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Ararat, Victoria

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Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera. [1]

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Air chief marshal (Australia)

Air chief marshal (abbreviated as ACM) is the highest active rank of the Royal Australian Air Force and was created as a direct equivalent of the British Royal Air Force rank of air chief marshal.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Aradale Mental Hospital

Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, a rural city in Victoria, Australia.

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Ararat Airport

Ararat Airport is located south-west of Ararat, Victoria, Australia on the Western Highway.

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Ararat Football Club

The Ararat Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Wimmera Football League (WFL).

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Ararat railway station

Ararat railway station is located on the Serviceton and Western standard gauge lines, in Victoria, Australia.

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Ararat Regional Art Gallery

Ararat Regional Art Gallery is a public art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ararat.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two Houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Avoca railway line

The Maryborough–Avoca–Ararat railway is a railway line in western Victoria, Australia.

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Ballarat

Ballarat is a city located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Ballarat V/Line rail service

The Ballarat V/Line rail service is a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia.

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Boomtown

A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Challicum Hills Wind Farm

Challicum Hills Wind Farm is a wind farm encompassed by 35 (1.5 MW) NEG NM 64 wind turbines, with a total generating capacity of 52.5 MW of electricity.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Corrections Victoria

Corrections Victoria is part of the Department of Justice in the Victorian Government, and is responsible for the provision of custodial and community-based services as an important element of the criminal justice system in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Division of Wannon

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Djab wurrung

The Djab wurrung, also Tjapwurrung, people are Indigenous Australians who occupy the volcanic plains of central Victoria from the Mount William Range of Gariwerd in the west to the Pyrenees range in the east encompassing the Wimmera River flowing north and the headwaters of the Hopkins River flowing south.

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Electoral district of Ripon

Ripon is a single member electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Federation University Australia

Federation University Australia (FedUni) is a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia.

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Frederick Scherger

Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, (18 May 190416 January 1984) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

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Geelong

Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geoff Todd

Geoff Todd (born 1950 in Chelsea, Victoria) is an Australian artist and social commentator and has a contemporary figurative style in drawing, painting and sculpture.

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Government of Victoria

The Government of Victoria is the executive administrative authority of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Grampians National Park

The Grampians National Park (also Gariwerd), commonly referred to as The Grampians, is a national park located in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia.

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Grid plan

The grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.

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Halls Gap

Halls Gap is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Hamilton, Victoria

Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway.

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Harness racing

Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace).

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Heritage Victoria

Heritage Victoria is a Victorian State Government agency responsible for administering the Heritage Act 1995 and supporting the work of the Heritage Council of Victoria.

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History of Australia (1788–1850)

The history of Australia from 1788–1850 covers the early colonial period of Australia's history, from the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney, New South Wales, who established the penal colony, the scientific exploration of the continent and later, establishment of other Australian colonies and the beginnings of representative democratic government.

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Hopkins Correctional Centre (Ararat)

Hopkins Correctional Centre (Ararat), an Australian medium security protection prison for males, is located in Ararat, Victoria, approximately west of Melbourne.

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Horatio Wills

Horatio Spencer Howe Wills (5 October 1811 – 17 October 1861) was an Australian pastoralist and politician.

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Horsham, Victoria

Horsham (locally) is a regional city in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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J Ward

J Ward was an Australian prison used to house the criminally insane, located in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

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James Scobie (horseman)

James Scobie (18 July 1860 – 6 October 1940) was an Australian jockey and racehorse trainer.

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Langi Ghiran State Park

The Langi Ghiran State Park is 14 km east of Ararat in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Law enforcement

Law enforcement is any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society.

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Lexton Plains Football League

The Lexton Plains Football League was an Australian rules football competition in western Victoria, Australia.

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Local government area

A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne Polytechnic

Melbourne Polytechnic, formerly NMIT, is a TAFE and higher education institute located predominantly in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, but also in the south with a campus at Prahran, Victoria, Australia.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Mininera & District Football League

The Mininera & District Football League is based in South-western Victoria, with clubs located east of Hamilton, south of Ararat and west of Colac.

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Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle is a self-propelled vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails, such as trains or trams and used for the transportation of passengers, or passengers and property.

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Mountains of Ararat

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian hārēy Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood.

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National Electricity Market

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

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National Trust of Australia

The National Trust of Australia, officially the Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT), is the Australian national peak body for community-based, non-government non-profit organisations committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage.

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Neil Murray (Australian musician)

Neil James Murray (born 1956 in Ararat, Victoria) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter-guitarist and writer.

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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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Network Ten

Network Ten (commonly known as Channel Ten or simply Ten, officially stylised as TEN) is an Australian commercial television network.

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood.

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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" in the US) is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Pyrenees Highway, Victoria

Pyrenees Highway in western Victoria, Australia is a 206 kilometre highway serving to link the Calder Highway in Elphinstone with the Glenelg Highway in Glenthompson.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rene Kink

Rene Kink (born 22 November 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood, St Kilda and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Road transport

Road transport or road transportation is a type of transport by using roads.

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force.

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Rural City of Ararat

The Rural City of Ararat is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state.

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Shane Kelly

Shane John Kelly OAM (born 7 January 1972) is a former professional Australian track racing cyclist.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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The Biggest Loser Australia (season 9)

The ninth season of the Australian version of the original NBC reality television series The Biggest Loser, known as The Biggest Loser Australia: Challenge Australia, premiered on 19 January 2014 on Network Ten.

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The Overland

The Overland is an Australian passenger train service between Melbourne and Adelaide.

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Thomas Mitchell (explorer)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Thoroughbred horse racing is an important spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB).

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Train station

A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.

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Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.

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V/Line VLocity

The V/Line VLocity, sometimes called the VLocity 160, is a diesel multiple unit train built by Bombardier Transportation, Dandenong for V/Line, the regional rail operator in Victoria.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Police

Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia.

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Victorian gold rush

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

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Warrnambool

Warrnambool is a regional centre and former port city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia.

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Western District (Victoria)

The Western District comprises western regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Western Highway (Victoria)

The Western Highway is the Victorian part of the principal route linking the Australian cities of Melbourne and Adelaide with a length of approximately of single carriageway then of dual carriageway known as the Western Freeway.

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Western standard gauge line

The Western standard gauge is a railway line in western Victoria, Australia.

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Wimmera

The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Wimmera Football League

The Wimmera Football League is a major country league based in Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ararat,_Victoria

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