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  2. Merv Hicks (Australian footballer) - Wikipedia

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    Mervyn Ernest "Merv" Hicks (21 August 1936 – 14 December 2013) [1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. Hicks was from Numurkah, but was playing with Mooroopna when signed by Collingwood.

  3. Rolland Fairley - Wikipedia

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    Rolland Fairley (7 December 1904 – 10 June 1930) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. Born in Shepparton to John Frederick Fairley and Helen Georgina McCracken, Rolland Fairley was educated at Shepparton High School.

  4. Leith Ratten - Wikipedia

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    Ratten was committed to trial for murder and the hearing took place in August, 1970 in the nearby town of Shepparton, Victoria.Despite the assertions of Ratten's defence counsel that the shooting was accidental and evidence against him was circumstantial, the jury found Ratten guilty and he was sentenced to death.

  5. Raymond Edmunds - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, Edmunds was convicted of the murder of 18-year-old panel beater Garry Heywood and the rape and murder of 16-year-old Abina Madill at Murchison East, near Shepparton, Victoria. [1] On 10 February 1966, the two co-workers had attended a rock concert with their respective friends at the Shepparton Civic Centre, but neither returned home.

  6. Rod Fyffe - Wikipedia

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    Fyffe was born on 20 March 1949 in Warracknabeal, Victoria. [3] [4] He attended primary school in Cannum and Caramut, before going to high school in Hamilton. [4]After finishing high school, Fyffe went on to study at Monash University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics.

  7. List of disasters in Australia by death toll - Wikipedia

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    A father and son died in a bushfire in Victoria's west Rail accident: Trawalla, Victoria: 2: 2006 Apr 28: 2 people killed in level-crossing train accident at Trawalla, near Beaufort, Victoria [438] Electrocution: Rainbow, Victoria: 2: 2010 Mar 16: Father and son killed on their farm whilst moving a windmill which touched overhead power lines.

  8. 2024 in Australia - Wikipedia

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    McGuire's death is the third such death in the Ballarat area allegedly caused by a male perpetrator following the alleged murders of Rebecca Young and Samantha Murphy, which sparks a national conversation about the prevention of violence against women, and the organisation of a snap rally to protest against men's violence. [115] [116] [117] [118]

  9. Richard Pratt (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    Ryszard Przecicki was born in the Free City of Danzig (present-day GdaƄsk, Poland) to Jewish parents Leon and Paula on 10 December 1934. [1] [4] His family immigrated to Australia in 1938, seeking safe refuge from the Nazis, and settled in Shepparton, Victoria, changing their surname from Przecicki to Pratt.