Location of Cunnamulla in Queensland (red)

0 Cunnamulla (aboriginal meaning "Dry water hole"( 28°04′S, 145°41′E) is a small town which lies on the Warrego River in south west Queensland, Australia, 206 kilometres south of Charleville, and approximately 750 kilometres west of the state capital, Brisbane. Cunnamulla is situated at the intersection of the Mitchell Highway and the Balonne Highway. Town population is 1600 persons. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 459 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 1305 pixel, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/png) Shows location of w: Cunnumulla, Queensland marked in red in the Australian state of w:Queensland. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 459 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 1305 pixel, file size: 93 KB, MIME type: image/png) Shows location of w: Cunnumulla, Queensland marked in red in the Australian state of w:Queensland. ... The Warrego River is situated in south west Queensland and north west New South Wales, Australia. ... Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  4,070,400 (3rd)  - Density  2. ... The town of Charleville is located in South Western Queensland, Australia, 758 kilometres by road west of the state capital, Brisbane. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of just under two million. ... The Mitchell Highway is a major rural highway in central and northern New South Wales, Australia. ... State Route 49 The Balonne Highway, a state highway of Queensland, is the continuation westward of the Moonie Highway from the town of St George to its termination at Cunnamulla. ...

Cunnamulla is the administrative centre for the Paroo Shire, which also includes the townships of Wyandra, Yowah and Eulo, and covers an area of 47617 square kilometres. The Paroo Shire is a Local Government Area located in south west Queensland, Australia. ... Wyandra is a town in outback western Queensland, Australia in the Paroo Shire Local government area. ... Eulo is an opal-mining town in south-western Queensland (Australia), in Paroo Shire, 64 km west of Charleville and 887 km west of Brisbane. ...

Major industries of the area are wool, welfare, pig and kangaroo hunting, and hospitality industry.

The town itself came into being in the late 1800s by way of explorers Brian Piercin and Arthur Rednuts almost starving to death in their attempt to chart the remote queensland outback. Running out of food and water and infamiously resorting to canibalising their 3 aboriginal porters they stumbled across a billabong with a small amount of stagnent water in it which sustained them for the following 6 months until they were stumbled upon by a small group of Armish settlers and estabilished the the population of the town. Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1805 - 1815). ...

Cunnamulla was the subject of a 2000 documentary film of the same name by Dennis O'Rourke, in which he followed several members of the community as they went about their daily lives 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...

Cunnamulla has long had a reputation for violence, particually domestic violence, the impact of which is compounded by an almost total lack of services, victims having to be admitted to the local hospital where they are often pursued by their abusers.

(1) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence http://www.datsip.qld.gov.au/pdf/taskforce.pdf