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Sunbury () is a suburb in
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, Victoria,
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, north-west of Melbourne's
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, located within the City of Hume
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. Sunbury recorded a population of 38,851 at the . Statistically, Sunbury is considered part of Greater Melbourne, as per the Victorian Government's 2009 decision to extend the urban growth boundary in 2011 to include the area, giving its land urban status and value.


History

The Sunbury area has several important Aboriginal archaeological sites, including five earth rings, which were identified in the 1970s and 1980s, and believed to have been used for ceremonial gatherings. Records of
corroboree A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony, a festive celebration, or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the ...
s and other large gatherings during early settlement attest to the importance of the area for Aboriginal people of the
Wurundjeri The Wurundjeri people are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the Traditional Owners of the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, covering much of the present location of Narrm ( Melbo ...
tribe. One Indigenous name for the area of unknown language and meaning is 'Koorakoorakup'. Sunbury was first settled in 1836, by George Evans and William Jackson. It was Jackson and his brother, Samuel, who named the township Sunbury, after
Sunbury-on-Thames Sunbury-on-Thames (or commonly Sunbury) is a suburban town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, centred southwest of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, in 1965 Sunbury and other ...
, in
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,
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when it was established in 1857. The Post Office opened on 13 January 1858. Sunbury's connection with the history and development of Victoria is influential because of its most famous and powerful citizen, "Big" Clarke. In 1837, Clarke came to the area, and gained vast pastoral licences encompassing Sunbury,
Clarkefield Clarkefield () is a town in Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume and the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government areas. Clarkefield recorded a population of 303 at the 202 ...
and Monegeetta. His role as one of the biggest pastoralists in the colony, and his power and position within the
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, were highly significant in the early years of Victoria. During the early decades of self-government in the Colony of Victoria there was a continual struggle in parliament, between the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council for ascendancy and the control of government. It was Council members, such as Clarke, who attempted to negate what they saw as the excesses of manhood suffrage,
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and
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, as embodied in the Assembly, in order to protect their own position. "Big" Clarke, as a member of the so-called bunyip aristocracy, also helped to frustrate legislative measures involving opening land to small farm selectors. '' Melbourne Punch'' depicted Clarke in anti-
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cartoons, such as "The Man in Possession" In 1859, "Big" Clarke was involved in a scandal around the discovery of gold on his holdings in Deep Creek. Shares in the Bolinda company soared and Clarke sold his shares at the peak of the rush, before the fraud was exposed. The gold assay was actually 'salted', possibly via a shotgun blast of golden pellets into the samples. Clarke claimed the rich assay was proved when washed in a soup bowl. The ever-barbed ''Melbourne Punch'' explained how the fraud worked in a cartoon of a chipped Chinese Willow Pattern plate titled "The Soup Plate". In 1874, Clarke's son
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built a mansion on an estate named "
Rupertswood Rupertswood is a mansion and country estate located in Sunbury, 50km north-northwest of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is well known as the birthplace of The Ashes urn which was humorously presented to English cricket captain Ivo Bligh ...
", after his own son,
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. The estate had access to a private
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. Though the station was constructed in the late 19th century, the Clarkes did not pay the railways for its construction until the 1960s. (Rupertswood railway station was closed as a result of the Regional Fast Rail project and is now only a disused platform). The Clarkes also had a connection to the Kelly Gang story via their police connection with Superintendent Hare. The younger William was the president of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and it was through that position that the touring English cricket team came to spend the
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of 1882 at Rupertswood. On Christmas Eve, the English team played a social game of cricket against a local team. Lady Clarke took one or more bails, burnt them, and put the ashes in a small urn, wrapped in a red velvet bag, which she presented to the English Captain,
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. She proposed that the ashes be used as a perpetual trophy for matches between the two countries.
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has since become one of the world's most sought-after sporting trophies. In 1922, the Clarke family sold the property to H V McKay, the owner of the Sunshine Harvester Works, who died in 1926. His estate sold the property in 1927 to the
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Catholic order. Until recently, the mansion and surrounding property were used for educational and agricultural purposes, and as a boarding school for students undertaking both academic and agricultural endeavours. The school, known as Salesian College, Rupertswood, is still located on the property. The mansion has been restored, and is used for weddings and other formal functions. In the early 1970s, the area, which was then still largely rural, became famous in Australia as the site of the Sunbury Pop Festival, which was held annually from 1972 to 1975.


Culture

Sunbury's residents represent diverse cultural backgrounds, and include a major working-class sector, dependent on proximity to major manufacturing and transport hubs, such as Melbourne Airport which is only from the township. A recent trend for people who work in the Melbourne CBD to trade longer commute times for a more economic lifestyle (due to cheaper housing), has seen the population of Sunbury grow in number, with numerous new housing estates ringing the borders of the established township. Sunbury's population was recorded as being 25,086 in the 2001 census, and is estimated at 34,000 in , making it the 38th largest urban centre by population in Australia.


Retail and entertainment

Sunbury has a town centre containing Boost Juice, Jaycar Electronics, Calco Electrical, Coles,
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,
FoodWorks FoodWorks is an Australian supermarket chain run by independent retail group Australian United Retailers Limited (AURL). The AURL was created in November 2004 from the merger of the FoodWorks Supermarket Group Ltd (FSG) and Australian United R ...
and
IGA Iga may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Ambush at Iga Pass, a 1958 Japanese film * Iga no Kagemaru, Japanese manga series * Iga, a set of characters from the Japanese novel '' The Kouga Ninja Scrolls'' Biology * ''Iga'' (beetle), a g ...
supermarkets, as well as
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, Cotton On and
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, The Good Guys, Godfrey's department stores. Away from the town centre is an
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Supermarket, and Bunnings Warehouse hardware store. There are also many food outlets located in Sunbury such as
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, Vics Cuisine, Rocquette, Restaurant 77, Schnitz, and a variety of pizza restaurants, fish and chip shops and Asian restaurants. Sunbury also has many cafes to dine at such as The Spotted Owl, Sacco Coffee, café Circe and Mac's Lounge. Sunbury has a Reading Cinema, three Hotels and The Alley, a 330-person capacity nightclub.


Transport


Bus

Nine bus routes service Sunbury: * : Westfield Airport WestSunbury station via Melbourne Airport. Operated by CDC Melbourne. * : Sunbury station – Mount Lion. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station –
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via Diggers Rest. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station – Wilsons Lane. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station – Rolling Meadows. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station – Killara Heights. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station – Jacksons Hill. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. * : Sunbury station – Canterbury Hills. Operated by Sunbury Bus Service. *
Lancefield Lancefield is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government area in Victoria, Australia north of the state capital, Melbourne and had a population of 2,743 at the 2021 census. History The area was used by the indigenous aborigina ...
– Sunbury –
Clarkefield Clarkefield () is a town in Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume and the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government areas. Clarkefield recorded a population of 303 at the 202 ...
via
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and Monegeetta. Operated by
Dysons Dysons is a bus and coach operator in Victoria, Australia. History Dysons was founded in June 1952 when Laurie Dyson purchased the business of Ned Gastin with route 46A Regent station to Janefield Hospital. Over the years a number of route ...
.


Train

Sunbury station is connected by Metro services to Melbourne on the Sunbury Line and by
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services on the
Bendigo line The Deniliquin railway line (also known as the Echuca railway line) is a broad-gauge railway line serving northwestern Victoria, Australia. The line runs from the border settlement of Deniliquin into Bendigo, before turning south-southeast tow ...
to both Melbourne and country Victoria. V/Line services are not as frequent as those on the metropolitan Metro service – an approximate hourly frequency is provided by V/Line on weekdays, although on weekends service levels can be as infrequent as once every 80 minutes. The State Government electrified the tracks between Sunbury and Sydenham in a $270 million investment, bringing more frequent passenger services to the town – these Metro services started operating on 18 November 2012.


Education

Primary schools * Sunbury West Primary School * Sunbury Primary School * Sunbury Heights Primary School * Killara Primary School * Kismet Park Primary School * St Anne's Primary School * Our Lady of Mount Carmel Primary School * Goonawarra Primary School Secondary schools and high schools *
Sunbury Downs College Sunbury Downs College is a secondary College located in the north-west regional town of Sunbury, Victoria, Australia. The College is set on a single campus located within the northern Melbourne suburb of Sunbury and caters for students in Years ...
(formerly Sunbury Post-primary School) * Sunbury College (formerly Sunbury Secondary College, Sunbury High School) * Salesian College Others * Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Special School


Sport

Sunbury is represented in the following sporting leagues: *
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** Sunbury Little Athletics Centre Inc *
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
** Sunbury Football Club ( Ballarat Football League) ** Sunbury Kangaroos Junior Football Club (
Riddell District Football League The Riddell District Football Netball League (RDFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball league in Victoria, Australia. The RDFNL covers towns in the Macedon Ranges and an area from Rockbank in the south to Broadford in the north. ...
) �
club official website
** Rupertswood Football Club (
Victorian Amateur Football Association The Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) is the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria. It consists of seven senior men's and women's divisions ranging from Premier to Division 4. In addition there ...
) �
club official website
** East Sunbury Sporting Group – Seniors and juniors Football Club (Essendon District Football League) �
club official website
*
Bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
** Australian Bandy League is based here. *
Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...
** Sunbury Badminton Club Inc *
Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
** Sunbury Titans Baseball club *
Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
** Sunbury Basketball Association **
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Basketball *
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** Sunbury Bicycle User Group *
Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
** Sunbury Cricket Club, Clarke Oval ** Gisborne and District Cricket Association ** East Sunbury Cricket Club ** Sunbury Kangaroos Cricket Club ** Sunbury United Cricket Club ** Rupertswood Cricket Club *
Dancing Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoi ...
** Roselind Calisthenics ** Classique School of Dance ** Flash Dance ** Sunbury school of Calisthenics ** Hotpink Dance Centre ** Shirley Rogers Academy of Dance ** Concept Performing Arts *
Girl Guides Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909 when girls requested to join the then-grassroot ...
** Sunbury Leadbeater Guides (Age 5–7 years) ** Sunbury Sugarglider Guides (Age 5–7 years) ** Sunbury Wongguri Guides (Age 7–11 years) ** Sunbury Kamballa Guides (Age 11–14 years) ** Sunbury Bluebell Guides (Age 14–17 years) *
Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
** Golfers play at the course of the Goonawarra Golf Club at Francis Boulevard, Sunbury. ** Sunbury Golf Range located just off Sunbury Road on the way to Melbourne Airport. * Horse riding ** Sunbury Pony Club ** Sunbury Riding Centre * Lawn Bowls ** Royal Victorian Bowls Association – Metro ** Sunbury Bowling Club **Victorian Ladies' Bowls Association *
Rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
** Sunbury Tigers (Victorian Rugby League) �
club official website
** Junior Side (Melbourne Junior Rugby League) *
Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
** Sunbury United (Victorian State League 2) ** Sunbury United Junior Football Club *
Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
** Sunbury Softball Association * Swimming *
Sunbury Amateur Swimming Club
** Aqua Wolves Swimming Club *
Table Tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
** The Sunbury & District Table Tennis Association �
club official website
*
Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
** Sunbury Lawn Tennis Club ** Mt. Carmel Tennis Club


Politics

Sunbury is represented by Cr Trevor Dance, Cr Jarrod Bell and Cr Steve (Jack) Medcraft in the Jacksons Creek Ward of the City of Hume. At State level, Sunbury is in the
Electoral district of Sunbury The electoral district of Sunbury is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election. It is a new ...
, represented by
Josh Bull Joshua Michael Bull (born 4 April 1985) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the seat of Sunbury. Early life and education Bull was born in 19 ...
. Federally, Sunbury is located in the
Division of McEwen The Division of McEwen is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. Classed as a rural seat, the electorate is located in the centre of the state, north of its capital city Melbourne. It includes the outer northern suburbs of ...
, represented by Rob Mitchell.


Notable people

*
Mark Blicavs Mark Blicavs ( ; born 28 March 1991) is a professional Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He made his debut for the club in round one of the 2013 AFL season. Early life Blicavs' ...
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footballer *
Sara Blicavs Sara Blicavs ( lv, Sāra Blicava; born 15 February 1993) is an Australian professional basketball player. She currently plays for the Southside Flyers in the WNBL Blicavs was a member of the Australian Women's basketball team (Opals) at the 2 ...
WNBL player and
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player * Matthew Egan – Australian rules footballer *
Cameron Guthrie Cameron (Mr Worried) Guthrie (born 19 August 1992) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL career Guthrie was drafted with the 23rd selection in the 2010 AFL draft after pla ...
– Australian rules footballer *
Zach Guthrie Zach Guthrie (born 30 June 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Geelong with their second selection and thirty-third overall in the ...
– Australian rules footballer * Mark Johnson – Australian rules footballer * James Kelly – Australian rules footballer * Jamie Maclaren – Australian
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, striker for Melbourne City FC, Hibernian F.C. and
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* Shirley McKerrow – Politician, first woman elected Federal President of any Australian political party * Nathan Phillips – Actor * David Schwarz – Australian rules footballer * Cassi Van Den Dungen – Model, runner-up in 2009 on Australia's Next Top Model * Cameron Wight – Australian rules footballer * Linden Hall – Athlete


See also

*
Shire of Bulla The Shire of Bulla was a local government area about northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1862 until 1994. History The Bulla Road District was created on 16 Septem ...
– Sunbury was previously within this former local government area. *
Rupertswood Rupertswood is a mansion and country estate located in Sunbury, 50km north-northwest of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is well known as the birthplace of The Ashes urn which was humorously presented to English cricket captain Ivo Bligh ...
* Salesian College * Sunbury Bus Service *
Sunbury Downs College Sunbury Downs College is a secondary College located in the north-west regional town of Sunbury, Victoria, Australia. The College is set on a single campus located within the northern Melbourne suburb of Sunbury and caters for students in Years ...
* Sunbury Industrial School * Sunbury Lunatic Asylum *
Sunbury-on-Thames Sunbury-on-Thames (or commonly Sunbury) is a suburban town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, centred southwest of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, in 1965 Sunbury and other ...
* Sunbury Pop Festival * Sunbury railway station


Historical bibliography

* O'Brien, Antony. ''Shenanigans on the Ovens Goldfields: the 1859 election'', Artillery Publishing, Hartwell, 2005. (details on the Bolinda Company gold scam and 'Big'Clarke's role in Upper House) * Serle, Geoffrey. ''The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851-1861'', Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1963. (gold, squatters and government) * Spreadbrough Robert and Anderson, Hugh. ''Victorian Squatters'', Red Rooster, Ascot Vale, 1983. (detailed maps of squatters runs in the district) * Turner, Henry Giles, ''A History of the Colony of Victoria: from its discovery to its absorption in the Commonwealth of Australia, Vols 1 & 2'', Melbourne, 1904.


References


External links


Sunbury 3429

The Carroll Directory

Sunbury Online

Hume City Council

Sunbury Community Festival

Sunbury Radio 3NRG

Sunbury Family History Society

Sunbury Swimming Club
{{Authority control Suburbs of Melbourne Suburbs of the City of Hume