Sunshine is a suburb in

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, west of Melbourne's

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, located within the

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. Sunshine recorded a population of 9,445 at the . Sunshine, initially a town just outside Melbourne, is today a residential suburb with a mix of

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and post-War homes, with a

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that is an important retail centre in Melbourne's west. It is also one of Melbourne's principal places of employment outside the CBD with many industrial companies situated in the area, and is an important public transport hub with both

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and

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services at Sunshine railway station and its adjacent major bus interchange.

History

Sunshine Marketplace entrance in Sunshine, Victoria

19th century

The farms and settlements in the area now known as Sunshine first came under the Sunshine Road District (1860–1871) which later became the Shire of Braybrook (1871–1951). From 1860 to 1885 the only railway which passed through the area was the

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and the only railway station in the area was ''Albion & Darlington'' (opened 5 January 1860) at the site of the current Albion station. When the Ballarat line was built through the area, a new station was built at the junction of the two lines: this station opened on 7 September 1885 and was called Braybrook Junction as it was in the Shire of Braybrook. The area around the Braybrook Junction railway station then came to be known as Braybrook Junction. The Braybrook Junction Post Office opened on 25 August 1890.

20th century

Pre-war Sunshine

In 1904

H. V. McKay Hugh Victor McKay (21 August 1865 – 21 May 1926) was an Australian industrialist who is known for heading the company that developed the Sunshine Harvester, arguably the first commercially viable combine harvester. He subsequently establishe ...

bought a factory in the area called the Braybrook Implement Works. He also secured of land at Braybrook Junction with the aim of establishing housing to allow his future workers to live in the area, along the lines of a

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. The land became the ''Sunshine Estate'' (see below). In 1906 McKay moved his agricultural machinery manufacturing business from

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to his newly acquired factory in Braybrook Junction. The factory was renamed the

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and it became the largest manufacturing plant in Australia. In July 1907, the train station, the post office, and the shire riding's names were changed from Braybrook Junction to Sunshine after workers and residents had petitioned to do so in honour of McKay's Sunshine Harvester Works. Also in 1907 an industrial dispute between owner H. V. McKay and his workers at the Sunshine Harvester Works led to the

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, the benchmark industrial decision which led to the creation of a minimum living wage for Australian workers. The Sunshine train disaster on 20 April 1908 killed 44 people at Sunshine station.Sunshine Rail Disaster – 100 years on
Brimbank Leader 15 April 2008. In 1909, the ''H. V. McKay Sunshine Harvester Works Pipe Band'' was formed. This is one of Australia's oldest continuously functioning

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s and still exists as the ''Victoria Scottish Pipes & Drums''. Prue McGoldrick's ''My Paddock: An Early Twentieth Century Childhood'' is a memoir of growing up in Sunshine.

The Sunshine Estate and H. V. McKay's civic works

The land that H. V. McKay had earlier purchased to build housing for his workers on was developed by McKay as the '' Sunshine Estate'', a housing estate developed with reference to some of the ideals of the

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, an influential

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movement of the early 20th century. Infrastructure and

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established by McKay for the Sunshine Estate and the rest of Sunshine included electric street lighting, parks and sporting grounds, public buildings, schools, and a library. The town of Sunshine (not a suburb of Melbourne at this point) became regarded as a model industry-centred community. Housing for the McKay's employees swelled the local population and the town of Sunshine was touted as the "

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of Australia".

Post-war Sunshine

After

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, Sunshine increasingly became connected to the sprawling city of Melbourne as car-based travel enabled people to leave the inner city suburbs and move into houses on larger blocks in suburbia. In 1951, the old Shire of Braybrook was abolished and the

City of Sunshine The City of Sunshine was a local government area about west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1860 until 1994. History The local area was first incorporated as the Braybro ...

was established. Sunshine was not immune when many Australian-based manufacturing industries started winding down during and after the 1970s. In 1992, the

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factory, formerly the Sunshine Harvester Works, was demolished to make way for the development of the Sunshine Marketplace. On 15 December 1994, the City of Sunshine was abolished and Sunshine became part of the newly created

21st century

Sunshine is now both a low-density residential suburb and one of Melbourne's principal places of employment outside the CBD. Many heavy and light industrial companies are situated in and around the area and it is an important retail centre in Melbourne's west. In addition to Sunshine's street shopping strips there are two shopping centres, the Sunshine Plaza and the Sunshine Marketplace. There is a

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multiplex, the "Village 20 Sunshine Megaplex", at the Sunshine Marketplace. Educational institutions in Sunshine include Victoria Polytechnic (the

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division of Victoria University). Secondary schools include Sunshine College and Harvester Technical College.

Demographics

Sunshine is a highly multicultural suburb. In the post-WWII period, many immigrants from all over continental Europe settled in Sunshine. Today Sunshine still has significant populations from Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, and Poland. It is also the main centre for Melbourne's Maltese community: indeed, the only branch of

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in the whole of

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is situated on Watt Street, Sunshine. From the late 1970s, many Vietnamese refugees settled in Sunshine and surrounding areas. The Vietnamese have opened small businesses such as groceries and restaurants throughout the Sunshine town centre. More recently, immigrants moving to Sunshine have come from

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and

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. In 2016, Sunshine had a population of 9,768. The most common ancestries given in the 2016 census were: Australian 11.4%, English 12.5%, Vietnamese 12.9%, Chinese 5.9% and Irish 5.0%. For country of birth, 42% of people were born in Australia while the other most common countries of birth were Vietnam with 12.6%, India 5.7%, Burma 4.0%, Philippines 2.0%, and Nepal 2.0%.

Transport

Sunshine station bike underpass, northern aspect

Sunshine railway station was completely redeveloped as part of the

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. Works began in 2012 and were complete by mid-2014. It is both a suburban

station and an interchange for

(regional) passenger services. Classed as a

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, it is in the PTV zones 1+2 overlap. Sunshine station is one of Victoria's most important regional rail hubs: all three of the main western region V/Line lines (

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and

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) meet at Sunshine. Geelong services have stopped at Sunshine since the opening of the

in 2015. The Sydney to Melbourne XPT passes through Sunshine, as it uses the

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, but it does not stop there. Sunshine also has one of Melbourne's major suburban bus interchanges, which was upgraded as part of the

works in 2014. This is situated directly adjacent to the Sunshine Railway Station. In a 2018 study Sunshine was named one of the 20 most

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suburbs in Melbourne’s middle suburbia. Cyclists in Sunshine are represented by BrimBUG, the Brimbank

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Community facilities

Hue Quang Temple, a Vietnamese Buddhist temple, is located in the suburb.

Sport and leisure

Kororoit Creek, Sunshine - looking downstream

The heritage-listed H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens on Anderson Road, established in 1909 by H.V. McKay as ''Sunshine Gardens'', is one of two remaining ''industrial gardens'' in Australia. The

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runs through Sunshine, along which runs the

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for walking and cycling. The Sunshine Football Club, the ''Sunshine Kangaroos'', are the local

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football team. They compete in the

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. The Sunshine Cricket Club, the ''Sunshine Crows'', is based at Dempster Park in

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. The Sunshine Park Tennis Club is based at Parsons Reserve Sunshine. Sunshine Cowboys play rugby league in

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. The Sunshine George Cross Football Club, the ''Sunshine Georgies'', are the local

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soccer team. Their home ground is

Chaplin Reserve Chaplin Reserve was an Australian football (soccer) stadium in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It was the home of Sunshine George Cross from 1980 to 2017, buying the facility from the State Government in 1997. The stadium had a capa ...

on Anderson Road. The Sunshine Baseball Club, the ''Sunshine Eagles'', have their baseball field in Barclay Reserve on Talmage Street, Albion. Golfers play at the course of the Sunshine Golf Club on Mt Derrimut Road,

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. It relocated from the Fitzgerald Road course in November 2007. There are two popular video and

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s located in central Sunshine: ''Fun City Entertainment Centre'' and the

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Gaming Complex at Sunshine Marketplace. There is also the Sunshine Rollerskating Centre. The Sunshine Leisure Centre contains a swimming pool, gym and other facilities. There is also the ''SG 24/7 Gym'' and the ''Bodytek Boutique Health & Fitness Club''.

Notable residents

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, London-based

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artist and designer. *

Doug Chappel Doug Chappel is an Australian comedian who grew up in the working class suburbs of Footscray and Sunshine in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. Chappel is also known for his work in the community with homeless youth and troubled teenagers. Once ho ...

, comedian, actor. *

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, former World champion boxer. Grew up in West Sunshine. * Reverend John Flynn, the Presbyterian minister and aviator who founded the

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and who is featured on the current

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. * Charles Greenwood, pastor who revived the

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church in Australia. *

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, artist who grew up in Sunshine. *

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and 2010 Winter Olympic gold medallist who grew up and went to school in Sunshine. *

Hugh Victor McKay Hugh Victor McKay (21 August 1865 – 21 May 1926) was an Australian industrialist who is known for heading the company that developed the Sunshine Harvester, arguably the first commercially viable combine harvester. He subsequently establish ...

, leading Australian industrialist of the early 20th century; founder of the

. *

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r of the 1940s and 50s. Born in Sunshine. *

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, one of Australia's premier golfers. Born in Sunshine. * Walter "Wally" Peeler, WWI soldier,

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and

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winner and first custodian of the

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. *

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, who had an extended stay at the Derrimut Hotel in 1945. *

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, lead singer of

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who lived in Sunshine as a child. *

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, Cypriot-born, Sunshine-raised performance artist. * Richard Tyler, born 1947, fashion designer in New York and Hollywood. *

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, stand-up comedian and radio and television personality.

In popular culture

* The disused former Albion Quarrying Company site, accessed from Hulett Street, Sunshine was the location for

's 1976

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music video.Evans, Mark, ''Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside AC/DC'', Bazillion Points, 2011 * In the 1997 film '' The Castle'', the Kerrigans' daughter Tracey obtained her hairdressing qualification from Sunshine

. * In the television series ''

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'', Kath Day-Knight has obtained numerous qualifications from Sunshine TAFE. * Sunshine is the setting of the 2007 film ''

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''. * Sunshine and surrounding suburbs are the principal settings of the 2017 SBS drama series ''

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''. * The shape of Sunshine is said to be similar to a Qilin/Kirin, a legendary one-horned creature that appears in Chinese/Japanese/Korean mythology that symbolises good luck and prosperity''

References

External links

Sunshine & District Historical SocietyFriends of the H V McKay Memorial GardensHerald-Sun: In defence of Sunshine: Surprising facts you may not know about Melbourne’s sunny suburb
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