Cooee is a small town on the north-west coast of

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immediately west of

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, to which it is in effect a dormitory suburb. At the 2011 census, Cooee had a population of 559. The Burnie GP Super Clinic is located in Cooee as well as a pharmacy and North West Pathology.

History

Cooee Creek Post Office opened on 1 April 1906 and was renamed ''Cooee'' in 1912. During the 1970s it promoted its "Golden Mile" of new and used car lots and service stations. One of Burnie's two state schools is situated on its western edge.

Community

Coastal pathway

The development of a coastal pathway will connect Cooee and

to Wynyard and Latrobe as part of a State Government initiative to upgrade infrastructure on the northwest coast of Tasmania.

Education

* Cooee Primary School * Burnie High School, established 1916

Sport

The Cooee Bulldogs and Burnie Tigers joined the North Western Football Association in the 1940s. They merged in the 1980s and become the Burnie Hawks. They merged again in 1995 to become the

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In 2007 the merged club Burnie-Cooee was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame.

Notable people

* Harold Dowling Games Record Holder – Cooee F.C. was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2008. * Joshua Thomas Hoskins Whitsitt – Politician MHR 1909–22 * Hon. Ron Cornish – Politician ( Liberal); Former member of the

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for Braddon *

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– Politician ( ALP); Member of the

for the Braddon * Alastair Lynch –

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* Frank Neasey –

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of the

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*Ian Rist – National and Commonwealth Clay Target Shooting Champion. Australian International Shooting Team member 1975.

Notes and references

External links

Cooee PrimaryBurnie High SchoolBurnie GP Super ClinicNorth west PathologyBurnie Football Club official site
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