Qualla: Inverell https://qualla.com/inverell en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Inverell https://qualla.com/inverell Inverell: Introduction https://qualla.com/inverell/ The name is a small poem in Scottish Gaelic: inver, a meeting place, and ell, a swan. When Alexander Campbell took up his vast station here on the Macintyre River in 1848, black swans gathered on the water in such numbers that the place earned its name twice over - meeting place of swans. Today the swans share the story with sapphires. Inverell calls itself the Sapphire City, and the gem fields scattered through its surrounding creeks have given Australia some of its deepest blue stones. But this is Kamilaroi country, and the plains around Inverell hold a harder history too.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/q/inverell-wk/r6eq-inverell-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inverell: The Sapphire City https://qualla.com/inverell/ Dig into the right creek bed near Inverell and you might come up with a sapphire. The district's gravels are studded with them, along with zircon and the occasional industrial diamond, and the town has built much of its identity on the gem. Commercial sapphire mining in New South...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/q/inverell-wk/r6eq-inverell-the-sapphire-city.mp3 0:06 2 full Inverell: Swans, Tin and Diamonds https://qualla.com/inverell/ Sapphires are only part of the wealth. Diamonds were discovered at nearby Copes Creek in 1875 and mined at Copeton from 1883 until 1922 - the Copeton field became one of the most significant diamond sources in the country. The hills gave up tin as well, drawing miners to towns li...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/q/inverell-wk/r6eq-inverell-swans-tin-and-diamonds.mp3 0:06 3 full Inverell: Streets of Another Era https://qualla.com/inverell/ Inverell wears its prosperity in its architecture. The wealth that flowed in during the late nineteenth century left a civic precinct of handsome public buildings - a grand court house, an ornate town hall, and a Federation-era post office among them, designed in the careful styl...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/q/inverell-wk/r6eq-inverell-streets-of-another-era.mp3 0:06 4 full Inverell: Myall Creek and the Weight of Memory https://qualla.com/inverell/ This district carries a story that Australia took more than a century to fully face. The Kamilaroi - including the Wirrayaraay - are the original people of this country. In June 1838, at Myall Creek not far from Inverell, a group of stockmen and former convicts murdered at least ...

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