Ralph Theodore Hjorth (26 July 1883 – 14 January 1970) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Melton to Danish-born farmer Anders Stenson and Annie Devanny. He became a farmer at Coimadai and then an undertaker and ironmonger at Bacchus Marsh. Around 1907 he married Mary Agnes Byron, with whom he had four children. In 1924 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Bulla. He transferred to Grant in 1927 but was defeated in 1932. Hjorth died in Melbourne in 1970. [1]
Melton is an urban area within metropolitan Melbourne, Australia located 35 km west from the capital's central business district. It is the administrative centre of the City of Melton local government area and its most populous centre. At June 2016 Melton had an estimated urban population of 62,117. It is considered part of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area and is included in the capital's population statistical division.
Bacchus Marsh is an urban centre and suburban locality in Victoria, Australia located approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) north west of the state capital Melbourne and 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Melton at a near equidistance to the major cities of Melbourne, Ballarat and Geelong. The population of the Bacchus Marsh urban area was 20,345 at the 2016 Census. Bacchus Marsh is the largest urban area in the local government area of Shire of Moorabool.
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
