Category: History
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Shear Outback Hay New South Wales
Shear Outback Hay New South Wales Shear Outback, located in Hay, New South Wales, is an award-winning cultural centre dedicated to the Australian shearing industry. Established to formally recognize the immense contribution of shearers and the wool trade to the nation’s development, the facility offers visitors a detailed and active experience. Situated at the junction… Read more
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Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales
Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales The Dunera Museum in Hay explores one of Australia’s most unusual wartime stories. It sits in a restored railway station that once received more than two thousand refugees from Europe in 1940. These men travelled on the HMT Dunera after Britain sent them abroad as “enemy aliens.” However, most… Read more
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Tree of Knowledge Loxton South Australia
Nestled along the riverfront of Loxton in South Australia’s Riverland region, the Tree of Knowledge stands both as a living natural monument and a compelling record of the mighty fluctuations of the Murray River. What makes the Tree of Knowledge so unique is that its enormous trunk has metal plaques indicating the heights reached by past… Read more