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[[image:WindmillCottageCoolac.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Windmill Cottage, Coolac]] |
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The satirical [[Bald Archy Prize|Bald Archy]] art competition began in Coolac at the Coolac Festival of Fun, launched by Peter Batey. The home of this competition is now the [[Museum of the Riverina]] in [[Wagga Wagga]] and it also travels to [[Sydney]] and [[Melbourne]] for exhibition once Maude the Cockatoo, who is the official judge, selects the winning entries each year. |
The satirical [[Bald Archy Prize|Bald Archy]] art competition began in Coolac at the Coolac Festival of Fun, launched by Peter Batey. The home of this competition is now the [[Museum of the Riverina]] in [[Wagga Wagga]] and it also travels to [[Sydney]] and [[Melbourne]] for exhibition once Maude the Cockatoo, who is the official judge, selects the winning entries each year. |
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=== Coolac Massacre === |
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Coolac/Gundagai is known for an image of a dog on a box. This symbolism is more recently based on a poem about a bullock waggon stuck in the mud near Gundagai pre gazettal of Gundagai as a town in 1838. This bullock waggon carried a load of flour for the European settlers. The flour had to come from the mill at Goulburn. There was a severe drought happening. The flour on the bogged bullock wagon was rifled while the bullock driver was in the nearby hotel and subsequently, the remaining flour was laced with arsenic. More flour was taken from the waggon by Aboriginal people with the end result being there were many deaths. The massacre was heard about in Sydney and was investigated, but no one was able to be held to account. For many years the event was told and retold and a dog figure, representing an aspect of Australian Aboriginal lore, was placed on a stick at the Nine Mile near where the massacre happened. A photo exists of this earlier Dog monument. The story was passed down among long-time Gundagai residents and is still spoken about in Gundagai today but for many years when it was mentioned, people were told not to speak about it. The story was also retold in a popular Australian poem by Jack Moses but from a different, perhaps less challenging, perspective which explained the lingering tale that just would not go away. The known disparity between, and debate about, whether the event happened at the Five Mile or Nine Mile is to do with this. The event is known as ‘The Coolac Massacre’ or perhaps also the DonT massacre (Dog on the Tuckerbox.) |
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I was talking to a Coolac resident the other day. She needed to tell me more though my cousin who lives near the massacre site, wa sin hospital. They all know of the massacre out there but what you admit Australia wide is a bit different to what you acknowledge in a small town. |
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=== Coolac Geological Site === |
=== Coolac Geological Site === |
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Revision as of 10:22, 3 May 2007
| Coolac New South Wales | |
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 Coolac Hotel | |
| Population | 187 |
| Postcode(s) | 2727 |
| Elevation | 308 m (1,010 ft) |
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | Gundagai Shire Council |
| County | Harden |
| State electorate(s) | Burrinjuck |
Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Shire. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 187 people.[2]
The place name Coolac is derived from the local Aboriginal name for a plant which was abundant in the area and also from the Aboriginal word meaning "native bear".[3]
The 11 kilometre section of the Hume Highway at Coolac is one of the last two-lane sections of highway between Sydney and Melbourne. The latest reports from out of office of the Federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services state that highway bypass is expected to be finalised by Febuary 2009.[4][5].
The satirical Bald Archy art competition began in Coolac at the Coolac Festival of Fun, launched by Peter Batey. The home of this competition is now the Museum of the Riverina in Wagga Wagga and it also travels to Sydney and Melbourne for exhibition once Maude the Cockatoo, who is the official judge, selects the winning entries each year.
Coolac Massacre
Coolac/Gundagai is known for an image of a dog on a box. This symbolism is more recently based on a poem about a bullock waggon stuck in the mud near Gundagai pre gazettal of Gundagai as a town in 1838. This bullock waggon carried a load of flour for the European settlers. The flour had to come from the mill at Goulburn. There was a severe drought happening. The flour on the bogged bullock wagon was rifled while the bullock driver was in the nearby hotel and subsequently, the remaining flour was laced with arsenic. More flour was taken from the waggon by Aboriginal people with the end result being there were many deaths. The massacre was heard about in Sydney and was investigated, but no one was able to be held to account. For many years the event was told and retold and a dog figure, representing an aspect of Australian Aboriginal lore, was placed on a stick at the Nine Mile near where the massacre happened. A photo exists of this earlier Dog monument. The story was passed down among long-time Gundagai residents and is still spoken about in Gundagai today but for many years when it was mentioned, people were told not to speak about it. The story was also retold in a popular Australian poem by Jack Moses but from a different, perhaps less challenging, perspective which explained the lingering tale that just would not go away. The known disparity between, and debate about, whether the event happened at the Five Mile or Nine Mile is to do with this. The event is known as ‘The Coolac Massacre’ or perhaps also the DonT massacre (Dog on the Tuckerbox.)
I was talking to a Coolac resident the other day. She needed to tell me more though my cousin who lives near the massacre site, wa sin hospital. They all know of the massacre out there but what you admit Australia wide is a bit different to what you acknowledge in a small town.
Coolac Geological Site
The Coolac Geological Site 4km north-east of Coolac, is the best known example in Australia of a substantial ophiolite assemblage. The distinctive rock assemblage over a 130 hectare site provides insights into events in the continental evolution of eastern Australia.[6][7]
External links
References
- ^ Travelmate
- ^ www.fallingrain.com Coolac
- ^ NSW Geographical Names Board
- ^ ABC Riverina NSW
- ^ Coolac Bypass Febuary 2009
- ^ Australian Government Department Transport and Regional Services, Segment 1.4 Wagga to Yass
- ^ for example, abstract of article in GeoScience World Tectonic significance of 400 Ma zircon ages for ophiolitic rocks from the Lachlan fold belt, eastern Australia and an article in the Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales entitled Hydrothermal Ca-Al Silicates in Ophiolitic Rocks near Coolac, N.S.W.
34°55′S 148°09′E / 34.917°S 148.150°E Coordinates: Extra unexpected parameters
