35-682: The Taralga Echo was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Crookwell, New South Wales from 1924 to 1927. The first issue of the Taralga Echo appeared on 1 November 1924, published by RJ Winning and Son. Previously, Robert John Winning had been involved in production of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Mail , then in Cessnock with the Cessnock Express . In Crookwell, and in partnership with his son John,
70-562: A decade. Gilmore died at the age of 97 and was accorded a state funeral , a rare honour for a writer. She has featured on the reverse of the Australian ten-dollar note since 1993. Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at the small settlement of Cotta Walla (modern-day Roslyn ), just outside Crookwell, New South Wales . When she was one year old her parents, Donald Cameron, a farmer from Scotland, and Mary Ann Beattie, decided to move to Wagga Wagga to join her maternal grandparents,
105-516: A federal electorate, the Division of Gilmore and Gilmore Crescent in the Canberra suburb of Garran are named in her honour. Gilmore's image appears on the third series Australian $ 10 note (since 2017), along with an illustration inspired by "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" and, as part of the copy-protection microprint, the text of the poem itself. The background of the illustration features
140-407: A portrait of Gilmore by the well-known Australian artist Sir William Dobell . She was the great-great aunt of politician and later prime minister Scott Morrison , who in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of her death, delivered a tribute to her in federal parliament. In September 2019, Gilmore's poem, " No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest " was read aloud by United States president Donald Trump during
175-620: A shared publication arrangement had been agreed to, between the Winnings’ sister papers of the Taralga Echo and the Crookwell Gazette , and rival paper, the Argyle Liberal , produced by WJ Morton. Publication of an independent Taralga Echo ceased with its final issue on 4 November 1927. Content of interest to Taralga district readers would subsequently be incorporated into a larger-sized Crookwell Gazette . Following
210-430: Is based on rural industries, and the district is renowned for potato farming. Crookwell is also home to what was NSW 's first wind farm , which consists of 8 turbines, and is located a few kilometres out of town on the road towards Goulburn. A railway once connected Goulburn and Crookwell, which opened in 1902, but passenger services to Crookwell station ceased in 1974, and the last goods train ran in 1985. The line
245-586: Is technically not closed, but has been listed as out of use, and in some locations is now impassable. The area now known as Crookwell lies within the traditional lands of the Gundangurra people. These people spoke a similar if not identical language to the neighbouring Ngunnawal people to their south. The first Europeans known to be in the area were the exploratory party of surveyor James Meehan which camped 1 km south of present-day Grabben Gullen (12 km south-west of Crookwell). John Oxley passed to
280-480: Is the seat of the Upper Lachlan Shire Council local government area (LGA) of New South Wales , Australia , formed in 2004. Crookwell is approximately 2.5 hours drive from Sydney via Goulburn , and 1.5 hours from Canberra . Other than the main road to Goulburn, minor roads link Crookwell with Bathurst , Boorowa , Grabben Gullen , Laggan , and Taralga . Crookwell railway station
315-498: Is the terminus of the now disused Crookwell railway line . Crookwell has a small unpaved airstrip approximately 5 km south of the town. Owing to its exposed western location on the upwind side of the Great Dividing Range and somewhat southern latitude, snow is not uncommon during the winter months, with occasional heavy falls. Summers are warm and dry, with cool to cold nights. Winters are cold and wet; when
350-617: Is to use the VAST free-to-view satellite service, which offers a similar range of channels. The local newspaper, the Crookwell Gazette has been published since 1885. Notable people include Kellie White and Emily Smith (Hockeyroos Captain), who both played for the Hockeyroos in international competition. Mary Gilmore Dame Mary Jean Gilmore DBE (née Cameron ; 16 August 1865 – 3 December 1962)
385-415: The 2016 census , Crookwell had a population of 2,641. The town is at a relatively high altitude of 887 metres and there are several snowfalls during the cooler months. The nearest major centre is the city of Goulburn which is about a half-hour drive to the south-east of the town. Crookwell is easily accessible to the state capital of Sydney and also the federal capital of Canberra . Most employment
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#1732798804815420-616: The Art Gallery of NSW . In 1973 she was honoured on a postage stamp issued by Australia Post . A park in West Pennant Hills, Sydney is named in her honour. The park hosts a large flag pole and Australian flag with the location historically being the location of a signal flag for communication between the early settlements of Parramatta and Windsor. The Canberra suburb of Gilmore , the state highway Mary Gilmore Way (which runs east north east from Barmedman to Grenfell),
455-559: The Bulletin School , centered around the radical nationalist journal The Bulletin . Although the greatest influence on her work was Henry Lawson , it was Alfred "A. G." Stephens , literary editor of The Bulletin , who published her verse and established her reputation as a fiery radical poet, champion of the workers and the oppressed. She had a relationship with Henry Lawson that probably began in 1890. She writes of an unofficial engagement and Lawson's wish to marry her, but it
490-669: The Beatties or in rented houses. Her father purchased land and built his own house at Brucedale on the Junee Road, where they had a permanent home. She was then to attend, albeit briefly, Colin Pentland's private Academy at North Wagga Wagga and, when the school closed, transferred to Wagga Wagga Public School for two and a half years. At 14, in preparation to become a teacher, she worked as an assistant at her uncle's school at Yerong Creek . Another uncle, Charles White (1845–1922),
525-562: The Beatties, who had moved there from Penrith, New South Wales in 1866. Her father obtained a job as a station manager at a property at Cowabbie , 100 km north of Wagga. A year later, he left that job to become a carpenter, building homesteads on properties in Wagga, Coolamon , Junee , Temora and West Wyalong for the next 10 years. This itinerant existence allowed Mary only a spasmodic formal education; however, she did receive some on their frequent returns to Wagga, either staying with
560-520: The British Empire in 1937, becoming Dame Mary Gilmore. She was the first person to be granted the award for services to literature. During World War II , she wrote stirring patriotic verse such as No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest . In her later years, Gilmore, separated from her husband, moved to Sydney, and enjoyed her growing status as a national literary icon. Before 1940, she published six volumes of verse and three editions of prose. After
595-460: The Goulburn broadcast but on different frequencies to Goulburn. Crookwell has a low powered transmitter broadcasting ABC Television . Residents wishing to receive a wider range of channels and in digital can attempt to receive signals from either Canberra ( Black Mountain ), or Orange ( Mount Canobolas ), although Crookwell is located in the fringe area of both transmitters. Another option
630-619: The Winnings published the Crookwell Gazette and the Taralga Echo . The Echo was begun in 1924 with the specific aim of providing content for a Taralga -based readership. It advertised a circulation throughout the local districts of Bannaby, Burra Creek, Burrallier, Bright Hill, Chatsbury, Curraweela, Emu Flat, Guineacor, Greenmantle, Myrtleville, Newfoundland, Richlands, Stonequarry, Taralga, The Meadows, Wombeyan, Wearborough, Wowagin, Yalbraith and YorkBorough. In January 1927, an editorial announcement advised that, due to economic necessity,
665-474: The age of 16, and after a period in the country was posted to Sydney . She involved herself with the burgeoning labour movement and the Bulletin School of radical nationalists, and she also became a devotee of the utopian socialist views of William Lane . In 1893, Gilmore and 200 others followed Lane to Paraguay , where they formed the New Australia Colony . She started a family there, but
700-567: The aim was to encourage other women writers. By 1931, Gilmore's views had become too radical for the AWU, but she soon found other outlets for her writing. She later wrote a regular column for the Communist Party 's newspaper Tribune , although she was never a party member herself. In spite of her somewhat controversial politics, Gilmore accepted appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of
735-466: The colony did not live up to expectations and they returned to Australia in 1902. Drawing on her connections in Sydney, Gilmore found work with The Australian Worker as the editor of its women's section, a position she held from 1908 to 1931. She also wrote for a variety of other publications, including The Bulletin and The Sydney Morning Herald , becoming known as a campaigner for the welfare of
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#1732798804815770-840: The death of Robert John Winning on 6 Dec 1933, son John continued to publish the Gazette in Crookwell. The Taralga Echo has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program hosted by the National Library of Australia . Crookwell, New South Wales Crookwell is a small town located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales , Australia, in the Upper Lachlan Shire . At
805-490: The disadvantaged. Gilmore's first volume of poetry was brought out in 1910; she published prolifically for the rest of her life, mainly poetry but also memoirs and collections of essays. She wrote on a variety of themes, although the public imagination was particularly captured by her evocative views of country life. Her best known work is " No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest ", which served as a morale booster during World War II. Gilmore's greatest recognition came in later life. She
840-481: The end of the decade. By the mid-1870s the population had already reached 1000 people. In 1865, Mary Gilmore was born just 16 km south in the town or Roslyn. From 1941 to 1945, 508,500 tons of iron ore was mined—about six miles by road from the town—and railed to Port Kembla for wartime steel production. Crookwell contained one of Australias first wind farms, the Crookwell Wind Farm and
875-477: The first wind farm that fed into the national power grid. Crookwell has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: In the 2021 Census, there were 2,686 people in Crookwell. In the 2016 census 85.8% of people were born in Australia and 91.4% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 34.9%, Anglican 30.1%, No Religion 14.3% and Uniting Church 7.8%. Crookwell
910-467: The north and east later that same year. Crookwell was originally known as "Kiama" but later renamed after the river. The area around Crookwell was first settled in the 1820s, and had received its current name by the 1860s. By 1840, some inns had appeared at the crossroads, but Binda remained the head of the district. After this, selection of blocks occurred; and the population of was over 100 by midway through that decade. The first allotments were sold at
945-608: The preservation of the White Australia Policy, better working conditions for working women, for children's welfare and for a better deal for the Indigenous Australians . In 1925 the Society of Women Writers was formed and Florence Baverstock was the inaugural President. Her four vice-presidents who founded the society were Gilmore, Pattie Fotheringhame , Isobel Gullett and Mary Liddell and
980-556: The prevailing westerly cloud is persistent, daily maximum temperatures can struggle to exceed 3 °C (37 °F). Radio stations with transmitters located in Crookwell include: Depending on location some Goulburn, Illawarra, and/or Canberra based radio stations can also be heard. Eagle FM and GNFM (formerly 2GN) are Goulburn based but licensed to serve towns in the Southern Tablelands including Crookwell. In order to reach Crookwell, both have transmitters which relay
1015-528: The socialist experiment had clearly failed. Will left to work as a shearer in Argentina and Mary and her two-year-old son Billy soon followed, living separately in Buenos Aires for about six months, and then the family moved to Patagonia until they saved enough for a return passage, via England, in 1902 to Australia, where they took up farming near Casterton, Victoria . Gilmore's first volume of poetry
1050-451: The war, Gilmore published volumes of memoirs and reminiscences of colonial Australia and the literary giants of 1890s Sydney, thus contributing much material to the mythologising of that period. Dame Mary Gilmore died in 1962, aged 97, and was accorded the first state funeral for a writer since the death of Henry Lawson in 1922. Dobell's 1957 portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore was a finalist in that year's Archibald Prize , and can be seen in
1085-541: Was a journalist and author of books on bushrangers , while an aunt, Jeannie Lockett (née Jane Beattie) was a teacher and writer. After completing her teaching exams in 1882, she accepted a position as a teacher at Wagga Wagga Public School, where she worked until December 1885. After a short teaching spell at Illabo she took up a teaching position at Silverton near the mining town of Broken Hill . There Gilmore developed her socialist views and began writing poetry. In 1890, she moved to Sydney, where she became part of
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1120-456: Was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions to Australian literature and the broader national discourse. She wrote both prose and poetry. Gilmore was born in rural New South Wales , and spent her childhood in and around the Riverina , living both in small bush settlements and in larger country towns like Wagga Wagga . Gilmore qualified as a schoolteacher at
1155-400: Was broken by his frequent absences from Sydney. The story of the relationship is told in the play "All My Love", written by Anne Brooksbank . She followed William Lane and other socialist idealists to Paraguay in 1896, where they had established a communal settlement called New Australia two years earlier. At Lane's breakaway settlement Cosme she married William Gilmore in 1897. By 1900
1190-485: Was published in 1910, and for the ensuing half-century she was regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. In 1908 she became women's editor of The Worker , the newspaper of then Australia's largest and most powerful trade union, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). She was the union's first woman member. The Worker gave her a platform for her journalism, in which she campaigned for
1225-471: Was the doyenne of the Sydney literary world, and became something of a national icon, making frequent appearances in the new media of radio and television. Gilmore maintained her prodigious output into old age, publishing her last book of verse in 1954, aged 89. Two years earlier she had begun writing a new column for the Tribune (the official newspaper of the Communist Party ), which she continued for almost
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