Annuello

Annuello is a rural locality 32 km south of Robinvale in the north-west of Victoria. The name is thought to have been derived from an Aboriginal word for a camp of bearded men.

In the early 1920s the Annuello district was subdivided into ‘green’ mallee blocks for soldier settlement. Almost without exception the dry farm blocks were too small and many farmers fell into debt. Wheat, sheep and small amounts of subsistence dairying were the main activities. By the late 1920s farmers were driven to ‘wheat flogging’, bypassing marketing schemes to secure private income.