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  Cunnamulla, Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cunnamulla (pronounced Cullamulla by the locals) is a small town which lies on the Warrego River in south west Queensland, Australia, 206 kilometres south of Charleville, and approximately 750 kilometres west of the state capital, Brisbane.
Cunnamulla is situated at the intersection of the Mitchell Highway and the Balonne Highway.
Cunnamulla is the administrative centre for the Paroo Shire, which also includes the townships of Wyandra and Eulo, and covers an area of 47617 square kilometres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cunnamulla   (158 words)

  
 Walkabout - Cunnamulla
The area around Cunnamulla was first settled in the late 1840s after it had been explored by Sir Thomas Mitchell, who passed through the area in 1846 while searching for a route to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Cunnamulla was one of many settlements which grew up in South-West Queensland as a result of the activities of Cobb & Co. but it is the only one to have survived.
The survival of Cunnamulla was undoubtedly linked to the reliable water supply provided by the Warrego River (in fact the word 'Cunnamulla' is widely accepted to be an Aboriginal term meaning either 'big waterhole' or 'long stretch of water') and to the arrival of the railway in 1899.
www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/QLDCunnamulla.shtml   (511 words)

  
 Cunnamulla - Queensland Holidays
Cunnamulla is an Aboriginal term for 'long stretch of water' and the river is the Warrego - a great place for boating, fishing or swimming.
Cunnamulla is the supply town for travellers heading further west, perhaps in search of a splash of colour - for out past Eulo is opal country.
Cunnamulla is the southern gateway to the Matilda Highway and lies at the crossroads to the Adventure Way travelling west to Eulo and the Yowah Opal Fields and on to Thargomindah and Innamincka.
www.queenslandholidays.com.au /outback/cunnamulla.cfm   (311 words)

  
 The Troubles of Dennis O'Rourke
As Cunnamulla eloquently states - the town is symbolically and actually at the end of the railway line, the permanent link to a wider community.
I would like to say about Cunnamulla, as some of you that have read the press will already know, that Cunnamulla is a town where half the people say they are fl and half say they are white.
In Cunnamulla people would refer to Paul as "vermin," including some of the people in the film, some of my friends who are in the film.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/orourke.html   (4074 words)

  
 Cunnamulla, Australia, hotel, information, climate, rainfall and Travel
Cunnamulla is located by the Warrego River and was a major centre at the junction of two major stock routes involved in the transportation and management of livestock, predominantly sheep.
The Eulo and Yowah Opal areas are in the region and are famed for the Mosaic Opal.
Cunnamulla has a rich and colourful history and one of its claims to fame is that a robbery committed there resulted in the last hanging for armed robbery in Queensland.
www.auinfo.com /Cunnamulla.html   (302 words)

  
 Cunnamulla: triple j film reviews
Cunnamulla was made by one of Australia's most successful and dedicated documentary makers, Dennis O'Rourke.
Cunnamulla is a powerful film, poetic, confronting and most importantly, courageous; it's a film unafraid to show a side of Australia some people may not be comfortable seeing.
Cunnamulla displays great nerve and artistry; it's subjects (or "characters" as O'Rourke likes to call them) are people we all know; they are in the end "us", the film makes that very clear - these guys show us exactly what they're made of.
www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s242728.htm   (434 words)

  
 The Australian: Cafe society rewrites the script for Cunnamulla [ 03mar03 ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ONE-time tearaway Paul Martin, who swears he is back on the straight and narrow, is shaking his head at the changes in his outback Queensland home town since he starred in that film.
Cunnamulla, a gritty documentary about life in the town, stirred controversy when it was released in 2001 to critical acclaim.
Having arrived in the Queensland border town shortly before the AFI award-winning film came out, Mr Dillon understood the anger of locals over their town being portrayed as a place of lethargy and gossip, where children had sex to win friends and ran riot out of boredom.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,7300973,00.html   (569 words)

  
 Cunnamulla
Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line.
Famous country-and-western singer Slim Dusty is coming to town, a teenage concert pianist is touring with her pet cat, and Santa Claus is on his way.
Sometimes sad, often hilarious, Cunnamulla is an astonishingly honest portrait of life in a small, isolated outback community.
www.directcinema.com /dcl/title.php?id=356   (461 words)

  
 hot docs : Media : press releases : doc soup presents cunnamulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
O'Rourke immersed himself in the lives of some of Cunnamulla's 'marginal' population: Arthur is the only taxi-driver; Neredah, his wife, knows everyone's business and tells it all; Cara and Kellie-Anne have dropped out of school and long to escape to the city - though in the meantime they are trying hard not to get pregnant.
CUNNAMULLA won Best Documentary honours at the Hollywood Film Festival Movie Awards and the Film Critics Circle of Australia, as well as the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary award from Urban Cinefile magazine.
CUNNAMULLA is O'Rourke's tenth feature documentary; his previous films include The Good Woman of Bangkok and Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age.
www.hotdocs.ca /media_press_8.cfm   (410 words)

  
 Electric Shadows - Cunnamulla
CUNNAMULLA has also had excellent media coverage and terrific reviews everywhere (except from David Stratton) and has been winning good support from audiences.
Braving temperatures in the high 40s, the 7.30 REPORT has had a film crew there doing a story on Dennis and the local responses to the film and should be broadcasting the story soon.
This powerful, confronting and often hilarious study of "marginal"people in a "marginal" town, is one of the great Australian films of the year and has been acclaimed by critics.
www.electricshadows.com.au /film/1955150401.html   (611 words)

  
 Nardoo Station - Outback Spa Resort
A range of activities is available to visitors to Nardoo - both on the property and in the region around Cunnamulla.
Cunnamulla is at the crossroads of two major highways - the Matilda Highway (north-south) and the Adventure Way (east-west).
Both the town of Cunnamulla and surrounding region offer a wide range of activities and sightseeing.
www.nardoo.com.au /activities.htm   (151 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 22/1/2001: Facing the music in Cunnamulla
WOMAN, 'CUNNAMULLA', FILM AUSTRALIA AND CAMERAWORK LTD: When these kids break and enter, they should be made to face the people that they broke into, and then the parents should flog them in the main street -- flog them.
SIMON ROYAL: Cunnamulla, a little town at the edge of western Queensland, is at the centre of a bitter debate about the realities of life in outback Australia.
Former Cunnamulla mayor Darby Land became close to the film-maker during his time in the town.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s236397.htm   (1298 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Cunnamulla : Main
Cunnamulla is a small town in the Queensland section of Australia; set in the outback, Cun...
Cunnamulla is a small town in the Queensland section of Australia; set in the outback, Cunnamulla is often regarded as "the end of the line," with little of value coming...
Cunnamulla is a small town in the Queensland section of Australia; set in the outback, Cunnamulla is often regarded as "the end of the line," with little of value coming in and an increasing number of people moving on to greener pastures.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/185978/moviemain.jhtml   (142 words)

  
 Page 13   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Cunnamulla was a small town of perhaps 2000 souls, relying on the sheep industry, and some orange orchards, and sat on the edge of sand dune and opal country to the west.
Cunnamulla was reached at nightfall, almost 24 hours to the minute from Brisbane.
A crew was based at Cunnamulla who sometimes changed with a general goods train at Wyandra but they also worked through to Charleville.
www.ja-gps.com.au /qldrail/page13.html   (569 words)

  
 www.paroo.info
Koroit is situated 100 kilometres north-west of Cunnamulla on the Humeburn Road.
The town of Cunnamulla, which the largest of the four towns in the Paroo Shire, is situated on the banks of the Warrego River and is at the crossroads of the Matilda Highway (north-south)
Wyandra is located 100 km north of Cunnamulla on the Matilda Highway, the town has a population of about 60 people and is eager to welcome visitors to the newly established museum in the Power House which provided power to the town from 1955 until it...
www.paroo.info   (603 words)

  
 ABA | News & publications > News releases > News release archive > 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Cunnamulla Aboriginal Media Association will broadcast its service on 99.7 MHz on the FM band.
Cunnamulla has two television services, one national (ABC AQ 10) and one commercial (QQQ Ten) It is also served by two national radio services (4ABC RN and 4CH) and one commercial service (4VL).
One community radio broadcasting licence for Cunnamulla was made available through this planning process.
www.aba.gov.au /newspubs/news_releases/archive/2001/58nr01.shtml   (481 words)

  
 Madden, Nora: carrier
By then Daniel Jounquay's wife Helen was living in her wagonette parked at the riverbank at Cunnamulla, with her son in a tent nearby; a decade later William Wright's daughter Eliza Angus retired with hers to Quilpie.
Whatever the truth of the matter, post office directories and electoral rolls disclose that she was working at the Cunnamulla laundry in the name of Ann Nora Josephine Madden in 1902 and this discovery confirms that they were no longer living together.
I saw him again in Cunnamulla, some time afterwards and asked him where the cart and horse were that he had taken away.
users.bigpond.net.au /thurlow/madden_4_nora.htm   (1334 words)

  
 Scruffy's Big Adventures - Cunnamulla
We knew the great trek to Cunnamulla was coming up as we overheard mum and dad talking about what they had to take with them and how mum was going to get there as she could not get the whole day off work.
Uncle Thud had asked mum to give her another gift as he would not be at Cunnamulla, due to being on the otherside of the world, oops sorry country, nearly the same distance though.
We left Grandpa there, as he was going to fly back in mums place, but he was a real meanie and would not take any of us with him, so we sat in the back seat of the car and would not talk to anyone, till the icecream stop.
www.potfire.com.au /entertain/scruffy19.htm   (2089 words)

  
 Angel Flight
This was the start of a grand plan that would see a 5 year old Cunnamulla boy with cerebral palsy receiving medical care in Brisbane at the Children's Hospital by 11am.
We were early into Cunnamulla and so were Cody and Valerie so at 0745 we were headed back east out of Cunnamulla climbing into a nice 20 knot tail wind.
The rest of the flight was uneventful, and we landed at Cunnamulla at 5:30pm, having taken 3 hours flying time with a 15 knot headwind.
www.angelflight.org.au /html/flightarchives/mission22_cunnamulla.cfm   (938 words)

  
 Wellington Film Society - CUNNAMULLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Cunnamulla is a tough, sunburnt Queensland town at the end of the train line, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane.
Our first glimpse is through the venetians: Neredah, a highly opinionated guide, opens the film as she takes a gawk at some off-screen newcomers.
Despite being as Australian as corks on a hat, Cunnamulla is awfully recognisable on this side of the Tasman too.
filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=7&sy=2004   (390 words)

  
 AusEmade: Cunnamulla Information and Attractions, Queensland (QLD), Australia
A popular spot for locals is the Cunnamulla Weir where you can fish for Murray Cod or Yellowbelly.
Cunnamulla Museum • Small museum offering many photographs of early life, books and equipment from earlier times.
Currawinya National Park • Surrounded by semi arid landscapes and rocky ranges this inland area of Queensland near the NSW-QLD border is one of Australia's most important inland bird breeding habitats.
www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/c/cunnamulla-attractions.htm   (373 words)

  
 Madden : Depositions Cunnamulla
My husband was living with me in Cunnamulla at one time.
Payments to be made to the Sergeant of Police at Cunnamulla.
William Patrick Madden is charged on warrant issued by the Cunnamulla Bench with having, at Cunnamulla, on the 7th June 1896, deserted his children, William Madden and others.
users.bigpond.net.au /thurlow/madden_desertion.htm   (1836 words)

  
 Make a date with the living and the dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Merry Higgins will happily introduce you to some of Cunnamulla's past residents in her fascinating one-hour "Dead men do tell tales" tour at the old cemetery.
Booklets are available from the Cunnamulla Visitors Centre and cover the towns of Yowah, Eulo, and Cunnamalla.
One of the walks includes the Cunnamulla railway station with its covered railway platform - one of only two in Queensland - flsmith's store and the infamous Robber's tree, at the edge of a sandhill at the southern end of Stockyard Street, as well as a river walk trail.
www.tq.com.au /index.cfm?3F7EB9A2-C6F3-2DC7-BC72-90DD5B28E48A&print=true   (861 words)

  
 DocAviv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is set in Cunnamulla, an Australian town 800 km west of Brisbane, which is symbolically and actually at the end of the railway line.
O’Rourke, who uses long takes in order to encourage his subjects to share their stories with him, was accused of exploiting the innocent people exposed to his camera and of creating an ethnographic film.
Prizes awarded to “Cunnamulla” include the Australian Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Documentary Film and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction of a Documentary Film.
www.docaviv.co.il /Eng/Win/FilmReview.asp?FId=29&Nav=1   (167 words)

  
 Gemstone Links
Cunnamulla, with a population of 1600 people, is the major town in the Paroo Shire.
Discover the outlying areas of the shire - opal fields and national parks where the amazing lakes attract an abundance of waterbirds.
Cunnamulla is the southern gateway to the Matilda Highway and lies at the crossroads to the Adventure Way travelling west to Eulo and the Yowah Opal Fields.
www.opalshop.com.au /shopTalk_stories_queensland_info_Cunnamulla.htm   (92 words)

  
 Cunnamulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
West towards Thargomindah, 160km from Cunnamulla, are the Yowah Opal Fields where shallow deposits yield much-sought-after Yowah Nuts – opalized ironstone nodules.
Beware of unfenced vertical shafts, which are practically invisible until you’re on your way down: always look where you’re going and never step backwards.
Two hundred kilometres southwest of Cunnamulla, on the border with New South Wales, Currawinya National Park features lakes, wetlands and associated wildlife in contrast to the semi-arid land more typical of the region.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/queensland/cunnamulla.asp   (199 words)

  
 Film Review: Cunnamulla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
If you hold a romanticised view of life in sunny Australia, Dennis O'Rourke's Cunnamulla might prove an eye-opener, but for the rest of us it holds little that is revelatory.
O'Rourke takes his camera to small-town Cunnamulla at the end of the railway line in the state of Queensland, Australia.
A few snippets of other Aboriginal peoples provide little in the way of balance to Paul's monologue or popular stereotypes, and cast little insight on the segregated life of the town.
www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/cunnamulla_2000.shtml   (486 words)

  
 TDU2K  ThunderDownUnder2000
We spoke to the Doc while in Cunnamulla and he said that to our W was a line of storms which had literally thousands of lightning strikes on tracker.
The slow drive through Cunnamulla allowed the guster to catch us as we were going through town and there were leaves, branches and dust blowing everywhere and people trying to get out of the oncoming storm.
By 7:20pm we started heading back towards Cunnamulla for the night with the possibility of something still developing later with the temperature still at 30C and the DP at 22C.
www.stormchasers.au.com /tdu2kam4.htm   (1302 words)

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