Stawell, Victoria, the Glossary

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1. 95 relations: Aboriginal Victorians, Adelaide Parklands Terminal, Alluvium, Ararat, Victoria, Architect, Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Australian Aboriginal sacred site, Australian House of Representatives, Australian rules football, Ballarat, Barengi Gadjin Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Bendigo, Black Range State Park, Borough, Bunjil, Bunjil's Shelter, Bus, Census, Chief justice, Chief Justice of Victoria, Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, Councillor, County of Borung, Creator deity, Division of Mallee, Early childhood education, Easter, Eastern Maar, Electoral district of Lowan, Emma Kealy, Fossicking, Frederick Wymark, General aviation, George Prendergast, Gold prospecting, Grampians (region), Grampians National Park, Granite, Halls Gap, Harness racing, History of Australia (1788–1850), Horsham & District Football League, Horsham, Victoria, IGA Supermarkets (Australia), Jardwadjali, Jupagalk, Local government in Australia, Mail, Marian College (Ararat), Mechanics' institute, ... Expand index (45 more) »

Aboriginal Victorians

Aboriginal Victorians, the Aboriginal Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement.

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Adelaide Parklands Terminal

Adelaide Parklands Terminal, formerly known as Keswick Terminal, is the interstate passenger railway station in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Alluvium

Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.

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Ararat, Victoria

Ararat (Djabwurrung: Tallarambooroo) is a town in the Central Highlands region in Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera. Stawell, Victoria and Ararat, Victoria are mining towns in Victoria (state).

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.

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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies.

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Australian Aboriginal sacred site

An Australian Aboriginal sacred site is a place deemed significant and meaningful by Aboriginal Australians based on their beliefs.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate.

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Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Ballarat

Ballarat (balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. Stawell, Victoria and Ballarat are mining towns in Victoria (state).

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Barengi Gadjin Land Council Aboriginal Corporation

The Barengi Gadjin Land Council was formed in 2005 to represent the Wotjobaluk, Jardwadjali (also known as Jaadwa), Wergaia and Jupagalk peoples.

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. Stawell, Victoria and Bendigo are mining towns in Victoria (state).

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Black Range State Park

Black Range State Park is a state park northwest of Melbourne, Australia, near the town of Cavendish.

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Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.

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Bunjil

Bunjil, also spelt Bundjil, is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle in Australian Aboriginal mythology of some of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria.

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Bunjil's Shelter

Bunjil's Shelter, also known as Bunjil's Cave, is an Aboriginal sacred site in the Grampians region of Australia near Stawell.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Chief justice

The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts/high courts.

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Chief Justice of Victoria

The chief justice of Victoria is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith (30 March 1908 – 16 March 1971) was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.

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Councillor

A councillor, alternatively councilman, councilwoman, councilperson, or council member, is someone who sits on, votes in, or is a member of, a council.

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County of Borung

The County of Borung is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles.

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Creator deity

A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology.

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Division of Mallee

The Division of Mallee is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Early childhood education

Early childhood education (ECE), also known as nursery education, is a branch of education theory that relates to the teaching of children (formally and informally) from birth up to the age of eight.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eastern Maar

The Eastern Maar people are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples whose traditional lands are in the south-western part of state of Victoria, Australia.

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Electoral district of Lowan

The electoral district of Lowan is a rural Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower House) electoral district of the Victorian Parliament.

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Emma Kealy

Emma Jayne Kealy (born 29 May 1977) is an Australian politician.

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Fossicking

In Australia, New Zealand and Cornwall, fossicking is prospecting, especially when carried out as a recreational activity.

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Frederick Wymark

Frederick Victor Grey Wymark (6 October 1872 – 19 October 1942) was an Australian Australiana collector, book collector and bookseller.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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George Prendergast

George Michael "Mick" Prendergast (20 May 1854 – 28 August 1937) was an Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Victoria.

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Gold prospecting

Gold prospecting is the act of searching for new gold deposits.

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Grampians (region)

The Grampians is an economic rural region located in the western part of Victoria, Australia.

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Grampians National Park

The Grampians National Park commonly referred to as the Grampians, is a national park located in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Halls Gap

Halls Gap (Djab Wurrung/Jardwadjali: Budja Budja) is a town in Victoria, Australia. Stawell, Victoria and Halls Gap are Wimmera.

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Harness racing

Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace).

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History of Australia (1788–1850)

The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history.

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The Horsham District Football League is an amateur Australian rules football league based in the Wimmera area of Western Victoria.

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Horsham, Victoria

Horsham is a regional city in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. Stawell, Victoria and Horsham, Victoria are Wimmera.

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IGA Supermarkets (Australia)

Independent Grocers of Australia is an Australian chain of supermarkets.

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Jardwadjali

The Jardwadjali (Yartwatjali), also known as the Jaadwa, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria, whose traditional lands occupy the lands in the upper Wimmera River watershed east to Gariwerd (Grampians) and west to Lake Bringalbert.

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Jupagalk

The Jupagalk or Jupagulk are an Aboriginal people of northern Victoria, Australia.

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Local government in Australia

Local government is the third-level of government in Australia, administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories, and in turn beneath the federal government.

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Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.

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Marian College (Ararat)

Marian College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school located in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.

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Mechanics' institute

Mechanics' institutes, also known as mechanics' institutions, sometimes simply known as institutes, and also called schools of arts (especially in the Australian colonies), were educational establishments originally formed to provide adult education, particularly in technical subjects, to working men in Victorian-era Britain and its colonies.

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The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Memorial bench

A memorial bench, memorial seat or death bench is a piece of outdoor furniture which commemorates a dead person.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.

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Native title in Australia

Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs.

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Navarre, Victoria

Navarre is a town in the Wimmera region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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NRL Victoria

NRL Victoria (abbreviated as NRLVic, and formerly the Victorian Rugby League) is responsible for administering the game of rugby league in Victoria, Australia.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth.

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Politics of Australia

The politics of Australia operates under the written Australian Constitution, which sets out Australia as a constitutional monarchy, governed via a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition.

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Politics of Victoria

Politics of the Australian state of Victoria takes place in the context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system, and like other Australian states, Victoria is part of the federation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Pomonal, Victoria

Pomonal is a town in western Victoria, Australia within the Rural City of Ararat local government area, north west of the state capital, Melbourne. Stawell, Victoria and Pomonal, Victoria are Wimmera.

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Postal voting

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system.

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Primary education

Primary education or elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary school.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Seat of government

The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority".

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Secondary education

Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.

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Shire of Northern Grampians

The Shire of Northern Grampians is a local government area in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. Stawell, Victoria and Shire of Northern Grampians are Wimmera.

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Southern Cross railway station

Southern Cross railway station (until 2005 known as Spencer Street station) is a major railway station in Docklands, Melbourne.

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Special education

Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs.

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St Arnaud, Victoria

St Arnaud is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, 244 kilometres north west of the capital Melbourne. Stawell, Victoria and St Arnaud, Victoria are mining towns in Victoria (state) and Wimmera.

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Stawell Airport

Stawell Airport is located southwest of Stawell, Victoria, Australia on Grampians Road.

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The Stawell Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Wimmera Football League (WFL).

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Stawell Gift

The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short-distance running race. Stawell, Victoria and Stawell Gift are Wimmera.

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Stawell Gold Mine

The Stawell Gold Mine (SGM) is a gold mine located in the town of Stawell, Victoria.

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Stawell railway station

Stawell railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia.

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Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) is a laboratory 1 km deep in the Stawell Gold Mine, located in Stawell, Shire of Northern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

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Stella Young

Stella Jane Young (24 February 1982 – 6 December 2014) was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist.

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The Overland

The Overland is an interstate passenger train service in Australia, travelling between the state capitals of Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of 828 km (515 mi).

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Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Thoroughbred horse racing is a spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a very popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB).

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Town hall

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal building (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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V/Line

V/Line is a statutory authority that operates regional passenger rail and coach services in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Victoria State Government

The Government of Victoria, also referred to as the Victorian Government, is the executive branch of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Victorian gold rush

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

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Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council.

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Victorian Legislative Council

The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.

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Wergaia

The Wergaia or Werrigia people are an Aboriginal Australian group in the Mallee and Wimmera regions of north-Western Victoria, made up of a number of clans.

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Western Highway (Victoria)

Western Highway is a major arterial route in western Victoria with a length of approximately of single carriageway, then of dual carriageway known as Western Freeway, linking the western suburbs of Melbourne to the border with South Australia at Serviceton.

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Western Victoria Region

Western Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation.

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William Stawell

Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG (27 June 181512 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.

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The Wimmera Football League is a major Australian rules country league based in Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region: the regional centres along the Western Highway from Ararat to Nhill as well as Minyip-Murtoa and Warracknabeal. Stawell, Victoria and Wimmera Football League are Wimmera.

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Wimmera Southern Mallee (region)

The Victorian government's Wimmera Southern Mallee subregion is part of the Grampians region in western Victoria. Stawell, Victoria and Wimmera Southern Mallee (region) are Wimmera.

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Woolworths Supermarkets

Woolworths Supermarkets (colloquially known in Australia as "Woolies") is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores owned by Woolworths Group.

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Wotjobaluk people

The Wotjobaluk are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stawell,_Victoria

Also known as Black Range Scenic Reserve.

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