Opinion

Editorial: One hundred years of mining solitude

Derek Barry
Updated January 15 2021 - 12:09pm, first published 11:59am
Mount Isa turns 100 years old in 2023.
Mount Isa turns 100 years old in 2023.

Europeans have been in Australia for less than 250 years so there are no ancient settlements outside of the Indigenous context. But even by European standards, Mount Isa is a very new settlement and did not exists on maps produced around the time of the First World War.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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