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NRL Victoria
NRL Victoria (abbreviated as NRLVic, and formerly the Victorian Rugby League) is responsible for administering the game of rugby league in Victoria, Australia. Victoria is an Affiliated State of the overall Australian governing body the National Rugby League. The VRL commenced in 1952 and has been running each year since. NRL Victoria solely administers the Storm Premiership in Melbourne, the Sunraysia-Riverlands Rugby League, and the Murray Cup Rugby League competitions. It also jointly administers the Limestone Coast Rugby League with NRL South Australia. Prior to 2013 NRL Victoria was known as the Victorian Rugby League before the NRL completed a full rebranding exercise and renamed all affiliate states. Over the years the VRL have produced a number of juniors for the Melbourne Storm, SG Ball, NYC and NRL teams. Rugby League Centre of Excellence NRL Victoria is currently headquartered at Victoria's Rugby League Centre of Excellence at Seabrook Reserve in Broadmeadows, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, and New Zealand. Tracing its origins back to the New South Wales Rugby League, which formed in 1908, rugby league competition in Australia had gone through numerous iterations, including the 1990s Super League war, by the time the NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership between the Australian Rugby League Commission, Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Corporation-controlled Super League (Australia), Super League. The partnership was dissolved in 2012, with control of the NRL going to the re-constituted ARL, which was re-structured with an independent board of directors and renamed the Australian Rugby League Commission. The season typically runs from March to October, with each team playing 24 matches. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doveton, Victoria
Doveton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey local government area. Doveton recorded a population of 9,603 at the 2021 census. Doveton is bounded by Dandenong Creek and Power Road in the west, the Monash Freeway in the north, Eumemmerring Creek in the east, and Princes Highway in the south. History Originally part of the Eumemmerring pastoral run in the 1830s, Doveton gained its name from prominent early settler and Gold Commissioner, Captain Francis Crossman Doveton, who remained until around 1903. Named around 1954, it was transformed into a public housing estate to house the post-war population increase caused by a surge in displaced people from war torn countries and an industrial boom in Dandenong. This is disputed. Doveton Post Office opened on 1 December 1956 as the suburb was developing and booming. An example is that when it was first opened several of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalor, Victoria
Lalor () is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Whittlesea Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Lalor recorded a population of 23,219 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Lalor was named in honour of Peter Lalor, a leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion and later a member of the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian parliament. The suburb was named after the Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative Society. In recent times, the mispronunciations has become predominant, whilst the Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Federal electorate of Division of Lalor, Lalor is still predominantly pronounced . The eastern and western borders of Lalor are defined by Darebin Creek and Merri Creek respectively. History Lalor was originally a part of Thomastown, Victoria, Thomastown. In 1945, Leo Purcell, while a patient at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mernda Dragons
Mernda Dragons Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league club based in Mernda, Victoria. The club caters to teams in the junior competition only. See also *Rugby league in Victoria Rugby league football has been played and watched by people in the Australian state of Victoria since the early 20th century. While for most of its history there the game's popularity has been marginal due to the dominance of Australian rules ... References External linksMernda Dragons Fox Sports pulse* {{Rugby League in Victoria Rugby league clubs in Melbourne Rugby league teams in Victoria (state) Rugby clubs established in 2015 2015 establishments in Australia Sport in the City of Whittlesea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melton, Victoria
Melton is a suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria. The suburb is located west of Melbourne central business district, Melbourne's Central Business District on the city's western rural-urban fringe. It is the administrative centre of the City of Melton Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. As of the 2021 Australian census, the suburb has a population of 7,953. Originally a country town along the Ballarat — Melbourne growth corridor, Melton was designated a satellite city of Melbourne in 1974. Along with the rest of the City of Melton, it forms a part of Greater Melbourne and counts as part of its population statistic. In 2023, Melbourne's significant urban area boundary was expanded to include Melton. Like the overall local government area, Melton was named after Melton Mowbray in the United Kingdom. History Pre-settlement history The land to the east of the Werribee River is the traditional home of the Wurundjeri and Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melton Broncos
Melton Broncos Rugby League Football Club is an Australian rugby league football club based at Melton, Victoria formed in 2013 and debuted their season in 2014. They conduct teams for both junior and senior rugby league teams. In summer they run a touch football competition. See also *Rugby league in Victoria Rugby league football has been played and watched by people in the Australian state of Victoria since the early 20th century. While for most of its history there the game's popularity has been marginal due to the dominance of Australian rules ... References External linksMelton Broncos Fox Sports pulse* {{Rugby League in Victoria Rugby league clubs in Melbourne Rugby league teams in Victoria (state) Rugby clubs established in 2013 2013 establishments in Australia Sport in the City of Melton ... [...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] |
Craigieburn, Victoria
Craigieburn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area. Craigieburn recorded a population of 65,178 at the 2021 census. Craigieburn is a satellite suburb located on the urban-rural fringe of Melbourne, ranging from the lower half of Bridgewater Road to Mount Ridley. A large majority of the suburb is more than 200 metres above sea level, with Mount Ridley being the northernmost hill in northwestern metropolitan Melbourne with clear views of Melbourne's central business district 29.7 km away. It has an older shopping centre known as the plaza with shops such as Woolworths and discount chemist warehouse formally chemist warehouse and a new four tier centre known as craigieburn central Craigieburn is bounded by Mount Ridley Road, the Hume Freeway and Donnybrook Road in the north, Merri Creek in the east, Patullos Lane, the Craigieburn/ North East railway line and a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hume Eagles
Hume most commonly refers to: * David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish philosopher Hume may also refer to: People * Hume (surname) * Hume (given name) * James Hume Nisbet (1849–1923), Scottish-born novelist and artist In fiction * Hume, the name of the human race in the Ivalice universe of the computer game series ''Final Fantasy'' * Desmond Hume, a fictional character on the television series ''Lost'' * Eleanor Hume, a character from the role-playing video game ''Tales of Berseria'' * Nick Hume, the protagonist of the 2007 film ''Death Sentence'' * Hobart Hume III, a fictional character on the television series ''Shining Time Station'' Places Australia * Hume, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * City of Hume, a municipality in northern Melbourne * Hume County, a cadastral division of New South Wales * Division of Hume, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales * Hume (region), a region in northeastern Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victoria), Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne. With an estimated population of 282,809 in 2023, Geelong is the second-largest city in the state of Victoria. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality, which is Port Phillip's only regional metropolitan area, and covers all the urban, rural and coastal reserves around the city including the entire Bellarine Peninsula and running from the plains of Lara, Victoria, Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south, with Corio Bay to the east and the Barrabool Hills to the west. The traditional owners of the land on which Geelong sits are the Wadawurrung (also known as Wathaurong) Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal people of the Kulin natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong Sharks
Geelong ( ) ( Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne. With an estimated population of 282,809 in 2023, Geelong is the second-largest city in the state of Victoria. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality, which is Port Phillip's only regional metropolitan area, and covers all the urban, rural and coastal reserves around the city including the entire Bellarine Peninsula and running from the plains of Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south, with Corio Bay to the east and the Barrabool Hills to the west. The traditional owners of the land on which Geelong sits are the Wadawurrung (also known as Wathaurong) Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation. The modern name of Geelong, first recorded in 1827, was derived from the local Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankston, Victoria
Frankston ( ) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Located south-east of the Melbourne central business district via the Monash Freeway and EastLink, it is in the Local government areas of Victoria, local government area of the City of Frankston and serves as its administrative centre, administrative and activity centres. Positioned on the eastern shoreline of Port Phillip, Frankston became a popular seaside resort, seaside destination of Melbourne in the 1880s. Its beach continues to be one of the most frequented in Victoria, and is recognised as one of the cleanest in Australia. Due to its proximity to the north of the Mornington Peninsula (wine), eponymous wine and tourism region, the suburb is also referred to as the "gateway to the Mornington Peninsula". The First Nations Australian traditional custodianship, traditional custodians of the lands on which Frankston is situated are the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation, to which it was an important source of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
