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Goondiwindi is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.. At the, the town had an urban population of approximately 5,500. The name Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word with goondi indicating droppings or dung and windi indicating duck, probably connected with the roosting place on a large rock in the Macintyre River. The name was believed to be first used for a pastoral run in the area. [1]

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Australian native police

Australian native police units, consisting of Aboriginal troopers under the command usually of a single white officer, existed in various forms in all Australian mainland colonies during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries.

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Barwon Highway

The Barwon Highway is one of the shorter state highways of Queensland, Australia.

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Bendidee National Park

Bendidee is a national park in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Billa Billa, Queensland

Billa Billa is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Boggabilla

Boggabilla is a small town in the far north of inland New South Wales, Australia in Moree Plains Shire.

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Boobera Lagoon

Boobera Lagoon is a permanent water hole in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 20 kilometres west of Goondiwindi in Queensland.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Bruxner Highway

The Bruxner Highway is a state highway located in New South Wales, Australia.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Callandoon, Queensland

Callandoon is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Chickpea

The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.

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Coles Supermarkets

Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Coles, is an Australian supermarket, retail and consumer services chain, headquartered in Melbourne owned by parent company Wesfarmers.

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Cunningham Highway

The Cunningham Highway is a national highway located in south-eastern Queensland, Australia.

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Customs House Museum

Customs House Museum is a heritage-listed former detached house and now museum at 1 McLean Street, Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Darling Downs Rugby Union

The Darling Downs District Rugby Union, or DDRU, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union within the District of Darling Downs, Queensland in Australia.

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Division of Maranoa

The Division of Maranoa is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

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Electoral district of Southern Downs

Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Epsom Handicap

The Epsom Handicap is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older, under handicap conditions over a distance of 1,600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in early October.

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Foodworks

FoodWorks is the brand the Australian independent retail supermarket group Australian United Retailers Limited (AURL) trade under.

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Frederick Walker (native police commandant)

Frederick Walker (14 April 1820 – 19 November 1866) public servant, property manager, Commandant of the Native Police, squatter and Australian explorer.

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Goodar, Queensland

Goodar is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi Argus

The Goondiwindi Argus is a newspaper published in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi Border Bridge

The Border Bridge is a road bridge over the Macintyre River in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi Civic Centre

Goondiwindi Civic Centre is a town hall which is heritage-listed at 100 Marshall Street, Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi Region

The Goondiwindi Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia along the state's border with New South Wales.

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Goondiwindi State High School

Goondiwindi State High School is located in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi War Memorial

Goondiwindi War Memorial is a heritage-listed war memorial at Marshall Street, Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Gore Highway

The Gore Highway is a highway running between Toowoomba and Goondiwindi in Queensland, Australia.

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Governor of Queensland

The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia.

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Gunsynd

Gunsynd (4 October 1967 – 29 April 1983) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won 29 races and A$280,455 in prize money.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Kurumbul, Queensland

Kurumbul is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Leichhardt Highway

The Leichhardt Highway is a major transport route in Queensland, Australia.

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List of heritage registers

This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded.

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Macintyre River

The Macintyre River, a perennial river that forms part of the Border Rivers group, is part of the Barwon catchment of the Murray-Darling basin, located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales, and the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

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Macquarie Dictionary

The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English.

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Matthew Nathan

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan, (3 January 1862 – 18 April 1939) was a British soldier and colonial administrator, who variously served as the Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race.

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Mitre 10

Mitre 10 is an Australian retail and trade hardware store chain.

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Moree, New South Wales

Moree is a large town in Moree Plains Shire in northern New South Wales, Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Newell Highway

The Newell Highway is a national highway in New South Wales, Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Family History Society

The Queensland Family History Society was formed in Brisbane in 1979 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation.

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Repco

Repco is an Australian automotive engineering/retailer company.

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Richard Purvis Marshall

Richard Purvis Marshall (3 April 1818 – 15 August 1872) was a British pastoral squatter and high ranking Native Police officer in the colonies of New South Wales and Queensland.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sisters of Mercy

The Religious Sisters of Mercy (R.S.M.) are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland by Catherine McAuley (1778–1841).

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Suburbs and localities (Australia)

Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes.

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The Reject Shop

The Reject Shop is an Australian discount variety store chain.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Tomkins incident

The Tomkins incident on 30 November 2004 was an attack by two white farmers on two Aboriginal boys found trespassing on their property near Goondiwindi, a town on the border of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.

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Toowoomba

Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City') is a city in the Darling Downs region in the Australian state of Queensland.

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W.S. Cox Plate

The W.S. Cox Plate is a Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres, held at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October.

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Wondalli, Queensland

Wondalli is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Wyaga

Wyaga is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Wyaga Homestead

Wyaga Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Millmerran Road, Wyaga near Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Wyaga, Queensland

Wyaga is a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Yelarbon

Yelarbon is a small town in south-central Queensland on the Dumaresq River, near the New South Wales border.

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Redirects here:

Goondawindi, Goondiwindi East, Queensland, Goondiwindi, Queensland, Goondiwindi, South Australia, Gundiwindi.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goondiwindi

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