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    The Shire of Lowan was a local government area in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 2,861 square kilometres...
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    amalgamation of the Shire of Lowan and Shire of Dimboola. The Shire is governed and administered by the Hindmarsh Shire Council; its seat of local government...
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    The Shire of Glenelg is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state...
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    Walpeup was incorporated as a shire on 1 November 1911, created out of parts of the Shires of Mildura, Swan Hill, Lawloit, Lowan, Dimboola and Karkarooc. On...
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    Dimboola was originally part of the Shire of Wimmera, which was first incorporated in 1862. It became part of the Shire of Lowan, when it was separately incorporated...
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    the amalgamation of the Shire of Warracknabeal, Shire of Karkarooc, and parts of the Shire of Dunmunkle and Shire of Wimmera. The Shire is governed and...
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    from the amalgamation of the Shire of Kaniva and parts of the Shire of Kowree, Shire of Arapiles and Shire of Glenelg. The Shire is governed and administered...
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    part of the Shire of Lowan when it split away from Wimmera. The Shire of Lawloit was established in its own right out of the West Riding of Lowan on 29...
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    The electoral district of Lowan is a rural Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower House) electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within...
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    Mechnanics' Institute, Warrandyte Wambat Mechanics Institute Winiam, Shire of Lowan Mechanics Institute Library Woodend Mechanics Institute Yandoit Mechanics...
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    district on 24 June 1862, and became a shire on 26 January 1872. It annexed the South Riding of the Shire of Lowan on 29 May 1894, which was added to its...
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    Australia, at the southern end of the Grampians National Park, in the Shire of Southern Grampians. It is approx 283 km west of Melbourne on the Glenelg Highway...
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    of Dundas, Shire of Kowree, Shire of Mount Rouse and Shire of Heywood. The Shire is governed and administered by the Southern Grampians Shire Council; its...
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    Fairy, and parts of the Shire of Mortlake, Shire of Warrnambool, Shire of Dundas, Shire of Mount Rouse and Shire of Hampden. The Shire is governed and...
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    Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014, representing Wimmera and Lowan, was born and schooled in Murtoa Australian Bureau of Statistics...
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    Arapiles, Dimboola, Dunmunkle, Kaniva, Kowree and Lowan, centred on the town of Horsham. By 1900, all of these areas had severed and separately incorporated...
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    Wimmera Southern Mallee (region) (category Regions of Victoria (state))
    north part of the Shire of Yarriambiack (around Hopetoun). It does include the southern part of the Shire of Buloke, which is not part of the Victorian...
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    was part of the Dimboola Shire until 25 January 1995, when the shire was united with the Lowan Shire. The town was the subject of an episode of the ABC...
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    amalgamation of the City of Stawell, Town of St Arnaud, Shire of Stawell, Shire of Kara Kara and parts of the Shire of Wimmera, Shire of Dunmunkle and Shire of Donald...
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  • Thumbnail for Shire of Gordon
    The Shire of Gordon was a local government area about 245 kilometres (152 mi) north-northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Shire of Mortlake
    The Shire of Mortlake was a local government area about 220 kilometres (137 mi) west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered...
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    The Shire of Buninyong was a local government area south and southeast of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area...
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  • Thumbnail for Shire of Cobram
    The Shire of Cobram was a local government area on the Murray River in the Goulburn Valley region, about 240 kilometres (149 mi) north of Melbourne, the...
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    Dimboola is a town in the Shire of Hindmarsh in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia, 334 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. Situated on the...
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    334 kilometres (208 mi) west of the state capital, Melbourne and 34 kilometres (21 mi) north-west of Hamilton in the Shire of Southern Grampians local government...
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  • north of Little Desert National Park, in the Shire of West Wimmera local government area. It is located roughly 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of the South...
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  • Emma Kealy (category National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria)
    National Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Lowan. Kealy was born and...
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  • Municipal Libraries". (Wimmera Shire residents used the City resources until the introduction of the Bookmobile in 1967) In 1962 Lowan and Kaniva Shires joined...
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    Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Southern Grampians local government area and is located at the foot of Mount Rouse, an extinct volcano. At...
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  • Thumbnail for Branxholme, Victoria
    Branxholme is a township in the Shire of Southern Grampians in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Henty Highway between Heywood and Hamilton...
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