Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in northern Victoria,Australia,approximately 181 kilometres (112 mi) north-northeast of Melbourne. As of the 2021 census,the estimated population of Shepparton,including the adjacent town of Mooroopna,was 53,841.
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Shepparton,after the city of Shepparton,Victoria.
Lowitja O'Donoghue,also known as Lois O'Donoghue and Lois Smart,was an Australian public administrator and Indigenous rights advocate. She was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) from 1990 to 1996. She is known for her work in improving the health and welfare of Indigenous Australians,and also for the part she played in the drafting of the Native Title Act 1993,which established native title in Australia.
Undera is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of northern Victoria,Australia. The town in the City of Greater Shepparton local government area,211 kilometres (131 mi) north of the state capital,Melbourne and 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of the regional centre of Shepparton. At the 2011 census,Undera and the surrounding area had a population of 545,declining to just 442 by 2016.
The Goulburn Valley Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria,Australia. It is a member of the Victorian Country Football League and has won the Victorian Country Football Championships in 2003 and 2005.
Katamatite is a town in Victoria,Australia about 46 kilometres north east of Shepparton. At the 2011 census,Katamatite had a population of 433.
HMAS Shepparton (J248/M248),named for the city of Shepparton,Victoria,was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II,and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Commissioned in early 1943,Shepparton was primarily employed as a survey vessel,tasked with updating Age of Sail-era charts and data for regions of New Guinea. The corvette was placed in reserve in 1946,and sold for scrap in 1958.
Gail Elizabeth Gago is a retired Australian politician,and a member of the Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council from the 2002 election until her retirement in 2018.
Kate Palmer is an Australian sport administrator. She was the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Sports Commission from January 2017 to January 2020. Previous to this appointment,she was Chief Executive Officer of Netball Australia.
Noel John Maughan was an Australian politician and the Nationals member for Rodney in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1989 until 2006.
Ronald Clive Hovey was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Elizabeth Jeanette Powell is a British-born Australian politician. She was a National Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2014,representing the electorate of Shepparton. She was previously a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2002,representing North Eastern Province.
The electoral district of Shepparton is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Northern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council.
ABC Goulburn Murray is an ABC Local Radio station based in Wodonga,Victoria,broadcasting to North East Victoria and Southern New South Wales. First aired on 16 December 1931 as 2CO from studios in Albury,New South Wales,in 2000 the station's AM transmitter in Corowa was reallocated to ABC Riverina.
Margaret Eileen Twomey is Ambassador of Australia to Italy. She is former High Commissioner of Australia to Fiji,from November 2014 to November 2017. Twomey has an honours degree in arts from the University of Melbourne. Her grandfather Patrick Twomey started the PJ Twomey Hospital for Lepers in Fiji.
Brooke Thompson is a former Australian netball player. She was a member of the Melbourne Vixens team that won the 2009 ANZ Championship. She was also a member of the Victorian Fury teams that won the 2008 and 2009 Australian Netball League titles. During the Commonwealth Bank Trophy era,Thompson played for AIS Canberra Darters and Melbourne Kestrels.
Glenyys Dorothy Romanes is a former Australian politician.
Donald Kilgour is a former Australian politician. He was the National member for Shepparton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2002.
Kim O'Keeffe is an Australian politician belonging to the Nationals who is the current member for the district of Shepparton in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. She won the seat in the 2022 state election over Suzanna Sheed.
