Cullen Bullen is located on the Mudgee Road, 168 km north-west of Sydney

Sydney

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, 28 km north of Lithgow

Lithgow, New South Wales

Lithgow is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and is the centre of the local political division City of Lithgow. It is located in a mountain valley named Lithgow's Valley by John Oxley in honour of William Lithgow, the first Auditor-General of New South Wales.Lithgow is...

. At the 2006 census

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, Cullen Bullen had a population of 198 people. The Cullen Bullen village is sustained by local mines and the Mount Piper Power Station.

In the language of the Wiradjuri

Wiradjuri

The Wiradjuri are an Indigenous Australian group of central New South Wales.In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith...

 people, who occupied the district prior to white settlement; the word "cullen bullen" is believed to mean "Lyrebird

Lyrebird

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The first Europe

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an in the area was James Blackman, who was surveying

Surveying

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 a roadway from what is now Wallerawang

Wallerawang, New South Wales

Wallerawang is a small township in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 14 km northwest of Lithgow on the Main Western railway line at the junction of the Gwabegar line. A now closed railway station opened in 1870. Wallerawang Power Station opened in...

 to Mudgee

Mudgee, New South Wales

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, in 1821. Blackman was followed in 1822 by William Lawson and later Allan Cunningham in 1822-23.

Robert Dulhunty

Robert Dulhunty

Robert Venour Dulhunty is chiefly remembered as being the first permanent white settler of what has since become the City of Dubbo, in the rural heartland of the Australian state of New South Wales...

 - the subsequent founder of Dubbo -- took up the first land grant in the area in 1828. He built a homestead on land which now lies on the back road from Cullen Bullen to Portland

Portland, New South Wales

Portland is a town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census, Portland had a population of 1,881 people. The town was named after Australia's first cement works.-Location:...

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