Mooball, New South Wales

Mooball (pronounced Moo - Bul)[1] is a locality in the Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia and it is on the lands of the Bundjalung people who are its traditional owners.

[3][4] The Northern Rivers Rail Trail passes through the town and it is nearby to the Mooball National Park.

[1][5] The name of the town is from the Bandjalung-Yugambeh dialect chain word 'mobool', which is the name of the cane of a lawyer vine.

[6] In 2016, an unusually high number of cancer cases in residents of Mooball raised concerns about whether there were radioactive elements introduced through a local sand mining business.

[7] Thanks to its rural setting, Mooball is a popular tourist destination due to the cow themed decorations throughout the town; these decorations include black and white cow prints painted on electricity poles throughout.