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The Morwell National Park is a national park located in the western Gippsland region of Victoria,Australia. The 565-hectare (1,400-acre) national park is situated approximately 164 kilometres (102 mi) east of Melbourne via the Princes Highway and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south of Morwell in the Strzelecki Ranges. The park preserves a remnant of previously widespread wet sclerophyll forests and some rainforest remnants restricted to deep creek gullies. 320 plant species have been recorded for this park,including five rare or threatened species and 44 orchid species. 129 native fauna species have been recorded,including 19 mammals,96 birds,11 reptiles and three amphibians.
Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland,in South-Eastern Victoria,Australia approximately 152 km (94 mi) east of Melbourne.
Gippsland is a rural region in the southeastern part of Victoria,Australia,mostly comprising the coastal plains south of the Victorian Alps. It covers an elongated area of 41,556 km2 (16,045 sq mi) east of the Shire of Cardinia between Dandenong Ranges and Mornington Peninsula,and is bounded to the north by the mountain ranges and plateaus/highlands of the High Country,to the southwest by the Western Port Bay,to the south and east by the Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea,and to the east and northeast by the Black–Allan Line.
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 1,426 square kilometres (551 sq mi) and in June 2018 had a population of 75,211. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living within the four major urban areas of Moe,Morwell,Traralgon,and Churchill,and other significant settlements in the LGA include Boolarra,Callignee,Glengarry,Jeeralang,Newborough,Toongabbie,Tyers,Yallourn North and Yinnar. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Moe,City of Morwell,City of Traralgon,Shire of Traralgon,and parts of the Shire of Narracan and Shire of Rosedale. The Yallourn Works Area was added in 1996. When formed,the municipality was called the Shire of La Trobe,but on 6 April 2000,it adopted its current name.
Morwell railway station is a regional railway station on the Gippsland line,part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the town of Morwell,in Victoria,Australia. Morwell station is a ground level unstaffed station,featuring one side platform. It opened on 1 June 1877.
The Division of Gippsland is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division was proclaimed in 1900,and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. It is named for the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria,which in turn is named for Sir George Gipps,Governor of New South Wales 1838–1846. It includes the towns of Bairnsdale,Morwell,Sale and Traralgon.
The State Electricity Commission of Victoria is a government-owned electricity company in Victoria,Australia. Originally established to generate electricity from the state's reserves of brown coal,the SEC gradually monopolised most aspects of the Victorian electricity industry,before being broken up and largely privatised in the 1990s. After several decades of dormancy,it was revived in 2023 to invest in renewable energy and storage markets.
The electoral district of Morwell is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the regional centres of Moe,Morwell and Traralgon,as well as the surrounding rural areas in the middle of Gippsland.
The 2006 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,25 November 2006,was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and,for the first time,40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system. The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission.
Eastern Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria,Australia,which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Russell John Northe is an Australian former politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to winning preselection by The Nationals for the seat of Morwell,he was a local Australian rules footballer. He resigned from The Nationals in August 2017,and served the rest of his time in office as an independent member of parliament. Following Northe's retirement at the 2022 state election,National member Martin Cameron won Northe's previous seat of Morwell.
The Mid Gippsland Football League is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Latrobe Valley and South Gippsland regions of Victoria,Australia.
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1985,as elected at the 1982 state election:
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1979 to 1982,as elected at the 1979 state election:
Geoffrey William Brown was an Australian politician.
Keith Graeme Hamilton is the former Labor Party member for Morwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2018.
Walter Williams West was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland South from 1922 until 1927,when he was defeated at the state election by the independent Henry Bodman. When Bodman died less than seven months later,West regained the seat at the resulting by-election,and held it until the next election,when he was defeated by the Country Party candidate,Herbert Hyland,on preferences from the Labor Party.
Francis Walker McIver was an Australian soccer player,coach and administrator. A prolific forward,he represented Victoria and Australia. He was an inaugural inductee into the Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame in 1999 and inducted into the Football Victoria Hall of Fame in 2016.
Martin Cameron is an Australian politician who is the current member for the district of Morwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Nationals and was elected in the 2022 state election,following the retirement of former member Russell Northe.
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- 1 2 3 Parliament of Victoria Member's Database
- ↑ VEC: Morwell District State Election 2006 Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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