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Hamilton, Victoria

Index Hamilton, Victoria

Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway. [1]

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Ace Radio

Ace Radio is an Australian radio company that owns and operates several AM and FM stations in Victoria.

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Agricultural show

An agricultural show is a public event exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry.

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Ansett Australia

Ansett Australia was a major Australian airline group, based in Melbourne.

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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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Australia Felix

Australia Felix (Latin for "fortunate Australia" or "happy Australia") was an early name given by Thomas Mitchell to lush pasture in parts of western Victoria he explored in 1836 on his third expedition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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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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Ballarat

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

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Budgerigar

The budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), also known as the common parakeet or shell parakeet and usually informally nicknamed the budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot.

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Clive Shields

Clive Shields (28 April 1879 – 4 September 1956) was an Australian politician.

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Cockatiel

The cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), is a bird that is a member of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia.

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Condah

Condah is a small town in south west Victoria, Australia and is located on the Henty Highway north of Heywood.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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David Hawker

David Peter Maxwell Hawker (born 1 May 1949), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from May 1983 to July 2010, representing the Division of Wannon, Victoria, previously represented by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

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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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Eastern barred bandicoot

The eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) is a small, rabbit-sized marsupial native to Tasmania and Victoria, southeastern Australia.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Edward Kenna

Edward "Ted" Kenna, VC (6 July 1919 – 8 July 2009) was the last living Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.

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Electoral district of Lowan

The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower House) electoral district of the Victorian Parliament.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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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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Gunditjmara

The Gunditjmara, also known as the Dhauwurd wurrung, are an Indigenous Australian people of southwestern Victoria.

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Gym

A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is a covered location for gymnastics, athletics, and gymnastic services.

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Hamilton Airport (Victoria)

Hamilton Airport is located north of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.

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Hamilton Highway

The Hamilton Highway in western Victoria, Australia (state route B140) runs from the Princes Highway in Geelong west to the town of Hamilton through the towns of Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore, Derrinallum, Darlington, Mortlake, and Penshurst.

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Hamilton railway station, Victoria

Hamilton is a railway station located on the Ararat - Portland railway in the town of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.

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Hamilton Spectator (Australia)

The Hamilton Spectator is a tri-weekly tabloid newspaper, which has been published in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia since 1859.

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Hampden Football Netball League

The Hampden Football Netball League is based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns located along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland.

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Henty Highway

Henty Highway is a 360 kilometre highway in western Victoria, Australia.

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Horsham, Victoria

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

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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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Jan Smithwick

Janice (Jan) Smithwick (born 6 August 1952) is a retired Australian women's basketball player.

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Local government areas of Victoria

This is a list of local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria, sorted by region.

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Malcolm Fraser

John Malcolm Fraser (21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1975 to 1983 as leader of the Liberal Party.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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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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Melissa Tapper

Melissa Tapper (born 1 March 1990) is an Australian table tennis player.

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Mount Gambier, South Australia

Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia with an estimated urban population of 28,684.

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Mount Napier

Mount Napier in Victoria, Australia, is one of the youngest volcanoes in Australia.

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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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Netball

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

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock.

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Pat Dodson

Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson (born 29 January 1948) is a Senator for Western Australia.

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Paul Sandby

Paul Sandby (1731 – 9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

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Phil Walsh (Australian footballer)

Phillip "Phil" Walsh (15 March 1960 – 3 July 2015) was an Australian rules footballer and coach.

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Portland, Victoria

Portland is a small city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state.

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Reg Ansett

Sir Reginald Myles Ansett KBE (13 February 1909 – 23 December 1981) was an Australian businessman and aviator.

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RMIT University

RMIT University (officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, informally RMIT) is an Australian public research university located in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites - Melbourne and Cranbourne.

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Shire of Southern Grampians

The Shire of Southern Grampians is a local government area (LGA) in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state.

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South West Institute of TAFE

South West Institute of TAFE is the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institute located in the south west of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Station (Australian agriculture)

In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for producing livestock, predominantly cattle or sheep, that need an extensive range of grazing land.

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Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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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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Victoria (Australia)

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

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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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 Border Football League

The Western Border Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Lower South East region of South Australia, and south-western border region of Victoria.

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William Guilfoyle

William Robert Guilfoyle (born 8 December 1840 and died 25 June 1912) was a landscape gardener and botanist in Victoria, Australia, acknowledged as the architect of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and was responsible for the design of many parks and gardens in Melbourne and regional Victoria.

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Winton Turnbull

Sir Winton George Turnbull, (13 December 1899 – 15 January 1980) was an Australian politician.

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Xavier Samuel

Xavier Samuel (born 10 December 1983) is an Australian actor.

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References

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

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