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Lightning Ridge is a small outback town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. Part of Walgett Shire, Lightning Ridge is situated near the southern border of Queensland, about 6 km (4 mi) east of the Castlereagh Highway. The Lightning Ridge area is a centre of the mining of black opal and other opal gemstones.
2CUZ FM is an Indigenous community radio station in the North-Western NSW town of Bourke. It has been on air since 1996. The station broadcasts to the regional towns of Brewarrina, Goodooga, Lightning Ridge, Walgett and Weilmoringle . The idea for the development of 2CUZ came from Greg McKellar and other powerful Aboriginal leaders who could ...
According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Gamilaraay's tribal domains encompassed some 75,000 km 2 (29,000 sq mi), [6] from around Singleton in the Hunter Valley through to the Warrumbungle Mountains in the west and up through the present-day centres of Quirindi, Gunnedah, Tamworth, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, Moree, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge and Mungindi in New South Wales, to ...
The Trust assumed the corporate ownership of all Aboriginal reserves throughout New South Wales on behalf of, and for the benefit of Aboriginal people. [19] Freehold title to the remaining reserves was transferred to the Trust, to maintain, develop or dispose of these reserves in the manner which would best serve the needs of the Aboriginal ...
Toggle New South Wales subsection. 2.1 Sydney Area. ... 2.56 Lightning Ridge. 2.57 Lismore. 2.58 Lithgow. ... 106.5 MHz 2CUZ – Indigenous community radio; AM.
Koonadan Historic Site, a Wiradjuri ceremonial and burial site in the Riverina region of southern NSW. [16] Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, north of Sydney. Contains many sites, notably those along the Basin Track, the Echidna Track, the Cowan Track and the Red Hand Track. [17] Mootwingee Aboriginal Site, western New South Wales.
Cumborah is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia.The town is in the Walgett Shire local government area, near the opal fields of Lightning Ridge.Cumborah is about 36 kilometres (22 mi) off the Castlereagh Highway and is served by the commercial centres of Lightning Ridge and Walgett, 48 kilometres (30 mi) to the south-east.
The missions were primarily run by Christian churches, whose religious teaching and western values greatly influenced day-to-day life for the communities. [1] In New South Wales, there were two non-denominational Missions, the United Aborigines Mission (UAM) also called the Australian Aborigines' Mission (AAM) and the Australian Inland Mission ...