Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the

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, Australia, approximately south-west of

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and north-east of

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. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through

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in 1863. Goulburn had a population of as of the . Goulburn is the seat of

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. Goulburn is a

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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

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issued by

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

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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,

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, made state aid for science blocks part of his party's platform.

Heritage listings

Goulburn has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Goulburn Roman Catholic Church 013

* 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:

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* 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 Goulburn railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Southern line, serving the Southern Tablelands city of Goulburn. Opened on 19 May 1869, it was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1 ...

* off Maud Street:

Goulburn Correctional Centre The Goulburn Correctional Centre, (also known as the Circle), is an Australian Supermax prison, supermaximum security prison for males. It is located in Goulburn, New South Wales, three kilometres north-east of the central business district. The f ...

* Maud Street: Riversdale * 4 Montague Street: Goulburn Court House * Sloane Street: Connollys Mill * Sloane Street: Old Police Barracks, Goulburn * Sloane Street:

Goulburn Railway Workshops The Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre is located at the heritage-listed former railway workshops in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, on the Main Southern railway line. Now a museum, it is also known as the Goulburn Rail Workshop and Goulburn R ...

* 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: *

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made up 5.3% of the population. * 83.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth included

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1.9%,

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1.0%,

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0.9% and

the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which ar ...

0.7%, and

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0.6%. * 85.6% of people spoke only English at home, the next most common languages spoken at home included Nepali 0.7%,

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

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%,

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0.3%, and Punjabi 0.3% * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 30.6%,

25.3%,

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20.8%, and

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3.0%; a further 8.5% of respondents elected not to disclose their religion. Goulburn Belmore Park 002

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 The Wollondilly River, an Australian perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury Nepean catchment, is located in the Southern Tablelands and Southern Highlands regions of New South Wales. The river meanders from its western slopes near Cr ...

and the Mulwaree River, and the

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of these two rivers is also located here. The Wollondilly then flows north-east, into Lake Burragorang (

Warragamba Dam Warragamba Dam is a heritage-listed dam in the outer South Western Sydney suburb of Warragamba, Wollondilly Shire in New South Wales, Australia. It is a concrete gravity dam, which creates Lake Burragorang, the primary reservoir for water supp ...

) and eventually into the

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via the

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. The city is located within the

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Climate

Owing to its elevation, Goulburn has an

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(''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

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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 Town Hall August 2024

Goulburn is the seat of the Goulburn Mulwaree Shire

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(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

. 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 Taralga is a small village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Lachlan Shire. It is located at the intersection of the Goulburn-Oberon Road and the Laggan-Taralga Road. It is accessible from Oberon, New South Wales, ...

Road which houses the

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School of Traffic and Mobile Policing. GoulburnGaol

Goulburn Gaol

Goulburn is home to

, 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. Goulburn Regional Conservatorium 001

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

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adjacent to the

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in North Goulburn was used to film cliff top scenes in the 2016 film ''

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''.

Sport

The most popular sport in Goulburn is

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. The town has a team, the Goulburn City Bulldogs, who play in the

Canberra Rugby League The Canberra Region Rugby League competition is more commonly known as the Canberra Raiders Cup, covering the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding New South Wales towns Queanbeyan, Goulburn, New South Wales, Goulburn and Yass, New South W ...

. 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

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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

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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

for over 50 years. The Bears defeated the

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Wolves in the 1991

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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

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

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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

via the

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, or a one-hour drive from

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.

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

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intercity passenger train system. Most services for Goulburn operate to

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, some north-east, while there are also daily direct express Sydney Central services covered by Sydney's suburban

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. The station is also served by the long distance Southern XPT and Xplorer trains between

and

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and

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. All services are operated by NSW TrainLink. Goulburn also has eight direct return NSW Trainlink buses to Canberra per week giving access to

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, 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

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Radio stations

Radio stations with transmitters located in or nearby to Goulburn include: AM: *

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(2RN) 1098 AM FM: *

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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 ABC Classic, formerly ABC-FM (also ABC Fine Music), and then ABC Classic FM, is an Australian classical music radio station available in Australia and internationally. Its website features classical music news, features and listening guides. I ...

(2ABCFM) 89.5 FM * ABC Central West (2ABCRR) 90.3 FM * Eagle FM 93.5 (2SNO) ''(commercial)'' * Sky Sports Radio 94.3 FM ''(narrowcast)'' *

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(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: *

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* SBS * Seven *

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* 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

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, the colonial architect.

James Barnet James Johnstone Barnet, (1827 in Almericlose, Arbroath, Scotland – 16 December 1904 in Forest Lodge, Sydney, New South Wales) was the Colonial Architect for Colonial New South Wales, serving from 1862 to 1890. Early life Barnet was born ...

, 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 Edmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 – 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and Goulburn Cathedral (St. Saviour), St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulbu ...

. 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 Barracks
built in 1935 is situated opposite the roundhouse. It accommodated the steam engine drivers, and now converted into an accommodation wedding & events centre. Goulburn Boer War Memorial 005

Notable people

* Andrew Blackshaw, international softball player * Beatrice Bligh (1916–1973), gardener at Pejar Park *

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, (born 1986) rugby league player * Kyle Cranston, (born 1993) track and field athlete * Jarrod Croker, (born 1990) rugby league player, captain

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(2015–) *

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 * Michael Diamond, target shooter and Olympic gold medalist *

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 * Thomas Hazelton, (born 1999) rugby league footballer * William Hovell, (1786–1875) English-born Australian explorer is buried in one of the many cemeteries * Rod Jackson, (born 1951) rugby league player *

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, (born 1939) the only Australian actor to play

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, in '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' * Donald MacDonald, (1857–1937) Australian pastoralist *

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, (1871–1929) American silent film star * Peta Murphy (1973– Deceased, 2023), federal MP for the division of Dunkley, Victoria. * Adam O'Brien, (born 1977) rugby league coach *

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, theatre director, born in Goulburn in 1931 *

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, rugby union player and World Cup winner in 1991 *

Kate Ritchie Katherine Leigh Ritchie is an Australian actress, radio presenter, and children's author. She is best known for her long-running role as original character Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera ''Home and Away'', for which she won two Go ...

, (born 1978) actress and radio host * Sally Shaw, (born 1978) cricketer *

Ursula Stephens Ursula Mary Stephens (; born 7 July 1954) is a former Australian politician. She served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2002 to 2014, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was a parliamentary secretary in the Rudd and Gilla ...

, senator (2002–2014) *

Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner (born 26 May 1947) played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's most prolific batsmen. He played domestically for Otago for most of his career and played in England for Worcestershire County Cricket Club ...

, Kookaburras hockey player

References

External links

Goulburn Mulwaree CouncilGoulburn Visitor Information Centre
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VisitNSW.com – Goulburn Area
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