The Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter is located at Kurri Kurri, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
However, the name clashed with a town in New South Wales (now little more than a historic gallery outside Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Region), so the town was renamed Barton in 1905 to honour Australia's first prime minister (1901-1903), Sir Edmund Barton.
The Richmond Vale Railway Museum operates a railway and museum located at Richmond Vale south of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales with the aim of preserving the Richmond Vale railway line and Mining Heritage of J&A Brown and the Hunter Valley.
He was educated at Kurri Kurri State School, Maitland High School, and, for six months, at the NSW Conservatorium of Music in Sydney.
Born in Maitland, New South Wales, Rochow played his junior football for the East Maitland Griffins before graduating to first-grade for the Kurri Kurri Bulldogs.