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Pyalong
Pyalong is a town in central Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Northern Highway, Victoria, Northern Highway, in the Shire of Mitchell Local government in Australia, local government area, from the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Pyalong had a population of 772. The traditional owners of Pyalong are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin Nation, Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain George Brunswick Smyth and Lieutenant Alfred Miller Mundy who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and William Hamilton who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time. They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the ''Pyalong'' station lease in 1839. The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854, and was sufficiently populated for the P ...
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Lancefield, Victoria
Lancefield is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges Local government in Australia, local government area in Victoria, Australia north of the state capital, Melbourne, 33.6km south of Puckapunyal and had a population of at least 2,743 at the 2021_Australian_census, 2021 census. History The area was used by the indigenous aboriginal people as a quarry site for the manufacture of stone axes and was first settled by European squatters in 1837. The main source of these stone tools was at Mount William, to the northeast of Lancefield. A Lancefield Post Office opened on 16 January 1858 in the Romsey, Victoria, Romsey/Five Mile Creek area, to the south. In 1860 this was renamed Five Mile Creek when Lancefield Post Office opened in the present township. Lancefield's elevation and climate made it a popular summer resort in the 1880s. In recent years, many local Winery, wineries have been established in the area. The town has a connection to the Ned Kelly, Kelly Gang; for it was he ...
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Shire Of Mitchell
Mitchell Shire is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located North of Melbourne. It covers an area of and, in April 2024, had a projected population of 61,362. Larger towns include Beveridge, Broadford, Kilmore, Seymour, Tallarook, Pyalong and Wallan. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Pyalong, the Shire of Kilmore, most of the Shire of Broadford, and parts of the Shire of McIvor and Rural City of Seymour. The Shire is governed and administered by Mitchell Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the Council headquarters in Broadford, it also has service centres located in Kilmore, Beveridge, Seymour and Wallan. The Shire is named after an early British surveyor and explorer, Major Thomas Mitchell, who explored the south-eastern part of Australia, and whose return route for his third expedition passed through the present-day LGA. The Shire is Victoria’s fastest gro ...
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Northern Highway, Victoria
Northern Highway is a rural highway in northern Victoria, linking Echuca on the banks of the Murray River with Beveridge a short distance north of the northern suburban fringes of Melbourne. In conjunction with McIvor Highway, it provides an important link between Melbourne and Bendigo. It forms a significant freight route providing access to markets and ports in Melbourne and the rural primary production areas of the Murray Valley and southern New South Wales, and serves a number of agricultural and tourism-related industries along its length. Route Northern Highway commences at the state border with New South Wales as a continuation of Cobb Highway into Victoria and heads in a southerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway through the western part of the regional town of Echuca, running concurrent with Murray Valley Highway for a short period, before continuing south through flat open country through Rochester, Elmore and Heathcote, then traverses m ...
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Heathcote Railway Line
The Heathcote railway line was a cross-country link between Bendigo railway station, Bendigo and Heathcote Junction railway station, Heathcote Junction. It was partly opened in 1888 and, by 1890, it was fully operational.Wallan - Bendigo
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It was partially closed in 1958 and fully closed in 1968. In 1975, it was decided to dismantle the track and, today, only some trestle bridges remain.


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The line was authorised by the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Parliament in 1881, and construction began in 1888. The first section, between Heathcote, Victoria, Heathcote and Bendigo opened in October 1888, and the entire line became operational in August 1890. Including 50 bridges, the line took 21 months to complete, at a cost of ...
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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 ...
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Glenaroua, Victoria
Glenaroua is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, north west of the state capital, 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 Victori .... At the , Glenaroua had a population of 154. References External links Towns in Victoria (state) Shire of Mitchell {{Hume-geo-stub ...
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Division Of Bendigo
The Division of Bendigo is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the states and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 65 divisions to be contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It is named for the city of Bendigo. The division is situated on the northern foothills of the Great Dividing Range in North Central Victoria. It covers an area of approximately and provides the southern gateway to the Murray–Darling basin. In addition to the city of Bendigo, other large population centres in the division include , and Kyneton. The current Member for the Division of Bendigo, since the 2013 Australian federal election, 2013 federal election, is Lisa Chesters, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division ...
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Tooborac
Tooborac is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, north of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Tooborac and the surrounding area had a population of 405. At the , Tooborac and the surrounding area had a population of 310. Tooborac Post Office opened on 1 January 1872. Tooborac has recently undergone a resurgence with the renovation of the Tooborac Hotel and the construction of a craft brewery. The 150-year-old two storey bluestone Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of natural dimension stone, dimension or building stone varieties, including: * basalt in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand * diabase, dolerites in Tasmania, ... and ironstone hotel is a meeting place for locals and travellers alike. Tooborac is known for its annual 'Octooberfest', a German Octoberfest themed event. References External links Towns in Victoria (state) Shire of Mitchell {{ ...
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Taungurung
The Taungurung people, also spelled ''Daung Wurrung'', are Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia. They consist of nine clans whose traditional language is the Taungurung language. Their Country is to the north of the Great Dividing Range in the watersheds of the Broken, Delatite, Coliban, Goulburn and Campaspe Rivers. They lived to the north of, and were closely associated with, the Woiwurrung speaking Wurundjeri people. They were also known by white settlers as the ''Devil's River Tribe'' or ''Goulburn River Tribe''. Clan structure The Taungurung have two moieties (kinship groups) covering nine distinct clans, each of which belonged to the Bunjil ( Eaglehawk) moiety (five clans) or the Waang (Crow) moiety (four clans). Bunjil moiety * ''Buthera balug'', located in the Upper Goulburn area near Yea and Seymour. * ''Moomoom Gundidj'', around the Campaspe and north-west of Mitchellstown * ''Warring-illum balug'' around the ...
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Traditional Owners
Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs. These Aboriginal title rights were first recognised as a part of Australian common law with the decision of '' Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' in 1992. The doctrine was subsequently implemented and modified via statute with the '' Native Title Act 1993''. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title and sovereignty to the land by the Crown. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title rights over the same land. The Federal Court of Australia arranges mediation in relation to claims made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ...
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Australian Railway History
''Australian Railway History'' is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia, published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its state and territory Divisions. History and profile It was first published in 1937 as the ''Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin''. It was renamed ''ARHS Bulletin'' in 1952. In January 2004, the magazine was re-branded as ''Australian Railway History''. Historically, the magazine had a mix of articles dealing with historical material and items on current events drawn from its affiliate publications. Today, it contains only historical articles, two or three of them being in-depth. References Publication details *''Australian Railway History: bulletin of the Australian Railway Historical Society'' Redfern, New South Wales Vol. 55, no. 795 (Jan. 2004)- *''Bulletin (Australian Railway Historical Society The Australian Railway Historical Society (AR ...
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Electoral District Of Euroa
The electoral district of Euroa is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013. It was a new district created due to the abolition of the districts of Seymour, Rodney and Benalla, taking in the areas to the north of these districts toward Shepparton. It includes the towns of Benalla, Violet Town, Euroa, Seymour, Heathcote, Nagambie, Rushworth and other towns in the Campaspe, Strathbogie, Benalla and Mitchell local government areas. After its formation, Euroa was classed as a safe Nationals seat, with a margin of 13.6%. In the 2014 state election, the first election at which the seat was contested, Stephanie Ryan won it for the Nationals, picking up an estimated swing in her favour, even as the Victorian Coalition A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a fo ...
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