Woolgoolga New South Wales Australia (information, attractions, photos, links)

Woolgoolga
Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia

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Woolgoolga or 'Woopi' as it is known to the locals, is a town on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 25km north of Coffs Harbour. It is on the Pacific Highway and has a popular beach on the Pacific Ocean. Woolgoolga has long been a centre of banana growing in New South Wales, but this industry has declined in the face of competition from Queensland and overseas.

Woolgoolga was an early centre of Sikh migration to Australia and about 50% of its population is said to be Sikh. Sikhs had migrated to New South Wales and Queensland prior to the imposition of the prohibition of non-European migration under the White Australia Policy in 1901 and many of them then led a marginalised life on the North Coast of New South Wales and in south-eastern Queensland. Some Sikhs began to settle in Woolgoolga during World War II, because war-time labour shortages led to a relaxation of the previous prohibition of non-European labour in the banana industry. After the war they were able to acquire leasehold and freehold banana plantations. They are now said to own nearly 90% of the banana farms in the area.

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