Tamworth Regional Council

It was the Kamilaroi people – one of the four largest indigenous nations in Australia – who first inhabited the area and have for thousands of years. Glimpses of that incredible history is recorded in rock art preserved across the region, and the Gamilaraay language can be recognised today in place names including Barraba (“a place of many yellow jacket or box trees”), Manilla (“winding river”), Calala (“a place of battle” or “a winding river”) and Goonoo Goonoo (“running water over rocks in times of drought”).

Tamworth Regional Council is one of the biggest in inland NSW with a growing population of over 60,000 spread over an area three times as large as the Sydney Basin. Most of the region’s population lives within the city of Tamworth, with the balance residing in the townships of Manilla, Barraba, Kootingal, Nundle, and the villages of Attunga, Bendemeer, Dungowan, Duri, Moonbi, Somerton, Woolbrook and Woolomin, and various rural localities.