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Article: Wagga Wagga: A History.(Book Review)
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- Rural Society
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- June 22, 2000
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Morris, Sherry. 1999. Wagga Wagga: A history. Wagga Wagga: Council of the City of Wagga Wagga. ISBN 1-875247 12 2 xv + 320 pp $49.95 cloth.
Wagga Wagga is one of the major inland cities in Australia and as such is long overdue for a comprehensive history. Apart from the usual school histories, church centenaries, genealogies, sporting and social club histories, and an account of the base hospital, there has been only one broad history of Wagga Wagga until now, and that was by Keith Swan in 1970. Yet Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in New South Wales and one of the few inland cities in Australia to boast a population of more than 50,000. These facts alone ...