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  • Aborigines - Life in the early days of white settlement

    Melbourne, with its bay and river was an attractive site for a settlement to white Europeans. Not...
  • Batman Park, Northcote

    Batman Park, located on the corner of St. Geroges Road and Arthurton Road got it’s name from John Batman, one...
  • Billibellary

    The Wurundjeri-willam clan, a large clan of Woiwurrung speaking Aboriginal people was divided into 3 smaller...
  • Bundoora

    In 1837 Robert Hoddle surveyed the present day Preston area and its surrounds forming the Jika Jika parish....
  • Bundoora Park

    Initial white settlement of the area occurred around 1837. The land was used for dairy farming by various...
  • Bunjil

    Bunjil was the creator spirit of the Woiwurrung people. They believed that he had created the rivers and...
  • Darebin

    Darebin is the Aboriginal word for swallows (birds). An alternative spelling is darabin. Thomas Mitchell,...
  • Edward Peacock

    From what is known of his life, Edward Peacock with his wife by his side, devoted himself to the education of...
  • Football in Darebin

    Australian Rules Football was first played in Melbourne in 1858 and its popularity quickly spread throughout...
  • Francis Edgar

    In May of 1848 the Merri Creek School was set to close, but it received an injection of government funding,...
  • Heidelberg Road

    Heidelberg Road has the distinction of being Victoria’s first road outside the confines of the Melbourne...
  • Lake Tyers vs. Northcote Football matches 1944-1950

    On the Kings Birthday holiday, Monday 12 June 1944, Doug Nicholls led a team of NSW Aboriginal footballers...
  • Merri Creek

    Merri Creek is one of five major north south flowing tributaries of the Yarra River, flowing perennially from...
  • Merri Creek Aboriginal School

    The first Aboriginal schools was established at Narre Narre Warren Protectorate Station in 1842. The teacher...
  • Merri Creek Protectorate Station

    Formed in England in 1837, the Aboriginal Protection Society aimed to reduce tension between settlers and...
  • Native Police Corps

    The Native Police Corps was established in 1837 by William Lonsdale to help police local Aboriginal tribes....
  • Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls

    Pastor Doug Nicholls was born in Cummeragunja NSW in 1906. His elder sister Hilda was taken from the family...
  • Simon Wonga (c1824-1874)

    Simon Wonga was the son of Billibellary, headman of theWurundjeri-willam in the 1840s. As a child Wonga was...
  • Socrates Papadopolous

    Socrates Papadopoulos was elected Mayor of Northcote in 1982/83. He proposed that Batman Park should be...
  • Thomas Bungelleen

    In July 1861 Thomas Bungelleen, a 15 year old Aboriginal, ran away from Merri Ville Lodge, West Northcote...
  • William Cooper (1861-1941)

    William Cooper was an early champion of advocating Aboriginal representation in Parliament. Born in 1861,...
  • William Thomas (1793-1867)

    William Thomas was born in Westminster, England, to Welsh Parents in 1793. He had been a school principal in...
  • Wurundjeri of Darebin

    White settlers knew the Wurundjeri as the ‘Yarra’ tribe. They were closely associated with the Yarra River...
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