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Briagolong
Briagolong is a town in the Australian state of Victoria, located 20 kilometres north of Maffra and some 238 kilometres east of Melbourne, in the Shire of Wellington region of Gippsland. At the 2016 census, Briagolong had a population of 1,081. History Briagolong Post Office opened on 1 May 1871. The Briagolong Hotel, which serves meals and drinks, dates to 1874. The town's principal industry has been timber, and it supplied red gum paving blocks for the streets of Melbourne, and stringybark for the flooring in Australia House in London. A railway branch line from Maffra opened in 1889 and was closed in 1952. Briagolong was the home town of Private Jake Kovco, Australia's first military casualty in the Iraq War. Private Kovco's funeral was held in Briagolong on 2 May 2006, and was attended by Prime Minister John Howard, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson, Defence Force Chief Angus Houston and Army Chief Peter Leahy. The town's local cricket team (the Saints) were crowned S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briagolong Railway Line
The Briagolong railway line is a closed railway line in Victoria, Australia, which ran from to . It opened in 1889 as a branch of the Maffra railway line, and was closed in 1952. History Before line construction (1872-1889) In July 1872, a request was made to the local shire president that a meeting be held on the prospect of a rail line to Briagolong, with a petition organised by Michael Feely and Michael Landy of Stratford, along with Briagolong residents. In around 1877, the Railway League was making calls for a railway line from to , passing through , Stratford and Briagolong. December 1880 saw a public event held in Briagolong, headed by Landy, to hear the opinions of local residents, preceding a banquet to be held in Maffra. The railway minister, Thomas Bent, visited Briagolong on 22 October 1881 and, according to the recollections of Marjorie Kelly, was "happy to grant Briagolong its railway". There was much debate over where the line was to originate — in Maffra o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Gippsland Football League
The East Gippsland Football League is an Australian rules football League in the East Gippsland region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. History The East Gippsland FL in its present incarnation began in 1974 with the merger of the Gippsland Football League and the Bairnsdale District Football League. The league has had a number of clubs fold, merge, leave and return over its history, due partly to changing economic circumstances in the area, with areas such as Orbost losing large amounts of their population. At one stage in the 1980s, the league divided its clubs into two divisions, due to a desire to avoid weekly 40-goal drubbings for the weaker clubs. In 1984 the league had two divisions of five clubs each, both divisions having a club with a bye every week, this move enabling the league to save costs on umpiring. However, in 1985 Wy Yung got promoted to first division, so the league then had six and four. The second division broke away in 1986 to form the Rivier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boisdale, Victoria
Boisdale is a town in the Central Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, located on Briagolong Road, north of Maffra, in the Shire of Wellington. At the 2016 census, Boisdale and the surrounding area had a population of 275. It is a small town in the heart of Gippsland's dairying distinct. Boisdale includes not only the town itself, but the area surrounding the town, comprising mostly dairy and vegetable farms. It is situated approximately 9 km north of the larger town of Maffra. Boisdale is 176 km east of Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. History Boisdale was the run of pioneer grazier Lachlan Macalister and was named after the village on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In the 1840s and 1850s, Boisdale was the local headquarters of the Native Police in the Gippsland region. This force would set out from their barracks, patrol the area and conduct punitive raids on various clans of the Gunai people. Maca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Kovco
Jacob Bruce "Jake" Kovco (25 September 1980 – 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army The Australian Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of Australia. It is a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army ... who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was "irresponsibly self-inflicted", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he "disregarded the possible consequences of danger". Early life Kovco grew up in Briagolong in Victoria's Gippsland reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Mosquito
Irving Mosquito (born 24 August 2000) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Essendon Football Club with the 38th pick in the 2018 national draft. Early football Mosquito played for the Gippsland Power in the NAB League for two seasons. Mosquito was selected to play for Vic Country in the AFL Under 18 Championships, but was unable to get a game due to injury. He was a member of the Hawthorn's Next Generation Academy program, which gave the Hawks the right to match any draft selection made by other clubs during the 2018 AFL draft. However, they chose not to match Essendon's bid at selection 38. AFL career Mosquito made his debut for Essendon in the Dreamtime match, played in Darwin, in the 13th round of the 2020 AFL season, scoring two goals. After four games, Mosquito awkwardly twisted his left knee and ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament, an injury th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Kovco
Jacob Bruce "Jake" Kovco (25 September 1980 – 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was "irresponsibly self-inflicted", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he "disregarded the possible consequences of danger". Early life Kovco grew up in Briagolong in Victoria's Gippsland region, east of Melbourne, and completed the Victorian Certificate of Education at Maffra Secondary College in 1998. Before enlisting in the army, he worked in a knackery processing dead livestock. He was a keen mountain bike rider and also raced motorcycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Victoria (state)
This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Area (LGA). Localities are bounded areas recorded on VICNAMES, although boundaries are the responsibility of each council. Many localities cross LGA boundaries, some being partly within three LGAs, but are listed here once under the LGA in which the major population centre or area occurs. The Registrar of Geographic Names, supported by Geographic Names Victoria, administers the naming or renaming of localities (as well as roads, and other features) in Victoria, and maintains the Register of Geographic Names, referred as the VICNAMES register, pursuant to the ''Geographic Place Names Act 1998''. The OGN has issued the mandatory ''Naming rules for places in Victoria, Statutory requirements for naming roads, features and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Gippsland East
The electoral district of Gippsland East is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers most of eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria and includes the towns of Bairnsdale, Victoria, Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Lakes Entrance, Orbost, Victoria, Orbost, Omeo, Victoria, Omeo, Maffra and Heyfield. Gippsland East is the state's third largest electorate in area and covers 27,544 square kilometres. The National Party of Australia – Victoria, Country Party (now the National Party of Victoria, National Party) held the seat without interruption from 1920 to 1999. However at the 1999 Victorian state election, 1999 election independent candidate Craig Ingram unexpectedly won the seat after receiving preferences from the independent, One Nation Party, One Nation and Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor candidates. Ingram's victory affected state politics—Ingram and fellow Independents Susan Davies and Russell Savage contributed to the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Wellington
The Shire of Wellington is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 44,019. It includes the towns of Heyfield, Rosedale, Maffra, Sale, Stratford, Coongulla, Newry, Tinamba and Yarram. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Alberton, Shire of Avon, Shire of Maffra, City of Sale and parts of the Shire of Rosedale. The Shire is governed and administered by the Wellington Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Sale, it also has service centres located in Maffra, Stratford and Rosedale. The Shire is named after a major geographical feature in the region, Lake Wellington, which is located in the south-east of the LGA. Council Current composition Wellington Shire Council is composed of three wards and nine councillors, with three councillors per ward elected to represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Maxwell (footballer)
Leonard Josiah Maxwell (17 March 1906 – 31 January 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1906 births 1982 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Hawthorn Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1906-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq War
The Iraq War (), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with 2003 invasion of Iraq, the invasion by a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist Iraq, Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict persisted Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), as an insurgency arose against coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011), were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading a new coalition under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, as the conflict evolved into the ongoing Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), Islamic State insurgency. The Iraq invasion was part of the Presidency of George W. Bush, Bush administration's broader war on terror, launched in response to the September 11 attacks. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
