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Truganina
Truganina is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melton and Wyndham local government areas. Truganina recorded a population of 36,305 at the 2021 census. The suburb is believed to be named after Truganini, who is generally accepted as the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, as she had visited the area for a short time. Truganina is a rapidly growing suburban area, with Truganina recording a population of 20,687 at the . It is bordered roughly by the Skeleton-Waterholes Creek to the west; Boundary Road to the north; Foundation to the east and the Federation Trail to the south. It is home to the football club of Western United. Truganina is one of the key industrial precincts of the City of Wyndham and the key industries are manufacturing and logistics. History Truganina Post Office opened on 12 June 1878, closed in 1895, reopened in 1902 and closed again in 1942. The nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarneit, Victoria
Tarneit () is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Tarneit recorded a population of 56,370 at the 2021 census. Located near another emerging suburb, Truganina, Tarneit is estimated to increase to a population of over 63,000 by 2031. , Forecast.id. Retrieved 15 September 2010 History Settlement of the area dates to the 1830s when Tarneit was used as agricultural grazing land. Tarneit was named when it was surveyed in 1839–1840 and comes from the Wathawurrung language, Wathaurong word for the colour white. The road network was largely planned in a square mile grid patt ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarneit Plains, Victoria
Tarneit Plains is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melton local government area. History Tarneit Plains is located in the Kulin nation, traditional Aboriginal country. The Wathaurong and Woiwurrung people are local custodians within the Kulin nation. The suburb was gazetted and approved by the Victorian government in 2017. Prior to the suburb's creation, the area was part of Truganina. The City of Melton had retained the postcode A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or numerical digit, digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, includ ... for Tarneit Plains. References Suburbs of Melbourne City of Melton {{melbourne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Landing, Victoria
Williams Landing is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Williams Landing recorded a population of 9,448 at the 2021 census. Williams Landing is rapidly growing and will continue to grow rapidly in the next several years. The first stage of Williams Landing, that of the ''Wyndham Waters'' estate along Sayers Road to the north of the suburb, adjacent to Truganina was developed first. The Williams Landing suburb development is forecast to continue development until 2030. Williams Landing is being developed into a Transit-oriented development, major activity and employment centre. The suburb is next to the Williams Landing railway station, just across from the Princes Freeway and for residents of Point Cook, it is accessed via Palmers Road. Construction of Williams Landing commenced in early 2008 and is due to be completed by 2030. Since the Williams Landing r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Atkinson, Victoria
Mount Atkinson is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, northwest of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melton local government area. History Mount Atkinson is situated in the Kulin nation traditional Aboriginal country. The Wathaurong and Woiwurrung people are local custodians within the Kulin nation. The suburb was gazetted and approved by the Victorian Government in 2017. Before its inception, the area was a part of Rockbank, Truganina and Mount Cottrell. Development Development in Mount Atkinson would include residential, educational facilities, a town centre, retail, parks and recreation, integrated industrial park, business precinct and a railway station. City of Melton has retained the postcode for Mount Atkinson. Mt. Atkinson, Olivia and Grandview are the three housing estates in Mount Atkinson, and the largest of them is Mt. Atkinson by Stockland. Mt. Atkinson estate includes proposed facilities for the suburb, such as: Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenhall, Victoria
Ravenhall is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melton local government area. Ravenhall recorded a population of 2,295 at the 2021 census. An outer suburban locality that adjoins the Melbourne metropolitan area, Ravenhall is located south of the Western Freeway and the suburb of Caroline Springs. To the east, outside the City of Melton boundary is the Melbourne suburb of Deer Park. The locality is named after the Ravenhall Munitions Siding, established during World War II. Ravenhall siding was named after George E Ravenhall, a Commonwealth public servant of 46 years in the Defence Department, the Munitions Department and then executive officer of the dangerous cargoes movements section, Department of Supply and Shipping. The nearest railway station to Ravenhall is , located on Christies Road. As part of the Regional Rail Link project a bridge was built over the railway line on Christies Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Wyndham
The City of Wyndham is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-western suburbs of Melbourne, within the Melbourne Metropolitan Area, between Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong. It has an area of . The city had a population of 255,322 in June 2018. For the year to 2018 the City of Wyndham increased its population by 14,251, the largest number of any LGA in Victoria, as well as being the second most populous and the second fastest growing at a rate of 5.9 per cent. History The Wyndham District was first incorporated as a local government entity on 6 October 1862. Under changes made to Local Government legislation, it became the Shire of Wyndham on 7 March 1864 and was renamed the Shire of Werribee on 15 December 1909. Accessed at State Library of VictoriaLa Trobe Reading Room. With an initial size of and being largely rural in character, the shire ceded land to metropolitan Melbourne as suburban development encroached. On 6 January 1922 and 5 Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoppers Crossing, Victoria
Hoppers Crossing is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Hoppers Crossing recorded a population of 37,216 at the 2021 census. Located on the urban fringe, from the Princes Highway to the growing suburbs of Tarneit and Truganina, Hoppers Crossing stretches northwards. History Hoppers Crossing is a suburb in the Wyndham area, an area rich and diverse in its Aboriginal history which was inhabited by the Boonwurrung and Wathaurong People who belong to the Kulin Nation. There are five different language groups in the Kulin Nation that are particular to this region. These groups operated within their own tribal boundaries. However, with the shifting of natural boundaries over the years and the growth of Australia’s population, the old tribal boundaries are not so widely known. The collective traditional territory for the tribes of the Kulin Nation extends ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derrimut, Victoria
Derrimut is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank Local government area. Derrimut recorded a population of 8,651 at the 2021 census. Located on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people, of the Kulin Nation, Derrimut is bounded by Foleys Road to the north, Robinsons Road to the west, the Western Ring Road to the east and Boundary Road to the south. Derrimut is a newly developed suburb in Melbourne. It is named after Derrimut, a nineteenth-century Aboriginal Elder. Derrimut Post Office opened on 1 June 1866 in the rural area, but closed in 1918. The area was home to the "Mount Derrimut" field station of the University of Melbourne from 1964 to 199 It focused on agriculture. The site was also used by the Victoria University Victoria University, Melbourne, Western Institute to deliver courses in the late 1980s and early 1990s where students from all around Melbourne come together to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western United FC
Western United Football Club is an Australian professional football club. The club is based in the western Melbourne suburb of Truganina, the club aims to represent western Victoria, incorporating the western suburbs of Melbourne; the regional cities of Ballarat, Bendigo, and Geelong; and regional and country towns in western Victoria. The club was first established as part of an expansion process in the country's premier football competition, the A-League. It began playing in the 2019–20 A-League season, under licence from Football Australia (FA). Western United currently play home matches at AAMI Park in Melbourne, Mars Stadium in Ballarat and University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston, though plan to permanently relocate matches to Wyndham City Stadium, a soccer-specific stadium in Tarneit, Wyndham. History Origins In August 2018, the Western Melbourne Group was one of the eight teams that the FFA had accepted in the official bidding phase, as pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laverton North, Victoria
Laverton North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Laverton North recorded a population of 119 at the 2021 census. Located on the rural-urban fringe, Laverton North is bounded by Boundary Road to the north, Derrimut Road and the Federation Trail to the west, Old Geelong Road and the West Gate Freeway to the south and Kororoit Creek to the east. It is predominantly an industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spr .... Demographics In the 2011 census, 69.23% were born in Australia, 9.89% New Zealand, 4.4% Malta, 3.3% United Kingdom and 13.18% in other countries. 50.55% claimed Christianity, 30.77% claimed other or no religion, 3.3% Buddhism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Melton
The City of Melton is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, on Melbourne's western rural–urban fringe. It covers , and in June 2018, Melton had population of 156,713. It is governed by the Melton City Council. The seat of local government and administrative offices are located at Council headquarters in Melton, the settlement after which the city takes its name which lies at the western end of the LGA and is currently its largest urban area with a population of over 54,000. City of Melton has a rapid population growth rate, ranked 3rd fastest among LGAs in Victoria in 2010. It was granted city status in 2012. History Melton was first incorporated as a district on 16 September 1862, and became a shire on 24 May 1871. Parts of the north and south ridings of the Shire of Braybrook (later City of Sunshine) were annexed to Melton as the Rockbank Riding on 24 May 1916, and this was added to in 1951. Other minor boundary adjustments with Bulla and Keilor occurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Cottrell, Victoria
Mount Cottrell is a town in Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melton and Wyndham local government areas. Mount Cottrell recorded a population of 496 at the 2021 census. It is named after Anthony Cottrell, a member of the Port Phillip association who was allotted the land by the company in about 1835–36. The original "No.10" hut was located about 1.5 km north of the Mount Cottrell summit. The town of Mount Cottrell consists of mainly privately owned open land. The town is named after the 200m high mountain it encompasses, Mount Cottrell, the most massive of the Werribee Plains volcanoes, a volcanic cone formed by the radial eruption of numerous lava tongues. The mountain was purchased by Melton Council in 2007 to preserve the significant geological and flora and fauna values on the site. Mount Cottrell Post Office opened on 1 January 1866, closed in 1895, reopened in 1902 and closed again in 1958. Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
