Moe ( ) is a town in the

Latrobe Valley The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical district and urban area of the Gippsland region in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The traditional owners are the Braiakaulung people, Brayakaulung of the Gunai language, Gun ...

in the

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region of

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, Australia. It is approximately east of the

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, due south of the peak of

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 signifi ...

in the Great Dividing Range and features views of the Baw Baw Ranges to the north and

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 exp ...

to the south. At June 2018, Moe had an estimated urban population of 16,812 Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. (including Newborough). The population has been slowly shrinking with an average annual rate of -0.1% year-on-year for the five years to 2018. It is administered by the

Latrobe City Council The City of Latrobe is a local government area in the Gippsland region in eastern Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 75,211. It is primarily urban with the ...

. Moe was originally known as ''The Mowie'', then ''Little Moi''. The town's name is believed to derive from a

Kurnai The Gunaikurnai or Gunai/Kurnai ( ) people, also referred to as the Gunnai or Kurnai, are an Aboriginal Australian nation of south-east Australia. They are the Traditional Custodians of most of present-day Gippsland and much of the southern slop ...

(local Indigenous) word meaning "swamp land". Moe is a navigation point and stopover for tourists en route to

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, the historic goldfields township of Walhalla, the

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and

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 1.5 ...

is nearby, and Moe is home to the annual Moe Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival and the recreated historic settlement

Old Gippstown Old Gippstown is an open-air museum and reconstructed pioneer township located in Moe, Victoria, Australia. It portrays the settlement era of Gippsland from the 1850s through to the 1950s. Set in three hectares of parkland, the Park is now visi ...

. The city has locally produced

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art and is regularly home to local Australian Football and Netball Finals in the Gippsland Football & Netball Leagues and the

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. The region is represented by

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 Me ...

in the

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competition.

History

A small gold discovery was made in 1852. The small settlement on the Narracan Creek was a stopover en route to the Walhalla goldfields further north. A Post Office opened on 17 March 1862. In 1878 the

Shire of Narracan The Shire of Narracan was a local government area about east-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1878 until 1994. History Narracan was first incorporated as a sh ...

was proclaimed, and the railway arrived from

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 governm ...

Moe railway station Moe railway station is located on the Gippsland line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Moe, and it opened on 1 March 1878.roundhouse Roundhouse may refer to: Architecture and buildings Types * Roundhouse (dwelling), a kind of house with circular walls, prehistoric and modern, all over the world **Atlantic roundhouse, an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and wester ...

, and connections to the now-closed Walhalla, Thorpdale and

Yallourn Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. However, expansion of the a ...

lines. The town was surveyed in 1879. Moe was declared a city in 1963. A major local industry is based around the

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deposits in the

east of Moe and

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generation. The area is also noted for its

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industry. Moe High School opened in 1953, with the Official opening in November of the same year. The school was closed and merged into

Lowanna Secondary College Lowanna College is located in Newborough, Victoria. The college draws its enrolment from Moe/ Newborough, and district towns of Yallourn North, Erica, Rawson, Willow Grove and the surrounding rural areas. In 2015 the school has a student pop ...

in 1994, with the previous Moe High School location becoming a housing estate.

Population

On the night of the 2011 census there were 15,292 residing in the Moe urban centre: 51.7% female and 48.3% male. At the time Moe had an

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(

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) population of 1.4%, whilst 79.8% of the overall population were Australian born caucasians. The other main countries of origin were: England (4%), Netherlands (1.5%), Scotland (1.2%), Germany (1.1%) and Malta (1.1%).

Development

Moe Railway Precinct Revitalisation Project: A clock tower was constructed in 2012 incorporating two bronze clocks that chime on the hour. The clocks were manufactured in Moe by local clockmaker Alan Cox. Electricity supply lines on George Street (one of Moe's main streets that intersects with Moore Street from Saviges Road to Anzac Road) have recently been placed underground at a cost of over $2 million. The undergrounding included the installation of new street lighting and two 66KV distribution boxes which will be used to place the remaining supply lines in the CBD underground in the future. Moe has three large urban housing developments.
Mitchell Grove
(off Mitchells Road) is a two-kilometre walk west of the CBD of Moe and has two residential housing stages (Mitchell Grove Stage 1 & Mitchell Views) next to a newly completed artificial wetland. The first entrance street to the new development has been named Discovery Boulevarde. Mitchell Grove development is likely to exceed 1,000 residences.
Monash Views
is a 221-lot development in final implementation off Monash Road and Coach road in the suburb of Newborough approximately five kilometres from the Moe CBD. The development plan includes a partial redevelopment of the Yallourn Golf Club which borders the estate to the north by Ogilvy-Clayton. The final size of Monash Views development through to Haunted Hills Road may exceed 1,000 residences. Another large-scale development is in final planning stage near Lake Narracan, a few kilometres from the Moe CBD. The development will be bordered by Thompsons Road, Moe Golf Club, Hayes Road and the south shore of Lake Narracan—then extending to Becks Bridge Road to the west. The first developed section is in an area planned to have around 1,000 homes—of a total of approximately 4,000.

Education

Moe is serviced by a number of primary schools including: * Moe (Albert Street) Primary School * Moe (South Street) Primary School * Moe (Elizabeth Street) Primary School * St Kieran's Primary School (Catholic) * Barringa Special School (Day Special School) * St Mary's Primary School (Catholic) * Newborough Primary (Murray Road) * Newborough East Primary Moe is also serviced by two secondary colleges: *

, a single campus year 7–12 state secondary college located in nearby Newborough, and *

Lavalla Catholic College Lavalla Catholic College is a dual-campus independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in the towns of Traralgon and Newborough in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Currently, the school has approxim ...

, a multi campus Catholic secondary college with its year 7–9 Presentation campus located in Newborough. Tertiary education is offered through GippsTAFE (Yallourn, Warragul, Leongatha, Morwell).

Federation University Federation University Australia (Fed Uni) is a public, multi-sector university based in Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The university also has campuses in Ararat, Horsham, Stawell, Churchill, Berwick, and Brisbane, as well as online techni ...

also has its Gippsland campus at nearby

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Economy

The economy is mainly driven by the

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, natural resources and the

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including

coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

, processing and fossil-fuel power generation for the

National Electricity Market The National Electricity Market (NEM) is an arrangement in Australia's electricity sector for the connection of the electricity transmission grids of the eastern and southern Australia states and territories to create a cross-state wholesale elec ...

. The local

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

industry is involved in the production of

wool Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool. ...

and

products, as well as

vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems ...

growing.

Sporting facilities

Moe has a varied and wide range of sporting facilities available for use.

Vale Street sports facilities

Ted Summerton Reserve

Australian Football & Cricket Ted Summerton Reserve in the west end of Vale Street, Moe is used for

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and

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 ...

and is a 900-metre walk south along Fowler Street to Vale Street from the Moe V/line train station and CBD. The reserve is undergoing development and has recently had an upgrading of its facilities including an upgrade to the players facilities, preparation of the surrounds of the playing surface for spectator stands to be constructed, spectator terracing, new South Street entrance gate, upgraded scoreboard, and the development of a shared community facility called Moe P.L.A.C.E on the property borderline between the reserve and the adjacent South Street Primary School, far enough back from the eastern wing of the playing surface for a future spectator stand.
The Moe P.L.A.C.E. facility is accessible from both Ted Summerton Reserve and South Street Primary School seeing as it has S.S.P.S on one side and Ted Summerton Reserve on the other, and was completed in 2011. The facility is part of th
Moe Southside Community Precinct
and includes a sports hall with side music room and stage at its northern end, community facilities and an Early Learning Centre at its southern end. The development is part of the Moe Southside Precinct development. Moe has an Australian rules football team competing in the

Gippsland League The Gippsland League (formerly known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only AFL Victoria major league in Gipps ...

, th
Moe Lions
whose home ground is Ted Summerton Reserve. The reserve is owned by government, administered by

and has a permanently elliptical surface. The reserve is named after Edward (Ted/Toby) Summerton (1917-1990) who served many years as both a Councillor and Mayor for the former City of Moe.

Olympic Park

Soccer

Olympic Park in Moe is located next to the outdoor swimming pool at the east end of Vale Street and is used for soccer. It has two rectangular pitches, one north–south and one east–west. It is the home ground for Moe United Soccer Club who play in the

Latrobe Valley Soccer League Latrobe Valley Soccer League (LVSL) is a soccer league encompassing much of Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley. The association's headquarters are based in the Morwell, Victoria ( Victoria), and are affiliated under the auspices of Football Victo ...

. The Victorian regional leagues are the eighth level of soccer in

, and the ninth nationally. A new community sports building is on the east side at Olympic Park. The reserve is owned by government, administered b
Latrobe City Council

Moe Outdoor Pool

The Olympic Pool in Moe is at the east end of Vale Street next to the Olympic Park Reserve. The Moe Outdoor Pool features a 50m Pool, Children's Pool, Diving Pool, Kiosk & Electric BBQs, Beach Volleyball Court, Change Facilities, Ample grass & shade shelters. The pool has recently undergone a multi-million-dollar upgrade. It boasts a separate diving pool, a 50-metre pool and a newly constructed children's pool with an interactive splashpad. The reconstruction works were carried out by local businesses and administered by Latrobe City Counci.

Latrobe Leisure Moe Newborough

The local leisure centre consists of a 25-metre, six-lane indoor heated pool, a unisex spa at one end of the complex and sauna at the other, gymnasium with both electronic and state-of-the-art pin-loaded equipment (including rowers, treadmills, exercise bikes and steppers), squash court, 400-metre all-weather athletics track and grass field with asphalt cycling track around the perimeter, night lighting for the athletics track and indoor sports halls featuring four full-sized indoor basketball courts that are utilised by local basketball, netball, volleyball and badminton associations. The complex also has ample parkland around it and the Newborough Football Ground is also adjacent to the complex.

Lake Narracan

is located immediately to the north of Moe. Lake Narracan is increasingly being used for recreational purposes, including water-skiing, jet skiing and recreational fishing and has a small caravan park and water-ski club.

Moe Golf Club & Yallourn Golf Club

There are two golf courses, the Moe Golf Club on Thompsons Road, Newborough and the Yallourn Golf Club in Monash Road, Newborough.

Horse Racing

Moe has a horse racing club, the Moe Racing Club, which schedules around fifteen race meetings a year including the Moe Cup meeting in October. The racecourse is in Waterloo Road within walking distance of the centre of Moe.

Lawn Bowls

Yallourn Bowling Club & Moe Bowling Club

Yallourn Bowling Club is on the corner of Monash Road and Coach Road in Newborough and is host of the

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Classic Singles tournament.http://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/eventdetails/yallourn-bowling-club-truenergy-classic-singles/46987.aspx Moe Bowling Club is on the corner of Saviges Road and Waterloo Road in Moe, a very short walk from the Moe Train Station and CBD.

Tennis

Moe Tennis Club & Latrobe Indoor Tennis Club

Moe Tennis Club
is on Botanic Drive in the Moe Botanic Gardens a short distance from the Moe CBD. The facility features 15 outdoor synpave courts with seven under lights for night tennis and a club house. The club is affiliated with Latrobe Valley Tennis Association Junior Competition and Loy Yang Yinnar & District Association Senior Competition. A short distance away (over the Moe-Yallourn Rail Trail to the North of the Botanic Gardens) is th
Latrobe Indoor Tennis Centre
in Haigh Street, Moe featuring five indoor courts.

Mount Baw Baw

Nearby

and

Mount St Gwinear Mount St Gwinear is a mountain in Victoria, Australia, located at the north-east end of the Baw Baw National Park in the Gippsland high country. It is popular with families looking for a cheap and accessible snow-play/tobogganing destination a ...

are popular destinations for snow sports, with Mount Baw Baw having a small ski resort and Mount St Gwinear used for

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Transport

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runs a passenger rail service to Moe station as part of the Traralgon and Gippsland V/Line rail services which runs to Melbourne's major stations

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and Flinders Street. Currently, services that run to the Latrobe Valley are listed as Traralgon services. Moe is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes from the CBD of Melbourne by train. The V/Line rail line to the Latrobe Valley has recently been upgraded by the State Government of Victoria for fast-rail; future express services from Melbourne's CBD to the Latrobe Valley could cut the travel time to Moe to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Latrobe Valley Buslines provides local services around Moe and other cities in the Latrobe Valley. Moe is an approximate 100-minute drive from the centre of Melbourne via the

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. Latrobe Valley Airport is approximately a twenty-minute drive.

Media

Moe is serviced by the ''Latrobe Valley Express'' newspaper, which used to include a weekly insert called the ''Moe Narracan News''. The ''Latrobe Valley Express'' is delivered free to residences in the Latrobe Valley region and has a current circulation of approximately 34,128 (CAB). ''The Warragul & Drouin Gazette'' is also available for purchase.

Warragul Warragul is a town in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north. As of the , the town had a population of 1 ...

commercial radio stations 531AM

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and 94.3/97.9

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 W ...

service this region along with all five

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(ABC) radio networks and several community and narrowcast stations. Commercial Melbourne based television networks such as the

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networks are all re-broadcast in the

by their regional affiliates, which are

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and

Southern Cross 10 10 Regional is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia, television network owned by Southern Cross Austereo that is broadcast in Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and South Aus ...

, respectively. All three channels have local commercials placed on their broadcasts and WIN TV also broadcasts a state-wide regional news bulletin from Monday to Friday at 5:30 p.m. New channels broadcast by the commercial networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called

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to viewers in Moe and the Gippsland and Latrobe Valley region. These channels include

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, 7Two,

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9GEM 9Gem is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, launched by the Nine Network in September 2010. The channel provides general entertainment and movie programming, from which the original name "GEM" is derived. History Nine N ...

and

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. Most Melbourne channels (Seven Network, Channel Nine, Channel Ten) are

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in Moe with a suitable roof-top antenna. Both national public broadcasters,

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—including channels

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—and

Special Broadcasting Service The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS Wor ...

—including

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and

SBS Viceland SBS Viceland (stylised as SBS VICELAND) is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). It began as SBS TWO on 1 June 2009, and was branded as SBS 2 between 2013 and 2016. On 8 April 2017, SBS ...

, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.

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player; member of

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's 1970 premiership team) *

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(VFL player; premiership winner with

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in 1976 and

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in 1980) * John Somerville (VFL Player; member of

Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington *Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport *Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League United King ...

's 1962 premiership team) *

Peter Somerville Peter Somerville (born 8 July 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 160 games for Essendon in the AFL. A ruckman, and son of John Somerville, he shared rucking duties with Paul Salmon for much of his career. He was a premi ...

(AFL player; member of Essendon's 1993 premiership team) *

Josiah Brooks Josiah Alan Brooks (born 20 April 1989), known online by the mononym Jazza, is an Australian YouTuber, artist, animator, and presenter best known for his "quirky" art tutorials, humorous challenges, and detailed animations. , his five YouTube c ...

, a.k.a. Jazza, YouTuber

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