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Walgett, located in north-western NSW, lies at the junction of the Kamilaroi and Castlereagh Highways and also marks the Namoi and Barwon river junction. The town, surveyed in 1859, originally setup as a port for paddlesteamers that travelled on the Murray-Darling system. Nowadays the town is the main centre for the vast pastoral districts that surround the region. The town centre is quite attractive - the main street is wide, tree lined & well organised and there are various parks set along the banks of the Namoi River. The towns name is of Aboriginal origin, meaning "meeting of the waters"

• Population: 1546 1
• Postcode: 2832
• Location: 668 km northwest of Sydney
• Main Roads: Castlereagh Hwy B55 and Kamilaroi Hwy B76
• Radio Stations: FM: 2VM (106.7 MHz), 2WEB (104.3 MHz), ABC Classic (105.5 MHz), ABC New England North West (991. MHz), ABC News on Radio (106.3 MHz), ABC RN (107.5 MHz), ABC Western Plains (105.9 MHz), Adventist Radio Australia (88.0 MHz), Now FM (105.1 MHz), Triple J (102.3 MHz) and Vision Christian Radio (97.9 MHz). AM: ABC Central West (549 kHz) and ABC Southern QLD (711 kHz),

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	Walgett Town Centre: View of Fox St (Castlereagh Hwy) in Walgett, December 2003. Image © Michael Greenslade
	Walgett Town Centre: View of Walgett town centre, at the corner of Fox and Wee Waa Streets, December 2003. Image © Michael Greenslade

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census Quickstats

Last updated: 11-Dec-2020 9:29

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