Kooloonong
Victoria
Kooloonong is located in Rural City of Swan Hill
Kooloonong
Kooloonong
Coordinates34°52′S 143°08′E / 34.867°S 143.133°E / -34.867; 143.133
Population39[1] (2016 census)
Postcode(s)3549
Location
LGA(s)Rural City of Swan Hill
Federal division(s)Mallee
Localities around Kooloonong:
Lake Powell Boundary Bend Narrung
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.[3]

The railway north of Swan Hill was extended from Piangil to Kooloonong in March 1920[4] 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.[5] The line from Piangil was closed in December 1986.[4] Kooloonong Post Office opened around June 1920 and closed in 1973.[6] It had a polling place for federal elections from 1922.[7]

Yungera

In 1926, the railway to Kooloonong was further extended to a terminus named Yungera,[8] at what is now the boundary between the localities of Kooloonong and Boundary Bend. The line was shortened back to Kooloonong in 1957.[9] Yungera had a polling place for federal elections from 1929[10] to 1937.[11]

References

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