The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical district and urban area of the

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region in the state of

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. The traditional owners are the Brayakaulung of the Gunai nation. The district lies east of

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and nestled between the

Strzelecki Ranges The Strzelecki Ranges (pronounced STREHZ leckee) is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland and South Gippsland regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The Ranges are named after Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish explor ...

to the south and the Baw Baw Ranges, part of the

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, to the north. Mount St Phillack () is the highest peak to the north of the Latrobe Valley, due north of

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. The highest peak to the south is Mt Tassie (), south of Traralgon. The area has three major centres, from west to east, ,

Morwell Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland, in South-Eastern Victoria, Australia approximately 152 km (94 mi) east of Melbourne. Morwell has a population of 14,389 people at the . It is both the seat of local governme ...

and

Traralgon Traralgon ( ) is a town located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia and the most populous city of the City of Latrobe. The urban population of Traralgon at the was 26,907. It is the largest and fastes ...

, with minor centres including , , , and . The population of the Latrobe Valley is approximately 125,000. The valley draws its name from the

Latrobe River The Latrobe River (or sometimes La Trobe or LaTrobe) is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The Latrobe River and its associated sub-catchment is an import ...

which flows eastward, through the valley. According to Les Blake, in 1841

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, an early settler, named the river in honour of

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of the

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. A. W. Reed also attributes Brodribb to naming the river in honour of La Trobe; yet Reed claims that the river was discovered by

Angus McMillan Angus McMillan (14 August 1810 – 18 May 1865) was a Scottish-born explorer, pioneer pastoralist, and perpetrator of several of the Gippsland massacres of Gunai people. Arriving first in New South Wales in 1838, McMillan rose swiftly in Aus ...

in 1840 who named the watercourse as Glengarry River.

Geography

While the Latrobe River flows into

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to the east of and includes in its drainage basin a significant part of central Gippsland, the region conventionally known as the Latrobe Valley occupies an inland area between the Strzelecki Ranges and Baw Baw Ranges between

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and Rosedale – with three major urban areas Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the westernmost reaches of the

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to the north.

Climate

It has a

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meaning mild temperatures with large amounts of rain, the occasional frost and snow on neighbouring hills. February is the warmest month in the Latrobe Valley with an average temperature range of and the coldest month is July with an average temperature range of . The most rain occurs in late winter and spring, and average yearly rainfall is approximately . Temperatures on

Mount Baw Baw Mount Baw Baw is a mountain summit on the Baw-Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range, located in Victoria, Australia. The name is from the Woiwurrung language spoken by Eastern Kulin people. It is of uncertain meaning, but possibly signifies, ...

, to the north of Moe, generally peak around cooler than the major urban areas during the day.

Demographics

There are three major population centres in the Latrobe Valley, all located within the

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local government area: * Moe west Latrobe Valley * Morwellcentral Latrobe Valley * Traralgoneastern Latrobe Valley The primary hospital is the Latrobe Regional Hospital located on the

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between Morwell and Traralgon. Smaller towns are Tyers, Newborough,

Yinnar Yinnar is a rural Australian township located in the Latrobe Valley in central Gippsland, Victoria. At the 2016 census, Yinnar had a population of 907. The origin of the name "Yinnar" is believed to have been derived from the local Aboriginal t ...

Yallourn North Yallourn North is a town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately eight kilometres north-east of Moe, and 146 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Prior to 1947 Yallourn North was known as "Brown Coal Mine". The Post Off ...

, Churchill (site of the local campus of

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) and

Boolarra Boolarra is a small township located in the Latrobe Valley, in central Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At th2016 Census Boolarra had a population of 973 with 48% males and 52% females and an average age of 50. The Boolarra Folk Festival is held ...

Economy

Key industry sectors include health care, power generation, retail, paper manufacture, timber mills, agriculture, dairy, timber, information technology, engineering and education. The valley provides 85% of Victoria's electricity and has a substantial engineering sector supporting the power generation, pulp and paper production and food processing industries, etc. The tertiary education sector attracts local, interstate and international students. Despite its outside image as a regional economy dominated by mining and electricity, the region employs more hospital and aged care workers than power industry workers and has important service, health care and education sectors. Hospitals are the largest employer in the regional economy at 5% of the workforce, followed by power industry workers at 4.2%, supermarket and grocery store workers at 3%, and aged care workers at 2.9%. Logging is also an important industry in the hills to the north and south, with a major paper mill located at Maryvale, near Morwell. In the rugged north of the region is located the historic gold-mining town of Walhalla, amid mountains forming the west of

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and nearby

Baw Baw National Park The Baw Baw National Park is a national park located on the boundary between the Victorian Alps and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. The national park is situated approximately east of Melbourne and north of the Latrobe Valley. The ...

, which includes a small winter

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Industry

The Latrobe Valley is significant as the centre of Victoria's

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, specifically the mining and burning of

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to produce electricity. The area produces a total of approximately 85% of the

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for the entire state of Victoria and supplies some electricity to

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. The valley is home to four of the highest electricity producing

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s in Australia. Power plants located in the Latrobe Valley include Loy Yang Power Stations A & B,

Yallourn Power Station The Yallourn Power Station, now owned by EnergyAustralia a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong-Kong-based CLP Group, is located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, beside the Latrobe River, with the company town o ...

Jeeralang Power Station Jeeralang Power Station is a gas turbine power station with a capacity of near Morwell, Victoria, Australia. The station is a peaking facility which is used only during periods of peak demand, and is also used as a black start facility to rest ...

(Gas) plus the former

Hazelwood Power Station The Hazelwood Power Station is a decommissioned brown coal-fuelled thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia. Built between 1964 and 1971, the 1,600-megawatt-capacity power station was made up of eight 200MW unit ...

(closed 2017) and

Energy Brix Power Station The Energy Brix Power Station was a brown coalfired thermal power station located at Morwell, in Victoria, Australia. The power station was used to supply electricity for the retail market, as well as the production of briquettes in the adjacent ...

(closed August 2014). The Latrobe power stations emit more

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than hard coal stations.

Governance

Local government within the Latrobe Valley is administered by the

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and the Baw Baw Shire Council. Latrobe City LGA has a population of approximately 75,000 with four major population centres: Moe, Morwell, Churchill and Traralgon, with smaller townships including Boolarra, Glengarry,

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, Tyers, Traralgon South, Yallourn North, and Yinnar, with the administrative headquarters located in Morwell.

Transport

The Princes Freeway runs through Latrobe Valley, bypassing most major rural cities and connecting the region to both Melbourne and

East Gippsland East Gippsland is the eastern region of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering 31,740 square kilometres (14%) of Victoria. It has a population of 80,114. Australian Bureau of Statistics2006 Census Community Profile Series: East Gippsland (Sta ...

. The centrally located centre of Moe is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes drive from the central business district of Melbourne.

V/Line V/Line is a statutory authority that operates regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia. It provides passenger train services on five commuter lines and eight long-distance routes from its major hub at Southern Cross ...

runs a rail service from metropolitan Melbourne to the Latrobe Valley and also runs services that go through the Latrobe Valley to East Gippsland. Some rail services run limited express to the Latrobe Valley – stopping in the major population centres of Warragul, Moe, Morwell and Traralgon. Other services – including the Gippslander rail service – stop at all stations in the area. Services to the Latrobe Valley run between Melbourne and Traralgon, whilst Gippsland services run between Melbourne and

Bairnsdale Bairnsdale () ( Ganai: ''Wy-yung'') is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in a region traditionally owned by the Tatungalung clan of the Gunaikurnai people. The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 15,411 at Ju ...

. The Latrobe Valley/Gippsland rail line is connected to the metropolitan Melbourne Pakenham line. Latrobe Valley Bus Lines are operated by Valley Transit, which runs connecting bus services in the Latrobe Valley area between Moe and Traralgon – consisting of inter-city services that run between Moe and Traralgon to nearby towns such as Morwell, Churchill and Yallourn North – and connecting town services that run in each major centre.

Latrobe Valley Airport Latrobe Regional Airport (formerly Latrobe Valley Airport) is located between the Latrobe Valley towns of Morwell and Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. The airport is about 160 kilometres east of Melbourne, off the Princes Highway, west of Trara ...

(IATA: LTB, ICAO: YLTV) is located in the Latrobe Valley approximately two hours east of Melbourne, off Princes Highway, on the west side of Traralgon.

Education

The Gippsland campus of

is home to on-campus students, off-campus students and nearly 400 staff. The campus sits in the Latrobe Valley town of Churchill, east of Melbourne on of landscaped grounds. The campus offers many undergraduate degrees, and attracts many students from the Latrobe Valley, East and West Gippsland. Th
Centre for Gippsland Studies
is a research and community engagement facility which has conducted research and community outreach since 1985. The Gippsland Medical School, offering postgraduate entry Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) courses was officially opened by the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing,

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on 5 June 2008, providing students with an opportunity to learn medicine in a rural setting working with rural practitioners. The Gippsland Medical School was subject to some local criticism in 2016 and 2017 when it was revealed that there were only 12 Gippsland-origin students among the cohort of 50 studying medicine at the regional campus. The only direct pathway to the medical degree was through a course offered at Monash University's Melbourne-based Clayton campus, whilst graduates from

in Gippsland were not offered a direct pathway to the degree. Federal Member for Gippsland,

Darren Chester Darren Jeffrey Chester (born 13 September 1967) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for Gippsland in Victoria, representing the Nationals since 2008. Chester had served as the Minister for Veterans ...

, criticised

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arguing that: 'We should not be saying to our students who are completing year 12 this year that they have to move to Melbourne to access the Monash graduate medical program when we had an existing pathway in Gippsland.'

Sport

Australian Rules Football

The area has a rich and intricate Australian Football history. There are currently approximately thirty players on

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team lists from the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland. The region is represented in the Victoria State

TAC Cup The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB League and formerly known as the TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victo ...

Under 18's competition by the

Gippsland Power The Gippsland Power is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. Honours *Premierships (1): 2005 *Runners-up (3): 1999, 2010, 2012 *Wooden Spoons (1): 2003 *Morrish Medal ...

. Gippsland Power played its first season in the TAC Cup competition in 1993. The Power have won one premiership to date in 2005 – and been runner-up on two occasions in 1999 and 2010. Over sixty players have been drafted from Gippsland Power onto Australian Football League club lists since the first player was drafted in 1993. Gippsland Power has had three players win the TAC Cup Under 18's

Morrish Medal The Morrish Medal is an Australian rules football award. Formerly awarded to the best and fairest player in the VFL Under-19 competition (known as the Thirds prior to 1959), since 1992 the award has been given to the best player in the Victori ...

– the award for the best and fairest player in the TAC Cup as voted by the umpires; Matthew Stolarczyk in 1999,

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in 2008 and

Dyson Heppell Dyson Heppell (born 14 May 1992) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Heppell won the AFL Rising Star award in his first season in 2011, and won a Crich ...

in 2010.

Football leagues

The Gippsland League Football competition is the largest league in the region and one of the largest and highest standard football leagues in Victoria outside of Melbourne. Five of the ten teams in the Gippsland League are based in the Latrobe Valley. The most recent premiership won in the Gippsland League (or equivalent) by a team based in the Latrobe Valley was Traralgon Maroons in 2005. The

Mid Gippsland Football League The Mid Gippsland Football League is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Latrobe Valley and South Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. History The Mid Gippsland Football League (MGFL) was founded in April, 1935. The MG ...

is the second largest football league in the area and comprises 10 teams – all of which are exclusively based in the Latrobe Valley. Nine of the ten teams in the

Gippsland Soccer League Gippsland is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers ...

are based in the Latrobe Valley (the other team is based in Sale). The

Central & Southern Gippsland Competition The Central & Southern Gippsland Competition is an Australian rules football league in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria, Australia. History Following the proposed changes outlined in the AFL Gippsland Leagues and Competitions Review Dra ...

league was founded in 2019.

Racing Industry

The Moe Racing Club schedules around fourteen race meetings a year. The racecourse is in Waterloo Road within a very short walk of the Moe central business district and V/Line train station. Raceday race calling can be heard in the central business district of Moe during race meetings. The two largest race meeting in Moe are the GPG Mobil Moe Cup meeting in mid October – which is one of the largest regional race meetings outside of Melbourne on the Victorian Racing calendar – and the Melbourne Cup Day meeting on the first Tuesday in November. The Moe Racing Club is the largest capacity racecourse in Gippsland. The club also offers members and guests other facilities, including Turfside Tabaret, the Turfside Bistro and the Turfside Function Centre. Glenview Park in Traralgon hosts both horse and greyhound racing. Traralgon greyhounds race at the Glenview Park Racing Complex which is owned by the Latrobe City Council. It was specifically designed for the racing of horses and greyhounds. The inaugural greyhound race was held in 1973. Typical greyhound races at Glenview are run over a distance of 298, 513, 658 and 730 meters.

Other sports

There are a large number of golf courses in the Latrobe Valley area within an approximate 35 km radius of

. They include the Moe Golf Club, nestled next to

Lake Narracan Lake Narracan is an artificial lake on the Latrobe River built to supply cooling water for the nearby brown coal-fired power stations. Location Lake Narracan is located on the Latrobe River in the Latrobe Valley. The dam wall is approximately 1 ...

, Churchill & Monash Golf Club, which is located near Federation University Campus in Churchill, and Yallourn Golf Club and Yallourn Bowling Club at Newborough. Within the Latrobe Valley there are also large communities within various other sports associations, including; soccer, basketball, netball, dancing, gymnastics, tennis, swimming, Baseball and cricket.

Media

Newspapers

The area is serviced by the ''Latrobe Valley Express'', which is delivered free of charge to residences in the Latrobe Valley region twice per week on Monday & Thursday and has a current circulation of approximately 34,128 (CAB). In the past there was also the ''Moe-Narracan News'', the ''

Morwell Advertiser The ''Morwell Advertiser'' was a weekly newspaper published from 1886 until 1972 in Morwell, Victoria, Australia. It was initially published on Saturdays, however it changed to Fridays from 1890 until the 1930s when it changed to Thursdays. Nam ...

'' and the ''

Traralgon Journal The ''Traralgon Journal'' was an English language newspaper published in Traralgon, Victoria in Australia. From 1883 until 1923 the newspaper was published as the ''Gippsland Farmer's Journal''. History The ''Traralgon Record'' was a weekly n ...

'', which were distributed free of charge once per week on Tuesday and has a circulation of approximately 11,034 (CAB). Latrobe Valley is also home to ''The Gippslander Newspaper'' which covers the entire Gippsland region. The now defunct ''Latrobe Valley Voice'' was a new paper to the region, having been established in March 2011. The ''Latrobe Valley Voice'' was delivered free of charge to over 30,000 residences in the Latrobe Valley region on Wednesdays. The paper collapsed on 7 May 2011 after its financial backers withdrew their support.

Radio

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commercial radio stations

Triple M Gippsland Triple M Gippsland (official callsign: 3SEA) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Triple M network. The station is broadcast to townships in the Gippsland region of Victoria from studios in Wa ...

(93.4 and 97.9 MHz) and 3GG (531 kHz) service the region along with the

based commercial stations -

TRFM TRFM (Callsign: 3TFM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting from Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. It is currently owned by Ace Radio & broadcasts A Contemporary Hits Radio (CHR) format. It features both locally produced content & nationally ...

(99.5 MHz) and

Gold 1242 Gippsland's GOLD 1242 & GOLD FM 98.3 (call sign: 3GV) is an Australian radio station operating west of Traralgon, Victoria. It is owned by Ace Radio and shares studios with sister station TRFM, formerly 3TR and 3TRFM. The station broadcasts on th ...

. Most

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stations are rebroadcast locally and available in the Latrobe Valley, along with

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which is able to be received directly from

and the local

ABC Gippsland ABC Gippsland (call sign: 3GLR) is an ABC Local Radio station in Gippsland, Victoria. The station is based in Sale and covers from Warragul, through to Mallacoota. Amber Irving-Guthrie hosts the Breakfast program, Alice Walker presents Mornings ...

station (100.7 MHz). Some Melbourne stations both on the AM band and the FM band can be heard across the region, however DAB+ is not available without a vertically polarized roof-top antenna. Community radio stations Gippsland FM (104.7 MHz) and Life FM (103.9 MHz) are also broadcast into the Latrobe Valley.

Television

The area was the first in Australia to receive its own regional television station,

GLV-10 GLV and BCV are television stations licensed to serve Traralgon and Bendigo and regional Victoria, Australia. The stations are owned and operated by 10 (Southern Cross Austereo), Southern Cross 10. History Early years GLV-10 in Traralgon was th ...

Gippsland (now Southern Cross 10), when it launched on 9 December 1961. Programs from the three main commercial television networks (

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and

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) are all re-broadcast into

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by their regional affiliates -

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( AMV), WIN ( VTV) and

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( GLV). All broadcast from the

transmitter at Mount Tassie. All the commercial stations are based in

and have local commercials placed on their broadcasts. Local news is available on all three commercial networks: * WIN broadcasts a half-hour ''

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'' bulletin each weeknight at 5:30pm, produced from studios in

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. *

and

broadcast short local news and weather updates throughout the day, produced and broadcast from Prime7's

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studios and SCA's

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studios.

previously produced a local news bulletin branded ''Nine News Gippsland'' and later ''Nine News Local'' for a brief period between 2017 and 2021 that aired on the

primary channel when it was previously affiliated with Nine. Both national public broadcasters,

( ABC TV) and SBS (

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) are broadcast into the Latrobe Valley as well, via Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne. Additional digital multi-channels broadcast by all the networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called

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to viewers in the Latrobe Valley region. These channels include HD simulcasts of the primary channel (available on channels 20, 30, 50, 60 and 80). As well as

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for the Melbourne market (Seven, Nine and Ten) can also be received in

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in the Latrobe Valley with a suitable roof-top antenna with. Reception in the west Latrobe Valley, namely Moe, can receive these Melbourne transmissions clearly. Subscription television service

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(previously

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until 2014) is available via satellite.

References

External links

ABC Gipsland

Latrobe City Council official website

''Latrobe Valley Express''
{{Towns in the Latrobe Valley Gippsland Landforms of Victoria (Australia) Valleys of Australia