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Mrs Farley and her children cross the river by punt, ahead of Mr Farley and the dairy herd.

The dairy herd travelled by punt

It was February 24, 1948, and the Farley family of Eagleton, near Raymond Terrace, NSW, had a difficult house-moving problem. The farming family was shifting from their home of the past 10 years at Eagleton to a new address at Millers Forest. The problem was how to shift the farm's 47 milking cows across the Hunter River. The Farleys' dairy herd boarding the punt. Fortunately, the Raymond Terrace punt supplied the solution. Shortly after midday on the day of the big shift, Mrs Farley and her three children - Cecil, Warren and Nola - crossed the…

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A view of the Hunter River, showing Platts Channel and Spit Island, from the site of the former Murray Dwyer orphanage, circa 1930s.

Lost islands of the Hunter River

Kooragang Island is a name with little romance for most people in Newcastle, NSW. The name connotes a polluted wasteland near the mouth of the Hunter River, permeated by the toxic legacy of generations of heavy industry. But things weren’t always like that. Before white settlement there were several islands in the Hunter River estuary, forming a jigsaw of shapes cut and criss-crossed by creeks and tidal channels. The wetlands and mudflats were a prolific breeding ground for marine life and a feeding ground for local and migratory birds. The Aboriginal people hunted there and found…

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