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The East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) was signed by Commonwealth and Victorian governments on 3 February 1997, and is Australia's first RFA. [4] It covers a region similar, but not identical to the East Gippsland Shire. It sets aside 5,811 km 2 (2,244 sq mi) from logging, an increase of 1.3% over pre-RFA reserves. [5]
Angus McMillan was born in Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland, [5] the fourth son of Ewan McMillan, a sheep farmer. After an early life of hardship and deprivation, both in Glen Brittle and subsequently at Kilbride Farm, South Uist, he migrated to Australia in 1838. [6]
Founded in 1877, Sale began playing official competitive football in 1889 when they joined the Gippsland Football Association, as a junior side. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In 1900, the club entered the senior competition and were premiers for the first time the following year.
Thomas William (Bill) Ah Chow was a Chinese-Australian soldier, farmer, fire lookout and legendary bushman of East Gippsland in Victoria. Bill's father, Thomas Ah Chow, was born in Hong Kong in 1834, educated in England, worked initially as a sea-cook and then as a ship's steward.
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.
But from that day onward the natives recognised that Gippsland was a white man's country, and gave no further trouble. — H.P.B., "Forgotten History", The Australasian (17 July 1920) [ 8 ] Despite the widespread belief that MacMillan led several massacres, as of 2021 [update] there are over 12 monuments in the Gippsland region dedicated to him.
ABC Gippsland (call sign: 3GLR) is an ABC Local Radio station in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station is based in Sale and covers from Warragul , through to Mallacoota . Mim Hook hosts the Breakfast program produced by Zaida Glibanovic, while Jonathon Kendall presents a Statewide Mornings program produced by Madeleine Spencer from the ...
Gippsland is divided by the Strzelecki Ranges and tributaries of the Gippsland Lakes into West Gippsland, South Gippsland, Latrobe Valley, Central Gippsland and East Gippsland. At the 2016 Australian census , Gippsland had a population of 271,266, with the principal centres Traralgon , Warragul , Drouin , Bairnsdale , Moe , Sale , Morwell ...