Carwarp is a locality in Victoria,

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, approximately 36 km from

Mildura, Victoria Mildura ( ) is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 at the 2021 census. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point, Merbein and Red ...

. Carwarp was the home town of

Percy Stewart Percy Gerald Stewart (18 October 1885 – 15 October 1931) was an Australian politician. He was an original member of the Victorian Farmers' Union and long a radical campaigner for farming interests. He helped bring down Stanley Bruce's go ...

, a founding member of the Victorian Farmers Union, from which the Country Party (now National Party of Australia) emerged. Stewart served in both the

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, where he represented the electoral district of Mildura, and in the federal parliament for the

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electorate of

Wimmera The Victorian government's Wimmera Southern Mallee subregion is part of the Grampians region in western Victoria. It includes most of what is considered the Wimmera, and part of the southern Mallee region. The subregion is based on the social ...

. Another parliamentarian from Carwarp was Albert Allnutt, who represented the electoral district of Mildura in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1927 until 1945.Albert George
Parliament of Victoria Carwarp is the location for the Mildura Solar Concentrator Power Station, with other solar power plants nearby. The Post Office opened on 17 November 1913 and closed in 1992.

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