42-673: Yoogali is a small town and suburb of Griffith in the Riverina region of the Australian state of New South Wales . It is located in the City of Griffith local government area. It is situated between Griffith and Yenda , just outside the Mooreville Industrial Estate. At the 2021 census , Yoogali had a population of 1,334. Yoogali Post Office opened on 17 March 1924 and closed in 1991. It currently houses
84-710: A reservoir under the same name. It is located on the Tumut River upstream of Tumut in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales , Australia . Purposes for the dam include flood mitigation , hydro-power , irrigation , water supply and conservation. The dam is part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme , a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro . Commenced in 1964, completed in 1968, and upgraded in 2010,
126-490: A club, beautician & hairdresser salon, a specialty hairdresser salon, a cafe, 2 car dealerships, a vet, 2 plant nurseries, a public school, a private school and a special needs school. Yoogali has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: [REDACTED] Media related to Yoogali, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons This New South Wales geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Griffith, New South Wales Griffith
168-515: A local FM frequency, although its local breakfast show is broadcast from a studio in Griffith. Hit FM is skewed towards the younger listeners with a Top 40/pop music format. Following the local breakfast show, the station takes Hit Music Network programming sourced from Southern Cross Austereo's hub at Sea FM on the Gold Coast or from metropoliton stations such as 2Day FM and Fox FM . 2MIA
210-548: A mid-afternoon program, an evening show and a weekend morning program, all broadcast from ABC Radio Sydney , along with a drive program, broadcast from regional NSW. Other national ABC services that are available in Griffith on separate FM frequencies include Triple J , Radio National , ABC Classic FM and ABC News on Radio . Triple M Riverina MIA 963 is the Griffith-based commercial FM station owned by Southern Cross Austereo broadcasting from Griffith studios during
252-524: A number of heritage-listed sites, including: Griffith has a cold semi-arid climate ( BSk ) under the Köppen climate classification with hot summers and cool winters, and rather uniform rainfall spread through the months with a slight peak in spring. Extreme temperatures at Griffith Airport AWS have ranged from 47.2 °C (117.0 °F) on 4 January 2020 to −5.9 °C (21.4 °F) on 17 July 1977. The city features 123.8 clear days annually. Griffith
294-469: A service transporting passengers and goods to and from the area. Regular goods trains continue, making it a unique railway centre. Griffith railway station is served by a twice weekly NSW TrainLink Xplorer service from Sydney . NSW TrainLink also operates several coach services connecting to Sydney-Melbourne XPT trains at either Wagga Wagga or Cootamundra: V/Line operates a daily rail/road coach service between Melbourne and Griffith, changing with
336-671: Is Rugby League . Griffith is home to two clubs in the Group 20 Rugby League competition, the Griffith Black & White Panthers, and the Griffith Waratah Tigers . The two clubs are among the most successful in the league with 6 and 13 titles respectively, with a cross-town derby in the 2017 Grand Final attracting a crowd of over 2,000 people to EW Moore Oval. A third club, the Yenda Blueheelers, based in
378-571: Is 27,666, and is forecast to grow to 30,494 by 2036 Griffith is the third largest centre for education in the Riverina after Wagga Wagga and Leeton . Griffith is home to three high schools: Griffith also has 13 primary schools and various day care and pre-school facilities. Griffith has one of the largest campuses of Riverina Institute of TAFE . Griffith is a major junction for the Kidman Way , Burley Griffin Way and Irrigation Way . Griffith
420-478: Is a major regional city in the north-western Riverina region of New South Wales , known commonly as the food bowl of Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area . Like the Australian capital, Canberra , and extensions to the nearby town of Leeton , Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin . Griffith was named after Arthur Hill Griffith ,
462-692: Is also broadcast to each station on the ABC Local Radio network enabling listeners from outside of the local listening area to call into the popular gardening talk back program. ABC Riverina also has a local news service, produced by local journalists. As well as rural reports, the station also airs a local Saturday breakfast show, which is followed by a local Saturday morning sports program. Apart from local programming, ABC Riverina takes national programs like AM , Conversations , The World Today , PM , Nightlife, Overnights, ABC Radio Grandstand , Saturday Night Country and Australia All Over along with
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#1732793587294504-651: Is home to the famous Hermit's Cave . Campbells and Nericon Swamps, part of the Griffith Wetlands Important Bird Area , are important sites for migratory birds. Nearby Cocoparra National Park offers walking trails and there are opportunities to explore along the Murrumbidgee River and Lake Wyangan . Griffith is twinned with: Blowering Dam The Blowering Dam is a major ungated rock fill with clay core embankment dam with concrete chute spillway impounding
546-719: Is located 550 km (340 mi) south west of Sydney via Burley Griffin Way and Irrigation Way and 450 km (280 mi) north of Melbourne via the Kidman Way. Griffith has daily bus services to the major metropolitan areas. Griffith Airport has daily flights to Sydney (operated by Rex Airlines ) and, from 15 July 2019, to Melbourne (operated by Sharp Airlines ). There are also regular flights to Broken Hill and Narrandera . Griffith Buslines operates buses through Griffith and surrounding towns and villages, with seven main services and routes. The railway reached Griffith on 3 July 1916 and since that date has provided
588-582: Is now associated with good wine and food, primarily as a result of its diverse population, with notable contributions by Italian-Australians. Griffith's multi-ethnic population is now absorbing new national groups, including a significant Sikh Indian community. The city is sister city with the Italian city of Treviso in the Veneto Region. Many Italians in Griffith are from the Veneto Region or
630-519: Is the local community station, broadcasting local programs, presented by radio announcers. The station is skewed towards the older demographic and plays a lot of music. All programs are locally produced apart from the regular programming the station takes from the national community radio network. Griffith is served by five television stations, three commercial television stations which are all owned by WIN Television 's owner WIN Corporation . They are AMN , MTN and MDN , which are regional affiliates of
672-497: Is the regional service centre for the vast Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area , one of the most productive agricultural regions in Australia. Thanks to irrigation, Griffith is rich in agriculture and the city is also known as Australia's "Wine and Food Country". Griffith has experienced strong commercial growth in recent years. Griffith's high streets are Banna Avenue and Yambil Street but commercial growth has occurred throughout
714-498: The Calabria Region of Italy. The Italian influence expanded the range of fruit and vegetables, and also significantly increased the number of wineries and the range of wines produced by the existing wineries in the region, such as McWilliam's. De Bortoli , Rosetto, Calabria and other wineries were established by Italian immigrants, and today they are well known around Australia. In recent times they have been joined by one of
756-692: The Mid-Western Highway and the Rankins Springs road from Rankins Springs and the Kidman Way from Goolgowi . Griffith and other towns were created as part of the New South Wales State Government's Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) project, a plan to supply irrigation from the Murrumbidgee river to open up western New South Wales for farming. The town plan for Griffith, and nearby Leeton,
798-594: The Murrumbidgee River , Blowering Dam also provides a regulated flow of water for the Coleambally and Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas . The dam wall constructed with 8,563 cubic metres (302,400 cu ft) of rock fill with clay core is 112 metres (367 ft) high and 808 metres (2,651 ft) long. The maximum water depth is 91 metres (299 ft) and at 100% capacity the dam wall holds back 1,628,000 megalitres (57,500 × 10 ^ cu ft) of water at 379 metres (1,243 ft) AHD . The surface area of
840-720: The South West League . Griffith also has a rugby union team, the Griffith Blacks who play in the Southern Inland Rugby Union . The city also has strong local hockey and basketball competitions. Griffith has many tourist attractions. These include Pioneer Park, a 510-seat Regional Theatre, the Italian museum, the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, craft and antique shops, and its many high standard restaurants. Many of
882-705: The Twenty20 , One Day and Two Day formats. Five of the six clubs (Coro Cougars, Exies Diggers, Exies Eagles, Leagues Panthers and Hanwood Wanderers) are based in Griffith itself, whilst the Coly Nomads are based in nearby Coleambally . Griffith is also home to an Australian rules football team, the Griffith Swans, who compete in the Riverina Football League . They have won three titles, in 1952, 1968, and 2003. They previously played in
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#1732793587294924-1056: The three Australian commercial television networks ( Ten Network , Nine Network and Seven Network ) as well as public broadcasters the ABC and SBS . Until the 1990s, Griffith received only the ABC and MTN , an independent television station showing programmes from all three commercial networks. The town receives the commercial networks' digital channels which are ( 7Two , 7mate , 9Go! , 9Gem , 9Life , 10 Bold and 10 Peach all from WIN Television), as well as TVSN , Gold , Sky News Regional , ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC Comedy and ABC2)/ ABC Kids , ABC Me (formerly ABC3), ABC News (formerly ABC News 24), SBS Viceland (formerly SBS 2), SBS Food (formerly Food Network), SBS WorldWatch and NITV . Foxtel provides subscription satellite television services. MTN carries programming from Seven Network , AMN carries programming from Nine Network and MDN carries programming from Ten Network , WIN also broadcasts
966-595: The Blowering Dam is a major ungated dam, located approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of Tumut. The dam was built by consortium including Morrison, Knudsen, Utah and Mcdonald on behalf of the New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation for town water supplies, river flows and domestic requirements, irrigated agriculture, industry, flood mitigation and environmental flows. Together with releases from Burrinjuck Dam , on
1008-487: The Blowering Reservoir is 44.6 square kilometres (17.2 sq mi) and the catchment area is 1,606 square kilometres (620 sq mi). The uncontrolled concrete chute spillway is capable of discharging 2,350 cubic metres per second (83,000 cu ft/s). A A$ 33 million upgrade of facilities was completed between 2009 and 2012, and involved the construction of a parapet wall on top of
1050-521: The Griffith CBD. Griffith is serviced by a number of commercial, community, narrowcast SBS, and ABC stations Local radio stations broadcasting from Griffith include ABC Riverina , AM radio commercial station Triple M Riverina MIA , FM radio commercial station Hit FM, both owned by Southern Cross Austereo and a rebroadcast from sports station Sky Sports Radio . Other local stations include Christian radio station Vision Radio Network and
1092-529: The Griffith area - Griffith City FC, Hanwood FC, West Griffith SC, Yenda Tigers SC (seniors only), Yoogali FC and Yoogali SC. Yoogali SC also fields teams in the Capital Football competition, while Hanwood FC fields senior men's and women's teams in the Wagga competition. The Griffith District Cricket Association (GDCA) operates a four-grade, six team premiership over the summer months across both
1134-414: The Griffith wineries also have wine tasting at the cellar door, notably De Bortoli Wines , Beelgara Estate (formally Rossetto Wines), West End Wines, Berton Vineyards and Warburn Estate. Griffith is famous for its botrytis including De Bortoli's Noble One , and its fortified wine such as McWilliam's Hanwood Port. Ecotourism is also available in Griffith. Scenic Hill has various walking trails, lookouts and
1176-664: The Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers . Approximately 60% of today's Griffith population claim Italian background. These include the initial settlement of Italians from the boat crews and other Italians who came out to Australia in the Depression, or from a second wave of immigrant Italians who came to Griffith in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1970s, Griffith was often associated with drug distribution (particularly marijuana ) and organised crime , as depicted in 2009 by Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities . However, Griffith
1218-741: The Riverina and MIA WIN News bulletin each weeknight. Regional news coverage of the Griffith and MIA area is provided on all three commercial networks with WIN Griffith airing 90-second local news updates during the day. WIN News are produced from newsrooms in the city but presented from studios in Wollongong . The Area News is a daily newspaper published in the city each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as well as national newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald , The Australian , The Daily Telegraph , Herald Sun , The Weekly Times and The Age . The most popular sport in Griffith
1260-527: The city. Shopping centre developments include: Griffith is home to the Riverina 's largest employer, poultry processor, the Baiada Group . Griffith also has several wineries, including De Bortoli Wines and Casella Family Brands (makers of Yellow Tail wine). In addition to Griffith, the area includes the towns and villages of Willbriggie, Hanwood, Beelbangera, Bilbul , Yoogali, Widgelli, Yenda, Lake Wyangan, Tharbogang and Warburn. The city contains
1302-517: The community station 2MIAFM95.1 . The ABC's national stations Radio National , ABC Classic FM , ABC NewsRadio and Triple J and the multicultural network SBS Radio are broadcast into Griffith. ABC Riverina , is the local ABC station in Griffith, servicing the entire MIA region. It broadcasts a local breakfast show and a local morning show each weekday broadcast from the ABC studios in Wagga Wagga . Wednesday and Saturday's local morning show
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1344-608: The country's best known wine labels, Yellow Tail , produced by Casella Family Brands . Casella, DeBortoli, McWilliam's, Warburn and Berton Vineyards are now among the top 20 wine producers in Australia. Griffith is the cathedral city of the Anglican Diocese of Riverina . The foundation stone of the Parish Church of St Alban the Martyr was dedicated in 1954. It was proclaimed as a cathedral in 1984. Griffith has
1386-402: The dam wall crest and raising the spillway training walls. The addition of the parapet wall increased the crest height to 114 metres (374 ft). Storage capacity and water releases from the dam were not altered by the upgrade. The dam houses a hydroelectric power station and has one turbine generator , with a generating capacity of 80 megawatts (110,000 hp) of electricity ; with
1428-411: The day, and then taking networked programming sourced from 2GB , Triple M Gold Coast , Authentic Entertainment Sydney and Triple M . 2RG in Griffith also produces a local news service with a journalist based at the station, compiling and recording local news bulletins for 2RG and sister station 99.7 Star FM. Hit FM, also owned by Southern Cross Austereo, is a commercial FM station servicing Griffith on
1470-402: The main suburbs of Collina, Driver, North Griffith, East Griffith, West Griffith, South Griffith, Murrumbidgee, Mayfair, Pioneer Mooreville and Wickhams Hill. The newest development of the suburb Collina has been constructed to the north east of the city's centre. In the 2021 Census , there were 20,569 people in Griffith. in the forecast.id.com.au Griffith City population forecast for 2023
1512-553: The small town of Yenda , 15 kilometres from the city centre in the Griffith City Council area, also compete in this competition and have won 7 titles and a Clayton Cup as the best team in the state in 2009. The city has also produced many National Rugby League players, with some going on to represent their state and country . Griffith & District Rugby League teams: The Griffith and District Football Association ( Soccer ) comprises six participating clubs in
1554-524: The start of the MIA, citrus and other fruit and vegetables were grown in abundance around Griffith. In the 1950s the irrigation area expanded to include large rice farms. Vineyards were established early, and wineries followed, beginning with McWilliam's Wines at Hanwood and Yenda , two villages just outside the city. From its earliest days, the MIA was populated by Italian workers, some of whom were initially employed by Australian farmers to run steamboats on
1596-716: The then New South Wales Secretary for Public Works . Griffith was proclaimed a city in 1987, and at the 2021 census had a population of 20,569. It can be accessed by road from Sydney and Canberra via the Hume Highway and the Burley Griffin Way and from Melbourne , via the Newell Highway and either by using the Kidman Way or the Irrigation Way . Griffith can be accessed from other places like Adelaide , Orange , and Bathurst through
1638-550: The town in rice farms. The water supply was further enhanced with the construction of the Snowy River scheme by the Australian Federal Government in the 1950s and 1960s. The Blowering Dam , a large dam near Tumut , stores a significant amount of water to be released down the Murrumbidgee for irrigation around Leeton, Griffith and the newer Coleambally area south of the river and Griffith. From
1680-452: The train at Shepparton. Melbourne (Southern Cross Station) to Griffith (Bus Terminal at Visitors Centre) is an evening service (daily), and Griffith to Melbourne service is overnight on Monday to Saturday and afternoon on Sunday. Travel time is approximately six and a half to seven hours. In February 2010, the city's first set of traffic lights was installed at the intersection of Burrell Place and Wakaden Street to reduce traffic congestion in
1722-454: Was designed by Walter Burley Griffin in 1914, an unusual geometric pattern centred on a set of circular streets, with broad avenues radiating out in an octagonal arrangement. The streets were surveyed mostly according to that plan, and Griffith was declared a town in August 1916. The main dam of the scheme was the large Burrinjuck Dam on the Murrumbidgee between Gundagai and Canberra, but
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1764-600: Was not completed until 1928. The Berembed Weir, near Narrandera, was built in 1912, diverting water from the Murrumbidgee River into the Bundidgerry Creek then into the Main Canal of the MIA at Narrandera. The Canal, almost a river in its own right, flows through the MIA, supplying water to the entire area, then flows through Griffith as part of the geometric plan, and peters out to the northwest of
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