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The Museum of the Riverina is a local history museum in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is the region in south-western New South Wales in which Wagga Wagga is located. The museum was established by Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society in 1967 (Morris, p. 241) in premises near the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens on Lord ...
The Mobile Cook's Galley, part of the Museum of the Riverina, is a heritage-listed former mobile field kitchen and now museum collection and museum exhibit located in the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens, Baden Powell Drive, Wagga Wagga, in the City of Wagga Wagga local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built in 1934 ...
In August 2019, Wagga Wagga dropped the definition 'crow' and adopted the city's Aboriginal meaning as 'dance and celebrations'. [2] The new meaning was officially enshrined in the city's first Reconciliation Action Plan. For more history of the Wiradjuri at Wagga Wagga see also; Mary Gilmore and the history of Wagga Wagga.
Wagga Wagga (/ ˌ w ɒ ɡ ə ˈ w ɒ ɡ ə /; [4] informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021, [5] [6] it is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia.
The median age of people in the City of Wagga Wagga was 35 years, which was lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 20.3% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 15.2% of the population.
Pages in category "History of Wagga Wagga" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Mobile Cook's Galley, Museum of the Riverina;
Even though fewer people now lived beside the Murrumbidgee River, fish and freshwater lobsters became scarce, Mary Gilmore told: I do not remember in just what year it was, but the chief of the tribe at Wagga Wagga in talking to my father, said that, white settlement increasing along the river, it was not only fished in by the settlers, but ...
Patricia Carlon (crime writer, born in Wagga Wagga) [1] Flora Eldershaw (novelist and critic, educated and died in Wagga Wagga) [2] Dame Edna Everage (fictional character) Billy Field (singer and songwriter) [3] Dame Mary Gilmore (socialist, poet and journalist) Andrew Mueller (journalist, author) Nina Las Vegas (Nina Agzarian) (DJ and radio ...