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Bullarto, Victoria
Bullarto is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Bullarto had a population of 73. Bullarto is 7 km south east of Daylesford on the Trentham road and is a potato growing district. The Bullarto railway station Bullarto railway station is a railway station on the Daylesford line, in Bullarto, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on Wednesday, 17 March 1880, and closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. In 1969, the platform was 74m in length and, in 1975, B ... is the current terminus of the Daylesford Spa Country Railway rail motor tourist services. A post office opened there in 1874 and used barred numeral number 855 cancel (rated RRRR - 4 to 12 examples considered to exist). Another post office was opened at the railway station from 1884 using numeral 1392. Bullarto has a community facility in the form of the Bullarto Hall. This is a popular location for weddings and community events. It is operated by a group of local volunteer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Macedon
The electoral district of Macedon is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 2002, replacing the abolished electorate of Gisborne. It was won at that election by Joanne Duncan, the former member for Gisborne. She was re-elected in 2006 and 2010, and retired at the 2014 election, at which she was succeeded by Labor candidate Mary-Anne Thomas. Members for Macedon Election results See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly {{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2015 {{Use Australian English, date=June 2015 The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victorian Legislative ... References External links Electorate profile: Macedon District, Victorian Electoral Commission 2002 establishments in Australia Electoral districts of Victoria (Australia) Shire of Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Ballarat
The Division of Ballarat (spelt Ballaarat from 1901 until the 1977 election) is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. It was named for the provincial city of the same name by Scottish squatter Archibald Yuille, who established the first settlement − his sheep run called Ballaarat − in 1837, with the name derived from a local Wathawurrung word for the area, ''balla arat'', thought to mean "resting place". The division currently takes in the regional City of Ballarat and the smaller towns of Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Blackwood, Buninyong, Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford, Myrniong and Trentham and part of Burrumbeet. The current Member for Ballarat, since the 2001 federal election, is Catherine King, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Hepburn
The Shire of Hepburn is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of and, in the 2021 Census the shire had a population of 16,604. It includes the towns of Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Trentham and the villages of Glenlyon, Allendale, Kingston, Leonard's Hill, Lyonville, Newlyn, Denver and Smeaton. It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Creswick, Shire of Daylesford and Glenlyon and parts of the Shire of Kyneton and Shire of Talbot and Clunes. The Shire is governed and administered by the Hepburn Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Daylesford, it also has a service centre located in Creswick. The Shire is named after an early squatter named John Hepburn, who established the Smeaton Hill pastoral run, which was located a few kilometres north of present-day Creswick. Council Current compositi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who spent Census night, 9 August 2016, in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,548 as of the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census. As one of Australia’s few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town’s numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts. The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve. It is also the filming location for the third season of ''The Saddle Club'', and scenes from the 2004 film ''Love's Brother''. History Prior to European settlement the area was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullarto Railway Station
Bullarto railway station is a railway station on the Daylesford line, in Bullarto, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on Wednesday, 17 March 1880, and closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. In 1969, the platform was 74m in length and, in 1975, Bullarto was working under no-one-in-charge conditions. At 747m above sea level, it was the second-highest station on the former Victorian Railways system. Re-opening The section of the former Daylesford line between Musk and Bullarto was reopened by the Daylesford Spa Country Railway The Daylesford Spa Country Railway (which is operated by the Central Highlands Tourist Railway) is a volunteer-operated gauge tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia. It operates on a section of the closed and dismantled Daylesford line ... (DSCR) on 17 March 1997, and Bullarto is the current terminus of DSCR tourist rail motor services. The station platform and portable building have been restored and a run-around loop provided. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford Spa Country Railway
The Daylesford Spa Country Railway (which is operated by the Central Highlands Tourist Railway) is a volunteer-operated gauge tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia. It operates on a section of the closed and dismantled Daylesford line, and currently runs services between Daylesford and the hamlet of Bullarto. History Victorian Railways era The original line was opened in two stages, from the mainline junction at Carlsruhe to the town of Trentham, on 16 February 1880. The remainder of the line was opened a month later on 17 March. The line initially had significant goods and passenger traffic, with 50,000 passengers travelling the line in 1884 alone. However, over the next seventy years, both traffic and the quality of line gradually degraded, until the last passenger service was replaced with a road coach in 1978. Reopening as a tourist railway The Central Highlands Tourist Railway was founded two years later, and set about restoring the railway to operating condi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford Advocate, Yandoit, Glenlyon And Eganstown Chronicle
The ''Daylesford Advocate'' was a Victorian newspaper first published in 1878 as ''The Daylesford Advocate and Hepburn Glenlyon and Blanket Flat Chronicle''. History An earlier incarnation, the ''Daylesford Advocate and Hepburn Courier'', was briefly published by James Shelton Brocklehurst in April 1859, but it closed in December 1860 due to competition from the newly launched ''The Daylesford Express and Hepburn Advertiser''. As in many country towns, competition and absorption of weaker titles by stronger titles saw the incorporation by the ''Advocate'' of the ''Mercury & Express'' (1880) and the ''Herald'' (1909). The paper ceased publication without explanation in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Digitisation This newspaper has been digitised as part of the Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
