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Wangaratta is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, 236 km (147 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census.
The Ovens River, a perennial river of the north-east Murray catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Alpine and Hume regions of the Australian state of Victoria.
Sir John Bowser, Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Marsh and when he left school got a job with the Bacchus Marsh Express. As a young man he went to Scotland and worked on newspapers while studying at University of Edinburgh. Returning to Australia, he settled in Wangaratta, where he farmed and managed the Wangaratta Chronicle, which he eventually bought.
The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray area. The name comes from the Ovens River, the river in the part of north-eastern Victoria covered by the league, and the Murray River, which separates Victoria and New South Wales.
The Wangaratta Magpies Football Club, officially known as the Wangaratta Magpies Football & Netball Club, is an Australian rules football club, which first played in the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1893 and is based in Wangaratta, Victoria at the Wangaratta Showgrounds and play on the Norm Minns Oval.
Peechelba is a town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Rural City of Wangaratta and the Shire of Moira local government area between Wangaratta and Yarrawonga and 277 kilometres (172 mi) north east of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2011 census, Peechelba and the surrounding area had a population of 345. The town is home to a nature reserve, not far from the Ovens River.
The Electoral district of Wangaratta was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in the redistribution of 1904, the Electoral district of Wangaratta and Rutherglen being abolished.
The Shire of Wangaratta was a local government area about 260 kilometres (162 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 919.24 square kilometres (354.9 sq mi), and existed from 1863 until 1994. The Shire did not include Wangaratta itself, which was governed by a separate local government.
The City of Wangaratta was a local government area located about 260 kilometres (162 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 25.53 square kilometres (9.9 sq mi), and existed from 1863 until 1994. It was responsible for the urban area of Wangaratta.
The Ovens & King Football Netball League is a minor country Australian rules football league based in North-Eastern Victoria in the vicinity of Wangaratta and more recently Benalla.
Springhurst is a town in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area, 280 kilometres (170 mi) north east of the state capital. At the 2016 census, Springhurst and the surrounding area had a population of 348. Springhurst is close to its surrounding township of Wangaratta 16 km from Springhurst having been situated on the main Artery between Melbourne and Sydney on the and with the railway station in town it was previously on the an old disused train branch to Wahgunyah which close in the early 1990s. its proximity to Rutherglen has attracted attention to run the disused railway line as a rail trail to Bowser. Recently the township has run a Friday night social group in the recreation hall to get to know others around the town.
The Wangaratta Showgrounds is situated on the banks of the Ovens River, close to central Wangaratta and provides a large venue for a host of local sports and community clubs.
The Murray was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian colony of Victoria from 1856 to 1877.
Murray Boroughs was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1877. It was based in northern Victoria, and included the towns of Benalla Avenel Euroa Seymour, Wodonga and Wangaratta. The district of Murray Boroughs was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.
Ovens was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1927. It was based in northern Victoria, bordered by the Ovens River in the south-west and included the town of Beechworth, Victoria.
Wangaratta and Rutherglen was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1889 to 1904. It was located around the towns of Wangaratta and Rutherglen. When it was abolished in 1904, the new Electoral district of Wangaratta was created; John Bowser was the last member for Wangaratta and Rutherglen and the first for Wangaratta.
The electoral district of Ovens Valley is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.
The Hume is an economic rural region located in the north-eastern part of Victoria, Australia. Comprising an area in excess of 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi) with a population that ranges from 263,000 to 300,000, the Hume region includes the local government areas of Alpine Shire, Rural City of Benalla, City of Wodonga, City of Greater Shepparton, Shire of Indigo, Shire of Mansfield, Shire of Strathbogie, Shire of Towong and the Rural City of Wangaratta, and also includes five unincorporated areas encompassing the alpine ski resorts in the region.
Arthur William Mills was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in Victorian state elections.
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