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Winton, Queensland

Winton is a town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia.[4][5] It is 177 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset.[4][6] Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas. In the 2021 census, the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people.[7]

Winton
Queensland
Elderslie Street
Winton
Coordinates22°23′29″S 143°02′17″E / 22.3913°S 143.0381°E / -22.3913; 143.0381 (Winton (town centre))
Population856 (SAL 2021)[1][2]
Postcode(s)4735
Location
LGA(s)Winton Shire
CountyAyrshire County, Queensland
State electorate(s)Gregory
Federal division(s)Maranoa
Mean max temp[3] Mean min temp[3] Annual rainfall[3]
32.8 °C
91 °F
17.1 °C
63 °F
352.8 mm
13.9 in

History edit

Dispossession of Aboriginal land owners edit

The traditional owners of the Winton area, the Koa people, consider Bladensburg National Park area (near Winton) to be a special part of their traditional country, and the park is also important to the Maiawali and Karuwali people.[citation needed]

Jirandali (also known as Yirandali, Warungu, Yirandhali) is an Australian Aboriginal language of North-West Queensland, particularly the Hughenden area. The language region includes the local government area of the Shire of Flinders, including Dutton River, Flinders River, Mount Sturgeon, Caledonia, Richmond, Corfield, Winton, Torrens, Tower Hill, Landsborough Creek, Lammermoor Station, Hughenden, and Tangorin.[8]

Skull Hole, on Surprise Creek, at Bladensburg Station about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Winton, was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1877.[9][10]

The Koa people have lodged an application to the Federal Court to have their native title legally recognised. This application (or "claim") was registered on 28 September 2015, by the National Native Title Tribunal.[11]

Early exploration edit

In one of Australia's greatest mysteries, the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt set off on an expedition with a group of men and animals from the Condamine River in the Darling Downs, bound for the Swan River Colony across the continent. He was last seen on 3 April 1848 at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, still on the Darling Downs. His whereabouts thereafter have never been known, but he and his men are believed to have met their end in the Great Sandy Desert.[12] This expedition may have brought Leichhardt near Winton's future site.

William Landsborough undertook extensive exploration of both the Western and Diamantina rivers in the 1860s, and it seems likely that he might have found himself at Winton's future site at least once, for it lies on the former. In 1866, Landsborough led another expedition up the Diamantina, which would have taken him to within 60 km of the actual site, albeit not right to it.

The first European settlers in the area came in 1866, but many did not stay very long because a drought struck within a few years. The town's true birth came with a sequence of events, both natural and manmade, which gave rise to one new town in Central West Queensland, but also sowed the seeds for another's failure.

Winton's founding and early days edit

Robert Allen, a former police sergeant, left Aramac about 1875 and moved west to the Pelican Waterholes (about 1,600 metres (0.99 mi) west of the town's current site), where he set up a shop and a public house the next year. The heavy rains that same year, however, brought Allen a great deal of woe, and he even "was compelled by floods to remain two days on the wall-plate of his building." When the flooding had abated somewhat, Allen shifted what was left of his business to Winton's current site.[13] Robert Allen is thus held to be the town's founder.

Winton's entrenchment as this pioneering region's business hub was secured only by a quirk of fate, as William Henry Corfield's written record makes clear. He and some acquaintances set out to do business in an Outback town that had been surveyed and laid out by the Queensland colonial government, only to decide upon arrival in the district that it would be a better idea to found a town somewhat further east near the Pelican Waterholes, which was to become Winton.[14] William Henry Corfield (1843–1927), later the mayor of Winton, had returned to Queensland in 1878 after suffering a bout of malaria, and wrote of his experiences as a pioneer in Central West Queensland in his book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862–1899, published in 1921:

Passing through Townsville, I met [Robert] Fitzmaurice, who told me that carrying had fallen away between Cooktown and the Palmer, and that he had left that district. He suggested that I should join with him in carrying to the western country, and added that he had been informed by a squatter that there was a good opening for a store at the Conn Waterhole, on the Diamantina River. This is about forty miles [60 km] down the Western River from where Winton now is.[13]

The Conn Waterhole to which Corfield referred is a body of water some 55 kilometres (34 mi) down the Western River from Winton. It is the northernmost permanent waterhole in the Diamantina basin, and maps still identify it by that name today.[15] Corfield made it clear where he meant to settle:

Our destination was Collingwood, more widely known as the Conn Waterhole, where the Government Surveyor had laid out a township situated about 40 miles [64 km] west of Winton.[13]

Another man of Corfield's acquaintance, named Thomas Lynett, had left Townsville for the same destination with backing from Burns, Philp and Co. to set up a shop at Collingwood, if he deemed the newly laid out town to be suitable upon his inspection. Apparently, though, he did not, deciding that the land there was too prone to flooding. He turned back, and eventually, he, Corfield, Fitzmaurice and Robert Allen, who was already at the more easterly site, agreed to establish a centre east of Corfield's original destination of Collingwood. This was Winton's beginning.[13] Collingwood, however, whose site was the government's choice, never truly took root, and by 1900, it was a ghost town.[16]

At the Winton site, Corfield, Fitzmaurice, Lynett and Allen then discussed moving Allen's building northwards somewhat, back from the Western River on higher ground. Corfield wrote about the outcome:

We offered to do the work without cost, but Allen and Lynett decided to remain where they were. We had to accept the position, and agreed to build in line with the others.

This formed the base upon which Mr. Surveyor Jopp laid out the township afterwards.[13]

"Mr. Surveyor Jopp" was George Keith Jopp, a surveyor based in Blackall. His name was to be found on the "List of Surveyors licensed to act under the provisions and for the purposes of 'The Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877'", which was published in Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer in 1881.[17] Corfield's book also tells the locally well known story of how Winton got its current name:

The original name for the town – now known as Winton – was Pelican Water-holes. Bob Allen, the first resident, whom I have mentioned, acted as post-master. The mail service was a fortnightly one, going west to Wokingham Creek, thence via Sesbania to Hughenden. There was no date stamp supplied to the office, but by writing "Pelican Water-holes" and the date across the stamps, the post mark was made, and the stamps cancelled. This was found to be very slow and unsatisfactory.

Allen was asked to propose a name, and he suggested that the P.O. should be called "Winton." This is the name of a suburb of Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, and Allen's native place.[13]

Even though Bournemouth is nowadays generally held to be in Dorset, Corfield did not quite get the county wrong. Bournemouth is actually in the ceremonial county of Dorset, but Corfield named the historic county of Hampshire, which also includes Bournemouth. It is clear, however, that Corfield correctly identified Allen's birthplace.

Business in those earliest days of the town's existence was hindered by the lack of a local bank. The nearest one was in Aramac, some 400 kilometres (250 mi) away. There was also a drought then. Building materials had to be brought in from even farther away, for there was not a great deal of wood to be had in the Channel Country. Corfield travelled all the way to Townsville on Queensland's east coast to fetch them in.[13] Law enforcement was also as non-existent as one might expect it to be in an early town in Central West Queensland. Corfield described that problem, too:

At this time Winton was the rendezvous of some of the worst characters of the west; fights were frequent on the then unformed streets.

The rowdies threatened to take the grog in the store, and as there were no police nearer than Aramac, I deemed it best to dispose of all the liquor to Allen, the local publican, who jumped at the chance to obtain a supply.

A few residents formed themselves into a vigilance committee.

The late Mr. J. A. Macartney passed through to visit his property, Bladensburg Station, and seeing how things were, wrote to the Home Secretary asking for police protection.[13]

He also described another problem – drug abuse:

When I returned Winton was entirely out of liquor, and Allen did a great business in selling bottles of painkiller as a substitute. It was laughable to see men take a bottle out of their pocket, saying, "Have a nip, mate, it's only five shillings a bottle?"[13]

 
The North Gregory Hotel in Winton as it looked in 1879

Winton was gazetted as a township on 12 July 1879, describing it as 2 square miles (5.2 km2) resumed from the Doveridge No. 4 and Vindex No. 1 North runs.[18]

The North Gregory Hotel was established in 1879. In 1899 it burnt down for the first time, but a new North Gregory Hotel was up and running by the following 1900.[19][20]

In 1879, Julius von Berger, who had fled Schleswig-Holstein to escape Prussian rule, became the town's first dispensing chemist (pharmacist).

In 1880, Sub-Inspector Fred Murray and Sergeant Feltham came to town from Blackall and set up Winton's first police station in a small rented building.[13] Their equipment was rather primitive, though, and they had to make do with a hefty log and a chain as a police lockup. This was not always good enough:

One day Feltham went down to the store, leaving a prisoner chained up. Shortly afterwards he was surprised when he saw his prisoner (who was a very powerful man) marching into the public house carrying the log on his shoulder, and call for drinks. It took three men to get him back to the lock-up.[13]

Cobb & Co's stagecoaches were serving Winton by 1880 after having bought up a number of mail routes in Queensland. Robert Arthur Johnstone also arrived in Winton in 1880 to become the town's first police magistrate. He had been in the Australian native police and had been an associate of George Elphinstone Dalrymple in the latter's exploratory work. In 1880 Johnstone also conducted the first sale of government land, one result of which was the acquisition of Thomas Lynett's property by the Queensland National Bank, thus giving Winton its first bank. The bank began business right away in Lynett's old coffee room, and pulled down his building to make way for something that would be more suitable for a bank. A man named Morgan started a blacksmith's shop in Winton after having worked at Ayrshire Downs Station.[13]

In 1881, Thomas McIlwraith, who was then Premier of Queensland and who would be knighted the following year, passed through Winton. His destination was Ayrshire Downs. Nevertheless, the town's whole population turned out, at night, at a waterhole almost 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from town to meet him and his wife.[13]

In 1882, a visiting clergyman, the first of any denomination, visited Winton. On the Sunday while he was in town, he held a church service in the billiard room at the hotel, after a blue blanket had been thrown over the pool table and a red one had been draped over the cue rack. William Corfield himself was later chosen to present the clergyman with remuneration in the form of "a purse of sovereigns". This presentation did not go off without incident, however. One local squatter caused himself quite a bit of pain – and the other men at the presentation quite a bit of laughter – when, during a prayer upon presentation of the gift, he knelt down in prayer only to wound his rear end with his own long-necked spurs. The clergyman, however, simply carried on with his prayer of thanks.[13]

In 1883, Winton's first district court was opened when Judge Miller and Crown Prosecutor Real came to town. By about this time, there was also a doctor in town, who sometimes had to deal with typhoid fever patients.[13] Tenders were sought for building a hospital in Winton late in 1882.[21] It seems, however, that the doctor tendered his resignation only three years later.[22] A correspondent reported not long thereafter "Doctor Van Someron is to be our new surgeon, and I trust that we shall be able to keep him longer with us than his predecessors." This suggests that Winton was not considered a choice location in the 1880s, at least not among those of the medical profession.[23]

By 1883, Winton was developing into a proper town with economic activity that was of benefit to all the settlers, both urban and rural, in the region. This would have struck most at the time as a great boon, but in William Corfield's wry assessment of Winton's progress:

"Now that we had two banks, four hotels, a chemist, saddler, besides other branches of industry, we felt that we were being drawn perilously within the influences of civilisation and its drawbacks."[13]

By 1884, Winton and much of the surrounding area were in the grip of a serious drought that brought many people hardship. It had, however, ended by 1886. By this time, Winton had a weekly newspaper, the Winton Herald.[13] It was owned by D. H. Maxwell, who had founded it in 1885 after coming from Aramac.[24] Maxwell later died in an angling accident near Winton in 1894. He was found drowned 12 miles [19 km] from town.[25]

A school was being discussed in Winton by a school committee in 1885.[22] Winton State School opened on 10 August 1885,[26] despite the correspondent's misgivings about the bureaucracy involved.[27]

Pugh’s Queensland Almanac, Law Calendar, Directory, and Coast Guide for 1885 listed Winton's local professionals, including Julius von Berger, who was now joined by another pharmacist named A. Hurworth. The hospital's surgeon (also described in the almanac as the "Medical Man") was Dr. Wilson. The name Morgan by this time no longer figured among the town's blacksmiths ("J. Long, Ryan & Jensen"). T. B. Feltham had two mentions in the almanac for being both the bookseller-stationer and the tobacconist, and likewise founding townsman Thomas Lynett was listed twice for being both a shopkeeper and the innkeeper at the Royal Mail Hotel. The North Gregory Hotel was run by William Brown Steele by this time. He had bought it from William Henry Corfield after Corfield had bought his partner Robert Fitzmaurice's share of that business out after Fitzmaurice had returned from a six-month trip to Sydney to see about his failing eyesight. The prognosis was not good – Fitzmaurice was almost blind when he returned to Winton – and so he decided to sell up and leave town. Corfield, though, had no great interest in running a hotel and so sought out a buyer, and this turned out to be Steele.[13][28]

In 1886, luxuriant grass growth furnished fodder not only for livestock, but annoyingly also for wildfires. Several nearby stations were stricken, among them Vindex, Elderslie and Ayrshire Downs. Plans were being made to build a Catholic church in 1888.[13] Against this was the state in which the Church of England in Winton then found itself. By 1890, its services were still being held in an all-purpose hall whose owner, William Steele, had the licence for it revoked that year, which was understandably an unwelcome hardship for the town's Anglicans.[29]

In 1889, work was in progress on Winton's first artesian bore. By mid-August, it had reached a depth of about 430 feet (or 131 m).[30] Tenders were called that same year for another bank, this time the Bank of New South Wales. The same article mentioned that founding townsman Thomas Lynett had had to pay a fine of £1, along with 9s in costs (after having been summoned before the Police Magistrate), for a breach of the Licensing Act.[31]

 
Catholic Church and Convent, early 1900s

St Patrick's Catholic Church was built in 1887. The timber church was designed by Rooney Brothers.[32]

 
At the races in Winton, Queensland, ca. 1890

In 1890, a local correspondent sang the praises of Winton's hospital and was clearly pleased at the staff there. "Winton is at last blessed with a good doctor," he declared.[29]

Industrial unrest edit

It was also in 1890 that trouble was brewing in Winton, and indeed in other parts of Australia. One report mentioned a robbery in which one man was relieved of £30 while the police seemed unable to catch the thief, and the correspondent commented "This game has been going on here for a very long time," perhaps meaning to suggest police complicity in this and other crimes. More seriously, even though there was no real loss, was this incident, mentioned in the same report:

Somebody amused himself at the expense of the senior-constable of police, telling him that the shearers and all union men would rush the town. The senior-constable rushed away in hot haste to the barracks, and ordered the police to get Martinis and revolvers in good going order, so as to shoot the unionists down.[33]

The tensions between the shearers and their employers would soon come to a head, and this incident showed just how tense the situation had already become in Winton. Meanwhile, there was Ashton's Circus to enjoy. It came to this far-flung town in September 1890 and besides its regular performances, also did a benefit for the local hospital.[34]

The Great Shearers' Strike came in 1891, disrupting the wool industry for a while. Locally, work stoppages began very early that year. On 6 January 1891, a small item – the quotation below is the article's full text – in The Australian Star (Sydney) announced the onset of management-labour troubles in the Winton area:

The station hands have left Vindex and Oondooroo stations in the Winton districts in consequence of the new wages tariff formulated by the Pastoral Employers' Association.[33]

Vindex lies not far east-southeast of Winton, and Oondooroo not far north. One of the "momentous decisions by the Federated Pastoralists" (the management side in the strike) on 18 March 1891 was to declare a great number of stations in the Winton area "non-union", including Elderslie west of town, and also Ayrshire Downs on Wokingham Creek, Dagworth on the Diamantina River, Warnambool Downs south-southwest of town and Llanrheidol north of Middleton, about 150 km west of Winton. "This means that no loading consigned to those stations during this week will be allowed to be forwarded by union teams," the article asserted.[35] Later, on nearby Elderslie Station, which belonged to absentee landlord Sir Samuel Wilson at the time, the woolshed was burnt down on 8 October that year.[36]

A major sticking point in the 1891 strike throughout Queensland, and locally in Winton, was the issue of "freedom of contract". This would have empowered both pastoralists and the shearers whom they employed to enter into contractual employment arrangements free of any union involvement therein. This clearly did not sit well with the striking, unionized shearers. Polls held in striker camps throughout the colony yielded results that were heavily – sometimes unanimously – in favour of rejecting any such arrangement. The camp at Winton wired in to the union headquarters at Barcaldine not only the results of their poll, but also the comment "our decision is to fight to the last."[37]

Nevertheless, the strikers eventually lost the battle by May 1891. However, management-labour troubles were soon to flare up again.

In 1894, Winton once again found itself in the middle of a hotbed of discontent as the Second Shearers' Strike wore on. There were unfortunate incidents in the Winton area. At nearby Elderslie Station, a great haystack was set ablaze, while over at Dagworth Station, the shearing shed was burnt down by strikers armed with guns.[38] Another woolshed was set afire at Manuka, about halfway between Winton and Hughenden. A map at the same source shows the "Scene of Recent Outrages" (the strikers did not have the press on their side), with Winton clearly marked.[39] As in the last great strike, Winton hosted a strikers' camp, and its occupants were as adamant as before. After discussing "the telegram from Longreach declaring the strike off in that district," the men apparently expressed "a determination to continue the fight to the bitter end."[40]

 
Sir Hugh Nelson (centre, in white), then the Premier of Queensland, visited Winton in 1895. Here he is seen at the town's artesian bore.

The next year – on 6 April 1895 to be precise – Sir Herbert Ramsay gave "Waltzing Matilda" its first public recital at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton.[41] It was also in 1895 that Premier Sir Hugh Nelson visited Winton. William Henry Corfield, by now the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Gregory, accompanied the premier's party on the Winton stretch of his tour. A deputation at Winton was most anxious to let the premier know that a railway link with Hughenden was uppermost in the townsfolk's minds, and Mr. Corfield also presented Sir Hugh with a petition, signed by 376 constituents, asking "that a permanent survey of the line from Hughenden to Winton be made with a view of connecting the town with its natural port, Townsville."[42]

Despite frequent complaints in 19th-century Winton about the dearth of water, an 1895 article mentions that gardeners were growing peaches, grapes and melons in town. Perhaps coincidentally, a famous botanist passed through Winton that year, Frederick Manson Bailey.[43]

Drought was indeed a serious problem in the region at various times, one that might have destroyed Winton, had one drought in 1895 been as dire an emergency as one geologist believed. Robert Logan Jack, FGS, FRGS, a Government Geologist for Queensland, wrote in that year of an eventuality in his Geological Survey, Bulletin no. 1, Artesian Water in the Western Interior of Queensland, that might have had not only this effect, but also the effect of saving the doomed town of Collingwood from what would turn out to be its actual fate. The drought striking the region had seriously depleted the waterhole on Mistake Creek, upon which Winton wholly depended for its water, leaving, Jack reckoned, only three weeks' to a month's supply of water for the town. He foresaw that it might become necessary to move Winton's whole population, along with their livestock, to the Conn Waterhole at Collingwood, 55 km to the west.[44] This, however, never came about. Moreover, Winton's artesian bore was finally completed the next year, ending dependency on the climatic vagaries to which the region is subject, but only after two boring companies had been bankrupted by the project.[13]

The Winton branch railway from Hughenden reached Winton in 1899 (which was likely the last nail in Collingwood's coffin).[45]

Winton's artesian bore water was being piped from the wellhead in 1902, with water welling up from a depth of 4,010 feet (1 222 m) at the rate of 650,000 imperial gallons (roughly 3 000 000 L) daily.[46] In 1899 and 1900, the town, and indeed the whole region, were suffering under a devastating drought. A correspondent, writing in January 1900 – midsummer – described horrendous conditions on the surrounding stations, some of which were deserted for want of water, others empty of livestock because their owners had had the animals sent out, and yet others that were heaped with dead livestock that had died of thirst. The animals in town were visibly suffering, too. "I could mention many more drought incidents," the correspondent said, "but it is sickening to write of them." The correspondent further wrote of the progress of artesian bores at the surrounding stations in some detail, summing it up with the possibly punning remark "This about completes the boring news for the week."[47] There was a slight respite by July – midwinter – which even saw some livestock sent back to their stations.[48] However, the drought persisted throughout 1900 and affected most of Queensland, with a reporter in Maryborough noting on 29 December that year – well into the next summer – that it "in most places has been the worst experienced in the last 25 years." He also said, "The closing days of the year, however, have refreshed the parched lands with welcome rains and inspired the hope that the drought is at last broken up, and that a genial season is awaiting us in the new year."[49]

The town's Anglicans celebrated the opening of Saint Paul's Church on 4 February 1900.[50][51]

Even before the end of the 19th century, the town's ethnic makeup consisted of more than members of groups from the British Isles. Besides the chemist from Schleswig-Holstein, Julius von Berger, there were people of Chinese origin in Winton, too. In 1896, a firm called Sun Kum Wah in Winton run by three Chinese men, Low Sow, Ah Shew and Sun Kum Fung, placed a notice in Queensland newspapers announcing the dissolution of this three-way partnership, and the apparent formation of a new, two-way one, without Sun Kum Fung. The company, however, kept its former name for at least ten more years, for the building in the flood photograph below is its place of business, with the name painted on the façade.[52] In Robert Logan Jack's and Robert Etheridge's Geology and Palæontology of Queensland and New Guinea, a further reference is made to a Winton man named G. Cramieri, suggesting that there might have been at least one Italian family in Winton in 1892, when the book was published. Mr. Cramieri is mentioned alongside Julius von Berger (who apparently took an interest in palaeontology when he was not working as a pharmacist) as a contributor of fossils whose provenance Jack and Etheridge wished to acknowledge.[53]

Early 20th century edit

The Federation of Australia occurred on 1 January 1901.

St Patrick's Catholic School was opened on 1906 by the Sisters of Mercy. Initially the school was conducted inside the wooden church until a separate school building was built in 1911. In 1960 a new school was built and the convent was used to accommodate boarding students. The school came under lay leadership in 1985 with the appointment of Glen Perkins.[54][55]

 
The flooding in Winton in 1906 broke records.

Quite at odds with the usual weather complaint was what happened in Winton in 1906, for the problem then was not a dearth of rain, but a definite oversupply. In March of that year, a mailman returning to Longreach from Winton reported "very heavy rain" that week. The rainfall in the area between those two places in the first two months of 1906 was reckoned to be between 14 and 18 inches (roughly 356 to 457 mm) with consequent overflowing seen in the area's creeks and rivers. The Western was far from an exception to this, and the photograph at right shows what became of some of the town's buildings.[56]

In 1909, the telephone reached Winton and by October, it had 34 subscribers.[57] By May 1911, improvements were being made to the post office to set the telephone exchange apart in its own section because it was becoming a "large and important branch". Indeed, there were then also plans to expand the exchange with the addition of a further switchboard to handle an expected 50 more subscribers.[58]

Winton Methodist Church opened circa March 1912.[59] It was built from timber at a cost of £540 and could seat 160 people. Later the building was used by the Winton Christian Fellowship.[60]

On Sunday 16 August 1914, Winton's townsfolk met at the Shire Hall to form a patriotic committee to recruit volunteers for the military to go and fight in the First World War, which had broken out less than three weeks earlier. Five hundred and eighteen men and women from Winton and the surrounding district served in that war, and their fallen comrades' names can now be found on Winton's war memorial on Vindex Street, outside the Shire Hall.[61] Winton's contribution of personnel to the war effort was proportionally one of Australia's highest, and 101 of its townsmen fell in the Great War, including a farmhand from nearby Bladensburg Station named Colin Morgan-Reade, who fell at Gallipoli on 30 May 1915. His story served as a focus during Winton's observance of the centenary of that campaign in 2015.[62]

In 1916, the North Gregory Hotel burnt down for the second time.[63]

Between the World Wars edit

In 1918, the Royal opened, and is still in business today. It is an outdoor cinema, one of only a few left in Australia.[64]

 
Qantas, now the flag carrier airline of Australia, was founded in Winton in 1920. Alan Joyce, then CEO of Qantas, cutting a tape to open a monument to that initial event, April 2021.

In 1920, a new company was founded, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (now known as Qantas Airways), and for a while, it was headquartered in Winton.[65]

In 1925, St Paul's Anglican church burned down.[51][66] A new St Paul's church waswas designed by Atkinson Powell & Conrad and built from timber in 1927.[67]

In 1927, Winton got electricity.[68] This "electric light scheme became an accomplished fact" in January of that year, and by December, it had some 160 subscribers. As a business, it was only breaking even, and so it was hoped that there would be more subscribers in the New Year. The project's initial cost was £12,000.[69]

The Prime Minister also came to visit that year. On 2 August 1927, Mr. Stanley Bruce and his wife landed on a flight from Longreach in Winton. The town's chamber of commerce was ready with a deputation, who wished to discuss "health, railway communication links, and the export of stud sheep" with the Prime Minister, thus reflecting the day's issues of local concern. The deputation especially protested the stud sheep exports to Africa. Mr. Bruce told the deputation that his Ministry would not consider banning this practice unless the pastoral industry itself requested such action. To that end, he suggested that the deputation raise the issue with the pastoralists themselves. The Prime Minister left later that day for Hughenden, after having spent less than three hours in Winton.[70]

On 27 February 1928, a famous Australian pioneer aviator, Bert Hinkler, touched down at Winton on his way from Camooweal to Longreach; he also made intermediate stops at Cloncurry and McKinlay.[71]

Also in 1928, the Central Western railway line reached Winton from Longreach. This was the second railway to reach Winton after the line from Hughenden reached town in 1899. The newer line was hailed by one newspaper with the assertion that "It will allow capital that has been lying idle to become revenue producing, it will provide facilities for the transfer of rolling stock, it will provide quicker touch with markets and reduce transport costs, and it will insure the graziers and the State against the probable loss of millions of sheep in drought time."[72]

Despite that reporter's rosy assessment of the boon that the new railway would be to Winton's economy, the 1930s brought Winton's wool industry hard times. A meeting of the local branch of the Graziers' Association of Central and Northern Queensland in 1938 wanted to make known to the general public that for roughly a decade by that time, the revenue brought on the market by wool was outstripped by the production cost, thus incurring loss. The meeting also declared itself in opposition to any plan to register .303 rifles, but decided that their use ought to be restricted to those 18 and over.[73]

The hard times apparently even affected telephone service. In 1936, the whole vast region west of Winton, all the way to Boulia, a distance of roughly 300 km, was served by a single party line – Winton 101 – which was leased from the Winton telephone provider by the Middleton Telephone Company, a private company based in Middleton, about halfway between Winton and Boulia. Only now, the line was falling into disrepair, with attendant unreliability in the service, and there were demands for it to be assumed by the government. The foreseen cost of doing this was then said to be £28,000.[74]

 
Elderslie Street about 1930. Clearly visible are the North Gregory Hotel as it looked then, and Corfield & Fitzmaurice General Merchants (although by this time, both its founders belonged to the town's history)

Another public service was affected by these hard times, namely the ambulance brigade. A Mr. Charles Holland, from Ipswich, was the chosen one from among 25 applicants from all over Queensland to become Winton's new superintendent of ambulance services. He left Ipswich for Winton on 7 April 1930,[75] only to be dismissed a mere six months later owing to the pitiful state of the Winton ambulance committee's finances.[76] That same year, the Railway Department removed all stationmasters from its line between Winton and Hughenden, although the move apparently did not affect the stationmasters at those two towns.[77] Work on dismantling a railway track that was to have been part of a considerable inland network was undertaken in 1931. The track only ever reached a short distance west of Winton. The work was partly a relief effort, with all the workmen involved in the job being drawn from the local unemployed.[78] The two working railway links at Winton came in handy in 1932 when track washouts along the Queensland coast forced some travellers to take a long inland detour, by way of Winton. Winton railway station became very busy.[79]

On 24 May 1933, which was Empire Day, Winton was honoured with a viceregal visit in the person of Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, the Governor of Queensland. He stayed in town overnight after having arrived by train from Hughenden with his wife, Lady Wilson and his entourage and taking part in a civic reception. His party left again by train the next morning bound for Longreach.[80]

On 3 October 1934, a Qantas plane bound for Winton from Longreach, the Atlanta (in some sources, Atalanta[81][82]), a de Havilland DH.50, caught fire in the air near its destination and the pilot tried, unsuccessfully, to make an emergency landing not far west of town before the fire on board set the fuel tank off. Complicating matters just then was a dust storm, which made for very poor visibility, and which later also delayed the sighting of the wreck by searchers. The aircraft came down in a ball of fire, killing the pilot and his two business passengers, one of whom, a sandalwood buyer named William McKnoe, was from Winton.[83]

Modern road conditions apparently had yet to come to Winton in 1934. A visiting pastoral company general manager, commenting on roads in western Queensland in general said that the roads in the Shire of Cloncurry were the worst in the state, but added that among streets in the state's towns, Winton's were the worst in Queensland.[84] A heatwave struck Winton the next month, with temperatures reaching a reported 113 °F (45 °C) on 24 November.[85]

On 5 August 1938, Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons visited Winton on an extended tour of Queensland, the first Prime Minister to visit the town since Stanley Bruce's visit in 1927. The chairman of the Shire Council, T. J. Shanahan, had a wish list for the Prime Minister. He asked for assistance from both state and federal levels for the wool industry, an "A class" radio station and a railway to the Barclay Tableland (which has never been built). Further deputations also asked for improvements to Winton's aerodrome and for national highways to be built in western Queensland.[86]

It was another nine years before Winton's demands for a radio station were met, and even then, the broadcasts were sent out from Longreach, not Winton. Nevertheless, there was proper wireless service beginning on 19 March 1947, when ABC's transmitter at Longreach came into service.[87]

Disaster struck Winton's business community in September 1938 when a fire tore through several buildings in the middle of town. Destroyed were the Royal Mail Hotel, the Olympia Picture Theatre (whose projection room was in the hotel), a building and a house owned by townsman Stanton Mellick, and a building owned by a man named William Thomson who operated a hardware and saddlery shop with his brother, James Thomson. Some of these buildings contained several businesses. The fire broke out in the cinema's spool room and spread quickly. Firefighters had to deal with low water pressure due to ongoing repairs. The damage caused by the fire was reckoned to be between £17,000 and £18,000. Nobody was injured.[88]

A new St Patrick's Catholic Church was opened on 8 May 1939 by Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig assisted by Bishop of Rockhampton Romauld Denis Hayes and Bishop of Townsville Hugh Edward Ryan.[89] The church building was designed by C.D. Lynch of Townsville and built by Jerry Rundle of Winton at a cost of £4,735.[90] The first church was relocated behind the school.[91]

Second World War and later 20th century edit

In 1939, the Second World War broke out, and Australia joined the Allies. There was a proposal, which met with great enthusiasm in Winton, to form a Western Battalion. A Colonel Hoad delivered a speech in June on the proposal at the Shire Hall before "a big crowd of young men", asking them to join up to show their support for the Western Battalion. Forty men responded by joining up on the spot.[92]

In June 1942, a United States Congressman stayed overnight at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton. This was an uncommon event in itself, especially during the Second World War, but it was made all the more so because he and a number of American military personnel – including two generals – had just survived an emergency landing of The Swoose at Carisbrooke Station, about 85 km southwest of Winton, and also because the Congressman happened to be Lyndon B. Johnson, who was later to become President of the United States.[93]

On 27 June 1946, there was a royal visit as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester came to visit Winton for half an hour.[94]

 
The 1946 North Gregory Hotel fire; silhouetted at right is the Corfield & Fitzmaurice Store.
 
The aftermath

On 7 August 1946, the North Gregory Hotel burnt down, for the third time, in a fire that also consumed several other nearby businesses. Firefighters' efforts were supplemented by a bucket brigade, but even so, the blaze took three hours to quench. The damage was set at £30,000. There was no mention of injuries.[95]

In 1951, Winton held its first rodeo and it was very popular and successful.[96] It quickly became a yearly event, and three years later, 4,700 people came into the town – whose population was then about 1,300 – for the rodeo. There was not enough room for them all at the local hotels, and 600 of them slept on stretcher beds brought into town by local graziers. There was £1050 in prize money.[97]

In 1953, a replacement for the North Gregory Hotel – this one built of brick, not wood – was nearing completion. The task had been taken on by Winton Shire Council because nobody else could be found who was willing to build the replacement. The project's estimated cost was £120,000. As of May that year, the Council still had not decided whether to run the hotel itself or to lease it to another operator. The hotel was to have amenities that were then quite uncommon in Central West Queensland, including air conditioning in the bar, the dining room and the lounge.[98] The town was seeking to provide other, more public amenities in the late 1940s and early 1950s as well, including a £100,000 sewerage scheme and a cooling tower for the artesian bore water, which came out of the ground quite hot. The expenditure of £17,000 on this was "essential if the water is to be 100 per cent. effective for fire-fighting." The same 1948 news item that announced these proposals also mentioned a project for a "municipal hotel", needed after the North Gregory Hotel had burnt down, and the foreseen cost for that was "between £30,000 and £40,000". There were obviously some cost overruns (see above).[99]

In 1962, some fossilized dinosaur tracks were discovered at a quarry and are now on display at their original site in a climate-controlled building at Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways some 110 kilometres (68 mi) southwest of Winton.[100]

On 22 September 1966, there was another aviation disaster near Winton. Ansett-ANA Flight 149, a Vickers Viscount aircraft, had taken off from Mount Isa on a 73-minute flight to Longreach, when it ran into trouble 44 minutes into the flight, once an engine fire broke out. The blaze quickly spread to the fuel tank, resulting in part of the left wing breaking away. This sealed the aircraft's fate. It crashed some 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Winton, at Nadjayamba Station, killing all 24 people on board.[101] The crash site was not very far from where the 1934 Atlanta disaster had happened. On the 40th anniversary of the accident in 2006, a memorial was unveiled in the main street of Winton.

A third St Patrick's Catholic Church was built in 1970; it was a brick church.[102]

External image
  Photograph of memorial in Winton, plus 3 photographs of the crash site and 10 of the aircraft

In "1972/73", a new festival began in Winton, the Outback Festival. This is held every other year, in odd-numbered years, in September, and was originally conceived as something that would boost Winton's local economy, for the years leading up to the first Outback Festival had been drought years.[103][104]

In November 1974, Winton got its own television transmitter, ABWNQ-8.[105] This broadcasts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Queensland service, based in Brisbane. The tower stands about 20 km north of town.

Another Prime Minister visited Winton in 1979, Malcolm Fraser. He used the occasion to make known his government's intention to undertake "an urgent inquiry on how to overcome worsening fuel shortages."[106]

In April 1995, Winton marked the centenary of "Waltzing Matilda" with a festival. Prime Minister Paul Keating and Queensland Premier Wayne Goss showed up for the festivities, and among other things, they unveiled a statue of Banjo Paterson.[107] In 1998, the Waltzing Matilda Centre opened.

In 1999, a huge Cretaceous sauropod about 95 million years old was unearthed near Winton. It was dubbed "Elliot".[108]

21st century edit

In 2002, a "non‐profit science initiative" named Australian Age of Dinosaurs was established whose aim is to expose Australian dinosaurs at a world-class museum. One project sought to contain the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways near Opalton inside a climate-controlled building to preserve and display them, a project that has been accomplished.[109] In 2009, three new dinosaur species were given their scientific nomenclature (with nicknames in round brackets). They are Australovenator wintonensis ("Banjo"), Diamantinasaurus matildae ("Matilda") and Wintonotitan wattsi ("Clancy").[108][110]

At the 2011 census, Winton had a population of 954.[111]

A cultural disaster struck Winton in June 2015 when the Waltzing Matilda Centre burnt down, destroying many artefacts.[112]

On the night of 17 June 2015, fire broke out in the Waltzing Matilda Centre, the building that housed town's information centre and a museum housing a collection of historic artifacts. Firefighters arrived within minutes to find the rear of the building engulfed in flames, the teams fought desperately to save the front of the building and any artifacts that hadn't already been destroyed. Despite all efforts, the entire structure was reduced to a smouldering wreck with little evidence of the building ever housing such a unique museum. The fire has been deemed unsuspicious and investigators are currently[when?] looking for clues to the cause of the blaze. The building was unoccupied at the time of the fire and there were no casualties.[113] The rebuilt museum reopened in April 2018.[114]

In the 2016 census, the locality of Winton had a population of 875 people.[115]

In the 2021 census, the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people.[7]

Geography edit

Winton lies on the north bank of the Western River, a braided river that often runs dry, made of many small channels, a landform that gives this region, the Channel Country, its name. The Western is joined from the north by Jessamine Creek and Mill's Creek, both braided streams. Mistake Creek, likewise a braided stream, empties into the Western from the south. The Western itself flows westwards, eventually emptying into the Diamantina River at one of only three major confluences on that river. This lies some 60 km downstream. This puts Winton in the Lake Eyre basin. The land in the area is mostly flat grassland, which lends itself rather well to pastoral activity, an industry of some local importance to this day. Winton lies at the junction of the Kennedy Developmental Road and the Landsborough Highway, the two of which run concurrently from Winton's south end as far as another junction a few kilometres west of town.

Possible asteroid strike edit

 
Map showing the rough extent of the crustal anomaly west of Winton that may be an ancient impact structure

The Diamantina River's hook-shaped upper reaches have drawn scientific attention. In March 2015, Geoscience Australia reported that the river's course at and near its headwaters flows along the edge of a roughly circular crustal anomaly that might well be an impact structure. It is an area, as described by Richard Blewett, a senior official with Geoscience Australia, 130 kilometres (81 mi) in diameter, characterized by geomagnetic anomalies, and Winton lies roughly 60 km beyond its eastern edge. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that recent seismic studies undertaken there indicated that long ago an asteroid or comet struck the area releasing energy equivalent to 650 million Hiroshima A-bombs (and thus roughly 41 zettajoules).[116] The asteroid impact has not yet been confirmed, but this could be done with core samples from the ground in the central ring structure to a depth of hundreds of metres. The impact, if indeed this is the explanation for the anomaly, would have happened roughly 300 million years ago.[117]

Dinosaurs edit

The area surrounding the town has yielded a number of dinosaur fossils. In 2009, the discoveries near the town of three Early Cretaceous dinosaur genera, Australovenator, Wintonotitan and Diamantinasaurus, were announced. Australovenator wintonensis, the type specimen of that genus, is named after the town. The specimens were unearthed at the "Matilda site" not far northwest of town, on Elderslie Station (site's position roughly 22°12′S 142°30′E / 22.2°S 142.5°E / -22.2; 142.5), and at the "Triangle Paddock Site" right nearby.[118][119] Another sauropod, Savannasaurus, was also found in this area, along with the as-of-yet unnamed "Elliot".[120] The town also lent its name to the geological formation in which the fossils were found, the Winton Formation.

Great Artesian Basin edit

Winton is situated on the Great Artesian Basin and draws its water for use in the town. This water emerges at 83 to 86 °C (181 to 187 °F) and is cooled in ponds in Corfield to 44 °C (111 °F) before it is circulated through the town. Sulphur gas gives the water an 'eggy' smell.[121]

As of 2018, Winton Shire Council is developing a geothermal power plant to replacing the water cooling process with one that converts the released heat into electricity. It is expected to generate 2000 megawatt hours per year.[122][123]

Street names edit

The main streets in the town of Winton were named after the stations lying in the directions in which the streets were running. For instance, east and west — Elderslie, Vindex, Cork and Dagworth. Those facing the north were called Oondooroo, Manuka, Sesbania and Werna. Three of these stations, Dagworth, Vindex and Oondooroo, figure in the Waltzing Matilda story.[124]

Climate edit

Winton Post Office, Queensland, Australia
Climate chart (explanation)
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
 
 
83
 
 
38
24
 
 
87
 
 
36
23
 
 
54
 
 
35
21
 
 
22
 
 
32
17
 
 
20
 
 
28
13
 
 
18
 
 
25
9
 
 
15
 
 
24
8
 
 
6.5
 
 
27
10
 
 
9
 
 
31
13
 
 
18
 
 
35
18
 
 
32
 
 
37
21
 
 
50
 
 
38
23
Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
Precipitation totals in mm
Imperial conversion
JFMAMJJASOND
 
 
3.3
 
 
100
74
 
 
3.4
 
 
97
73
 
 
2.1
 
 
95
70
 
 
0.9
 
 
90
63
 
 
0.8
 
 
82
55
 
 
0.7
 
 
76
49
 
 
0.6
 
 
76
47
 
 
0.3
 
 
80
49
 
 
0.4
 
 
88
56
 
 
0.7
 
 
94
64
 
 
1.3
 
 
99
70
 
 
2
 
 
101
73
Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
Precipitation totals in inches

Winton, like most of Central West Queensland, experiences a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh, Trewartha: BShl); with very hot summers with moderate rains; warm to hot springs and autumns with occasional rains; and mild, dry winters. Summer temperatures ranging from 23 to 38 °C or 73.4 to 100.4 °F while temperatures in the “winter” season range from 9 to 25 °C or 48.2 to 77.0 °F. Temperatures above 30 °C or 86 °F can be experienced throughout the year, and sweltering temperatures above 40 °C or 104 °F can be recorded in every month from October to March. Rainfall is concentrated in summer and the yearly average is 414.7 millimetres or 16.33 inches; however, variability is like all of central and western Queensland extreme:[125] annual totals above 1,000 millimetres or 40 inches occurred in 1950, 1974 and 2000, whereas less than 90 millimetres or 3.5 inches fell in 1905 and 2002. Extremes have ranged from 47.2 °C (117.0 °F) to −1.7 °C (28.9 °F).

Climate data for Winton Post Office, Queensland, Australia (1884–2012 normals and extremes); 182 m AMSL
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 45.6
(114.1)
45.0
(113.0)
43.3
(109.9)
39.6
(103.3)
36.8
(98.2)
33.9
(93.0)
34.6
(94.3)
37.2
(99.0)
40.2
(104.4)
44.5
(112.1)
45.4
(113.7)
47.2
(117.0)
47.2
(117.0)
Mean maximum °C (°F) 41.7
(107.1)
40.6
(105.1)
38.3
(100.9)
35.6
(96.1)
31.6
(88.9)
28.9
(84.0)
28.6
(83.5)
31.4
(88.5)
35.6
(96.1)
38.9
(102.0)
40.9
(105.6)
42.0
(107.6)
42.0
(107.6)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 37.5
(99.5)
36.2
(97.2)
35.0
(95.0)
32.1
(89.8)
27.8
(82.0)
24.6
(76.3)
24.4
(75.9)
26.9
(80.4)
31.0
(87.8)
34.7
(94.5)
37.0
(98.6)
38.2
(100.8)
32.1
(89.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 30.5
(86.9)
29.6
(85.3)
28.0
(82.4)
24.7
(76.5)
20.4
(68.7)
17.0
(62.6)
16.3
(61.3)
18.2
(64.8)
22.2
(72.0)
26.3
(79.3)
29.0
(84.2)
30.5
(86.9)
24.4
(75.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 23.5
(74.3)
22.9
(73.2)
21.0
(69.8)
17.2
(63.0)
12.9
(55.2)
9.4
(48.9)
8.2
(46.8)
9.5
(49.1)
13.4
(56.1)
17.8
(64.0)
20.9
(69.6)
22.8
(73.0)
16.6
(61.9)
Mean minimum °C (°F) 20.2
(68.4)
20.0
(68.0)
17.8
(64.0)
13.9
(57.0)
8.3
(46.9)
4.5
(40.1)
3.3
(37.9)
4.8
(40.6)
8.6
(47.5)
13.3
(55.9)
16.8
(62.2)
19.2
(66.6)
3.3
(37.9)
Record low °C (°F) 12.8
(55.0)
11.7
(53.1)
10.9
(51.6)
7.8
(46.0)
1.7
(35.1)
−1.7
(28.9)
−1.7
(28.9)
−1.1
(30.0)
1.1
(34.0)
5.6
(42.1)
7.5
(45.5)
13.9
(57.0)
−1.7
(28.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 83.2
(3.28)
87.0
(3.43)
53.8
(2.12)
22.3
(0.88)
20.2
(0.80)
18.2
(0.72)
14.7
(0.58)
6.5
(0.26)
9.0
(0.35)
18.1
(0.71)
31.8
(1.25)
49.9
(1.96)
414.7
(16.34)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 5.6 5.3 3.5 1.8 1.5 1.4 1.2 0.8 1.2 2.1 3.0 4.1 31.5
Average relative humidity (%) 42.5 48.0 43.5 40.0 44.0 45.5 41.5 34.0 28.5 28.5 28.5 33.5 38.2
Average dew point °C (°F) 16.3
(61.3)
17.2
(63.0)
14.7
(58.5)
11.3
(52.3)
8.5
(47.3)
5.8
(42.4)
3.5
(38.3)
2.9
(37.2)
4.1
(39.4)
6.7
(44.1)
9.5
(49.1)
12.6
(54.7)
9.4
(49.0)
Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (1884–2012 normals and extremes)[126]

Heritage listings edit

Winton has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Education edit

Winton State School is a government primary and secondary (Prep–12) school for boys and girls at 71 Cork Street (22°23′08″S 143°02′19″E / 22.3856°S 143.0387°E / -22.3856; 143.0387 (Winton State School)).[129][130] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 90 students with 13 teachers (12 full-time equivalent) and 14 non-teaching staff (9 full-time equivalent).[131]

St Patrick's Catholic School is a private primary (Prep-6) school at Oondooroo Street (22°23′06″S 143°02′24″E / 22.3851°S 143.0399°E / -22.3851; 143.0399 (St Patrick's Catholic School)).[129][132]

Amenities edit

 
St Pauls Anglican Church, Winton, 1995.jpg

Winton has a range of facilities available to the public, including a showground, racecourse, golf, bowls, skate park, and swimming facilities and a public library.[133]

The Winton Shire Council Library Service operates a library at 76 Elderslie Street with a High-Speed ISDN Internet Connection (powered through the National Broadband Network) to Brisbane.[134]

The Winton branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association has its rooms at 47 Vindex Street.[135]

St Patrick's Catholic Church is at 51 Cork Street (22°23′08″S 143°02′24″E / 22.385669°S 143.04°E / -22.385669; 143.04 (St Patrick's Catholic Church)).[102]

St Paul's Anglican Church is at 72 Cork Street (22°23′10″S 143°02′17″E / 22.386044°S 143.038°E / -22.386044; 143.038 (St Paul's Anglican Church)).[67]

Winton Christian Fellowship is at 38 Werna Street (22°23′13″S 143°02′13″E / 22.386974°S 143.037°E / -22.386974; 143.037 (Methodist Church)).[60]

Winton Airport is located about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) northeast of Winton.

Transport edit

Winton is situated at the crossroads of the Landsborough Highway and the Kennedy Developmental Road, 177 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Longreach, 865 kilometres (537 miles) northwest of Rockhampton, 1,153 kilometres (716 miles) northwest of Brisbane and 441 kilometres (274 miles) south-east of Mount Isa.

Winton is the terminus of the Central Western Railway Line from Rockhampton and was until 2008, the terminus of the Hughenden-Winton railway line which linked Winton to Hughenden on the Great Northern Railway (Mount Isa Line)

Winton is a timetabled stop for the following intercity bus services run by Greyhound Australia

Events edit

Outback Festival edit

The Outback Festival has been recognised since 1991 winning many Outback Queensland Tourism accolades including the recent 2012 Winner of the Outback Queensland Tourism Awards for Festivals and Events and finalist at the Queensland Regional Achievement and Community Awards.[136] The Festival being one of three chosen from over 90 Queensland organizations for the Community of Year Award. Featured events include the Quilton Australian Dunny Derby.[137] The Outback Century Cycle Challenge is also held over this event period, attracting competitors from all over Australia for their one chance in every two years of mastering the outback course.[138]

The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival edit

Since 2014, The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival has been held annually in the town.[139][140][141][142][143][144]

During the festival, a person involved in the Australian film industry is traditionally honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame in Elderslie Street. Since the festival's inception, Roy Billing, Ivan Sen, Margaret Pomeranz, Butch Lenton, Steve Le Marquand and David Gulpilil have all received stars.[145][146][147][148][149]

Attractions edit

Winton's visitor centre is located in the Waltzing Matilda Centre. The town has a range of museums including the heritage-listed former Corfield and Fitzmaurice emporium as well as the heritage truck and machinery museum.

Waltzing Matilda Centre edit

Winton is intimately involved in the story of the popular Australian folk song, "Waltzing Matilda", which had its first performance in the North Gregory Hotel in the town. The Waltzing Matilda Centre opened in 1998 and is the first museum dedicated to a song.[150] The song was written by 'Banjo' Paterson whilst holidaying at a local property, Dagworth Station. The music for the song was arranged by Christina Macpherson, the sister of the station manager who was visiting at the same time.

In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance.[151][152]

Royal Theatre edit

The historic Royal Theatre is one of the few remaining open-air picture theatres in Australia and home to the World's Largest Deckchair which was originally constructed in Victoria by the Freemasons Taskforce in 2002 and donated to Winton and the Royal Theatre by the members of that taskforce in April 2005.

Arno's Wall edit

Arno's wall is a strange mixture of art and architecture. Cemented contents of the wall include rusted lawnmower parts, boat propellers, vintage typewriters and sewing machines and even a couple of complete motorbikes. A photograph of the wall by Gordon Undy is in the National Library of Australia digital collection.[153]

In popular culture edit

The 2005 film The Proposition was filmed entirely in Winton and the surrounding area.

The 2013 film Mystery Road was also filmed in Winton and the surrounding area.[154]

The 2015 film Kirrendirri – Lost and Alone is a documentary which interviews descendants of the massacred Aboriginal people.[155][156]

The 2016 film Goldstone used Winton as a part of their film set.[157]

The 2019 ABC Series Total Control was filmed partly in and around the Winton area.[158][159]

The third episode of The Amazing Race Australia 5 was filmed in Winton.[160]

External links edit

  • Experience Winton
  • Waltzing Matilda Centre
  • Lark Quarry
  • University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Winton
  • Outback Festival

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winton, queensland, confused, with, winston, queensland, winton, town, locality, shire, winton, central, west, queensland, australia, kilometres, northwest, longreach, main, industries, area, sheep, cattle, raising, town, named, 1876, postmaster, robert, allen. Not to be confused with Winston Queensland Winton is a town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland Australia 4 5 It is 177 kilometres 110 mi northwest of Longreach The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen after his place of birth Winton Dorset 4 6 Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas In the 2021 census the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people 7 Winton QueenslandElderslie StreetWintonCoordinates22 23 29 S 143 02 17 E 22 3913 S 143 0381 E 22 3913 143 0381 Winton town centre Population856 SAL 2021 1 2 Postcode s 4735Location441 km 274 mi from Mount Isa1 153 km 716 mi from Brisbane1 317 km 818 mi from Alice SpringsLGA s Winton ShireCountyAyrshire County QueenslandState electorate s GregoryFederal division s MaranoaMean max temp 3 Mean min temp 3 Annual rainfall 3 32 8 C 91 F 17 1 C 63 F 352 8 mm 13 9 inLocalities around Winton Kynuna Corfield CorfieldMiddleton Winton MuttaburraOpalton Opalton Morella Contents 1 History 1 1 Dispossession of Aboriginal land owners 1 2 Early exploration 1 3 Winton s founding and early days 1 4 Industrial unrest 1 5 Early 20th century 1 6 Between the World Wars 1 7 Second World War and later 20th century 1 8 21st century 2 Geography 2 1 Possible asteroid strike 2 2 Dinosaurs 2 3 Great Artesian Basin 2 4 Street names 3 Climate 4 Heritage listings 5 Education 6 Amenities 7 Transport 8 Events 8 1 Outback Festival 8 2 The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival 9 Attractions 9 1 Waltzing Matilda Centre 9 2 Royal Theatre 9 3 Arno s Wall 10 In popular culture 11 External links 12 ReferencesHistory editDispossession of Aboriginal land owners edit The traditional owners of the Winton area the Koa people consider Bladensburg National Park area near Winton to be a special part of their traditional country and the park is also important to the Maiawali and Karuwali people citation needed Jirandali also known as Yirandali Warungu Yirandhali is an Australian Aboriginal language of North West Queensland particularly the Hughenden area The language region includes the local government area of the Shire of Flinders including Dutton River Flinders River Mount Sturgeon Caledonia Richmond Corfield Winton Torrens Tower Hill Landsborough Creek Lammermoor Station Hughenden and Tangorin 8 Skull Hole on Surprise Creek at Bladensburg Station about 15 kilometres 9 3 mi from Winton was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1877 9 10 The Koa people have lodged an application to the Federal Court to have their native title legally recognised This application or claim was registered on 28 September 2015 by the National Native Title Tribunal 11 Early exploration edit In one of Australia s greatest mysteries the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt set off on an expedition with a group of men and animals from the Condamine River in the Darling Downs bound for the Swan River Colony across the continent He was last seen on 3 April 1848 at McPherson s Station Coogoon still on the Darling Downs His whereabouts thereafter have never been known but he and his men are believed to have met their end in the Great Sandy Desert 12 This expedition may have brought Leichhardt near Winton s future site William Landsborough undertook extensive exploration of both the Western and Diamantina rivers in the 1860s and it seems likely that he might have found himself at Winton s future site at least once for it lies on the former In 1866 Landsborough led another expedition up the Diamantina which would have taken him to within 60 km of the actual site albeit not right to it The first European settlers in the area came in 1866 but many did not stay very long because a drought struck within a few years The town s true birth came with a sequence of events both natural and manmade which gave rise to one new town in Central West Queensland but also sowed the seeds for another s failure Winton s founding and early days edit Robert Allen a former police sergeant left Aramac about 1875 and moved west to the Pelican Waterholes about 1 600 metres 0 99 mi west of the town s current site where he set up a shop and a public house the next year The heavy rains that same year however brought Allen a great deal of woe and he even was compelled by floods to remain two days on the wall plate of his building When the flooding had abated somewhat Allen shifted what was left of his business to Winton s current site 13 Robert Allen is thus held to be the town s founder Winton s entrenchment as this pioneering region s business hub was secured only by a quirk of fate as William Henry Corfield s written record makes clear He and some acquaintances set out to do business in an Outback town that had been surveyed and laid out by the Queensland colonial government only to decide upon arrival in the district that it would be a better idea to found a town somewhat further east near the Pelican Waterholes which was to become Winton 14 William Henry Corfield 1843 1927 later the mayor of Winton had returned to Queensland in 1878 after suffering a bout of malaria and wrote of his experiences as a pioneer in Central West Queensland in his book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862 1899 published in 1921 Passing through Townsville I met Robert Fitzmaurice who told me that carrying had fallen away between Cooktown and the Palmer and that he had left that district He suggested that I should join with him in carrying to the western country and added that he had been informed by a squatter that there was a good opening for a store at the Conn Waterhole on the Diamantina River This is about forty miles 60 km down the Western River from where Winton now is 13 The Conn Waterhole to which Corfield referred is a body of water some 55 kilometres 34 mi down the Western River from Winton It is the northernmost permanent waterhole in the Diamantina basin and maps still identify it by that name today 15 Corfield made it clear where he meant to settle Our destination was Collingwood more widely known as the Conn Waterhole where the Government Surveyor had laid out a township situated about 40 miles 64 km west of Winton 13 Another man of Corfield s acquaintance named Thomas Lynett had left Townsville for the same destination with backing from Burns Philp and Co to set up a shop at Collingwood if he deemed the newly laid out town to be suitable upon his inspection Apparently though he did not deciding that the land there was too prone to flooding He turned back and eventually he Corfield Fitzmaurice and Robert Allen who was already at the more easterly site agreed to establish a centre east of Corfield s original destination of Collingwood This was Winton s beginning 13 Collingwood however whose site was the government s choice never truly took root and by 1900 it was a ghost town 16 At the Winton site Corfield Fitzmaurice Lynett and Allen then discussed moving Allen s building northwards somewhat back from the Western River on higher ground Corfield wrote about the outcome We offered to do the work without cost but Allen and Lynett decided to remain where they were We had to accept the position and agreed to build in line with the others This formed the base upon which Mr Surveyor Jopp laid out the township afterwards 13 Mr Surveyor Jopp was George Keith Jopp a surveyor based in Blackall His name was to be found on the List of Surveyors licensed to act under the provisions and for the purposes of The Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877 which was published in Wright s Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer in 1881 17 Corfield s book also tells the locally well known story of how Winton got its current name The original name for the town now known as Winton was Pelican Water holes Bob Allen the first resident whom I have mentioned acted as post master The mail service was a fortnightly one going west to Wokingham Creek thence via Sesbania to Hughenden There was no date stamp supplied to the office but by writing Pelican Water holes and the date across the stamps the post mark was made and the stamps cancelled This was found to be very slow and unsatisfactory Allen was asked to propose a name and he suggested that the P O should be called Winton This is the name of a suburb of Bournemouth Hampshire England and Allen s native place 13 Even though Bournemouth is nowadays generally held to be in Dorset Corfield did not quite get the county wrong Bournemouth is actually in the ceremonial county of Dorset but Corfield named the historic county of Hampshire which also includes Bournemouth It is clear however that Corfield correctly identified Allen s birthplace Business in those earliest days of the town s existence was hindered by the lack of a local bank The nearest one was in Aramac some 400 kilometres 250 mi away There was also a drought then Building materials had to be brought in from even farther away for there was not a great deal of wood to be had in the Channel Country Corfield travelled all the way to Townsville on Queensland s east coast to fetch them in 13 Law enforcement was also as non existent as one might expect it to be in an early town in Central West Queensland Corfield described that problem too At this time Winton was the rendezvous of some of the worst characters of the west fights were frequent on the then unformed streets The rowdies threatened to take the grog in the store and as there were no police nearer than Aramac I deemed it best to dispose of all the liquor to Allen the local publican who jumped at the chance to obtain a supply A few residents formed themselves into a vigilance committee The late Mr J A Macartney passed through to visit his property Bladensburg Station and seeing how things were wrote to the Home Secretary asking for police protection 13 He also described another problem drug abuse When I returned Winton was entirely out of liquor and Allen did a great business in selling bottles of painkiller as a substitute It was laughable to see men take a bottle out of their pocket saying Have a nip mate it s only five shillings a bottle 13 nbsp The North Gregory Hotel in Winton as it looked in 1879Winton was gazetted as a township on 12 July 1879 describing it as 2 square miles 5 2 km2 resumed from the Doveridge No 4 and Vindex No 1 North runs 18 The North Gregory Hotel was established in 1879 In 1899 it burnt down for the first time but a new North Gregory Hotel was up and running by the following 1900 19 20 In 1879 Julius von Berger who had fled Schleswig Holstein to escape Prussian rule became the town s first dispensing chemist pharmacist In 1880 Sub Inspector Fred Murray and Sergeant Feltham came to town from Blackall and set up Winton s first police station in a small rented building 13 Their equipment was rather primitive though and they had to make do with a hefty log and a chain as a police lockup This was not always good enough One day Feltham went down to the store leaving a prisoner chained up Shortly afterwards he was surprised when he saw his prisoner who was a very powerful man marching into the public house carrying the log on his shoulder and call for drinks It took three men to get him back to the lock up 13 Cobb amp Co s stagecoaches were serving Winton by 1880 after having bought up a number of mail routes in Queensland Robert Arthur Johnstone also arrived in Winton in 1880 to become the town s first police magistrate He had been in the Australian native police and had been an associate of George Elphinstone Dalrymple in the latter s exploratory work In 1880 Johnstone also conducted the first sale of government land one result of which was the acquisition of Thomas Lynett s property by the Queensland National Bank thus giving Winton its first bank The bank began business right away in Lynett s old coffee room and pulled down his building to make way for something that would be more suitable for a bank A man named Morgan started a blacksmith s shop in Winton after having worked at Ayrshire Downs Station 13 In 1881 Thomas McIlwraith who was then Premier of Queensland and who would be knighted the following year passed through Winton His destination was Ayrshire Downs Nevertheless the town s whole population turned out at night at a waterhole almost 10 kilometres 6 2 mi from town to meet him and his wife 13 In 1882 a visiting clergyman the first of any denomination visited Winton On the Sunday while he was in town he held a church service in the billiard room at the hotel after a blue blanket had been thrown over the pool table and a red one had been draped over the cue rack William Corfield himself was later chosen to present the clergyman with remuneration in the form of a purse of sovereigns This presentation did not go off without incident however One local squatter caused himself quite a bit of pain and the other men at the presentation quite a bit of laughter when during a prayer upon presentation of the gift he knelt down in prayer only to wound his rear end with his own long necked spurs The clergyman however simply carried on with his prayer of thanks 13 In 1883 Winton s first district court was opened when Judge Miller and Crown Prosecutor Real came to town By about this time there was also a doctor in town who sometimes had to deal with typhoid fever patients 13 Tenders were sought for building a hospital in Winton late in 1882 21 It seems however that the doctor tendered his resignation only three years later 22 A correspondent reported not long thereafter Doctor Van Someron is to be our new surgeon and I trust that we shall be able to keep him longer with us than his predecessors This suggests that Winton was not considered a choice location in the 1880s at least not among those of the medical profession 23 By 1883 Winton was developing into a proper town with economic activity that was of benefit to all the settlers both urban and rural in the region This would have struck most at the time as a great boon but in William Corfield s wry assessment of Winton s progress Now that we had two banks four hotels a chemist saddler besides other branches of industry we felt that we were being drawn perilously within the influences of civilisation and its drawbacks 13 By 1884 Winton and much of the surrounding area were in the grip of a serious drought that brought many people hardship It had however ended by 1886 By this time Winton had a weekly newspaper the Winton Herald 13 It was owned by D H Maxwell who had founded it in 1885 after coming from Aramac 24 Maxwell later died in an angling accident near Winton in 1894 He was found drowned 12 miles 19 km from town 25 A school was being discussed in Winton by a school committee in 1885 22 Winton State School opened on 10 August 1885 26 despite the correspondent s misgivings about the bureaucracy involved 27 Pugh s Queensland Almanac Law Calendar Directory and Coast Guide for 1885 listed Winton s local professionals including Julius von Berger who was now joined by another pharmacist named A Hurworth The hospital s surgeon also described in the almanac as the Medical Man was Dr Wilson The name Morgan by this time no longer figured among the town s blacksmiths J Long Ryan amp Jensen T B Feltham had two mentions in the almanac for being both the bookseller stationer and the tobacconist and likewise founding townsman Thomas Lynett was listed twice for being both a shopkeeper and the innkeeper at the Royal Mail Hotel The North Gregory Hotel was run by William Brown Steele by this time He had bought it from William Henry Corfield after Corfield had bought his partner Robert Fitzmaurice s share of that business out after Fitzmaurice had returned from a six month trip to Sydney to see about his failing eyesight The prognosis was not good Fitzmaurice was almost blind when he returned to Winton and so he decided to sell up and leave town Corfield though had no great interest in running a hotel and so sought out a buyer and this turned out to be Steele 13 28 In 1886 luxuriant grass growth furnished fodder not only for livestock but annoyingly also for wildfires Several nearby stations were stricken among them Vindex Elderslie and Ayrshire Downs Plans were being made to build a Catholic church in 1888 13 Against this was the state in which the Church of England in Winton then found itself By 1890 its services were still being held in an all purpose hall whose owner William Steele had the licence for it revoked that year which was understandably an unwelcome hardship for the town s Anglicans 29 In 1889 work was in progress on Winton s first artesian bore By mid August it had reached a depth of about 430 feet or 131 m 30 Tenders were called that same year for another bank this time the Bank of New South Wales The same article mentioned that founding townsman Thomas Lynett had had to pay a fine of 1 along with 9s in costs after having been summoned before the Police Magistrate for a breach of the Licensing Act 31 nbsp Catholic Church and Convent early 1900sSt Patrick s Catholic Church was built in 1887 The timber church was designed by Rooney Brothers 32 nbsp At the races in Winton Queensland ca 1890In 1890 a local correspondent sang the praises of Winton s hospital and was clearly pleased at the staff there Winton is at last blessed with a good doctor he declared 29 Industrial unrest edit It was also in 1890 that trouble was brewing in Winton and indeed in other parts of Australia One report mentioned a robbery in which one man was relieved of 30 while the police seemed unable to catch the thief and the correspondent commented This game has been going on here for a very long time perhaps meaning to suggest police complicity in this and other crimes More seriously even though there was no real loss was this incident mentioned in the same report Somebody amused himself at the expense of the senior constable of police telling him that the shearers and all union men would rush the town The senior constable rushed away in hot haste to the barracks and ordered the police to get Martinis and revolvers in good going order so as to shoot the unionists down 33 The tensions between the shearers and their employers would soon come to a head and this incident showed just how tense the situation had already become in Winton Meanwhile there was Ashton s Circus to enjoy It came to this far flung town in September 1890 and besides its regular performances also did a benefit for the local hospital 34 The Great Shearers Strike came in 1891 disrupting the wool industry for a while Locally work stoppages began very early that year On 6 January 1891 a small item the quotation below is the article s full text in The Australian Star Sydney announced the onset of management labour troubles in the Winton area The station hands have left Vindex and Oondooroo stations in the Winton districts in consequence of the new wages tariff formulated by the Pastoral Employers Association 33 Vindex lies not far east southeast of Winton and Oondooroo not far north One of the momentous decisions by the Federated Pastoralists the management side in the strike on 18 March 1891 was to declare a great number of stations in the Winton area non union including Elderslie west of town and also Ayrshire Downs on Wokingham Creek Dagworth on the Diamantina River Warnambool Downs south southwest of town and Llanrheidol north of Middleton about 150 km west of Winton This means that no loading consigned to those stations during this week will be allowed to be forwarded by union teams the article asserted 35 Later on nearby Elderslie Station which belonged to absentee landlord Sir Samuel Wilson at the time the woolshed was burnt down on 8 October that year 36 A major sticking point in the 1891 strike throughout Queensland and locally in Winton was the issue of freedom of contract This would have empowered both pastoralists and the shearers whom they employed to enter into contractual employment arrangements free of any union involvement therein This clearly did not sit well with the striking unionized shearers Polls held in striker camps throughout the colony yielded results that were heavily sometimes unanimously in favour of rejecting any such arrangement The camp at Winton wired in to the union headquarters at Barcaldine not only the results of their poll but also the comment our decision is to fight to the last 37 Nevertheless the strikers eventually lost the battle by May 1891 However management labour troubles were soon to flare up again In 1894 Winton once again found itself in the middle of a hotbed of discontent as the Second Shearers Strike wore on There were unfortunate incidents in the Winton area At nearby Elderslie Station a great haystack was set ablaze while over at Dagworth Station the shearing shed was burnt down by strikers armed with guns 38 Another woolshed was set afire at Manuka about halfway between Winton and Hughenden A map at the same source shows the Scene of Recent Outrages the strikers did not have the press on their side with Winton clearly marked 39 As in the last great strike Winton hosted a strikers camp and its occupants were as adamant as before After discussing the telegram from Longreach declaring the strike off in that district the men apparently expressed a determination to continue the fight to the bitter end 40 nbsp Sir Hugh Nelson centre in white then the Premier of Queensland visited Winton in 1895 Here he is seen at the town s artesian bore The next year on 6 April 1895 to be precise Sir Herbert Ramsay gave Waltzing Matilda its first public recital at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton 41 It was also in 1895 that Premier Sir Hugh Nelson visited Winton William Henry Corfield by now the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Gregory accompanied the premier s party on the Winton stretch of his tour A deputation at Winton was most anxious to let the premier know that a railway link with Hughenden was uppermost in the townsfolk s minds and Mr Corfield also presented Sir Hugh with a petition signed by 376 constituents asking that a permanent survey of the line from Hughenden to Winton be made with a view of connecting the town with its natural port Townsville 42 Despite frequent complaints in 19th century Winton about the dearth of water an 1895 article mentions that gardeners were growing peaches grapes and melons in town Perhaps coincidentally a famous botanist passed through Winton that year Frederick Manson Bailey 43 Drought was indeed a serious problem in the region at various times one that might have destroyed Winton had one drought in 1895 been as dire an emergency as one geologist believed Robert Logan Jack FGS FRGS a Government Geologist for Queensland wrote in that year of an eventuality in his Geological Survey Bulletin no 1 Artesian Water in the Western Interior of Queensland that might have had not only this effect but also the effect of saving the doomed town of Collingwood from what would turn out to be its actual fate The drought striking the region had seriously depleted the waterhole on Mistake Creek upon which Winton wholly depended for its water leaving Jack reckoned only three weeks to a month s supply of water for the town He foresaw that it might become necessary to move Winton s whole population along with their livestock to the Conn Waterhole at Collingwood 55 km to the west 44 This however never came about Moreover Winton s artesian bore was finally completed the next year ending dependency on the climatic vagaries to which the region is subject but only after two boring companies had been bankrupted by the project 13 The Winton branch railway from Hughenden reached Winton in 1899 which was likely the last nail in Collingwood s coffin 45 Winton s artesian bore water was being piped from the wellhead in 1902 with water welling up from a depth of 4 010 feet 1 222 m at the rate of 650 000 imperial gallons roughly 3 000 000 L daily 46 In 1899 and 1900 the town and indeed the whole region were suffering under a devastating drought A correspondent writing in January 1900 midsummer described horrendous conditions on the surrounding stations some of which were deserted for want of water others empty of livestock because their owners had had the animals sent out and yet others that were heaped with dead livestock that had died of thirst The animals in town were visibly suffering too I could mention many more drought incidents the correspondent said but it is sickening to write of them The correspondent further wrote of the progress of artesian bores at the surrounding stations in some detail summing it up with the possibly punning remark This about completes the boring news for the week 47 There was a slight respite by July midwinter which even saw some livestock sent back to their stations 48 However the drought persisted throughout 1900 and affected most of Queensland with a reporter in Maryborough noting on 29 December that year well into the next summer that it in most places has been the worst experienced in the last 25 years He also said The closing days of the year however have refreshed the parched lands with welcome rains and inspired the hope that the drought is at last broken up and that a genial season is awaiting us in the new year 49 The town s Anglicans celebrated the opening of Saint Paul s Church on 4 February 1900 50 51 Even before the end of the 19th century the town s ethnic makeup consisted of more than members of groups from the British Isles Besides the chemist from Schleswig Holstein Julius von Berger there were people of Chinese origin in Winton too In 1896 a firm called Sun Kum Wah in Winton run by three Chinese men Low Sow Ah Shew and Sun Kum Fung placed a notice in Queensland newspapers announcing the dissolution of this three way partnership and the apparent formation of a new two way one without Sun Kum Fung The company however kept its former name for at least ten more years for the building in the flood photograph below is its place of business with the name painted on the facade 52 In Robert Logan Jack s and Robert Etheridge s Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea a further reference is made to a Winton man named G Cramieri suggesting that there might have been at least one Italian family in Winton in 1892 when the book was published Mr Cramieri is mentioned alongside Julius von Berger who apparently took an interest in palaeontology when he was not working as a pharmacist as a contributor of fossils whose provenance Jack and Etheridge wished to acknowledge 53 Early 20th century edit The Federation of Australia occurred on 1 January 1901 St Patrick s Catholic School was opened on 1906 by the Sisters of Mercy Initially the school was conducted inside the wooden church until a separate school building was built in 1911 In 1960 a new school was built and the convent was used to accommodate boarding students The school came under lay leadership in 1985 with the appointment of Glen Perkins 54 55 nbsp The flooding in Winton in 1906 broke records Quite at odds with the usual weather complaint was what happened in Winton in 1906 for the problem then was not a dearth of rain but a definite oversupply In March of that year a mailman returning to Longreach from Winton reported very heavy rain that week The rainfall in the area between those two places in the first two months of 1906 was reckoned to be between 14 and 18 inches roughly 356 to 457 mm with consequent overflowing seen in the area s creeks and rivers The Western was far from an exception to this and the photograph at right shows what became of some of the town s buildings 56 In 1909 the telephone reached Winton and by October it had 34 subscribers 57 By May 1911 improvements were being made to the post office to set the telephone exchange apart in its own section because it was becoming a large and important branch Indeed there were then also plans to expand the exchange with the addition of a further switchboard to handle an expected 50 more subscribers 58 Winton Methodist Church opened circa March 1912 59 It was built from timber at a cost of 540 and could seat 160 people Later the building was used by the Winton Christian Fellowship 60 On Sunday 16 August 1914 Winton s townsfolk met at the Shire Hall to form a patriotic committee to recruit volunteers for the military to go and fight in the First World War which had broken out less than three weeks earlier Five hundred and eighteen men and women from Winton and the surrounding district served in that war and their fallen comrades names can now be found on Winton s war memorial on Vindex Street outside the Shire Hall 61 Winton s contribution of personnel to the war effort was proportionally one of Australia s highest and 101 of its townsmen fell in the Great War including a farmhand from nearby Bladensburg Station named Colin Morgan Reade who fell at Gallipoli on 30 May 1915 His story served as a focus during Winton s observance of the centenary of that campaign in 2015 62 In 1916 the North Gregory Hotel burnt down for the second time 63 Between the World Wars edit In 1918 the Royal opened and is still in business today It is an outdoor cinema one of only a few left in Australia 64 nbsp Qantas now the flag carrier airline of Australia was founded in Winton in 1920 Alan Joyce then CEO of Qantas cutting a tape to open a monument to that initial event April 2021 In 1920 a new company was founded Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited now known as Qantas Airways and for a while it was headquartered in Winton 65 In 1925 St Paul s Anglican church burned down 51 66 A new St Paul s church waswas designed by Atkinson Powell amp Conrad and built from timber in 1927 67 In 1927 Winton got electricity 68 This electric light scheme became an accomplished fact in January of that year and by December it had some 160 subscribers As a business it was only breaking even and so it was hoped that there would be more subscribers in the New Year The project s initial cost was 12 000 69 The Prime Minister also came to visit that year On 2 August 1927 Mr Stanley Bruce and his wife landed on a flight from Longreach in Winton The town s chamber of commerce was ready with a deputation who wished to discuss health railway communication links and the export of stud sheep with the Prime Minister thus reflecting the day s issues of local concern The deputation especially protested the stud sheep exports to Africa Mr Bruce told the deputation that his Ministry would not consider banning this practice unless the pastoral industry itself requested such action To that end he suggested that the deputation raise the issue with the pastoralists themselves The Prime Minister left later that day for Hughenden after having spent less than three hours in Winton 70 On 27 February 1928 a famous Australian pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler touched down at Winton on his way from Camooweal to Longreach he also made intermediate stops at Cloncurry and McKinlay 71 Also in 1928 the Central Western railway line reached Winton from Longreach This was the second railway to reach Winton after the line from Hughenden reached town in 1899 The newer line was hailed by one newspaper with the assertion that It will allow capital that has been lying idle to become revenue producing it will provide facilities for the transfer of rolling stock it will provide quicker touch with markets and reduce transport costs and it will insure the graziers and the State against the probable loss of millions of sheep in drought time 72 Despite that reporter s rosy assessment of the boon that the new railway would be to Winton s economy the 1930s brought Winton s wool industry hard times A meeting of the local branch of the Graziers Association of Central and Northern Queensland in 1938 wanted to make known to the general public that for roughly a decade by that time the revenue brought on the market by wool was outstripped by the production cost thus incurring loss The meeting also declared itself in opposition to any plan to register 303 rifles but decided that their use ought to be restricted to those 18 and over 73 The hard times apparently even affected telephone service In 1936 the whole vast region west of Winton all the way to Boulia a distance of roughly 300 km was served by a single party line Winton 101 which was leased from the Winton telephone provider by the Middleton Telephone Company a private company based in Middleton about halfway between Winton and Boulia Only now the line was falling into disrepair with attendant unreliability in the service and there were demands for it to be assumed by the government The foreseen cost of doing this was then said to be 28 000 74 nbsp Elderslie Street about 1930 Clearly visible are the North Gregory Hotel as it looked then and Corfield amp Fitzmaurice General Merchants although by this time both its founders belonged to the town s history Another public service was affected by these hard times namely the ambulance brigade A Mr Charles Holland from Ipswich was the chosen one from among 25 applicants from all over Queensland to become Winton s new superintendent of ambulance services He left Ipswich for Winton on 7 April 1930 75 only to be dismissed a mere six months later owing to the pitiful state of the Winton ambulance committee s finances 76 That same year the Railway Department removed all stationmasters from its line between Winton and Hughenden although the move apparently did not affect the stationmasters at those two towns 77 Work on dismantling a railway track that was to have been part of a considerable inland network was undertaken in 1931 The track only ever reached a short distance west of Winton The work was partly a relief effort with all the workmen involved in the job being drawn from the local unemployed 78 The two working railway links at Winton came in handy in 1932 when track washouts along the Queensland coast forced some travellers to take a long inland detour by way of Winton Winton railway station became very busy 79 On 24 May 1933 which was Empire Day Winton was honoured with a viceregal visit in the person of Sir Leslie Orme Wilson the Governor of Queensland He stayed in town overnight after having arrived by train from Hughenden with his wife Lady Wilson and his entourage and taking part in a civic reception His party left again by train the next morning bound for Longreach 80 On 3 October 1934 a Qantas plane bound for Winton from Longreach the Atlanta in some sources Atalanta 81 82 a de Havilland DH 50 caught fire in the air near its destination and the pilot tried unsuccessfully to make an emergency landing not far west of town before the fire on board set the fuel tank off Complicating matters just then was a dust storm which made for very poor visibility and which later also delayed the sighting of the wreck by searchers The aircraft came down in a ball of fire killing the pilot and his two business passengers one of whom a sandalwood buyer named William McKnoe was from Winton 83 Modern road conditions apparently had yet to come to Winton in 1934 A visiting pastoral company general manager commenting on roads in western Queensland in general said that the roads in the Shire of Cloncurry were the worst in the state but added that among streets in the state s towns Winton s were the worst in Queensland 84 A heatwave struck Winton the next month with temperatures reaching a reported 113 F 45 C on 24 November 85 On 5 August 1938 Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons visited Winton on an extended tour of Queensland the first Prime Minister to visit the town since Stanley Bruce s visit in 1927 The chairman of the Shire Council T J Shanahan had a wish list for the Prime Minister He asked for assistance from both state and federal levels for the wool industry an A class radio station and a railway to the Barclay Tableland which has never been built Further deputations also asked for improvements to Winton s aerodrome and for national highways to be built in western Queensland 86 It was another nine years before Winton s demands for a radio station were met and even then the broadcasts were sent out from Longreach not Winton Nevertheless there was proper wireless service beginning on 19 March 1947 when ABC s transmitter at Longreach came into service 87 Disaster struck Winton s business community in September 1938 when a fire tore through several buildings in the middle of town Destroyed were the Royal Mail Hotel the Olympia Picture Theatre whose projection room was in the hotel a building and a house owned by townsman Stanton Mellick and a building owned by a man named William Thomson who operated a hardware and saddlery shop with his brother James Thomson Some of these buildings contained several businesses The fire broke out in the cinema s spool room and spread quickly Firefighters had to deal with low water pressure due to ongoing repairs The damage caused by the fire was reckoned to be between 17 000 and 18 000 Nobody was injured 88 A new St Patrick s Catholic Church was opened on 8 May 1939 by Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig assisted by Bishop of Rockhampton Romauld Denis Hayes and Bishop of Townsville Hugh Edward Ryan 89 The church building was designed by C D Lynch of Townsville and built by Jerry Rundle of Winton at a cost of 4 735 90 The first church was relocated behind the school 91 Second World War and later 20th century edit In 1939 the Second World War broke out and Australia joined the Allies There was a proposal which met with great enthusiasm in Winton to form a Western Battalion A Colonel Hoad delivered a speech in June on the proposal at the Shire Hall before a big crowd of young men asking them to join up to show their support for the Western Battalion Forty men responded by joining up on the spot 92 In June 1942 a United States Congressman stayed overnight at the North Gregory Hotel in Winton This was an uncommon event in itself especially during the Second World War but it was made all the more so because he and a number of American military personnel including two generals had just survived an emergency landing of The Swoose at Carisbrooke Station about 85 km southwest of Winton and also because the Congressman happened to be Lyndon B Johnson who was later to become President of the United States 93 On 27 June 1946 there was a royal visit as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester came to visit Winton for half an hour 94 nbsp The 1946 North Gregory Hotel fire silhouetted at right is the Corfield amp Fitzmaurice Store nbsp The aftermathOn 7 August 1946 the North Gregory Hotel burnt down for the third time in a fire that also consumed several other nearby businesses Firefighters efforts were supplemented by a bucket brigade but even so the blaze took three hours to quench The damage was set at 30 000 There was no mention of injuries 95 In 1951 Winton held its first rodeo and it was very popular and successful 96 It quickly became a yearly event and three years later 4 700 people came into the town whose population was then about 1 300 for the rodeo There was not enough room for them all at the local hotels and 600 of them slept on stretcher beds brought into town by local graziers There was 1050 in prize money 97 In 1953 a replacement for the North Gregory Hotel this one built of brick not wood was nearing completion The task had been taken on by Winton Shire Council because nobody else could be found who was willing to build the replacement The project s estimated cost was 120 000 As of May that year the Council still had not decided whether to run the hotel itself or to lease it to another operator The hotel was to have amenities that were then quite uncommon in Central West Queensland including air conditioning in the bar the dining room and the lounge 98 The town was seeking to provide other more public amenities in the late 1940s and early 1950s as well including a 100 000 sewerage scheme and a cooling tower for the artesian bore water which came out of the ground quite hot The expenditure of 17 000 on this was essential if the water is to be 100 per cent effective for fire fighting The same 1948 news item that announced these proposals also mentioned a project for a municipal hotel needed after the North Gregory Hotel had burnt down and the foreseen cost for that was between 30 000 and 40 000 There were obviously some cost overruns see above 99 In 1962 some fossilized dinosaur tracks were discovered at a quarry and are now on display at their original site in a climate controlled building at Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways some 110 kilometres 68 mi southwest of Winton 100 On 22 September 1966 there was another aviation disaster near Winton Ansett ANA Flight 149 a Vickers Viscount aircraft had taken off from Mount Isa on a 73 minute flight to Longreach when it ran into trouble 44 minutes into the flight once an engine fire broke out The blaze quickly spread to the fuel tank resulting in part of the left wing breaking away This sealed the aircraft s fate It crashed some 19 kilometres 12 mi west of Winton at Nadjayamba Station killing all 24 people on board 101 The crash site was not very far from where the 1934 Atlanta disaster had happened On the 40th anniversary of the accident in 2006 a memorial was unveiled in the main street of Winton A third St Patrick s Catholic Church was built in 1970 it was a brick church 102 External image nbsp Photograph of memorial in Winton plus 3 photographs of the crash site and 10 of the aircraftIn 1972 73 a new festival began in Winton the Outback Festival This is held every other year in odd numbered years in September and was originally conceived as something that would boost Winton s local economy for the years leading up to the first Outback Festival had been drought years 103 104 In November 1974 Winton got its own television transmitter ABWNQ 8 105 This broadcasts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation s Queensland service based in Brisbane The tower stands about 20 km north of town Another Prime Minister visited Winton in 1979 Malcolm Fraser He used the occasion to make known his government s intention to undertake an urgent inquiry on how to overcome worsening fuel shortages 106 In April 1995 Winton marked the centenary of Waltzing Matilda with a festival Prime Minister Paul Keating and Queensland Premier Wayne Goss showed up for the festivities and among other things they unveiled a statue of Banjo Paterson 107 In 1998 the Waltzing Matilda Centre opened In 1999 a huge Cretaceous sauropod about 95 million years old was unearthed near Winton It was dubbed Elliot 108 21st century edit In 2002 a non profit science initiative named Australian Age of Dinosaurs was established whose aim is to expose Australian dinosaurs at a world class museum One project sought to contain the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways near Opalton inside a climate controlled building to preserve and display them a project that has been accomplished 109 In 2009 three new dinosaur species were given their scientific nomenclature with nicknames in round brackets They are Australovenator wintonensis Banjo Diamantinasaurus matildae Matilda and Wintonotitan wattsi Clancy 108 110 At the 2011 census Winton had a population of 954 111 A cultural disaster struck Winton in June 2015 when the Waltzing Matilda Centre burnt down destroying many artefacts 112 On the night of 17 June 2015 fire broke out in the Waltzing Matilda Centre the building that housed town s information centre and a museum housing a collection of historic artifacts Firefighters arrived within minutes to find the rear of the building engulfed in flames the teams fought desperately to save the front of the building and any artifacts that hadn t already been destroyed Despite all efforts the entire structure was reduced to a smouldering wreck with little evidence of the building ever housing such a unique museum The fire has been deemed unsuspicious and investigators are currently when looking for clues to the cause of the blaze The building was unoccupied at the time of the fire and there were no casualties 113 The rebuilt museum reopened in April 2018 114 In the 2016 census the locality of Winton had a population of 875 people 115 In the 2021 census the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people 7 Geography editWinton lies on the north bank of the Western River a braided river that often runs dry made of many small channels a landform that gives this region the Channel Country its name The Western is joined from the north by Jessamine Creek and Mill s Creek both braided streams Mistake Creek likewise a braided stream empties into the Western from the south The Western itself flows westwards eventually emptying into the Diamantina River at one of only three major confluences on that river This lies some 60 km downstream This puts Winton in the Lake Eyre basin The land in the area is mostly flat grassland which lends itself rather well to pastoral activity an industry of some local importance to this day Winton lies at the junction of the Kennedy Developmental Road and the Landsborough Highway the two of which run concurrently from Winton s south end as far as another junction a few kilometres west of town Possible asteroid strike edit nbsp Map showing the rough extent of the crustal anomaly west of Winton that may be an ancient impact structureMain article Diamantina River ring feature The Diamantina River s hook shaped upper reaches have drawn scientific attention In March 2015 Geoscience Australia reported that the river s course at and near its headwaters flows along the edge of a roughly circular crustal anomaly that might well be an impact structure It is an area as described by Richard Blewett a senior official with Geoscience Australia 130 kilometres 81 mi in diameter characterized by geomagnetic anomalies and Winton lies roughly 60 km beyond its eastern edge The Sydney Morning Herald reported that recent seismic studies undertaken there indicated that long ago an asteroid or comet struck the area releasing energy equivalent to 650 million Hiroshima A bombs and thus roughly 41 zettajoules 116 The asteroid impact has not yet been confirmed but this could be done with core samples from the ground in the central ring structure to a depth of hundreds of metres The impact if indeed this is the explanation for the anomaly would have happened roughly 300 million years ago 117 Dinosaurs edit See also Australian Age of Dinosaurs and Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways The area surrounding the town has yielded a number of dinosaur fossils In 2009 the discoveries near the town of three Early Cretaceous dinosaur genera Australovenator Wintonotitan and Diamantinasaurus were announced Australovenator wintonensis the type specimen of that genus is named after the town The specimens were unearthed at the Matilda site not far northwest of town on Elderslie Station site s position roughly 22 12 S 142 30 E 22 2 S 142 5 E 22 2 142 5 and at the Triangle Paddock Site right nearby 118 119 Another sauropod Savannasaurus was also found in this area along with the as of yet unnamed Elliot 120 The town also lent its name to the geological formation in which the fossils were found the Winton Formation Great Artesian Basin edit Winton is situated on the Great Artesian Basin and draws its water for use in the town This water emerges at 83 to 86 C 181 to 187 F and is cooled in ponds in Corfield to 44 C 111 F before it is circulated through the town Sulphur gas gives the water an eggy smell 121 As of 2018 Winton Shire Council is developing a geothermal power plant to replacing the water cooling process with one that converts the released heat into electricity It is expected to generate 2000 megawatt hours per year 122 123 Street names edit The main streets in the town of Winton were named after the stations lying in the directions in which the streets were running For instance east and west Elderslie Vindex Cork and Dagworth Those facing the north were called Oondooroo Manuka Sesbania and Werna Three of these stations Dagworth Vindex and Oondooroo figure in the Waltzing Matilda story 124 Climate editWinton Post Office Queensland AustraliaClimate chart explanation J F M A M J J A S O N D 83 38 24 87 36 23 54 35 21 22 32 17 20 28 13 18 25 9 15 24 8 6 5 27 10 9 31 13 18 35 18 32 37 21 50 38 23 Average max and min temperatures in C Precipitation totals in mmImperial conversionJFMAMJJASOND 3 3 100 74 3 4 97 73 2 1 95 70 0 9 90 63 0 8 82 55 0 7 76 49 0 6 76 47 0 3 80 49 0 4 88 56 0 7 94 64 1 3 99 70 2 101 73 Average max and min temperatures in F Precipitation totals in inchesWinton like most of Central West Queensland experiences a hot semi arid climate Koppen BSh Trewartha BShl with very hot summers with moderate rains warm to hot springs and autumns with occasional rains and mild dry winters Summer temperatures ranging from 23 to 38 C or 73 4 to 100 4 F while temperatures in the winter season range from 9 to 25 C or 48 2 to 77 0 F Temperatures above 30 C or 86 F can be experienced throughout the year and sweltering temperatures above 40 C or 104 F can be recorded in every month from October to March Rainfall is concentrated in summer and the yearly average is 414 7 millimetres or 16 33 inches however variability is like all of central and western Queensland extreme 125 annual totals above 1 000 millimetres or 40 inches occurred in 1950 1974 and 2000 whereas less than 90 millimetres or 3 5 inches fell in 1905 and 2002 Extremes have ranged from 47 2 C 117 0 F to 1 7 C 28 9 F Climate data for Winton Post Office Queensland Australia 1884 2012 normals and extremes 182 m AMSLMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 45 6 114 1 45 0 113 0 43 3 109 9 39 6 103 3 36 8 98 2 33 9 93 0 34 6 94 3 37 2 99 0 40 2 104 4 44 5 112 1 45 4 113 7 47 2 117 0 47 2 117 0 Mean maximum C F 41 7 107 1 40 6 105 1 38 3 100 9 35 6 96 1 31 6 88 9 28 9 84 0 28 6 83 5 31 4 88 5 35 6 96 1 38 9 102 0 40 9 105 6 42 0 107 6 42 0 107 6 Mean daily maximum C F 37 5 99 5 36 2 97 2 35 0 95 0 32 1 89 8 27 8 82 0 24 6 76 3 24 4 75 9 26 9 80 4 31 0 87 8 34 7 94 5 37 0 98 6 38 2 100 8 32 1 89 8 Daily mean C F 30 5 86 9 29 6 85 3 28 0 82 4 24 7 76 5 20 4 68 7 17 0 62 6 16 3 61 3 18 2 64 8 22 2 72 0 26 3 79 3 29 0 84 2 30 5 86 9 24 4 75 9 Mean daily minimum C F 23 5 74 3 22 9 73 2 21 0 69 8 17 2 63 0 12 9 55 2 9 4 48 9 8 2 46 8 9 5 49 1 13 4 56 1 17 8 64 0 20 9 69 6 22 8 73 0 16 6 61 9 Mean minimum C F 20 2 68 4 20 0 68 0 17 8 64 0 13 9 57 0 8 3 46 9 4 5 40 1 3 3 37 9 4 8 40 6 8 6 47 5 13 3 55 9 16 8 62 2 19 2 66 6 3 3 37 9 Record low C F 12 8 55 0 11 7 53 1 10 9 51 6 7 8 46 0 1 7 35 1 1 7 28 9 1 7 28 9 1 1 30 0 1 1 34 0 5 6 42 1 7 5 45 5 13 9 57 0 1 7 28 9 Average precipitation mm inches 83 2 3 28 87 0 3 43 53 8 2 12 22 3 0 88 20 2 0 80 18 2 0 72 14 7 0 58 6 5 0 26 9 0 0 35 18 1 0 71 31 8 1 25 49 9 1 96 414 7 16 34 Average precipitation days 1 0 mm 5 6 5 3 3 5 1 8 1 5 1 4 1 2 0 8 1 2 2 1 3 0 4 1 31 5Average relative humidity 42 5 48 0 43 5 40 0 44 0 45 5 41 5 34 0 28 5 28 5 28 5 33 5 38 2Average dew point C F 16 3 61 3 17 2 63 0 14 7 58 5 11 3 52 3 8 5 47 3 5 8 42 4 3 5 38 3 2 9 37 2 4 1 39 4 6 7 44 1 9 5 49 1 12 6 54 7 9 4 49 0 Source Australian Bureau of Meteorology 1884 2012 normals and extremes 126 Heritage listings editWinton has a number of heritage listed sites including 63 Elderslie Street Corfield amp Fitzmaurice Store 127 Winton Boulia Road Middleton Elderslie Homestead 128 Education editWinton State School is a government primary and secondary Prep 12 school for boys and girls at 71 Cork Street 22 23 08 S 143 02 19 E 22 3856 S 143 0387 E 22 3856 143 0387 Winton State School 129 130 In 2018 the school had an enrolment of 90 students with 13 teachers 12 full time equivalent and 14 non teaching staff 9 full time equivalent 131 St Patrick s Catholic School is a private primary Prep 6 school at Oondooroo Street 22 23 06 S 143 02 24 E 22 3851 S 143 0399 E 22 3851 143 0399 St Patrick s Catholic School 129 132 Amenities edit nbsp St Pauls Anglican Church Winton 1995 jpgWinton has a range of facilities available to the public including a showground racecourse golf bowls skate park and swimming facilities and a public library 133 The Winton Shire Council Library Service operates a library at 76 Elderslie Street with a High Speed ISDN Internet Connection powered through the National Broadband Network to Brisbane 134 The Winton branch of the Queensland Country Women s Association has its rooms at 47 Vindex Street 135 St Patrick s Catholic Church is at 51 Cork Street 22 23 08 S 143 02 24 E 22 385669 S 143 04 E 22 385669 143 04 St Patrick s Catholic Church 102 St Paul s Anglican Church is at 72 Cork Street 22 23 10 S 143 02 17 E 22 386044 S 143 038 E 22 386044 143 038 St Paul s Anglican Church 67 Winton Christian Fellowship is at 38 Werna Street 22 23 13 S 143 02 13 E 22 386974 S 143 037 E 22 386974 143 037 Methodist Church 60 Winton Airport is located about 5 6 kilometres 3 5 mi northeast of Winton Transport editWinton is situated at the crossroads of the Landsborough Highway and the Kennedy Developmental Road 177 kilometres 110 miles northwest of Longreach 865 kilometres 537 miles northwest of Rockhampton 1 153 kilometres 716 miles northwest of Brisbane and 441 kilometres 274 miles south east of Mount Isa Winton is the terminus of the Central Western Railway Line from Rockhampton and was until 2008 the terminus of the Hughenden Winton railway line which linked Winton to Hughenden on the Great Northern Railway Mount Isa Line Winton is a timetabled stop for the following intercity bus services run by Greyhound Australia GX493 Brisbane Mount Isa GX494 Mount Isa BrisbaneEvents editOutback Festival edit The Outback Festival has been recognised since 1991 winning many Outback Queensland Tourism accolades including the recent 2012 Winner of the Outback Queensland Tourism Awards for Festivals and Events and finalist at the Queensland Regional Achievement and Community Awards 136 The Festival being one of three chosen from over 90 Queensland organizations for the Community of Year Award Featured events include the Quilton Australian Dunny Derby 137 The Outback Century Cycle Challenge is also held over this event period attracting competitors from all over Australia for their one chance in every two years of mastering the outback course 138 The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival edit Since 2014 The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival has been held annually in the town 139 140 141 142 143 144 During the festival a person involved in the Australian film industry is traditionally honoured with a star on Winton s Walk of Fame in Elderslie Street Since the festival s inception Roy Billing Ivan Sen Margaret Pomeranz Butch Lenton Steve Le Marquand and David Gulpilil have all received stars 145 146 147 148 149 Attractions editWinton s visitor centre is located in the Waltzing Matilda Centre The town has a range of museums including the heritage listed former Corfield and Fitzmaurice emporium as well as the heritage truck and machinery museum Waltzing Matilda Centre edit Winton is intimately involved in the story of the popular Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda which had its first performance in the North Gregory Hotel in the town The Waltzing Matilda Centre opened in 1998 and is the first museum dedicated to a song 150 The song was written by Banjo Paterson whilst holidaying at a local property Dagworth Station The music for the song was arranged by Christina Macpherson the sister of the station manager who was visiting at the same time In 2012 to remind Australians of the song s significance Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April the anniversary of its first performance 151 152 Royal Theatre edit The historic Royal Theatre is one of the few remaining open air picture theatres in Australia and home to the World s Largest Deckchair which was originally constructed in Victoria by the Freemasons Taskforce in 2002 and donated to Winton and the Royal Theatre by the members of that taskforce in April 2005 Arno s Wall edit Arno s wall is a strange mixture of art and architecture Cemented contents of the wall include rusted lawnmower parts boat propellers vintage typewriters and sewing machines and even a couple of complete motorbikes A photograph of the wall by Gordon Undy is in the National Library of Australia digital collection 153 In popular culture editThe 2005 film The Proposition was filmed entirely in Winton and the surrounding area The 2013 film Mystery Road was also filmed in Winton and the surrounding area 154 The 2015 film Kirrendirri Lost and Alone is a documentary which interviews descendants of the massacred Aboriginal people 155 156 The 2016 film Goldstone used Winton as a part of their film set 157 The 2019 ABC Series Total Control was filmed partly in and around the Winton area 158 159 The third episode of The Amazing Race Australia 5 was filmed in Winton 160 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Winton Queensland Experience Winton Waltzing Matilda Centre Lark Quarry University of Queensland Queensland Places Winton Outback FestivalReferences edit Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Winton Qld suburb and locality Australian Census 2021 QuickStats Retrieved 28 June 2022 nbsp Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Winton suburb and locality Australian Census 2021 nbsp a b c Climate statistics for Australian locations Winton Airport Australian Bureau of Meteorology Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 Retrieved 14 April 2018 a b Winton town entry 37728 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government Retrieved 27 March 2016 Winton locality entry 49358 Queensland Place Names Queensland Government Retrieved 27 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