Sunbury (Victoria)

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Sunbury
Sunbury Victoria aerial.jpg
Aerial view of Sunbury
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
Founded : 1836
Coordinates : 37 ° 35 '  S , 144 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 35 '  S , 144 ° 43'  E
Height : 214  m
Area : 29.2  km²
Residents : 34,425 (2016)
Population density : 1179 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 3429
LGA : Hume City
Sunbury (Victoria)
Sunbury
Sunbury

Sunbury is a city in the Australian state of Victoria , 29 km northwest of Melbourne city ​​center . It belongs to the Local Government Area Hume City . The 2016 census counted 34,425 residents. Statistically, Sunbury belongs to the Melbourne catchment area.

Sunbury is still a separate parish near Melbourne, but the Victoria's state government decision in 2009 to expand Melbourne's urban expansion zone is likely to see Sunbury become a Melbourne suburb by 2020.

history

The Sunbury area was first settled by George Evans and William Jackson in 1836 . William Jackson and his brother Samuel named the new settlement Sunbury in 1857 after the town of Sunbury-on-Thames in the British county of Surrey . The post office there was opened on January 13, 1858.

Through its well-known and powerful citizen Big Clarke , Sunbury occupies an important place in the history of Victoria's development. Clark's role as one of the colony's largest sheep farmers and his position of power in the Victoria Parliament were critical to the development of Victoria in the early days. From 1851, during the first period of state independence, there was a constant struggle between Parliament and the Legislative Assembly for government power. MPs like Clark dared to oppose the primacy of male electoral votes, Republicanism and Chartism expressed in the Legislative Assembly in order to protect their own sheep farming program and standing. As a representative of the Bunyip aristocracy , Big Clarke also thwarted all legal reforms that were supposed to allow small farmers to settle. The Melbourne Punch portrayed Clarke in anti-sheep farmer cartoons as "The man in possession".

In 1859 Big Clarke was embroiled in a scandal over the discovery of gold on his holdings near Deep Creek. Bolinda Company stocks rose and Clarke sold his shares at the height of the gold rush before the fraud was exposed. The gold find was indeed bogus, possibly due to a shotgun load of gold dust in the samples. Clarke said the rich find was obtained by washing it in a soup bowl. Melbourne Punch explained how the scam worked in a cartoon titled "The Soup Plate".

In 1837 Big Clarke had moved to the area and obtained extensive sheep breeding permits for the Sunbury, Clarkefield and Monegeetta areas . In 1874, Clark's son, William, built a manor house on land called Rupertswood , which he named after his own son Rupert. This estate also had access to a train station from where bales of hay were transported to Adelaide . The station was built in the late 19th century, but the Clarke family didn't pay the railroad company for it until the 1960s. The train station no longer exists today. Two trains used to stop there every day during the school holidays, but it has not been used since the railway reform. The Clarke family has also been linked to the Kelly Gang story through their association with Superintendent Supt. Hare

The younger William, later Sir William , was President of the Melbourne Cricket Club and as a result the English cricket team traveling in Australia spent Christmas 1882 in Rupertswood. On Christmas Eve, the English team played against a local team and lost. Lady Clarke took one or more crossbars, burned them, and wrapped the ashes in a small purple velvet cloth that she gave to the English Captain Ivo Bligh . She suggested that the ashes be forever used as a trophy for both national team games. Later, the remains of the burned crossbars were placed in a small urn. The Ashes have since become one of the most sought-after sports trophies in the world.

In 1922 the Clarke family sold their property to HV McKoy , owners of the Sunshine Harvester Works , who sold it to the Salesians of Don Boscos in 1927 . Until recently, the manor and the surrounding property were used for agricultural and educational purposes as a boarding school for students of the Salesian College. The mansion has now been renovated and can be rented for weddings and other festive occasions. The school, the Salesian College Rupertswood, is still located there today.

In the early 1970s, the then largely rural area in Australia became known as the venue for the Sunbury Pop Festival , which was held annually between 1972 and 1975.

population

The front of the manor house in Rupertswood, Sunbury

Until the mid-1980s, the demographic-cultural orientation of Sunburys was mainly White-Anglo-Saxon, with some smaller ethnic groups still playing a certain role. Only in the last 20-25 years have other nationalities (mainly through immigration from New Zealand and the United Kingdom ) played a greater role.

Today the residents of Sunbury have diverse cultural backgrounds, partly due to the influx of simple workers, as the city is close to major industrial areas and transport facilities. So is Melbourne Airport only 15 km away. There is currently a trend towards working in downtown Melbourne and living in one of the suburbs to be able to afford more due to lower rents and land prices. This also led to a significant increase in population in Sunbury, where many new housing developments extend beyond the boundaries of the old city. The 2001 census recorded 25,086 residents, a total of 29,566 in 2006 and 33,062 in 2011, making Sunbury the 38th largest Australian city. In 2016, 34,425 people lived in the city.

Shopping and entertainment

Sunbury is home to major supermarket chains like Coles , Woolworths , Foodworks and IGA , and department store chains like Big W , Harris Scarfe and Target . Outside the city center there is Aldi and Bunnings Warehouse . Sunbury also has many grocery stores and a Reading Cinema near the train station .

traffic

Sunbury Railway Station

Sunbury Station is connected to Melbourne and Bendigo by the V / Line . These trains do not come as often as the Metlink light rail , which stops in Sunbury every hour on weekdays, but only every 80 minutes on weekends.

The government has announced that the line to Sunbury will be electrified to allow regular suburban trains to run.

schools

Elementary schools

  • Sunbury Primary School
  • Sunbury West Primary School
  • Sunbury Heights Primary School
  • Killara Primary School
  • Kismet Primary School
  • St. Anne's Primary School
  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel Primary School
  • Goonawarra Primary School

Further training

  • Sunbury College (formerly: Sunbury Secondary College, Sunbury High School)
  • Sunbury Downs College (formerly Sunbury Post-primary School)
  • Salesian College Rupertswood

Special schools

  • Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Special School

university

Sports

Sunbury has clubs for the following sports:

politics

Sunbury is part of the City of Hume . The city delegates are Cr. Ann Potter and Cr. Jack Ogilvie . Joanne Duncan represents the city in the parliament of Victoria and Maria Vamvakinou in the federal parliament .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Known residents

  • David Schwarz (born 1972), football player
  • Mark Johnson (born 1978), football player
  • James Kelly (born 1983), football player
  • Matthew Egan (born 1983), American football player
  • Cameron Wight (born 1985), American football player
  • Cassi Van Den Dungen (* 1992), participant in Australia's Next Top Model , season 5
  • Taylor Hine (born 1992), American football player

literature

  • Geoffrey Serle. The Golden Age A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851-1861 . Melbourne University Press, Carlton 1963.
  • Robert Spreadbrough & Hugh Anderson: Victorian Squatters . Red Rooster, Ascot Vale 1983.
  • Henry Giles Turner: A History of the Colony of Victoria: from its discovery to its absorption in the Commonwealth of Australia, Vols 1 & 2 . Melbourne 1904.
  • Antony O'Brien: Shenanigans on the Ovens Goldfields: the 1859 election. Artillery Publishing, Hartwell 2005.

Web links

Commons : Sunbury, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics : Sunbury ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  2. ^ The Age Travel Guide
  3. ^ Sunbury 3429
  4. ^ Sunbury's Country Charm at Risk. Sunbury Leader ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sunbury-leader.whereilive.com.au
  5. ↑ Big Growth Tax Grab at Sunbury . Sunbury Leader ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sunbury-leader.whereilive.com.au
  6. ^ Post Office List . Premier Postal History
  7. ↑ Serle: The Golden Age . Pp. 146-150.
  8. ↑ Melbourne Punch, December 2, 1858. p. 149.
  9. ^ Melbourne Punch, February 9, 1860. p. 21.
  10. ↑ Spreadbrough: Victorian Squatters .
  11. ^ R. Clarke: Big Clarke .
  12. ↑ 2001 Census QuickStats: Sunbury. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  13. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Sunbury ( English ) In: 2006 Census QuickStats . October 25, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  14. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Sunbury ( English ) In: 2011 Census QuickStats . March 28, 2013. Accessed April 19, 2020.