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| | Rural Town Profile, Rural Health Education Database (RHED), UNSW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The Shire of Gunnedah is located in the north west of New South Wales, in the Upper Namoi Valley approximately 450 km from Sydney, 655 km from Brisbane and just over 1,000 km from Melbourne. |
 | | Agriculture is the largest industry within the Shire of Gunnedah, employing around 980 people and providing an income of some $120 million per annum. |
 | | Gunnedah has a rich and varied history, incorporating early settlement and use of the area by Aboriginal people, much later settlement by European graziers, the later discovery of coal, the coming of the railway, as well as being renowned as the birthplace and inspiration of the great Australian poet Dorothea Mackeller. |
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