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The University of Ballarat was organised in 1994, after being sponsored by the University of Melbourne for five years, [1] and due to the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] In 1998, the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries (1870) and the Horsham-based Wimmera Institute of TAFE merged into the university, expanding ...
The gold boom created a market for mining machinery and led to foundries being set up in Ballarat. John Walker started the Union Foundry in Ballarat in March 1865. This company and the rival Phoenix Foundry also made locomotives for the Victorian Railways, [4] There was a local demand for scrap-iron and pig-iron in the Ballarat area.
Federation University Australia (FedUni) is a public university based in Victoria, Australia. [9] It is the modern descendant of the School of Mines Ballarat, established in 1870 as the fourth tertiary institution in Australia, which evolved to form the modern university as it is today. [10]
The Ballarat Junior Technical School was a junior division of the Ballarat School of Mines. It opened in 1913 in a bluestone building in the grounds of Dana Street Primary School. In 1921 it moved to a custom built school in the grounds of the Ballarat School of Mines. [1]
Federation University Australia Gippsland Campus is an Australian university campus located in the town of Churchill 142 km east of Melbourne. Its main neighbouring towns in the region are Morwell and Traralgon. Formerly a branch of Monash University, on 1 January 2014 it became part of Federation University Australia. Study areas at the campus ...
This is a list of television programmes that are currently being broadcast or have been broadcast on ABC Television's ABC TV (formerly ABC1), ABC Family (formerly ABC2, ABC Comedy and ABC TV Plus), ABC Kids (formerly ABC 4 Kids), ABC Entertains (formerly ABC3 and ABC ME) or ABC News (formerly ABC News 24) in Australia.
Agreed in December 1939, the program was known in Australia as the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). [2] The first Australian training schools were established the following year. [ 3 ] Course duration and content evolved over time but the basic structure of the scheme remained the same for the duration of the war. [ 4 ]
He grew up in Ballarat and attended Mount Clear College. He later studied for a Bachelor of Applied Science in Geology at the University of Ballarat. He worked for the Association for the Blind, and during that time also served as a councillor for the City of Ballarat. He later worked for the Community and Public Sector Union. [4]