Kooloonong,_Victoria

Kooloonong

Kooloonong

Town in Victoria, Australia

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

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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]

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    "No Water at Kooloonong". The Argus. 27 March 1923. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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    "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.
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    "Yungera". Victorian Railway Stations. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
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    Sid Brown (March 1990). "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 71–76.
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    "APPOINTMENT OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 20 June 1929. p. 1452. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
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    "ABOLITION OF POLLING PLACES". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Australia. 21 January 1937. p. 77. Retrieved 20 January 2020 – via Trove.
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