Editing Dunedoo (section)

==History==
Before European settlement Dunedoo and the surrounding area was occupied by the [[Gamilaroi]] and [[Wiradjuri]] peoples. 
[[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]] was the first British explorer to discover the area in 1823 while travelling [[Pandoras Pass, New South Wales|Pandoras Pass]] over the [[Warrumbungles|Warrumbungle]] ranges to the Liverpool Plains. Surveyors studied the area in 1832 followed by squatters who settled the region.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dunedoo Tourism | work=Coolah District Telecentre | url=http://www.coolahddg.com.au/dunedoo.htm | access-date=2006-04-24 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311034012/http://www.coolahddg.com.au/dunedoo.htm | archive-date=2005-03-11 }}</ref> The town was founded somewhere in the 1840s and was originally known as Bolaro and later as Redbank. Dunedoo remained a small village throughout the 19th century and the nearby town of [[Cobbora]] was considered to be the regional centre for many years. However, Dunedoo's population grew substantially after the construction of the [[Gwabegar railway line]] and the opening of passenger services in 1910.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dunedoo Railway Station| work=NSWRail.net | url=http://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?state=NSW&location=dunedoo | access-date=2006-04-24}}</ref>
''Bolaro'' Post Office opened on 1 November 1876 and was renamed ''Dunedoo'' in 1909.<ref name = "Post Office">{{Cite web  | last = Phoenix Auctions History  | title = Post Office List  | publisher = Phoenixl Auctions  | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=*Dunedoo*  | access-date = 8 February 2021}}</ref>

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The first half of the 20th century saw many of Dunedoo's residents fighting in both the [[World War I|first]] and [[World War II|second world wars]], documented by the war memorial currently found in the town's park. The gradual loss of railway services in western NSW affected Dunedoo in the 1960s with the loss of passenger railway services, however freight trains still commonly use the line. Other services, such as the village's cinema, have also been lost over time.

In 2002, Dunedoo appeared in an [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] documentary entitled "A Loo with a View".<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/stories/s647044.htm A Loo with a View] documentary page at the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]</ref> Dunedoo is currently{{when|date=June 2018}} suffering the fate of many small regional towns of NSW in that its population is gradually decreasing. Many locals fear that the town will eventually be deserted and thus many creative ideas have been floated as possible methods of reversing the current trend. The Dunedoo District Development Group had proposed to build "The Big Dunny" in the hope of attracting tourists, as the [[Big Banana]] does for [[Coffs Harbour]] and [[Australia's Big Things|big things]] in other parts of Australia.  The documentary centred on "The Big Dunny" proposal, it was to have been a three-storey high building featuring five-star toilets, visitor centre, viewing platform, and even a radio station.  Local shire councillor and farmer Frank Gaden was against it, reckoning it would be an embarrassment.  Feasibility consultant Ian Farlow concluded it would, unfortunately, attract only 30 visitors a day which would not be enough to make it worthwhile, and proposed instead an environmentally friendly self-composting toilet block.  The council decided against the latter and in the end nothing was built.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/06/1028157932078.html |title=Big Dunny plans go down the toilet |work=[[The Age]] |date=8 August 2002 |format=Film review }}</ref>

2005 saw the town incorporated into the newly created Warrumbungle Shire, formed from the previous [[Coolah Shire|Coolah]] and [[Coonabarabran Shire]]s. The town was briefly divided over the prospect of joining [[Coonabarabran Shire]] with many preferring the town be incorporated into the Mudgee-based [[Mid-Western Regional Council]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Dunedoo divided over council merger| work=ABC News Online | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/neweng/200408/s1172854.htm| access-date=2006-04-24}}</ref>