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The Aboriginal name for the Sale area is Wayput. [4] Two famous Gippsland explorers, Paul Strzelecki and Angus McMillan, passed through the immediate area around 1840.The first white settler was Archibald McIntosh who arrived in 1844 and established his 'Flooding Creek' property on the flood plain country which was duly inundated soon after his arrival.
This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia.The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database, on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia, or by the National Trust of Australia.
Cadastral divisions of county, parish and township form the basis for formal identification of the location of any piece of land in the state. There are 37 counties and 2004 parishes and 909 townships. [1][2] Parishes were subdivided into sections of various sizes for sale as farming allotments, or designated as a town and then divided into ...
Row of terraced houses in Middle Park, Melbourne, typical of those in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Terrace houses in Australia began to be built in early 19th century Sydney, closely based on the models found in London and other UK cities. They soon developed unique features, particularly elaborate balconies, and became a very popular form ...
It was established in 1938, and was abolished in 1984. The main activity of the commission was the construction tens of thousands of houses and flats in Melbourne and many country towns between the late 1940s and the early 70s, providing low rent housing for low income families. The most visible legacy of the commission is the 44 high-rise ...
Property law. Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system, in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.
Mortlake, Victoria. Satellite image of Mortlake on 3 January 2018. Mortlake is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Hamilton Highway, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-east of Warrnambool. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area and the federal Division of Wannon. As per the 2001 census, Mortlake had a population of ...
Housing types in Victoria are dominated by single or double-storey detached suburban dwellings, most of which include living spaces such as a family / living room, dining room, etc., a garage, front and/or back yard and a driveway. In inner Melbourne and some inner areas of regional towns, most housing types are of a low to low-medium density ...