The village of Bogan Gate, NSW
 Australian writer, Merrill Findlay, grew up on her family's farm near Bogan Gate, a small rural village near Parkes in central western New South Wales with a population of 200 on a good day.
Bogan Gate's most recent 15 minutes of fame was in 1991, after it was nominated as a site for a high temperature incinerator for the disposal of Australia's stockpile of toxic waste ... all those tonnes of organochlorines, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), hexachlorobenzene (HCBs) and ozone depleting CFC gas nobody wants. Bogan Gate people mobilised to fight this proposal and, with other threatened rural communities, forced state and federal governments to back down.
This page is still under constructon - a lot more can still be be said about this village! |