Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council is located in the eastern Riverina region with easy access to both the Hume and Olympic Highways. Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council offers a vibrant rural lifestyle in a beautiful, natural, open environment.
The area provides services and support to a community of approximately 11,500 people, including residents of our two main towns Cootamundra and Gundagai, as well as the villages of Adjungbilly, Coolac, Muttama, Nangus, Stockinbingal, Tumblong and Wallendbeen.
Cootamundra-Gundagai residents enjoy the benefits of a rural lifestyle, space, fresh air and liveability – with the reassurance of other services, airports and medical professional services just a short commute away in Wagga Wagga or Canberra.
Cootamundra and Gundagai, as well as the villages of Adjungbilly, Coolac, Muttama, Nangus, Stockinbingal, Tumblong and Wallendbeen.
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Gundagai:
Wagga Wagga Airport, a 45-minute drive away, provides excellent long-term parking for extended trips.
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Cootamundra offers employment opportunities from professional trades, medical, retail, technologies to small businesses and industries.
Opportunities also exist for employment in farming, retail and trade industries.
Major employers in Gundagai include Gundagai Meat Processors, Lynch Engineering and the Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.
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First Nations peoples have lived in the area for at least 50,000 years. The Murrumbidgee River was a major source of food for the Wiradjuri people of the region. Gundagai was a major thoroughfare and river crossing place. Clan groups of Wiradjuri people from the areas of Narrandera, Wagga Wagga and Cootamundra would join the locals for ceremony, trade and to gather food.
In November each year people would pass through Gundagai on the way to the high country east of Tumut to feast on great aggregations of Bogong moths and to participate in ceremony.
The Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls (also known as Bimbadeen), is located north east of the town of Cootamundra. The centre was operated and run by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board from the times between 1911 to 1968 to provide training to girls ‘forcibly’ taken from their families under the Aborigines Protection Act (1909).
These girls were apart of the Stolen Generations, and were not allowed any contact with their families, being trained to work as domestic servants.
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In Cootamundra, sport is played all year round with sport for all ages. There are also lots of community groups to get involved in. Gundagai presents a variety of sport and leisure opportunities including field sports and water sports such as canoeing, kayaking and freshwater fishing.
Check out Gundagai Neighbourhood Centre Website for more.
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