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Tallarook
Tallarook is a town the Shire of Mitchell local government area in central Victoria, Australia. The town is in on the Hume Highway, north of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Tallarook had a population of 789. Tallarook Post Office opened on 1 April 1861. The town is known in Australia for the colloquialism, "Things are crook in Tallarook", believed to date to the Great Depression and unemployed travellers seeking work. The phrase became the basis of a song composed by Jack O'Hagan—''Things Is Crook in Tallarook''. It also features in a song written by Garth Porter and Lee Kernaghan, "Tallarook", released on The Outback Club. The main North East railway opened through the town in 1872 along with the local railway station, and a branch railway to Mansfield was started in 1883, extended to Mansfield in 1891, and Alexandra Alexandra () is a female given name of Greek origin. It is the first attested form of its variants, including Alexander (, ). Etymology, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallarook Railway Station
Tallarook railway station is located on the Tocumwal line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Tallarook, and it opened on 18 April 1872.Tallarook Vicsig History Tallarook station opened on 18 April 1872, along with the line though it, and became a for the Mansfield branch line to Yea in 1883, with the line extended to |
Hume Highway
The Hume Highway, including the sections now known as the Hume Freeway and the Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013. From north to south, the road is called the Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, the Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, the Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and the Hume Freeway in Victoria. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury–Wodonga and Canberra. It is therefore considered to be Australia's longest highway in terms of its dual-carriageway standard retaining the M, or motorway, alphanumeric. Route At its Sydney end, Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road, in Ashfield. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour, Victoria
Seymour () is a town located in the Southern end of the Goulburn Valley in the Shire of Mitchell, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia and is located north of Melbourne. At the , Seymour had a population of 6,569. The township services the surrounding agricultural industries (primarily equine, cattle, sheep and wine) as well as the nearby military base of Puckapunyal (population 1,176), which is an important training centre for the Australian Army. Other important sectors of employment in Seymour include retail, light engineering, agricultural services support, medical services, and education. History The Taungurung people are the traditional owners and inhabitants of the area Seymour now occupies. Specifically, it is the land of the Buthera Balug clan who occupied the area when Europeans first settled the region in the early 1800s. In 1824, Hume and Hovell on their return from Port Phillip, camped by the Goulburn River (Victoria), Goulburn River not far upstream of Seymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugarloaf Creek, Victoria
Sugarloaf Creek is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Sugarloaf Creek Road in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 Australian Census Sugarloaf Creek had a population of 257. The Sugarloaf Creek itself is a tributary of the Goulburn River in Australia. The traditional owners of Sugarloaf Creek are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. Charles Hotson Ebden and Charles Bonney Charles Bonney (31 October 1813 – 15 March 1897) was a pioneer and politician in Australia. Early life Bonney was the youngest son of the Rev. George Bonney, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and his wife Susanna, née Knight. He was born ... drove 10,000 sheep from Mungabareena station on the Murray on 1 March 1837 and reached Sugarloaf Creek station on about 14 March 1837. They set up their first sheep s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield Railway Line
The Mansfield railway line is a closed branch railway line situated in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia. Constructed by the Victorian Railways, it branched from the Seymour line at station, and ran east to . The line was primarily built to provide a general goods and passenger service to settlements in the area. History The line was opened in six stages from November 1883 to October 1891, and was closed in November 1978. The first stage of the line was opened from to in 1883, being extended in stages from 1889 though , , and , to reach in 1891. A 7-kilometre-long branch was opened from Cathkin to in 1890, being extended another 7 kilometres to in 1909. The line was a result of a decade of local lobbying, and provided improved access for agricultural products from the region to Melbourne markets. The line was quite scenic, and included a 200 m tunnel near Cheviot and a viaduct over an arm of the Lake Eildon reservoir in , which was rebuilt in 1955 as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essington Lewis
Essington Lewis (13 January 18812 October 1961) was an Australian industrialist. He was the Director-General of the Department of Munitions during World War II. Biography Early life Essington Lewis was born in Burra, South Australia on 13 January 1881. His father was the pastoralist and politician John Lewis (1844–1923), founder of Bagot, Shakes & Lewis. He was named after Port Essington, where his father owned a cattle property. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and the South Australian School of Mines. Career After joining BHP in 1904, he rose through the company ranks to become managing director in 1926 and chairman in 1950, a position he held until his death in 1961. For the whole of his period as M.D., he had a close working relationship and personal friendship with Chairman of Directors Harold Gordon Darling (1885–1950). During his travels to Germany and Japan in the 1930s, he realised the threat of these countries to Australia. Accordingly, he help ... [...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] |
Broadford, Victoria
Broadford is a town in central Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, Broadford had a population of 4,076. The town is the headquarters of the Shire of Mitchell Local government in Australia, local government area and is approximately north of the state capital, Melbourne. Broadford lies on the major transport routes between Melbourne and Sydney. The town is bypassed to the east by the Hume Freeway and the Albury-Wodonga railway line, railway line linking the two cities passes through Broadford railway station, Broadford. Broadford is located on the banks of Sunday Creek, a tributary of the Goulburn River (Victoria), Goulburn River and is set amongst dramatic central Victorian scenery. History The original inhabitants of Broadford 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. A 1934 document recalling the 1870s not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strath Creek, Victoria
Strath Creek is a town in central Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Murrindindi local government area, north of the state capital, Melbourne, on the creek of the same name which flows into King Parrot Creek to the north. At the , Strath Creek had a population of 231. History Strath Creek Post Office opened on 16 April 1885. Today The town was affected by the Black Saturday bushfires in February 2009, with the picturesque Hume and Hovell cricket ground barely escaping the flames. The cricket ground is based on the famous Lord's Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket List of Test cricket grounds, venue in St John's Wood, Westminster. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex C ... in England, having the same dimensions and a similar slope. References External links Profile of Strath Creek [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North East Railway Line
The North East railway line is a railway line in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The line runs from Southern Cross railway station on the western edge of the Melbourne Melbourne City Centre, central business district to Albury railway station in the border settlement of Albury-Wodonga, serving the cities of Wangaratta and Seymour, Victoria, Seymour, and smaller towns in northeastern Victoria. The railway line is both standard gauge and 5 ft 3 in gauge railways, broad gauge. It originally was built as broad gauge the entire length, but another track was built as standard gauge between and , with construction of the standard gauge track commencing in November 1959 and completed in January 1962, completing the Sydney–Melbourne rail corridor, Sydney-Melbourne standard gauge railway. Between 2008 and 2010, the broad gauge track between Seymour and Albury was finally converted to be the line's second standard gauge track. The original section between Southern Cross and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield, Victoria
Mansfield is a town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps in the Australian state of Victoria. It is approximately north-east of Melbourne by road. The population of Mansfield was at the 2021 census. Mansfield is the seat of the Mansfield local government area. Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming and logging but is now a tourist centre. It is the support town for the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the high-country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film made around Mansfield, near the now famous Craigs Hut, called '' The Man from Snowy River'' (based on a poem by Banjo Paterson). History The traditional owners of the Mansfield region are the Yowengillum clan of the Taungurung people. They also inhabited Alexandra and the Upper Goulburn River. British colonisers began to enter the region in 1839 when Andrew Ewing (sometimes referred to as Andrew Ewan), a stockman representing the Scottish livestock company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outback Club
''The Outback Club'' is the debut studio album by Australian country musician Lee Kernaghan. It won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 The Seventh Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) was held on 14 April 1993 at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States a .... The album debuted at number 94, peaking at number 58 in May 1994. The album reached Gold sales in January 1994, Platinum sales in November 1995 and Double Platinum in January 2001. Track listing # "Boys from the Bush" - 2:48 # "High Country" - 3:52 # "She Waits By the Sliprails (The Bush Girl)" - 2:54 # "Walkin' Out West" - 3:07 # "Country Girls" - 3:14 # "Country's Really Big These Days" - 2:57 # "You're the Reason I Never Saw Hank Jnr Play" - 2:53 # "Rejected" - 2:08 # " Scots of the Riverina" - 4:13 # "You Don't Have to Go to Memphis" - 2:23 # "Searchin' fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
