It was closed in 1946 due to frequent flooding of the area, and the UAM opened the Gerard Mission near Loxton.

Some residents were transferred to the new mission,[3] but some, including the parents of singer-songwriter Ruby Hunter, moved elsewhere for work.

The tourist boat Proud Mary and paddle-wheeler PS Murray Princess stop at the town once a week.

Tourism, agriculture and irrigated horticulture are the main industries, and there is a large almond processing plant 1.5 km from town on the Stott Highway.

[6] A multi-million-dollar joint project between Silentium Defence and the Western Sydney University to build a space domain awareness observatory to monitor satellites and other objects orbiting the Earth was announced in June 2020.