Qualla: Warialda https://qualla.com/warialda en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/p/warialda-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Warialda https://qualla.com/warialda Warialda: Introduction https://qualla.com/warialda/ Photo credit Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name tastes of the land itself: Warialda, 'place of wild honey,' from the language of the Weraerai people, custodians of this country on the north side of the Gwydir River. Long before surveyors drew their lines, this was honey country - the Kamilaroi and their Weraerai kin reading the bush for hives and seasons. Today Warialda is a small farming town of around 1,500 people, easy to drive through in a minute. But it was once the most important place for a hundred kilometres in any direction, and just east of town a creek hides one of the strangest natural landmarks in New England.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/p/warialda-wk/r6ep-warialda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Warialda: The First Town on the Slopes https://qualla.com/warialda/ Photo credit Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0. The explorer Allan Cunningham passed through this district in 1827, and settlers followed within a decade. A Border Police outpost was established here in 1840, making Warialda the first administrative centre for the whole Gwydir district - the law, the records and the authority ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/p/warialda-wk/r6ep-warialda-the-first-town-on-the-slopes.mp3 0:06 2 full Warialda: Cranky Rock https://qualla.com/warialda/ Photo credit Grahamec, CC BY-SA 3.0. Eight kilometres east of town, beside Reedy Creek, lies Cranky Rock - a tumbled field of granite boulders that have settled into improbable balancing acts, one great stone poised as though a breath might topple it. The reserve is a favourite picnic and bushwalking spot, all dappl...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/p/warialda-wk/r6ep-warialda-cranky-rock.mp3 0:06 3 full Warialda: Honey Country, Farming Country https://qualla.com/warialda/ Photo credit Stephen McDonald / Blarneytherinosaur at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Strip away the history and Warialda is, at heart, a town of the land. Mixed farming has always been its mainstay - grain and grazing across the gently rolling slopes that fall away west toward Moree and the great Murray-Darling plains. The town sits at the junction of the Gwydir ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/e/p/warialda-wk/r6ep-warialda-honey-country-farming-country.mp3 0:06 4 full Warialda: A Crossroads in the Gwydir https://qualla.com/warialda/ Photo credit Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Geography made Warialda matter, and geography keeps it interesting. The town anchors the northern reach of the Gwydir Shire, with Bingara and its restored Roxy Theatre an hour to the south, Inverell's gem fields to the south-east, and the cotton plains of Moree to the west. Fossi...

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