Moree, New South Wales
Moree is a town of about 8,000 residents in the Australian state of New South Wales. Moree is located 628 kilometers north of Sydney and 480 kilometers south of Brisbane at the junction of the Gwydir and the Newell Highway. It lies on the banks of the Mehi River and is the seat of the administrative district of the same name ( LGA) Moree Plains Shire.
Moree is dominated by agriculture, especially by the begun in the 1960s, cultivation of cotton. It is also known for its artesian springs and one of the main locations of the Freedom Ride protests against racial segregation in the 1960s.
History
Originally lived in this area from the tribe of Aboriginal Kamilaroi. One of the first Europeans in the area was the explorer Thomas Mitchell on the instructions of the Governor 1832 came around to this area by a large river, called to seek Kindur, that the escaped prisoner George Clarke had described. Clarke lived from 1826 to 1831 with the Kamilaroi south of Moree. During Mitchell's then followed over the years by ranchers in this area to farm, including 1844 also to Moree, a term of the Kamilaroi, which means either long water hole or rising sun.
In 1851 James and Mary Brand, 1852 opened the first general store on the banks of the Mehi River followed. A year later, the first post office was opened. In 1862 Moree was then appointed to the city. Five years later, there were 43 people in 1881 already 295
In 1965 Moree was known as one of the places of the Freedom Ride, a journey through the north of New South Wales led by Charles Perkins, who had intended to make the media aware of the discrimination against the Aborigines. In Moree, for example, it was forbidden for indigenous people to attend the public outdoor pool, theaters and restaurants. The usual in rural Australia segregation was so out of the Australian urban population in mind.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Mary Gaudron, the first Judge of the High Court of Australia
- Emma Moffatt ( born 1984 ), triathlete
- Shane Sutton ( born 1957 ), cyclist and British Cycling Coaches
- Tony Taylor (1917-1972), Australian volcanologist