Category: Swimming Pools
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Tragic death leads to small town Olympic swimming pool | The Pool
After the tragic drowning of a 12-year-old girl in a local swimming hole in the early 1950s, the town of Portland decided to act. The local cement works donated a parcel of land and a huge supply of equipment to quickly construct a local swimming pool to ensure families had a safe place to swim.…
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Saving the pool to save the community | The Pool
Heywire winner Lauren Paynter, Nyah, Vic Across Australia, small towns are dying out. Unfortunately, so is mine. But when my local pool, the community hub for so many, was under threat of closure, I knew I had to do something. I still remember the first time I touched the bottom of the deep end and…
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago. Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.
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The ladies chain baths of the Illawarra | The Pool
By 1840’s the Ladies Chain Baths were a significant local tourist attraction in the Illawarra and a common subject on early twentieth-century postcards of Wollongong.
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How Billabong is Australia’s Original and Oldest Pool  | The Pool
The billabong is the keeper of Australian’s ancestral stories. Its freshwater has helped sustain indigenous culture to this day. Billabongs are made where the rivers part. They fill seasonally, breathing life into Australia’s arid landscape. Rivers have found wound their way across the country for countless millions of years and when the river changes course it leaves behind a billabong. It’s still connected…
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Travel blogger Simon Duffin’s top four Australian ocean pools | The Pool
If you’re looking for your next Australian summer holiday destination, you might consider somewhere cool, blue and emotionally buoyant. Blogger Simon Duffin lists his top four Australian ocean pools.
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Olympic family on how pool passion keeps them together | The Pool
You don’t get much more royal when it comes to swimming than Wollongong locals the McKeons. While Emma has won multiple Olympic medals, brother David, father Ron and mum Susie all have Olympic connections.