Qualla: Pooncarie https://qualla.com/pooncarie 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: Pooncarie https://qualla.com/pooncarie Pooncarie: Introduction https://qualla.com/pooncarie/ The streets of Pooncarie are named after men who died. Burke, Wills, King - the doomed cast of Australia's most famous failed expedition camped on the Darling River here in 1860, and a century and a half later the village still keeps their names on its signposts. It is a small gesture from a small place: barely 226 people live in Pooncarie, strung along the eastern bank of the Darling between Wentworth and Menindee, where eucalypt woodlands fade into the red semi-arid country of far western New South Wales. But this riverbank has watched a great deal of history drift past, most of it carried on water.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/j/6/pooncarie-wp/r4j6-pooncarie-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pooncarie: When the River Was a Highway https://qualla.com/pooncarie/ Before roads and railways, the Darling was the road. From the late 1800s until the mid-1920s, shallow-draught paddle-steamers churned down from the sheep stations of northern NSW and southern Queensland, their decks stacked with bales bound for the markets of South Australia. Poo...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/j/6/pooncarie-wp/r4j6-pooncarie-when-the-river-was-a-highway.mp3 0:06 2 full Pooncarie: The Camp by the Darling https://qualla.com/pooncarie/ In late September 1860, the Victorian Exploring Expedition reached the Darling near Tarcoola Station, just south of present-day Pooncarie. Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills were pushing north toward the Gulf of Carpentaria, hauling a famously overloaded column of camels,...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/j/6/pooncarie-wp/r4j6-pooncarie-the-camp-by-the-darling.mp3 0:06 3 full Pooncarie: Holding On in the Outback https://qualla.com/pooncarie/ Pooncarie endures the way outback towns do, by being useful. Gazetted in 1863 under the spelling "Pooncaira," it became a service hub for the surrounding stations and never entirely stopped being one. Today there is a store with fuel, a hotel, a school, a cafe and a racecourse wh...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/4/j/6/pooncarie-wp/r4j6-pooncarie-holding-on-in-the-outback.mp3 0:06 4 full Pooncarie: The Road to Deep Time https://qualla.com/pooncarie/ For most travellers today, Pooncarie is a beginning rather than a destination. It is the closest village to Mungo National Park, 88 kilometres east across the dust, and the last reliable place to fill a tank and a water bottle before the unsealed road runs out into the dry lakebe...

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