Kincumber, New South Wales

Kincumber is a south-eastern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, nested between the Kincumba Mountain Reserve and the local waterway and located 91 kilometres (57 mi) north of Sydney via the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (F3). It is part of the City of Gosford local government area.

A nature reserve, Kincumba Mountain, is located within the suburb and is often used by the community for various functions, including picnicking, bush-walking, orienteering, parties, and carnivals.

History

The name stems from the local Aboriginal name of "Kincumba" meaning "towards the rising sun" or "to tomorrow".^[2] A large open flat rock area at the highest plateau of Kincumba Mountain, which commands panoramic views of the region, was used by Kuringgai people as a meeting place and camp. Being the highest open position in the region, it was first to receive the morning sun as it broke over the eastern horizon Tasman Sea/Pacific Ocean, and so this area was also referred to as "towards tomorrow". Signs of habitation in the Kincumber area include axe-grinding grooves and rock engravings on Kincumba Mountain. Due to the freshwater creek, water access from Brisbane Water and the Hawkesbury River, and an abundance of old rainforest timber in the surrounding valley hills, Kincumber was one of the earliest settlements on the Central Coast, supplying wood for the needs of the growing colony at Sydney in the early 19th century.

Boat building became an early local secondary industry after timber-getting, to meet the primary necessity of water transport. Boat-building along Kincumber Creek in Kincumber continued until the early 21st century.

Kincumber Was once home to a Monazite processing plant that processed mineral sands that were mined in the local area, The plant was operated on the edge of Kincumber industrial estate, and backed on to Kincumber creek, the site "lot500" now abandoned still retains higher than average levels of radiation and has been deemed unsafe for development.^[3]

In the mid 1980s there was no local shopping center, and by the late 1980s the local shopping center was funded by a former world tennis player John Newcombe.The 1980s also brought infamy to Kincumber, as the town made international headlines for the mistreatment of Eve van Grafhorst, a girl who contracted HIV through an infected blood transfusion, which was her last of eleven after being born prematurely. Grafhorst and her family eventually were forced to move to Hastings, New Zealand by the people of the town, after Grafhorst bit a child at kindergarten and wasn't allowed to return unless she wore a face mask in 1985. Soon after, the family were told by the Gosford City Council and childcare centre head: "Withdraw your daughter from kindergarten or we will go public with the fact she has HIV". Grafhorst and her family lived a relatively normal life in Hastings, where she was even allowed to attend school. Eve Van Grofhorst eventually would lose her fight to the disease, aged only eleven in 1993.^[4]

Facilities

Kincumber has a high school, primary school, shopping centre, Postal Office with surf shop, library, and hotel and fast food outlets.

Politics

At a federal level, Kincumber is within the Division of Robertson. Previously held on a safe margin by Jim Lloyd of the Liberal Party, the seat changed hands in the 2007 Federal Election, and was held by the Australian Labor Party's Belinda Neal. In 2010 the seat was won by Labour member Deborah O'Neill.^[5]

In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Kincumber is within the electorate of Terrigal, currently held by Chris Hartcher of the Liberal Party.

Polling place statistics are presented below combining the votes from the Kincumber, Kincumber Central and Scaysbrook polling places in the federal and state elections as indicated.

2007 Federal Election Source: AEC
	Liberal	47.1%
	Labor	42.8%
	Greens	6.06%
	CDP	2.12%
	One Nation	1.00%

2004 Federal Election Source: AEC
	Liberal	56.1%
	Labor	34.3%
	Greens	7.00%
	Family First	1.31%
	One Nation	1.16%

2001 Federal Election Source: AEC
	Liberal	51.6%
	Labor	33.5%
	Democrats	3.23%
	One Nation	2.83%
	Independent	2.81%

2007 State Election Source: ECNSW
	Liberal	47.5%
	Labor	38.5%
	Greens	7.02%
	CDP	3.02%
	AAFI	1.95%

2003 State Election Source: ECNSW
	Labor	45.9%
	Liberal	45.6%
	Greens	5.43%
	SOS	1.61%
	Democrats	1.07%

1999 State Election Source: ECNSW
	Liberal	42.1%
	Labor	41.0%
	One Nation	6.71%
	Democrats	3.57%
	CDP	2.82%

References

↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Kincumber (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
↑ Gosford City Library. "Placenames". Retrieved 21 July 2007.
↑ Unwin, Greg L (1989), "Decommissioning of a mineral processing facility in an urban environment", Australian Mining Industry Council. Environmental Workshop. Proceedings 1 (1989): 188–196, retrieved 15 February 2012 .
↑ Hunt, Tom. "Remembering Eve's fight against HIV". Stuff.co.nz. The Dominion Post. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
↑ Australian Broadcasting Corporation (21 December 2007). "Robertson (Key Seat) - Green Guide". Retrieved 29 January 2008.

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Coordinates: 33°27′54″S 151°23′35″E / 33.465°S 151.393°E / -33.465; 151.393

Suburbs of the City of Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales

Towns, suburbs and localities	Avoca Beach Bar Point Bensville Blackwall Booker Bay Bouddi Box Head Calga Central Mangrove Cheero Point Cogra Bay Copacabana Daleys Point Davistown East Gosford Empire Bay Erina Erina Heights Ettalong Beach Forresters Beach Glenworth Valley Gosford Green Point Greengrove Gunderman Hardys Bay Holgate Horsfield Bay Kariong Killcare Killcare Heights Kincumber Kincumber South Koolewong Kulnura Lisarow Little Wobby Lower Mangrove MacMasters Beach Mangrove Creek Mangrove Mountain Marlow Matcham Mooney Mooney Mooney Mooney Creek Mount Elliot Mount White Narara Niagara Park North Avoca North Gosford Patonga Pearl Beach Peats Ridge Phegans Bay Picketts Valley Point Clare Point Frederick Pretty Beach St Huberts Island Saratoga Somersby Spencer Springfield Tascott Terrigal Umina Beach Upper Mangrove Wagstaffe Wamberal Wendoree Park West Gosford Wisemans Ferry Wondabyne Woy Woy Woy Woy Bay Wyoming Yattalunga

Rivers and other waterways	Brisbane Water Erina Creek Ettalong Creek Forresters Creek Kincumber Creek Mangrove Creek Mooney Mooney Creek Mullet Creek Terrigal Lagoon Wamberal Lagoon Woy Woy Creek

National parks	Bouddi Brisbane Water Dharug

Other places and points of interest	Central Coast Stadium Central Coast Highway Erina Fair Sydney–Newcastle Freeway Watagan Mountains

List of Central Coast, New South Wales suburbs

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