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Kooloonong
Town
Kooloonong is located in Rural City of Swan Hill
Kooloonong
Kooloonong
Coordinates: 34°52′S 143°08′E / 34.867°S 143.133°E / -34.867; 143.133
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
LGA
Location
Government
 • Federal division
Population
 • Total39[2] (2016 census)
Postcode
3549
Localities around Kooloonong
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Wandown, Annuello Kooloonong Kenley
Bolton Natya Natya

Kooloonong is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 147 km from Mildura and was on the Yungera railway line.

Kooloonong was established as a soldier settlement area for returned servicemen from World War I. By the mid-1920s, it was a thriving township with a bush nursing hospital, government offices, a school, an RSL hall, a railway station and sporting facilities. The town has declined since then and now has only one occupied house, plus the rarely-used hall, a CFA shed and unused grain handling facilities.[4]

The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[5] to support the soldier settlement farms in the area. For many years, water was carted to the location by train because there was no natural water supply.[6] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[5] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973.[7] It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922.[8]

Yungera

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In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[9] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[10] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[11] to 1937.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Travelmate Archived 24 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "2016 Kooloonong, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". abs.gov.au. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  3. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kooloonong (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Macfarlane, Neil (18 June 2015). "Submission to VEAC State Wide Assessment of Public Land" (PDF). Mid-Murray Field Naturalists Inc. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Kooloonong". Vicsig. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  6. ^ "No Water at Kooloonong". The Argus. 27 March 1923. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  7. ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 26 March 2021
  8. ^ "APPOINTMENT OF ELECTORAL REGISTRARS AND POLLING PLACES CONSEQUENT ON PROCLAMATION OF DIVISIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918-1922". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 5 October 1922. p. 1733. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
  9. ^ "Yungera". Victorian Railway Stations. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  10. ^ Sid Brown (March 1990). "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 71–76.
  11. ^ "APPOINTMENT OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 20 June 1929. p. 1452. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
  12. ^ "ABOLITION OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 21 January 1937. p. 77. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.