The town name Gin Gin has sometimes been said to derive from a local Aboriginal word indicating "red soil thick scrub".
gin is actually a word [in] our own language, our own lingo and it means a woman," she said. "But it has been taken and used in a very derogatory way to describe us women who are black.
The Shire of Gingin formally recognises the Yued Nyoongar People as an important stakeholder in the development and progression of the Shire.
The station was sold, although exactly when is unknown, to Arthur and Alfred Brown who renamed it Gingin, either because they came from Gingin in Western Australia, or from the Indigenous word chin chin meaning “thick scrub”.
Gin Gin must be one of the only towns in Australia that can link bushrangers, thick scrub, red soil and barramundi together through its unique and varied history and landscape.
Origin of Name
No one is sure what Gingin means but the popular interpretations are either "footprint" or "place of many streams".
Gingin was one of the earliest settled areas in the State, with explorers and pioneers arriving in 1831, only two years after the Swan River Colony was proclaimed. Since its foundation, the town has grown and prospered whilst retaining the charm and appeal of an English village.
Pour gin, lime juice and sugar syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake well. Strain into a ice-filled hi-ball glass.
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This modern classic is named after the Western Australian town of Gingin, and absolutely does this wide brown land proud. With only the best locally sourced ingredients making their way into each run, Gingin Gin features heady juniper notes, a citrus finish with an elderflower and bergamot nose.
The earliest settlers were the Lawson brothers who had two holdings named 'Walcha' and 'Moona'. The settlement was initially known as 'Walcha Hut' but this changed to 'Fishery' and finally to 'Brewarrina'. * In 1849 up to 400 Aborigines were killed in the Hospital Creek Massacre.
The Wiradjuri are the largest Aboriginal group in central New South Wales, by area and population, and second largest in Australia, with lands stretching east from the Great Dividing Range, to Hay and Nyngan in the west, Gunnedah to the north and Albury to the south.
The population estimate for Shire of Gingin as of the 30th June 2021 is 5,751. Since the previous year, the population has grown by 2.31%.
Distilling and selling gin was a means to an end: drunkenness. A balm for the souls of London's impoverished lower class, gin was also the fuel for crime and violence. Gin quickly and uniquely became associated with poverty, extreme drunkenness, madness, death and inferiority.
The idiom gin something up means to increase something, to get something going, to stir something up, to agitate or perhaps make a little trouble, sometimes through less than honest means.
The Mimi are tall, thin beings that live in the rocky ridges of northern Australia as spirits. Before the coming of Aboriginal people they had human forms. When Aboriginal people first came to northern Australia, the Mimi taught them how to hunt and cook kangaroos and other animals.
The New Moonta Mine is an abandoned underground copper, gold and silver mine. The New Moonta Mine just off the Gin Gin Mount Perry Road in Queensland is a mine about 300km north-northwest of Brisbane (show me). The New Moonta Mine is at an altitude of approximately 168m.
Visitors can explore the natural rural countryside and fields of sugarcane with vineyards and olive groves emerging as new horticultural industries. Gin Gin's main street is peaceful and picturesque but drive a little further, explore a little more and there is adventure to be had.
It has been described as the 1 in 500 year flood. Whilst our business remained high and dry we were gutted to see so many friends whose businesses and homes where destroyed. Gin Gin alone had approximately 100 homes that were inundated.
The name of the beverage comes from the French name for the juniper berry, genièvre, altered by the Dutch to genever and shortened by the English to gin.
The Gin Act 1736 taxed retail sales at a rate of 20 shillings a gallon on spirits and required licensees to take out a £50 annual licence to sell gin, a fee equivalent to about £8,000 today. The aim was to effectively prohibit the trade by making it economically unfeasible.
Politicians and religious leaders argued that gin drinking encouraged laziness and criminal behavior. In 1729, Parliament passed a Gin Act which increased the retail tax to 5 shillings per gallon. With the Gin Act 1736 the government imposed a high license fee for gin retailers and a 20 shillings retail tax per gallon.
The town name Gin Gin has sometimes been said to derive from a local Aboriginal word indicating "red soil thick scrub".
There are many stories about the origins of gin and how it was created. It is rumoured that the origins of this classic beverage can be traced back as far as the 11th century where it was used as medicine.