal peoples' food supply.
[''Goulburn Heritage Study'' (1981) cited in ]
Indigenous history
The Mulwaree People lived throughout the area covering Goulburn, Crookwell and Yass and belong to the
Ngunawal language group. To the north of Goulburn,
Gundungurra was spoken within the lands of the
Dharawal
The Tharawal people and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Yuin language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, scattered along the coasta ...
people. This was due to Gundungurra people of the Blue Mountains being driven south from their traditional land due to Governor Macquarie's punitive parties sent to
massacre
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...
the Dharawal and Gundungurra People, at the behest of influential settlers.
Their neighbours were the Dharawal to their north and
Dharug
The Dharug or Darug people, are a nation of Aboriginal Australian clans, who share ties of kinship, country and culture. In pre-colonial times, they lived as hunters in the region of current day Sydney. The Darug speak one of two dialects o ...
surrounding Sydney,
Darkinung,
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, a ...
, Ngunawal and Thurrawal, eastwards peoples.
European settlement
The first recorded settler in Goulburn established 'Strathallan' in 1825 (on the site of the present Police Academy) and a town was originally surveyed in 1828, although moved to the present site of the city in 1833 when the surveyor
Robert Hoddle
Robert Hoddle (21 April 1794 – 24 October 1881)
was a surveyor and artist. He was the first Surveyor-General of Victoria from 1851 to 1853. He was previously the Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District from 1837 to 1851. He became ...
laid it out.
George Johnson purchased the first land in the area between 1839 and 1842 and became a central figure in the town's development. He established a branch store with a liquor licence in 1848. The 1841 census records Goulburn had a population of 665 people, 444 males and 211 females. This number had jumped to 1,171 inhabitants by 1847, 686 males and 485 females. It had a courthouse, police barracks, churches, hospital and post office and was the centre of a great sheep and farming area.
A telegraph station opened in 1862, by which time there were about 1,500 residents, a
blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from #Other metals, other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such ...
's shop, two hotels, two stores, the telegraph office and a few cottages. The town was a change station (where coach horses were changed) for
Cobb & Co by 1855. A police station opened the following year and a school in 1858. Goulburn was proclaimed a municipal government in 1859 and was made a city in 1863.
The arrival of the railway in 1869, which was opened on 27 May by the
Governor
A governor is an politician, administrative leader and head of a polity or Region#Political regions, political region, in some cases, such as governor-general, governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the ...
Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to
Albury
Albury (; ) is a major regional city that is located in the Murray River, Murray region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the twin city of Albury–Wodonga, Albury-Wodonga and is located on the Hume Highway and the northern side of ...
in 1883, was a boon to the city. Later branchlines were constructed to
Cooma (opened in 1889) and later extended further to
Nimmitabel and then to
Bombala, and to
Crookwell and
Taralga. Goulburn became a major railway centre with a roundhouse and engine servicing facilities and a factory which made pre-fabricated concrete components for signal boxes and station buildings. The roundhouse is now the
Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre with steam, diesel and rolling stock exhibits.
Rail First Asset Management (previously known as CFCL Australia) operate the
Goulburn Railway Workshops.
St Saviour's Cathedral, designed by
Edmund Thomas Blacket, was completed in 1884 with the tower being added in 1988 to commemorate the Bicentenary of Australia. Though completed in 1884, some earlier burials are in the graveyard adjacent to the cathedral. St Saviour's is the seat of the
Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn. The Church of SS Peter and Paul is the former cathedral for the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
The Goulburn Viaduct was built in 1915 replacing an earlier structure. This brick arch railway
viaduct
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide ...
spanning the
Mulwaree Ponds is the longest on the
Main Southern railway line and consists of 13 arches each spanning .
Proclaimed a city

Goulburn holds the distinction of being proclaimed a City on two occasions. The first, unofficial, proclamation was claimed by virtue of Royal
Letters Patent
Letters patent (plurale tantum, plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, President (government title), president or other head of state, generally granti ...
issued by
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...
on 14 March 1863 to establish the Diocese of Goulburn. It was a claim made for ecclesiastical purposes, as it was required by the traditions of the Church of England. The Letters Patent also established St Saviour's Church as the Cathedral Church of the diocese. This was the last instance in which Letters Patent were used in this manner in the British Empire, as they had been significantly discredited for use in the colonies, and were soon to be declared formally invalid and unenforceable in this context.
Several legal cases over the preceding decade in particular had already established that the monarch had no ecclesiastical jurisdiction in colonies possessing responsible government. This had been granted to NSW in 1856, seven years earlier. The Letters Patent held authority only over those who submitted to it voluntarily, and then only within the context of the Church—it had no legal civil authority or implications. An absolute and retrospective declaration to this effect was made in 1865 in the Colenso Case,
by the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council.
However, under the authority of the Crown Lands Act 1884 (48. Vict. No. 18), Goulburn was officially proclaimed a City on 20 March 1885 removing any lingering doubts as to its status. This often unrecognised controversy has in no way hindered the development of Goulburn as a regional centre, with an impressive court house (completed in 1887) and other public buildings, as a centre for wool selling, and as an industrial town.
Goulburn School Strike
In 1962, Goulburn was the focus of the fight for state aid to non-government schools. An education strike was called in response to a demand for installation of three extra toilets at a local
Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
primary school, St Brigid's. The local Catholic archdiocese closed down all local Catholic primary schools and sent the children to the government schools. The Catholic authorities declared that they had no money to install the extra toilets. Nearly 1,000 children turned up to be enrolled locally and the state schools were unable to accommodate them. The strike lasted only a week but generated national debate. In 1963 the prime minister,
Robert Menzies
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...
, made state aid for science blocks part of
his party's platform.
Heritage listings

Goulburn has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

* 165 Auburn Street:
Goulburn Post Office
* 170 Bourke Street:
St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn
* 197 Braidwood Road
Railway Barracks
* Bungonia Road:
Old Goulburn Brewery
* Bungonia Road:
Lansdowne Park
* Clifford Street:
Colonial Mutual Life Building
* 248 Main Road:
Rossi Bridge over Wollondilly River
* Main Southern railway:
Goulburn Viaduct
* Main Southern railway:
Goulburn railway station
* off Maud Street:
Goulburn Correctional Centre
* Maud Street:
Riversdale
* 4 Montague Street:
Goulburn Court House
* Sloane Street:
Connollys Mill
* Sloane Street:
Old Police Barracks, Goulburn
* Sloane Street:
Goulburn Railway Workshops
* 244–248 Sloane Street:
Alpine Lodge Motel
* 318 Sloane Street:
St Clair
* Taralga Road:
Kenmore Asylum
* 42 Verner Street:
St Peter and Paul's Old Cathedral
* Wollondilly River:
Goulburn Pumping Station
Demographics

According to the , there were people in Goulburn. Of these:
*
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.3% of the population.
* 83.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth included
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
1.9%,
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
1.0%,
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
0.9% and
the Philippines 0.7%, and
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
0.6%.
* 85.6% of people spoke only
English at home, the next most common languages spoken at home included
Nepali 0.7%,
Mandarin 0.6%,
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...
0.4%,
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
0.3%, and
Punjabi 0.3%
* The most common responses for religion were
No Religion 30.6%,
Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
25.3%,
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
20.8%, and
Uniting Church 3.0%; a further 8.5% of respondents elected not to disclose their religion.
Geography
Goulburn is located a small distance east of the peak ridge of the Great Dividing Range and is above sea level. It is intersected by the
Wollondilly River and the
Mulwaree River, and the
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also ''conflux'') occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel (geography), channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main ...
of these two rivers is also located here. The Wollondilly then flows north-east, into
Lake Burragorang (
Warragamba Dam) and eventually into the
Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 wa ...
via the
Hawkesbury River
The Hawkesbury River, or Hawkesbury-Nepean River (Dharug language, Dharug: Dyarubbin) is a river located northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Hawkesbury River and its associated main tributary, the Nepean River, almost encircle ...
. The city is located within the
Southern Tablelands Temperate Grassland.
Climate
Owing to its elevation, Goulburn has an
oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen climate classification, Köppen classification represented as ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of co ...
(''Cfb'') with warm summers and cool to cold winters; with a high
diurnal range. Its climate is variable much of the year, though generally dry with maximum temperatures ranging from in July to in January. Rainfall is distributed evenly throughout the year, with an annual average of . Snow occasionally falls, although rarely in significant quantities due to the
rainshadow brought about by the hills to the west-northwest of Goulburn (around
Crookwell). Temperature extremes have ranged from .
Governance

As a major settlement of southern New South Wales, Goulburn was the administrative centre for the region and was the location for important buildings of the district.
The first lock-up in the town was built in 1830.
In 1832 a postal service commenced in Goulburn, four years after the service was adopted in New South Wales.
The first town plan had been drawn up by Assistant Surveyor Dixon in 1828, but the site was moved, as it was subject to flooding. The new town plan was drawn up by Surveyor Hoddle and was gazetted in 1833.

Goulburn is the seat of the
Goulburn Mulwaree Shire local government area
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...
(LGA) of New South Wales, Australia formed in 2004. The most recent elections for Council were held on 4 December 2021.
New South Wales Police Academy

The Police Academy relocated to Goulburn from Sydney in 1984. From 2002, it was known as the
New South Wales Police College; however, the name was changed back in 2011.
The Academy has relocated to the former campus of the Goulburn College of Advanced Education located on the banks of the
Wollondilly River. The New South Wales Police Academy is now the largest education institution for law enforcement officers in the southern hemisphere.
Since its relocation there has been significant expansion of the facilities including a new site on the
Taralga Road which houses the
New South Wales Police School of Traffic and Mobile Policing.
Goulburn Gaol
Goulburn is home to
Goulburn Correctional Centre, more generically known as Goulburn Gaol. It is a maximum-security male prison, the highest-security prison in Australia and is home to some of the most dangerous, and infamous, prisoners. One of these prisoners was Ivan Robert Marko Milat (27 December 1944 – 27 October 2019) an Australian serial killer who was convicted of the backpacker murders in 1996.
Culture
Theatre
Goulburn is home to Australia's oldest existing theatre company Lieder Theatre Company, established in 1891. The Lieder Theatre Company presents up to five major performance projects each year, along with numerous community events, readings, workshops, and short seasons of experimental and new work. The company, along with the Lieder Youth Theatre Company, is based in the historic Lieder Theatre, built by the company in 1929.
A former
quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mining, open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock (geology), rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some juri ...
adjacent to the
Main Southern railway line in North Goulburn was used to film cliff top scenes in the 2016 film ''
Hacksaw Ridge''.
Sport
The most popular sport in Goulburn is
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
. The town has a team, the Goulburn City Bulldogs, who play in the
Canberra Rugby League. The club was founded in 2020, superseding the Goulburn Workers Bulldogs. Historically, there have been many clubs in Goulburn, including:
* Goulburn United Roosters (1932–1986)
* Goulburn Workers Bulldogs (1958–1984, 2008–2019)
* Goulburn City (1987)
* Goulburn Gladiators (1991–1995)
* Goulburn Stockmen (1996–2007)
The Goulburn Stockmen played in both the Canberra Rugby League and also the
Group 6 Rugby League before folding. The town's junior rugby league team is still called the Goulburn Junior Stockmen.
The Goulburn Dirty Reds
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
team play in the
John I Dent Cup third grade and Goulburn City Swans Australian rules club play in a lower grade Canberra competition.
The Goulburn Bears
Basketball
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team play in the
Basketball NSW Waratah League (Senior). The Bears wear predominantly Navy and Sky Blue. The Bears have been representing Goulburn in
Basketball
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for over 50 years. The Bears defeated the
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021, it is an important agricultural, m ...
Wolves in the 1991
NBL1 East Grand Final
Other sports played in the town include soccer, cricket and tennis among others.
Health
Goulburn Medical Clinic
The Goulburn Medical Clinic was established in 1946 making it the most longstanding medical practice in the city. Historically, it was the first ''group practice'' of any size established in
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
and probably only the third in Australia.
[Coombes, B. (1996) ''A History of the Goulburn Medical Clinic''. Australia: Argyle Press ] The clinic has a mixture of
general practitioners
A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who is a Consultant (medicine), consultant in general practice.
GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk ass ...
and
specialists that provide comprehensive healthcare.
Water supply
With a history of water shortages, an underground water supply pipeline was constructed to pump water from the
Wingecarribee Reservoir in the
Southern Highlands to Goulburn, opening in 2011. This pipeline has a capacity of 7.5 ML per day.
The $54 million water supply pipeline was at the time the largest construction project in the history of Goulburn.
Transport

Goulburn is approximately two hours' drive from
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
via the
Hume Highway, or a one-hour drive from
Canberra
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via the
Federal and Hume Highways. Goulburn benefited from the 1992 Hume Highway bypass, prompting significant civic rejuvenation and removing 23,000 cars from the city each day.
Goulburn's city centre was populated by a notable number of eateries owned and operated by Greek migrants,
as part of a broader trend of Greek cafes and milk bars in regional Australia.
Years after the bypass, the main street featured numerous neon signs advertising businesses that had since gone out of business some of which are preserved today.
Goulburn railway station is the southern terminus of the
Southern Highlands Line
The Southern Highlands Line (SHL) is an Inter-city rail, intercity rail service that services the Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur, Southern Highlands (New South Wales), Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands regions of New South Wal ...
which reaches from the Sydney suburb
Campbelltown and is part of the
NSW TrainLink
NSW TrainLink is a regional train and coach operator in Australia, providing services throughout New South Wales and into Australian Capital Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria (state), Victoria, Queensland and South Australia ...
intercity passenger train system. Most services for Goulburn operate to
Moss Vale, some north-east, while there are also daily direct express
Sydney Central services covered by Sydney's suburban
Opal card. The station is also served by the long distance Southern
XPT and
Xplorer trains between
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
and
Griffith,
Canberra
Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ...
and
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
Southern Cross railway station
Southern Cross railway station (until 2005 known as Spencer Street station) is a major railway station in Docklands, Victoria, Docklands, Melbourne. It is on Spencer Street, between Collins Street, Melbourne, Collins and La Trobe Street, La Tr ...
. All services are operated by NSW TrainLink.
Goulburn also has eight direct return NSW Trainlink buses to Canberra per week giving access to
Canberra Airport, city and hospitals.
Goulburn Airport is approximately south of Goulburn and services light aircraft.
Public transport within Goulburn consists of the local taxi service that operates twenty-seven taxis, Goulburn Radio Cabs. A bus service is operated by
PBC Goulburn.
Media
Newspapers
The Goulburn Post, established as the
Goulburn Evening Post in 1870 is Goulburn's local newspaper. It runs three times per week and is owned by
Australian Community Media
Australian Community Media (ACM) is a media company in Australia responsible for over 160 regional publications. Its mastheads include the '' Canberra Times'', '' Newcastle Herald'', '' The Examiner'', '' The Border Mail'', '' The Courier'' an ...
.
Radio stations
Radio stations with transmitters located in or nearby to Goulburn include:
AM:
*
Radio National
ABC Radio National, more commonly known as Radio National or simply RN, is an Australian nationwide public service radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2.
...
(2RN) 1098 AM
FM:
*
Raw FM 87.6 ''(narrowcast)''
*
Triple J
Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It aims to appeal to young listeners of alternative music, and plays far more Australian conten ...
(2JJJ) 88.7 FM
*
ABC Classic FM (2ABCFM) 89.5 FM
*
ABC Central West (2ABCRR) 90.3 FM
*
Eagle FM 93.5 (2SNO) ''(commercial)''
*
Sky Sports Radio 94.3 FM ''(narrowcast)''
*
ABC NewsRadio (2PNN) 99.9 FM
*
Kix Country Radio 100.7 FM ''(narrowcast)''
*
2GCR 103.3 FM ''(community)''
*
GNFM 107.7 FM (2GBN) ''(commercial)''
Depending on location some Illawarra- and/or Canberra-based radio stations can also heard. Commercial radio services from Goulburn are also broadcast to
Braidwood.
Television
Goulburn receives five free-to-air television networks relayed from Canberra, and broadcast from nearby Mt Gray:
*
ABC
*
SBS
*
Seven
*
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 ...
's
Nine
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit
Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bot ...
*
Southern Cross 10
A much smaller retransmission site also exists to cover residences in the suburb of Eastgrove.
Landmarks

Goulburn's second court house was built in 1847; designed by
Mortimer Lewis
Mortimer William Lewis (1796 – 9 March 1879) was an English-born architect, surveyor and public servant who migrated to Australia and became Colonial Architect in the colony of New South Wales (now a state of Australia) from 1835 to 1849. Le ...
, the
colonial architect.
James Barnet, the colonial architect from 1862 to 1890, built a number of buildings in Goulburn. These included the
Goulburn Gaol that opened 1884; the
current court house that opened in 1887; and a post office in 1881. Barnet's successor,
Walter Liberty Vernon
Colonel (Australia), Colonel Walter Liberty Vernon (11 August 184617 January 1914) was an English people, English architect who migrated to Australia and pursued his career as an architect in Sydney, New South Wales. In his role as the New Sou ...
, was responsible for the first buildings of Kenmore Hospital, completed in 1894. St Saviour's Anglican Cathedral and Hall were designed by
Edmund Blacket. Building started in 1874 and it was dedicated in 1884. It was finally consecrated in 1916. A tower was added in 1988 as part of a Bicentennial project but Blacket's plans included a spire which is yet to be added.
E.C. Manfred was a prominent local architect responsible for many of the buildings in the city, including the first public swimming baths opened in 1892; the old Town Hall constructed in 1888; the Goulburn Base Hospital designed in 1886; the old Fire Station built in 1890; the Masonic Temple built in 1928; he also designed the earlier building of 1890 it replaced. Goulburn's first permanent fire station built 1890 and designed by local architect E.C. Manfred. The city was home to Kenmore Hospital, a psychiatric hospital which was finally closed in 2003.
Goulburn remains a hub for mental health with facilities now located at the
Goulburn Base Hospital.
Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
The
roundhouse at Goulburn was a significant locomotive depot both in the steam and early diesel eras. After closure it became the
Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre, a railway museum with preserved steam and diesel locomotives as well as many interesting examples of rolling stock. Some minor rail operators such as RailPower have used the site to restore diesel locomotives to working order for main line use. Th
Railway Barracksbuilt in 1935 is situated opposite the roundhouse. It accommodated the steam engine drivers, and now converted into an accommodation wedding & events centre.
Notable people
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Andrew Blackshaw, international softball player
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Beatrice Bligh (1916–1973), gardener at Pejar Park
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Todd Carney, (born 1986) rugby league player
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Kyle Cranston, (born 1993) track and field athlete
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Jarrod Croker, (born 1990) rugby league player, captain
Canberra Raiders
The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugb ...
(2015–)
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Bruce Devlin
Bruce William Devlin (born 10 October 1937) is an Australian professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer.
Early life
Devlin was born in 1937 in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. His parents, Jess and Artie, moved to Gou ...
, former professional golfer who won 8 tournaments on the US PGA Tour
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Michael Diamond, target shooter and Olympic gold medalist
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Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While s ...
, (1879–1954) writer and feminist
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Thomas Hazelton, (born 1999) rugby league footballer
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William Hovell, (1786–1875) English-born Australian explorer is buried in one of the many cemeteries
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Rod Jackson, (born 1951) rugby league player
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George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby (; born 5 September 1939) is an Australian retired actor. Lazenby began his professional career as a model and had only acted in commercials when he was cast to replace the original James Bond actor, Sean Connery, playing ...
, (born 1939) the only Australian actor to play
James Bond
The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...
, in ''
On Her Majesty's Secret Service''
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Donald MacDonald, (1857–1937) Australian pastoralist
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Marc McDermott, (1871–1929) American silent film star
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Peta Murphy (1973– Deceased, 2023),
federal MP for the
division of Dunkley, Victoria.
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Adam O'Brien, (born 1977) rugby league coach
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George Ogilvie
George Buchan Ogilvie (5 March 1931 – 5 April 2020) was a prolific Australian theatre director and actor, who also worked as a director and actor in film and television. He was known for being the founding artistic director of the State Theat ...
, theatre director, born in Goulburn in 1931
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Simon Poidevin, rugby union player and World Cup winner in 1991
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Kate Ritchie, (born 1978) actress and radio host
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Sally Shaw, (born 1978) cricketer
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Ursula Stephens, senator (2002–2014)
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Glenn Turner, Kookaburras hockey player
See also
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Goulburn Rugby Union
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Pejar Dam
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One Raceway
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High School, Goulburn
References
External links
Goulburn Mulwaree CouncilGoulburn Visitor Information Centre*
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VisitNSW.com – Goulburn Area
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