Moe, Victoria
Encyclopedia
Moe is a city in the Latrobe Valley
and Gippsland
region of Victoria, Australia
. It is about 135 kilometres (83.9 mi) east of Melbourne
and at the 2006 census had a population of 15,582 (includes Newborough
and Yallourn North
). It is administered by the City of Latrobe council.
Moe was originally known as The Mowie, then Little Moi. The town's name is believed to derive from a Kurnai (local Indigenous) word meaning 'swamp land'.
Moe is a navigation point and stopover for tourists en route to Erica
, the historic goldfields township of Walhalla
, the Walhalla Goldfields Railway
and Mount Baw Baw
. Moe is also home to the annual Moe Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival in March, a recreated historic settlement Old Gippstown nearby Lake Narracan
, locally produced indigenous Aboriginal/Koorie art and is regularly home to local Australian Football finals in the Gippsland League and the Mid Gippsland Football League
. The region is represented by Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup competition.
A small gold discovery
was made in 1852. The small settlement on the Narracan Creek was a stopover en route to the Walhalla
goldfields further north. A Post Office opened on 17 March 1862.
The town was surveyed in 1879, following proclamation of the Shire of Narracan
the year before and the arrival of the railway from Morwell
. Moe was declared a city in 1963.
Local industry is based around the brown coal
deposits in the Latrobe Valley
and electricity
generation. The area is also noted for its dairy
industry.
Moe High School
opened in 1952. The school was closed and merged into Lowanna Secondary College
, with the previous Moe High School location becoming a housing estate. Jason Bek, a former pupil of Moe High School, is the current principal of Lowanna College.
Moe is also serviced by two high schools:
Tertiary education is offered through GippsTAFE (Yallourn, Warragul, Leongatha, Morwell). Monash University also has its Gippsland Campus at nearby Churchill.
Moe has a varied and wide range of sporting facilities available for use.
The local leisure centre consists of a 25-metre, 6-lane indoor heated pool, a unisex spa at one end of the complex and separate male & female saunas at the other, gymnasium with both electronic and state-of-the-art pin-loaded equipment (including rowers, treadmills, exercise bikes and steppers), squash court, 400 m all-weather athletics track and grass field with asphalt cycling track around the perimeter and three full-sized basketball courts that are utilised by local basketball, netball, volleyball, badminton, archery and playgroup associations amongst other things. There is also an outdoor pool elsewhere in the town with fifty-metre Olympic pool, diving pool, toddlers pool, learn-to-swim pool and kiosk.
Ted Summerton Reserve in the west end of Vale Street, Moe is used for Australian rules football
and cricket and is a short walking distance of the Moe V/line train station. Moe has an Australian rules football team competing in the Gippsland League, the Moe Lions. The Ted Summerton Reserve is currently being upgraded.
Olympic Park is located next to the outdoor pool at the east end of Vale Street and is used for soccer. It is the home ground for Moe United Soccer Club who compete in the Gippsland Soccer League
Lake Narracan
is located immediately to the north of Moe. Lake Narracan is increasingly being used for recreational purposes, including water-skiing, jet skiing and recreational fishing and has a small caravan park and water-ski club.
Golfers play at the course of the Moe Golf Club on Thompsons Road, in Newborough. Yallourn Golf Club is nearby.
Moe has a horse racing club, the
Moe Racing Club, which schedules around fifteen race meetings a year including the Moe Cup meeting in October. The racecourse is in Waterloo Road within walking distance of the centre of Moe.
Nearby Mount Baw Baw and Mount St. Gwinear
are popular destinations for skiing, with Mount Baw Baw having a small ski resort and Mount St. Gwinear used for cross country skiing.
. Moe is located approximately one and three quarter hours from Melbourne along the Princes Freeway
. The freeway bends through the southern part of the urban area.
V/Line
runs passenger rail services to Moe station as part of the Traralgon V/Line rail service which runs to Melbourne's major stations Southern Cross Station
and Flinders Street Station
.
Local bus services, Latrobe Valley Bus Lines in Moe are operated by Valley Transit, which also runs connecting buses to nearby towns such as Morwell
, Traralgon
, Churchill
and Yallourn North
.
Moe is approximately a 20 minute drive from Latrobe Regional Airport in Morwell.
Warragul
commercial radio stations Star FM and 3GG
service this region along with all five ABC
radio networks and several community and narrowcast stations.
Commercial Melbourne based television networks such as the Seven
, Nine
and Ten networks are all re-broadcast in the Latrobe Valley
by their regional affiliates, which are Prime7, WIN Television
and Southern Cross Ten
respectively. All three channels have local commercials placed on their broadcasts and WIN TV also broadcasts a local news bulletin from Monday to Friday at 6.30pm.
New channels broadcast by the commercial networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called Freeview (Australia)
to viewers in Moe and the Gippsland \ Latrobe Valley region. These channels include One HD, Eleven
, 7Two
, 7mate
, GEM
and GO!
.
Most Melbourne channels (Seven Network, Channel Nine, Channel Ten) can be received in analogue and more clearly in digital
in Moe with a suitable roof-top antenna. Both national public broadcasters
, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
including channels ABC1
, ABC2
, ABC3
, ABC News 24
and Special Broadcasting Service
including SBS One and SBS Two, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.
Latrobe Valley
The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical region and urban area of Gippsland in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is east of the City Of Melbourne and nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Great Dividing Range to the north – with the highest peak to the north of the...
and Gippsland
Gippsland
Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...
region of Victoria, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It is about 135 kilometres (83.9 mi) east of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and at the 2006 census had a population of 15,582 (includes Newborough
Newborough, Victoria
Newborough is a town in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria, Australia which shares a border to its west, mostly along the Narracan Creek, with the town of Moe. It can be divided into three areas, Old Newborough, East Newborough and North Newborough...
and Yallourn North
Yallourn North, Victoria
Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 8 kilometres north-east of Moe. The town contains many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church and Mosque in the region...
). It is administered by the City of Latrobe council.
Moe was originally known as The Mowie, then Little Moi. The town's name is believed to derive from a Kurnai (local Indigenous) word meaning 'swamp land'.
Moe is a navigation point and stopover for tourists en route to Erica
Erica, Victoria
Erica is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Rawson Road, in the Shire of Baw Baw.The area was generally known as Upper Moondarra in the early 1900s, the township of Erica beginning to grow after construction of the railway line from Moe to Walhalla, which passed through the area...
, the historic goldfields township of Walhalla
Walhalla, Victoria
Walhalla is a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in early 1863 and at its peak home to around 2,500 residents. Today, the town has a population of fewer than 20 permanent residents, though it has a large proportion of houses owned as holiday properties. It...
, the Walhalla Goldfields Railway
Walhalla Goldfields Railway
The Walhalla Goldfields Railway is a gauge tourist railway located in the Thomson River and Stringers Creek valleys in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, near the former gold-mining town and tourist destination of Walhalla.- History :...
and Mount Baw Baw
Mount Baw Baw
Mount Baw Baw is a mountain in Victoria, Australia. Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort is an Unincorporated area of Victoria surrounded by the Shire of Baw Baw.-Location:...
. Moe is also home to the annual Moe Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival in March, a recreated historic settlement Old Gippstown nearby Lake Narracan
Lake Narracan
Lake Narracan is an artificial lake on the Latrobe River built to supply cooling water for the nearby brown coal fired power stations.-Location:...
, locally produced indigenous Aboriginal/Koorie art and is regularly home to local Australian Football finals in the Gippsland League and the Mid Gippsland Football League
Mid Gippsland Football League
The Mid Gippsland Football League is an Australian rules football league in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria, Australia.-History:The league was founded in 1935.The original clubs were:*Boolarra*Morwell Seconds*Brown Coal Mine*Morwell Bridge...
. The region is represented by Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup competition.
History
Victorian gold rush
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. In 10 years the Australian population nearly tripled.- Overview :During this era Victoria dominated the world's gold output...
was made in 1852. The small settlement on the Narracan Creek was a stopover en route to the Walhalla
Walhalla, Victoria
Walhalla is a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in early 1863 and at its peak home to around 2,500 residents. Today, the town has a population of fewer than 20 permanent residents, though it has a large proportion of houses owned as holiday properties. It...
goldfields further north. A Post Office opened on 17 March 1862.
The town was surveyed in 1879, following proclamation of the Shire of Narracan
Shire of Narracan
The Shire of Narracan was a Local Government Area located about east-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1878 until 1994.-History:...
the year before and the arrival of the railway from Morwell
Morwell, Victoria
-Transport:The main form of transport in Morwell is the automobile. The Princes Freeway now bypasses the town to the south while the old Princes Highway which once passed through east-west through its centre is now Princes Drive and Commercial Road. The highway connects Morwell with other...
. Moe was declared a city in 1963.
Local industry is based around the brown coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
deposits in the Latrobe Valley
Latrobe Valley
The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical region and urban area of Gippsland in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is east of the City Of Melbourne and nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Great Dividing Range to the north – with the highest peak to the north of the...
and electricity
Energy in Victoria
The primary energy source for the generation of electricity in the State of Victoria is brown coal - one of the largest contributors to Australia's total domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Brown coal is used for the generation of approximately 85 percent of Victoria's household, commercial and...
generation. The area is also noted for its dairy
Dairy
A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...
industry.
Moe High School
Lowanna Secondary College
Lowanna Secondary College is located in Newborough, Victoria. The college draws its enrolment from Moe/Newborough, and district towns of Yallourn North, Erica, Rawson, Willow Grove and the surrounding rural areas...
opened in 1952. The school was closed and merged into Lowanna Secondary College
Lowanna Secondary College
Lowanna Secondary College is located in Newborough, Victoria. The college draws its enrolment from Moe/Newborough, and district towns of Yallourn North, Erica, Rawson, Willow Grove and the surrounding rural areas...
, with the previous Moe High School location becoming a housing estate. Jason Bek, a former pupil of Moe High School, is the current principal of Lowanna College.
Population
On the night of the 2006 census there were 15,582 residing in the Moe-Yallourn urban centre; 51.7% female and 48.3% male. At the time Moe had an indigenous (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) population of 1.4%, whilst 78.7% of the overall population were born in Australia. The other main countries of origin were: England (4.1%), Netherlands (1.7%), Scotland (1.5%), Malta (1.4%), and Germany (1.2%)Education
Moe is serviced by a number of primary schools including:- Moe (Albert Street) Primary School
- Moe (South Street) Primary School
- Moe (Elizabeth street) Primary School
- St Keiran's Primary School (Catholic)
- Barringa Special School (Day Special School)
- St Mary's Primary School (Catholic)
- Newborough Primary (Murray Road)
- Newborough East Primary
Moe is also serviced by two high schools:
- Lowanna Secondary CollegeLowanna Secondary CollegeLowanna Secondary College is located in Newborough, Victoria. The college draws its enrolment from Moe/Newborough, and district towns of Yallourn North, Erica, Rawson, Willow Grove and the surrounding rural areas...
, a single campus year 7–12 state secondary college located in nearby Newborough, and - Lavalla Catholic CollegeLavalla Catholic CollegeLavalla Catholic College is a Catholic secondary school in the towns of Traralgon and Newborough in Victoria, Australia. About 1400 students attend its three campuses. Lavalla is a member of the Catholic All Schools Sports Association .-External links:...
, a multi campus Catholic secondary college with its year 7–9 Presentation Campus located in Newborough.
Tertiary education is offered through GippsTAFE (Yallourn, Warragul, Leongatha, Morwell). Monash University also has its Gippsland Campus at nearby Churchill.
Sporting facilities
The local leisure centre consists of a 25-metre, 6-lane indoor heated pool, a unisex spa at one end of the complex and separate male & female saunas at the other, gymnasium with both electronic and state-of-the-art pin-loaded equipment (including rowers, treadmills, exercise bikes and steppers), squash court, 400 m all-weather athletics track and grass field with asphalt cycling track around the perimeter and three full-sized basketball courts that are utilised by local basketball, netball, volleyball, badminton, archery and playgroup associations amongst other things. There is also an outdoor pool elsewhere in the town with fifty-metre Olympic pool, diving pool, toddlers pool, learn-to-swim pool and kiosk.
Ted Summerton Reserve in the west end of Vale Street, Moe is used for Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
and cricket and is a short walking distance of the Moe V/line train station. Moe has an Australian rules football team competing in the Gippsland League, the Moe Lions. The Ted Summerton Reserve is currently being upgraded.
Olympic Park is located next to the outdoor pool at the east end of Vale Street and is used for soccer. It is the home ground for Moe United Soccer Club who compete in the Gippsland Soccer League
Gippsland soccer league
The Gippsland Soccer League was founded in 1973 and consists of 17 soccer teams and encompasses a competition that is competed between all age groups.-Grades:...
Lake Narracan
Lake Narracan
Lake Narracan is an artificial lake on the Latrobe River built to supply cooling water for the nearby brown coal fired power stations.-Location:...
is located immediately to the north of Moe. Lake Narracan is increasingly being used for recreational purposes, including water-skiing, jet skiing and recreational fishing and has a small caravan park and water-ski club.
Golfers play at the course of the Moe Golf Club on Thompsons Road, in Newborough. Yallourn Golf Club is nearby.
Moe has a horse racing club, the
Moe Racing Club, which schedules around fifteen race meetings a year including the Moe Cup meeting in October. The racecourse is in Waterloo Road within walking distance of the centre of Moe.
Nearby Mount Baw Baw and Mount St. Gwinear
Mount Baw Baw
Mount Baw Baw is a mountain in Victoria, Australia. Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort is an Unincorporated area of Victoria surrounded by the Shire of Baw Baw.-Location:...
are popular destinations for skiing, with Mount Baw Baw having a small ski resort and Mount St. Gwinear used for cross country skiing.
Transport
The main form of transport is the automobileAutomobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
. Moe is located approximately one and three quarter hours from Melbourne along the Princes Freeway
Princes Freeway
The Princes Freeway is a , 2 section freeway, which links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Morwell on the east . It continues beyond these extremities as the Princes Highway towards Adelaide to the west and Sydney to the east...
. The freeway bends through the southern part of the urban area.
V/Line
V/Line
V/Line is a not for profit regional passenger train and coach service in Victoria, Australia. It was created after the split-up of VicRail in 1983. V/Line is owned by the V/Line Corporation which is a Victorian State Government statutory authority...
runs passenger rail services to Moe station as part of the Traralgon V/Line rail service which runs to Melbourne's major stations Southern Cross Station
Southern Cross Station
Southern Cross is a major railway station and transport hub in Melbourne Docklands, Victoria, Australia. It is located on Spencer Street between Collins and La Trobe Streets at the western edge of the central business district...
and Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city...
.
Local bus services, Latrobe Valley Bus Lines in Moe are operated by Valley Transit, which also runs connecting buses to nearby towns such as Morwell
Morwell, Victoria
-Transport:The main form of transport in Morwell is the automobile. The Princes Freeway now bypasses the town to the south while the old Princes Highway which once passed through east-west through its centre is now Princes Drive and Commercial Road. The highway connects Morwell with other...
, Traralgon
Traralgon, Victoria
Traralgon is a regional city located in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Traralgon is a city within the City of Latrobe....
, Churchill
Churchill, Victoria
Churchill is a town in the Latrobe Valley, located in central Gippsland in the east of Victoria, Australia. The town had a population of 4,588 at the 2006 census, and is part of the Latrobe City local government area...
and Yallourn North
Yallourn North, Victoria
Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 8 kilometres north-east of Moe. The town contains many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church and Mosque in the region...
.
Moe is approximately a 20 minute drive from Latrobe Regional Airport in Morwell.
Media
Moe is serviced by the Latrobe Valley Express newspaper. The Latrobe Valley Express is delivered free to residences in the Latrobe Valley region and has a current circulation of approximately 34,128 (CAB).Warragul
Warragul, Victoria
Warragul is a rural centre with a population of 12,943 people east-southeast of Melbourne in Victoria. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north...
commercial radio stations Star FM and 3GG
3GG
3GG is a regional adult contemporary radio station that operates in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It was owned and operated by RG Capital before being acquired by the then newly formed Macquarie Regional RadioWorks before their sale to Resonate Broadcasters in March 2008.The station broadcasts on...
service this region along with all five ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
radio networks and several community and narrowcast stations.
Commercial Melbourne based television networks such as the Seven
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
, Nine
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
and Ten networks are all re-broadcast in the Latrobe Valley
Latrobe Valley
The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical region and urban area of Gippsland in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is east of the City Of Melbourne and nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Great Dividing Range to the north – with the highest peak to the north of the...
by their regional affiliates, which are Prime7, WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
and Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
respectively. All three channels have local commercials placed on their broadcasts and WIN TV also broadcasts a local news bulletin from Monday to Friday at 6.30pm.
New channels broadcast by the commercial networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called Freeview (Australia)
Freeview (Australia)
Freeview is the brand given to the digital terrestrial television platform in Australia. It is intended to bring all of the free-to-air broadcasters on to a consistent marketing platform to compete against subscription television, in particular Foxtel, and coincides with the expansion to 3 digital...
to viewers in Moe and the Gippsland \ Latrobe Valley region. These channels include One HD, Eleven
Eleven (TV channel)
Eleven is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel, which was launched by ElevenCo, on 11 January 2011.-Joint venture:...
, 7Two
7Two
7TWO is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel which was launched by the Seven Network on Sunday 1 November 2009 at 12pm....
, 7mate
7mate
7mate is an Australian free-to-air high definition digital television channel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010.The network stated that 7mate would contain sport and regular programs aimed primarily at a male audience, with programming drawn from a combination of new...
, GEM
GEM (Australian TV channel)
GEM is an Australian free-to-air high definition digital television channel, launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 26 September 2010 at 6am...
and GO!
Go! (Australian TV channel)
GO! is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 9 August 2009.-Origins:...
.
Most Melbourne channels (Seven Network, Channel Nine, Channel Ten) can be received in analogue and more clearly in digital
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
in Moe with a suitable roof-top antenna. Both national public broadcasters
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
including channels ABC1
ABC1
ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on...
, ABC2
ABC2
ABC2 is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 7 March 2005, it is the responsibility of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television division, and is available nationally to digital television viewers in Australia...
, ABC3
ABC3
-Future shows:Programming confirmed for future broadcast will include:* After School Care * Bindi's Boot Camp * Bushwacked! * Dance Academy * Dancing Down Under...
, ABC News 24
ABC News 24
ABC News 24 is an Australian 24-hour news channel launched and owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel replaced the former ABC High Definition simulcast of ABC1 and commenced broadcasting at 7:30pm 5:30 on Thursday, 22 July 2010.-Pre-launch:The ABC announced in January 2010...
and Special Broadcasting Service
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
including SBS One and SBS Two, are broadcast to the Latrobe Valley from the TV tower at Mount Tassie, as well as from the Dandenong Ranges transmitters located east of Melbourne.
Notable people
- Jason BrightJason BrightJason Bright is an Australian racing driver currently competing in the V8 Supercar series.-Australia:...
(V8 Supercars Driver) - Ted HopkinsTed HopkinsEdward "Ted" Hopkins is retired former Australian rules footballer, businessman and writer. He is most notable for his four goal effort in the second half of Carlton's remarkable victory in the 1970 VFL Grand Final.-Football career:...
(VFL Player, member of Carlton's 1970 Premiership team) - Brad KnowlesBrad KnowlesBradley Aaron "Brad" Knowles is an Australian cricketer who is a member of the Western Warriors side. A right-arm fast bowler, Knowles made his Pura Cup debut for the Victorian Bushrangers against New South Wales in 2004–05, as a replacement for Mick Lewis...
(Cricketer) - Troy MakepeaceTroy MakepeaceTroy Makepeace is an Australian rules footballer with the Casey Scorpions of the Victorian Football League, formerly with the Kangaroos of the Australian Football League....
(AFL Player) - Barry RowlingsBarry RowlingsBarry Rowlings is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1975 and 1978 for the Hawthorn Football Club and between 1979 and 1986 for the Richmond Football Club. In 1979, Rowlings won the Jack Dyer Medal, which is awarded to Richmond's best and fairest player for the...
(VFL Player, Premiership winner with Hawthorn in 1976 and Richmond in 1980) - John Somerville (VFL Player, member of Essendon's 1962 Premiership team)
- Peter SomervillePeter SomervillePeter Somerville is a former Australian rules footballer who appeared 160 times for Essendon in the AFL throughout the 1990s.A ruckman, and son of John Somerville, he shared rucking duties with Paul Salmon for much of his career...
(AFL Player, member of Essendon's 1993 Premiership team)