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Morwell is a city in central Gippsland, a region in the east of Victoria. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Events and Trends Technology The invention of the prototype telephone by Alexander G Postcodes are used in Australia for the purposes of sorting and directing Mail. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 There are 79 Local Government Areas in the Australian state of Victoria. Latrobe City (formerly Shire of La Trobe is a Local Government Area in eastern Victoria, Australia. State Electoral District is a term used to refer to an electorate within the Lower House or Legislative The Electoral district of Morwell is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. The Division of Gippsland is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. Traralgon is a regional city located in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Boolarra is a small township located in the Latrobe Valley, in central Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Hazelwood North is a small rural community near Morwell, Victoria, Australia. Yinnar is a small township located in the Latrobe Valley, in central Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Churchill is a town in Latrobe Valley, located in central Gippsland in the east of Victoria, Australia. Hazelwood North is a small rural community near Morwell, Victoria, Australia. Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border Morwell is situated in the heart of Victoria's energy centre, the Latrobe Valley. The State of Victoria, Australia uses many forms of Energy for domestic commercial and industrial uses The Latrobe Valley is nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges and the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, Australia. It is also the administrative centre for the City of Latrobe. Latrobe City (formerly Shire of La Trobe is a Local Government Area in eastern Victoria, Australia. The name Morwell is believed to have been derived from the Aboriginal term More willie, meaning 'woolly possum'. A possum is any of about 64 small to medium-sized Arboreal Marsupial Species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi

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History

The earliest inhabitants of the Morwell district were the Gunai Indigenous Australians. The Gunai or Kurnai is one of the Aboriginal nations of Australia. Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. Their first contact with Europeans would have been with pastoralists who came south from the Monaro region of New South Wales in the 1840s in search of pasture for their stock. Pastoralism or pastoral farming is the branch of Agriculture concerned with the raising of Livestock. There are other uses for the term Monaro. Monaro (pronounced "mon-air'-ro" is the name of a region in the south of New

In 1841, McMillan and Strzelecki made journeys of exploration through the region which would later be named Gippsland and during the 1840s the squatting runs of Maryvale, Merton Rush and Hazelwood were taken up in the area which is now Morwell. Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865 was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

The 1870s were a time of railway building in Victoria. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. In 1873 the government approved the construction of a railway line from Melbourne to Sale and it was this decision which gave rise to the development of the township of Morwell. Sale is a cathedral city in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Shire of Wellington.

The first public sale of land in the town took place in January 1879 but there were at least ten traders operating in the town by that time, a Post Office in the township having been open since 1875 (an earlier PO having served the rural area from 1870 to 1873). On January 1, 1880 Morwell PO was renamed Morwell Bridge and Morwell R(ailway)S(tation) PO (open since 1877) became the main Morwell PO ^[2]

A brickworks and a pottery were established in the 1880s, a butter factory was built in 1890 and a cordial factory.

Even in the 1880s, coal was seen to be of importance to Morwell. In 1888 two coal mining companies were established—The Great Morwell Coal Mining Company and the Maryvale Proprietary Coal Mining Company. Coal mining is the extraction or removal of Coal from the Earth by Mining. Both these companies produced steam coal and were part of the industrial growth of the town which included timber getting, food processing (butter and cordial factories), brick and pottery manufacture and the transport of goods along the main railway line. Fires in the commercial area in 1890 and 1912 caused major damage to shops. This led to the formation of the Morwell Waterworks Trust and in December 1913 a town water supply from Billy's Creek was connected.

The development of the Yallourn open cut coal mine and power station in the 1920s contributed to Morwell's development, providing employment and trade. Yallourn Victoria was a Company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission

The 1980s and 1990s were a growth period for the township of Morwell. Schools were built to educate the children of families settling in the area.

A major Research and Development project into the conversion of brown coal into oil, (Brown Coal Liquefaction Victoria or BCLV) was established in Morwell in 1983/84. Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere Funded by the Japanese Government at a cost of over one billion dollars this project established a 50 tonne per day pilot plant which ran until 1991. The project saw several hundred Japanese families move to the area and led to the establishment of a unique educational experiment in the form of a Japanese/Australian combined curriculum at the Commercial Road Primary School.

Thriving on the success of the power industry, Morwell developed into a city offering substantial housing and financial opportunities for its many residents. With the general growth of the Latrobe Valley, Morwell's success appeared destined to continue. However restructuring and privatisation of the State Electricity Commission in the 1990s led to massive job losses in the region.

The ascendency of Jeff Kennett to the premiership of Victoria saw the demise of the city accelerated with the cutting of services. Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948 Australian politician was the Premier of Victoria from 1992 to 1999 Most State Government offices were moved away from Morwell - a predominantly Labor voting and strongly unionised city - to its neighbour, Traralgon, this caused much tension towards the Coalition and now the city has one of the highest Labor votes in the region. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming Traralgon is a regional city located in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

Amalgamation of the local councils under a commission saw the major civic centre move to Traralgon. With the re-establishment of an elected council, the civic centre was moved back to Morwell and the new Council Building constructed in 2005 is leading to a revitalisation of the city centre. The new Justice Precinct was completed in 2006 and is further increasing CBD activity.

Morwell is the headquarters of the Central Gippsland Institute of Technical and Further Education. Technical and Further Education or TAFE (pronounced) institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational tertiary education courses in Australia It contains a major regional art gallery with an excellent local collection and is noted for its extensive rose gardens. Nearby at Churchill is the Gippsland Campus of Monash University. A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir Stanley Savige was erected in 2006. Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige KBE, CB, DSO, MC, ED ( June 26 1890 &ndash Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy following World War 1 to assist widows and families of servicemen.

References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). HM Prison Morwell River, opened in 1951, was an open Prison located near Morwell Victoria. Latrobe Valley Airport is located in the Latrobe Valley town of Morwell, Victoria, Australia. Morwell is a railway station on the Bairnsdale railway line in Morwell, Victoria, Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ( ABS) is Australia 's national statistical agency. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Morwell (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-10-01. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, <https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=>. Retrieved on 11 April 2008

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