Lowesdale is a town community in

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in the central south part of the

Riverina The Riverina () is an agricultural list of regions in Australia, region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, a climate with significant seaso ...

and situated about 2 kilometres north of

Buraja Buraja ( ) is a town community in the central-south part of the Riverina. It is about east of Berrigan on the Riverina Highway. The Aboriginal name Buraja means ‘a swamp with young trees growing.’ When people settled in the Buraja distric ...

and 92 kilometres east of Berrigan on the

Riverina Highway Riverina Highway is a -long state highway located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The road was constructed over several decades with final asphalt concrete sealing completed during the 1960s. Route The eastern terminus o ...

. At the 2021 census, Lowesdale had a population of 100. Lowesdale Post Office opened on 1 August 1876 and closed in 1994.

Sport and recreation

In 1915, the small community of Lowesdale entered two football teams in the Coreen & District Football Association, Lowesdale FC and the Lowesdale Military FC who went onto win the 1915 premiership. Both teams went into recess in 1916 due to WW1 and neither team was ever re-established.

Notes and references

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