72-594: The Border Watch is an Australian newspaper based in Mount Gambier, South Australia , as of October 2020 owned by TBW Today Pty Ltd. The paper services Mount Gambier, the South Australian Limestone Coast , and parts of Western Victoria . It is the oldest and largest regional newspaper in South Australia. After 159 years of publishing the newspaper (along with sister publications The Pennant and
144-431: A sheep station there. Conflict with the local Aboriginal residents quickly ensued that same year with Henty's men shooting a number and burning their corpses. In March 1844, a band of Aboriginal people led by Koort Kirrup took a large number of Henty's sheep. Henty's men pursued and engaged them in a prolonged skirmish which resulted in the colonists having to retreat. Other British pastoralists and their shepherds in
216-459: A temperate mediterranean climate , with mild, relatively dry summers with very cool nights; mild springs and autumns with moderate rainfall; and cool winters with high rainfall. July is the wettest month, with an average of 100.5 mm falling on 21.9 days. February normally records the lowest rainfall, with an average of 26.6 mm on 7.8 days. The highest temperature recorded in Mount Gambier
288-693: A 372-metre (407 yd) dirt track oval speedway nicknamed "The Bullring". Borderline Speedway hosts an annual Sprintcar event called the " Kings Challenge ", first run in 1995 and is held in January each year a week before the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in nearby Warrnambool ( Victoria ), and two weeks before the Australian Sprintcar Championship . Borderline has played host to many Australian and South Australian speedway championships throughout its over 50-year history and
360-691: A decline in advertising. Channel Nine broadcasts Nine Network programming, Channel Seven broadcasts Seven Network programming & WIN Television broadcasts Network 10 programming. The programming schedules for these channels is the same as Channel Nine , Channel Seven and Channel 10 in Adelaide, with local commercials inserted on SDS/RDS and LGS/LRS and some variations for coverage of Australian Football League or National Rugby League matches, state and national news and current affairs programs, some lifestyle and light entertainment shows and infomercials. As of February 2013, there are no local news programs for
432-536: A further division, with the creation of the Town Council and Mr John Watson elected Mayor . Mount Gambier was governed in this fashion until 1932, when the District Council of East and West merged to form a single District Council of Mount Gambier once more. On 9 December 1954, Mount Gambier was officially declared a city, and is now an important tourism centre in south-east South Australia. As of October 2022 ,
504-450: A key role as well as being a major road transport and trucking centre. Mount Gambier is the major service centre for the region known as The Limestone Coast . The area has many natural attractions, including volcanic craters, lakes, limestone caves, sinkholes, underground aquifers and stunning Cenotès, surrounded by a city with a wide range of accommodation, shopping and entertainment opportunities. Tourism generates around $ 100 million for
576-608: A modern building which includes a theatre. Nearby are the public library, a cafe next to the library and the old post office. Every year the town and the surrounding area, hosts nearly 7,000 secondary school musicians for the Generations in Jazz Festival . Jazz artists like James Morrison , Ross Irwin, and Graeme Lyall travel to perform and adjudicate the stage band competition. Special guests have included Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band , Whycliffe Gordon and recently (2017)
648-449: A range of unusual aquatic flora and fauna, in particular fields of large stromatolites . There are several other craters in the city including Valley Lake and the Leg of Mutton River. The region surrounding the city includes other volcanic features such as Mount Schank , along with many karst features such as water-filled caves, cenotès and sinkholes . Mount Gambier’s urban area encompasses
720-641: A sheep run at Mount Schank . Trouble with Buandig people and dingoes, however, drove the Arthur brothers to sell up in 1844. The Hentys also had problems with their Mount Gambier sheep runs with theft of their sheep and shepherds speared to death in 1844. Such heavy losses occurred that the Hentys were forced to withdraw all their flocks from the Mount Gambier run. The Leake brothers on their Glencoe Station also reported problems losing 1,000 sheep from their 16,000 flock during 1845. Hostilities are reported to have continued around
792-507: A similar latitude and near the coast at sea-level. The last occurrences of snow in the city were in 1951 and 1932. Mount Gambier is the seat of local government for the City of Mount Gambier . The Council Chamber is in the Civic Centre at 10 Watson Terrace. In September 1875 a public meeting was held by ratepayers to discuss the creation of a municipality. The first town council was created on
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#1732855580648864-564: A volcano in the south east of the state, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Victorian border. The traditional owners of the area are the Bungandidj (or Boandik) people . Mount Gambier is the most important settlement in the Limestone Coast region and the seat of government for both the City of Mount Gambier and
936-531: Is also a range of different sporting leagues and clubs in Mount Gambier and surrounding regions, including soccer, netball, basketball, tennis, hockey, cricket, swimming, cycling, triathlon, rifle, gun and pistol shooting, lawn bowls, ten-pin bowling, angling, archery and golf. Motor sport is also popular, with the main facilities being the McNamara Park road racing circuit, and the Borderline Speedway ,
1008-480: Is as of October 2022 not yet dual-named, but is being signposted "Berrin / Mount Gambier", Berrin being the name by which the town is known to its present-day Indigenous inhabitants. The names include: According to Christina Smith in her 1880 book on the Bungandidj – The Boandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language - The largest clan, according to Smith,
1080-402: Is described as a 'large homestead with slits in the walls through which rifles could be used against any likely intruder ,' according to local historian Les Hill. Gradually a certain accommodation was made with Buandig people working as station hands, shearers and domestic servants while remaining on their own land. According to Bell and Marsden, Aboriginal people made wurley encampments on
1152-401: Is driven by all three economic sectors , though it has emerged as a regional service economy with its main industry being the service industry and its key areas of business including tourism , hospitality , retail , professional services , government administration and education . The city's historic primary sector roots including mining , agriculture and forestry continue to play
1224-612: Is in the refurbished and extended old town hall and Institute buildings. A cinema was operated in the early 1950s in this building by D. Clifford Theatres . Located around Cave Gardens, is the hub of the city's arts and includes the Riddoch Art Gallery, South Australia's major regional art gallery. It also houses the University of South Australia 's James Morrison Academy. The complex was extended in 2011 to include "The Main Corner",
1296-697: Is located in the Australian House of Representatives division of Barker , which has been represented by Tony Pasin since 2013. It is a safe Liberal Party of Australia seat. In the 2021 Census, the population of the Mount Gambier census area was 26,878 people, making it the largest urban area in the state outside Adelaide . Approximately 52% of the population were female, 82.8% were Australian born, over 91.5% of residents were Australian citizens and 2.8% were indigenous. The most popular industries for employment were Log Sawmilling and Timber Dressing (8%), School Education (4.8%) and Retail Trade (3.8%), while
1368-571: Is located in the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Mount Gambier , which has been held since 2014 by former Liberal Party member Troy Bell , who was re-elected as an independent in the 2018 state election . Mount Gambier also has two local representatives in the State Parliament’s Legislative Council being Liberal Ben Hood and Labor’s Clare Scriven . In federal politics , Mount Gambier
1440-485: Is marked by Centenary Tower, built in 1901 to commemorate the first sighting by colonists. In 1839, Stephen Henty , one of the Henty brothers who occupied large landholdings at Portland and Merino , led an overland expedition to explore the Mount Gambier region. He was the first white man to climb the peak and view the blue crater lake . The Henty brothers subsequently laid claim to Mount Gambier in 1842 and established
1512-521: Is regarded as one of the best run and promoted speedways in Australia. The speedway is currently managed and promoted by former star sprintcar driver, Mount Gambier native Bill Barrows. In 2007, Borderline hosted the fifth and final round of the Australian Solo Championship . The round and the championship was won by Australia's own reigning World Champion Jason Crump . Mount Gambier is
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#17328555806481584-616: The Plains Producer ), Victoria, and a Queensland media consultant. It won the "Best Newspaper" category in the South Australian Country Press Awards in 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2018. Mount Gambier, South Australia Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia , with an estimated urban population of 26,878 as of 2021 . The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier ,
1656-471: The South Eastern Times ) was briefly discontinued on 21 August 2020. However, The Border Watch resumed operation, under a consortium of new publishing owners, in an initial weekly format on 16 October 2020. The Border Watch was first published on 26 April 1861 by proprietor and editor Andrew Frederick Laurie (1843–1920), aided by his brother Park Laurie (1846–1928) and their mother, the widow of
1728-679: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra . The local newspaper for Mount Gambier, Limestone Coast and South East region of South Australia is The Border Watch . It is published and available in the local area every Tuesday through Friday (with the exception of some public holidays such as Christmas Day). Daily newspapers from Melbourne ( Herald Sun and The Age ) and Adelaide ( The Advertiser ) as well as national newspapers such as The Australian and Australian Financial Review are also available. Some newspapers from nearby towns such as Millicent and Penola , specialty newspapers like
1800-526: The District Council of Grant . The city is well known for its geographical features, particularly its volcanic and limestone features, most notably Blue Lake / Warwar , and its parks, gardens, caves and sinkholes . Before British colonisation of South Australia , the Bungandidj (or Boandik) people were the original Aboriginal inhabitants of the area. They referred to the peak of the volcanic mountain as 'ereng balam' or 'egree belum', meaning 'home of
1872-635: The Glenelg River region for the next two years. Mistreatment of Aboriginal people was at a level in 1845 where the commissioner of police drew attention to the atrocious treatment in the Rivoli Bay District: In 1848, the Avenue Range Station massacre occurred in the Guichen Bay region of South Australia. At least 9 indigenous Bungandidj Wattatonga clan people were allegedly murdered by
1944-722: The Ngarrindjeri people of the Coorong and Murray mouth to the west, the Bindjali and Jardwadjali to the north and the Gunditjmara people to the east. Anthropologist Norman Tindale argued in 1940 and again in 1974 that at the time of European settlement the Bungandidj were under territorial pressure from the Jardwadjali people to the north forcing the Bungandidj territorial boundary south from Gariwerd towards present day Casterton . However
2016-801: The Protector of Aborigines , in April 1851 reveals that "the natives belonging to the Rivoli Bay Tribe (Buandig) are all quiet, and most of them usefully employed in one way or another by the settlers." The report also raises with concern that "infanticide has been and is still practised among the natives here.", and "relations existing between native woman and the Europeans are very discreditable." As late as 1854, settlers on Bungandidj land still expressed fears of being attacked. The Leake Brothers of Glencoe Station built what they called their 'Frontier House' in 1854 which
2088-735: The South Eastern Star (2 October 1877 – 13 October 1930), were taken over by The Border Watch . Another, the South-Eastern Ensign (2 July 1875 – 30 June 1876), was also briefly printed. Later, a free commercial paper, the Exchange (1902– 8 October 1942) ran in opposition to the Watch , and was published by the Clark family. However, it ceased when the Second World War caused paper restrictions and
2160-509: The South Eastern Times) . On 21 August 2020, as a result of losses due to the pandemic, all three newspapers were discontinued with the loss of 38 jobs. However, a revitalised The Border Watch later announced on 24 September that it would return to print, initially in a weekly format, from 16 October 2020. The new owner, TBW Today Pty Ltd, represents a partnership of independent newspaper owners from South Australia (i.e. Andrew Manuel of
2232-476: The 25th May 1876 with local newspaper editor John Watson elected mayor. In 1932 the Town Council area was enlarged and the two surrounding district councils merged. A declaration by Governor Sir Robert George on the 9th December 1954 announced Mount Gambier was now a city. City status is achieved by reaching a population of 10,000 people. An Act of Parliament in 1953 changed the qualification from 20,000 residents to 10,000 residents. The Town Council of Mount Gambier
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2304-465: The Aborigines, shooting one and wounding another two. In 1847, Aboriginal people speared cattle and threatened to spear Sturt. Subsequently, Corporal McCulloch and his troopers went on a mission to disperse them. In November, two police and three men tracked a group of Aboriginal people who had taken about 300 sheep to the coast. In their attempt to handcuff them, spears were thrown at them, and during
2376-519: The British International Express weekly newspaper, agricultural newspapers such as The Weekly Times newspaper from Victoria and The South Australian Stock Journal (published by Australian Community Media ) and The Independent Weekly from Adelaide are also available from local newsagents. Historically, the town was served by multiple newspapers. Two earlier papers, the biweekly Mount Gambier Standard (3 May 1866 – 1874), and
2448-709: The Buandig and the Ngarrindjeri . There are many people in the region who identify as Bungandidj today. Descendants of the Bungandidj and the Meintangk continue to nurture and protect their culture through the Kungari Aboriginal Cultural Association based in Kingston SE. In 2022 many of the landmarks around Mount Gambier, including the lakes of the dormant volcano known as Mount Gambier , have been dual-named with Bungadidj names. The town of Mount Gambier
2520-430: The Bungandidj and Europeans occurred in the early 1820s. Panchy from the Bungandidj recounted to Christina Smith the story of the first sighting of ships at Rivoli Bay in either 1822 or 1823, and his mother's abduction for three months before she was able to escape when the ship put in at Guichen Bay . When Governor George Grey led an expedition of surveyors, overland from Adelaide to Mt Gambier during April–May 1844,
2592-517: The Bunganndidj but also their neighbours the Meintangk , has been revealed, by archaeological explorations, to have been inhabited for some 30,000 years. Coastal occupation around the Robe and Cape Banks attests that habitation from, at a low estimate, 5,800 BP. Their name comes from Bung-an-ditj , meaning "people of the reeds", which indicates their connection to land and water. First contact between
2664-565: The City of Mount Gambier and parts of the District Council of Grant. The city’s metropolitan area includes the following suburbs: Mount Gambier CBD (inner-city suburb), Suttontown (north-western suburb), Wandilo (north-western suburb), Mil-Lel (northern suburb), Worrolong (north-eastern suburb), Glenburnie (eastern suburb), Yahl (south-eastern suburb), Compton (western suburb), Moorak (southern suburb), Square Mile (south-eastern suburb), and OB Flat (south-eastern suburb). Mount Gambier has
2736-545: The Gift for the second year in a row. The race has not been held since 2012, and to this date continues to go unheld. The city has a major regional hospital, Mount Gambier Hospital out of which operates the Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service. A Medicare Urgent Care Clinic opened in November 2023 at 13 Crouch Street South offering Bulk-billed urgent but not life threatening health care. The 20-bed Mount Gambier Private Hospital
2808-593: The Mount Burr transmitter, north west of Mount Gambier. Some ABC radio services can also be received from the nearby town of Naracoorte and from Western Victoria. There are four Australian rules football teams competing in the Western Border Football League : North Gambier , East Gambier , South Gambier and West Gambier. They have produced such AFL players as David Marshall , Nick Daffy , Matthew Clarke . , Tim O'Brien and Brad Close . There
2880-544: The Mount Dundas transmitter near the town of Cavendish, Victoria . The transmitter site is located approximately 100 kilometres northeast of Mount Gambier and broadcasts all the television channels from Western Victoria including Prime7 Television ( AMV ), WIN Television Victoria ( VTV ), Southern Cross 10 ( BCV ), the ABC and SBS Victorian services, as well as the digital free-to-air multi-channels that are also now available from
2952-401: The Mount Gambier area since the closure of WIN Television's news operation. WIN Television also broadcasts Sky News Regional programming, the programming schedule for these multichannel is the same as Sky News Australia and Fox Sports News , with local commercials inserted. SES/RTS, since 30 June 2024, takes a direct dirty feed of SAS-7 Adelaide, after WIN ended its advertising agreement with
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3024-496: The Mount Gambier economy. The city is a major accommodation gateway for the region. Major tourism attractions include the Blue Lake/Warwar, the crater lakes, and caves such as Umpherston Sinkhole / Balumbul, Cave Garden / Thugi and Engelbrecht Cave . Engelbrecht Cave is a popular cave diving venue. The region around Mount Gambier also has many water-filled cenotès, caves and sinkholes which attract cave divers from around
3096-590: The Rev. Alexander Laurie, first Presbyterian minister of nearby Portland, Victoria . It started as a 4-page, single broadsheet weekly in Gambierton, as Mount Gambier township was then known. John Watson (ca.1842 – 13 December 1925) joined in 1863 as editor, and he and A. F. Laurie as publisher managed the company for the next 50 years. Laurie was president of the Mount Gambier Racing Club from its inception and Watson
3168-637: The Seven Network. On 11 November 2011, WIN Television commenced transmission of the digital TV multi-channels 10 Bold , 10 Peach , 9Go! , 9Gem , 7two (an acronym of "72") and 7mate for Mount Gambier and the surrounding South East region of South Australia. Due to the close proximity to the Victoria/South Australia state border, most people in Mount Gambier and some adjacent areas of southeast South Australia can receive television services from Western Victoria. These channels are broadcast from
3240-554: The area for less than 5 years, leading to a lack of specific aged-care facilities. The same source claimed "The government in the south-east area of the state, consisting of three local councils, amounted to a single administration. In consequence, many residents of Victoria used to look across the border to Mount Gambier as their centre. Consequently, during the 1970s many elderly locals relocated to Victor Harbor and Moonta , both rural areas but with more resources available to cope with an ageing population". The economy of Mount Gambier
3312-680: The city's growth there have been ongoing talks of amalgamation, the most recent boundary changes taking place in 2010. Law and order for the Limestone Coast region is maintained via the Mount Gambier Police Complex at 42 Bay Road Mount Gambier, the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court at 41 Bay Road Mount Gambier and the Mount Gambier Prison at Moorak south of the city. In state politics , Mount Gambier
3384-467: The diarist and painter George French Angas who accompanied them, noted that they found, from Woakwine Range onwards, numerous native tracks, and old encampments with abandoned wurlies, and heaps of banksia cones , which were used to make sweet drinks, mud weirs in swamps to catch fish, wicker-work traps to snare birds, and raised platform structures for spotting emus and kangaroos to hunt. In November 1834 Edward Henty settled near Portland , starting
3456-529: The eagle hawk', but the mountain itself was called Berrin. The sinkhole in the township was referred to as "thu-ghee". The peak of the dormant Mount Gambier crater was sighted in 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant from the survey brig, HMS Lady Nelson , and named after Lord James Gambier , Admiral of the Fleet. It was the first place named by the British in what was later to become the colony of South Australia. The peak
3528-542: The edge of Kingston and even moved into cottages at Rosetown on Kingston's northern side in 1877. The people often moved camp seasonally gathering and using traditional foods and using the traditional local burial ground. They record that the Blackford Reserve on the Bordertown Road was another locality where Aboriginal people lived until the 1970s. Kingston and Bordertown were the territorial border shared between
3600-517: The ensuring fight, four were shot dead. Industries soon began to appear. The Post Office opened on 22 September 1846, an Afro-American named John Byng built the Mount Gambier Hotel in 1847, and Dr Edward Wehl arrived in 1849 to begin a flour-milling operation. Hastings Cunningham founded "Gambierton" in 1854 by subdividing a block of 77 acres (31 ha). From 1861 to 1878, the Post Office
3672-516: The friend of all members of a totemic clan, and restrictions were imposed on eating species associated with them, except under extreme circumstances when due sorrow and remorse was expressed. The southerly groups appeared to have a migratory cycle consisting of setting up camps for fishing in the south over the warmer seasons, and then, with the onset of winter, leaving the stormy coasts to hunt and fish inland. Later reports describe their housing arrangements, of mud-daubed wurlies more comfortable than
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#17328555806483744-633: The historian Ian D. Clark has challenged Tindale's conclusions, arguing that the ethnohistoric and linguistic evidence does not support Tindale's claims regarding the boundaries between the Bungandidj and Jardwadjali. The Bungandidj were divided into two marriage classes: Kumite and Kroke , with children being assigned their mother's class. Within the Kumite class there were five major animal totems The Kroke class had four major totems: Each of these divisions had many animals, plants, and inanimate elements correlated with it. These totemic items were treated as
3816-624: The home of "The Alex Roberts 100 Mile Classic", a cycling event that lays claim to the longest continuing open cycling event in South Australia. The event held annually by the Mount Gambier Cycling Club. The Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing Club hold greyhound racing meetings at a purpose-built complex called the Tara Raceway, at 161 Lake Terrace East. The Club moved from Glenburnie Racecourse in late 1996 and held its first meeting on Saturday 25 January 1997. The 120m Mount Gambier Gift
3888-535: The leasehold, establishing himself at nearby Compton and bringing 500 cattle and 3000 sheep to pasture at Mount Gambier. Sturt claimed he was able to control the Bungandidj people by "a good rifle aimed by a correct eye". In May 1845, seven armed colonists pursued Aboriginal groups after livestock were taken. In late 1845, the first police station at Mount Gambier was formed. In 1846, the South Australian Mounted Police were involved in an affray with
3960-565: The movement of European settlers and their sheep, cattle, horses and bullocks across the Western plains of Victoria and the south east region of South Australia. Settlement occurred rapidly over the following two decades with significant frontier conflict taking place involving theft of sheep, spearings, massacres and mass poisoning of the natives. Grey's expedition reported encountering very few indigenous people, no more than groups of two or three. The abundance of signs of previous native land use with
4032-679: The range of early interactions and encounters with the Bungandidj people, several demonyms and orthographies exist: Bob Maza 's play The Keepers was about the dispossession of the Buandig people. It was performed several times in 1988, including in Naracoorte by Mainstreet Theatre and at the Adelaide Fringe Festival by Troupe Theatre, both directed by Geoff Crowhurst , and at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney , starring Lillian Crombie and Danny Adcock , and directed by Maza. Maza won
4104-523: The region were being robbed, speared and murdered by the local Aboriginal population and they proposed to form hunting parties to shoot them indiscriminately. After the Aboriginal population destroyed between 200 and 300 sheep, the Henty brothers were forced to abandon the Mount Gambier property later in 1844 with significant loss of capital. Evelyn Sturt , the brother of the explorer Charles Sturt soon took up
4176-494: The same name, Mount Gambier . Comprising several craters , it is part of the Newer Volcanics Province complex of volcanoes. One of these contains a huge lake of high-quality artesian drinking water which changes colour with the seasons. In winter, it is a steel grey and then changes to a spectacular cobalt blue in the summer, giving rise to its name, Blue Lake . This 75-metre (246 ft) deep lake accommodates
4248-545: The scarcity of sighted natives was explained as due to the smallpox, introduced by Europeans in the north, which has spread out, after devastating the Murray tribes and decimated Aboriginal people further south. There are a number of reports of poisoned flour or damper being given or left for natives in the settlement of Victoria and South Australia at the time. According to the accounts given by Pendowen, Neenimin and Barakbouranu, and narrated to Christina Smith: In 1843 Henry Arthur joined his brother Charles in establishing
4320-642: The shepherds' huts later constructed by pastoralists. The Bungandidj language is a Pama-Nyungan language , and is classified as belonging to the Bungandidj/Kuurn-Kopan-Noot subgroup of the Victorian Kulin languages . Their own name for their language was Drualat-ngolonung (speech of man), or, alternatively, Booandik-ngolo (speech of the Bungandidj). It consisted of 5 known dialects, Bungandidj, Pinejunga, Mootatunga, Wichintunga and Polinjunga . It has recently been studied by Barry Blake . Related vocabulary in Bungandidj includes: drual (man); barite (girl); moorongal (boy); and ngat (mother) Given
4392-419: The station owner James Brown who was subsequently charged with the crime. The case was dropped by the Crown for lack of European witnesses. Until that year, blacks were unable to testify under oath. Christina Smith's source from the Wattatonga tribe refers to 11 people killed in this incident by two white men. The cause of the massacre was the theft of sheep for food. A report by Mr Smith to Dr Moorhouse ,
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#17328555806484464-412: The town has not been officially dual-named , but the lakes and several other culturally significant features of the location were given dual names in February 2022, and dual naming is being planned for the city, mostly likely as Berrin, the name by which it is known to the local Indigenous community. Mount Gambier's urban area is located mainly along the northern slopes and plain of a maar volcano of
4536-453: The unemployment rate is approx. 7%. The median weekly household income is A$ 814 or more per week, compared with $ 924 in Adelaide. In the 2021 Census, 52.0% of residents identified themselves as having 'No Religion'. The largest religious denominations represented were Catholics at 14.4%, Anglicans at 6.1%, and Uniting Church at 4.3%. A 1976 study found that less than 10 per cent (around 160 people) of residents aged over 65 had lived in
4608-465: The weekly newspaper The Pennant , which services Penola and district, and the South Eastern Times at Millicent . The newspaper was eventually bought by transport businessman, Alan Scott in 1977. In 2006, prominent editorial staff resigned or took leave due to the perceived interference of the newspaper's owner. Scott died in 2008 and the business remained in the family as part of The Border Watch Media Group (which also controlled The Pennant and
4680-428: The world. As a major service centre for the region, the city has several key retail districts including the Commercial Street CBD. Mount Gambier Marketplace, opened in August 2012, is one of three major shopping centres in the city, the other two being Mount Gambier Central (formerly known as Centro Mount Gambier) and Coles shopping complex on Ferrers Street, which was opened in December 2020. The city's civic centre
4752-444: Was 45.9 °C on 20 December 2019. The lowest temperature recorded was −3.9 °C on 20 June 1950 and 2 July 1960. Mount Gambier only has 40.5 clear days on an annual basis. Summers and annual mean temperatures are cool for the latitude, on account of its exposure to the prevailing westerly belt . Extreme summer minima near 0 °C (32 °F) are especially of note, as these are unheard of in northern hemisphere locations at
4824-456: Was Mount Gambier's first mayor. Laurie and Watson founded The Narracoorte Herald in 1875, run initially by Archibald Caldwell and John Baxter Mather , and taken over in 1880 by Mather and George Ash . The newspaper went on to incorporate two rivals: the biweekly Mount Gambier Standard (3 May 1866 – 1874), and the South Eastern Star (2 October 1877 – 13 October 1930), which had been run by James Fletcher Jones. It also owned and printed
4896-427: Was assigned the new name The Corporation of the City of Mount Gambier and official celebrations were held on the 17th January 1955. The city consists of a mayor and ten councillors , elected equally from the East and West wards once every four years by postal voting . The Mayor of Mount Gambier council is Lynette Martin. The local government area is situated entirely within the District Council of Grant and due to
4968-436: Was dissolved in 2021 and was transitioned into the public system where it was co-located. Bungandidj The Bungandidj people are an Aboriginal Australian people from the Mount Gambier region in south-eastern South Australia , and also in western Victoria . Their language is the Bungandidj language . Bungandidj was historically frequently rendered as Boandik , Buandig , or Booandik . The territory of not only
5040-461: Was held annually on the first Saturday in December at Vansittart Oval was the 2nd richest professional footrace in South Australia. Resurrected in 2001 the athletic carnival includes races from 70m to 1600m and attracts athletes from all over Australia, mostly from South Australia and Victoria. Of the eleven Mount Gambier athletic carnivals held to date, three Victorians have won the 120 m Gift. On 3 December 2011, 21-year-old Wallace Long-Scafidi won
5112-412: Was known by this name before reverting to Mount Gambier. Local government appeared in 1863 when Dr Wehl, who now owned a substantial millhouse on Commercial Road, was elected chairman of the District Council of Mount Gambier. In December 1864, this became the District Council of Mount Gambier West and, at the same time, a separate District Council of Mount Gambier East was formed. Incorporation in 1876 saw
5184-558: Was the Bungandidj who occupied country from the mouth of the Glenelg River to Rivoli Bay North ( Beachport ), extending inland for about 30 miles (48 km). Some controversy exists as to which tribe, the Bungandidj or Meintangk, occupied the stretch of land between Rivoli Bay and Cape Jaffa , and in particular which of the two was in possession of the Woakwine Range . The other clans occupied country from between Lacepede Bay to Bordertown . The Bungandidj shared tribal borders with
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