The outback community that refuses to quit

[bob10]

Living in a dying town: The outback community that refuses to quit

[ian4002000]

I stayed in Ivanhoe a couple of years ago for one night, The caravan park lady was lovely and a really nice person.
I thought there was a prison just south of the town, but maybe i am mistaken or it has closed.
They were doing a lot of roadwork on the road north which was really needed.

Ian
Bittern

[Bigbjorn]

In 1970 when I was at GM-H we had a dealer code for Ivanhoe but no dealer. In those days a town without a Holden dealer was really a nothing place. Consider we had dealers who were not incorporated. sole traders, in places that were little more than a shed and a petrol pump roadside. Ivanhoe in steam train days was a railway town. Railway workers supported the small businesses and their children kept the school going. No steam trains, no employment = steady decline. Collapse of wool and sheep prices combined with droughts caused further decline. Might be kinder to shut a lot of these spots on the map down completely. Muttaburra and a few others in Qld. come to mind. How can a township with a population of 44 justify the govt. and council expenditure needed.