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Stawell, Victoria

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Stawell (pronounced /stɔːl/, "Stawl"), is an Australian town in the Wimmera region of Victoria west-north-west of the state capital, Melbourne. [1]

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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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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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Andrew Broad

Andrew John Broad (born 2 July 1975 in, Western Australia) is an Australian politician who has represented Mallee in the Australian House of Representatives since 2013 as a member of The Nationals Nationals.

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Ararat, Victoria

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.

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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 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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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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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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Chief Justice

The Chief Justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts.

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Chief Justice of Victoria

The Chief Justice of Victoria is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith (30 March 1908 – 16 March 1971) was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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County of Borung

The County of Borung is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles.

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Division of Mallee

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

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Early childhood education

Early childhood education (ECE; also nursery education) is a branch of education theory which relates to the teaching of older children (formally and informally) up until the age of about eighteen (birth to Grade 2).

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Easter

Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.

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Electoral district of Ripon

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

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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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George Prendergast

George Michael "Mick" Prendergast (20 May 1854 – 28 August 1937), Australian politician, was the 28th Premier of Victoria.

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Grampians (region)

The Grampians is an economic rural region located in the western part of Victoria, Australia.

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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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Halls Gap

Halls Gap is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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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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Horsham & District Football League

The Horsham & District Football League is an amateur Australian rules football league based in the Wimmera area of Western Victoria.

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Horsham, Victoria

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

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IGA (Australian supermarket group)

Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) is an Australian chain of supermarkets.

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John Forrest (Victorian politician)

John Alexander Forrest redirects here.

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Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Local government in Australia

Local government in Australia is the third tier of government in Australia administered by the states and territories, which in turn are beneath the federal tier.

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Louise Staley

Louise Eileen Staley (born 9 August 1965) is an Australian politician.

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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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Memorial bench

Kirsty MacColl memorial bench in Soho Square, London; a close-up of the engraved lyrics A memorial bench or memorial seat is a piece of furniture which commemorates a person who has died.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia (also known as The Nationals or simply, The Nats) is an Australian political party.

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Navarre, Victoria

Navarre is a town in the Wimmera region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Peter Fisher (politician)

Peter Stanley Fisher (born 19 September 1936) was an Australian politician.

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Politics of Australia

The politics of Australia takes place within the framework of a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Politics of Victoria

Politics of the Australian state of Victoria takes place in the context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system, and like other Australian states, Victoria is part of the federation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Pomonal, Victoria

Pomonal is a town in western Victoria, Australia within the Rural City of Ararat local government area, north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Postal voting

Postal voting is voting in an election whereby ballot papers are distributed to electors or returned by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system.

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Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

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Safeway (Australia)

Safeway was the trading name used by Woolworths Limited until 2008 for its supermarkets in Victoria, Australia.

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Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, (in the UK or Australia) a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or (more rarely) a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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Secondary education

Secondary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.

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Shire of Northern Grampians

The Shire of Northern Grampians is a local government area in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state.

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Special education

Special education (also known as special needs education, aided education, exceptional education or Special Ed) is the practice of educating students with an IEP or Section 504 in a way that addresses their individual differences and needs.

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St Arnaud, Victoria

St Arnaud is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, 244 kilometres north west of the capital Melbourne.

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Stawell Airport

Stawell Airport is located southwest of Stawell, Victoria, Australia on Grampians Road.

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Stawell Football Club

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

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Stawell Gift

The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short distance running race.

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Stawell railway station

Stawell railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia.

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Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is a proposed laboratory 1 km deep in the Stawell Goldmine, located in Stawell, Shire of Northern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

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Stella Young

Stella Jane Young (24 February 1982 – 6 December 2014) was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist.

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The Overland

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

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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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V/Line

V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern 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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Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council.

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Victorian Legislative Council

The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.

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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 Victoria Region

Western Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions in the state of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the Upper House) by proportional representation.

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William Stawell

Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG (27 June 1815 – 12 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 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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Winton Turnbull

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

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References

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

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