Goodar, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
Goodar is a rural locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Goodar had a population of 101 people.
Geography
The locality is bounded by the Barwon Highway to the south.
The Umbercollie State Forest is in the west of the locality.
The South Western railway line enters the locality from the south-east (Goondiwindi) and exits to the south-west (Toobeah).
The land use is a mixture of dry and irrigated crop growing along with grazing on native vegetation.
History
The locality takes its name from a pastoral run held from 1847 by James Mark, transferred to Edward Gostwyk Cory in August 1849.
The James Mark killings
James Mark was infamous due to a campaign of slaughter he perpetrated on the local Aboriginal population in the late 1840s. He first occupied the Yallaroi run to the south of the Macintyre River but was forced to abandon it due to Aboriginal resistance. In 1847 he took up the Goodar run, where he was described by neighbouring colonists as a hater of all Aboriginals and would shoot any he saw.
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