- Moe, Victoria
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Moe
Victoria
Streetscape in central Moe
MoePopulation: 15,582[1] Postcode: 3825 Coordinates: 38°10′20″S 146°16′04″E / 38.17222°S 146.26778°ECoordinates: 38°10′20″S 146°16′04″E / 38.17222°S 146.26778°E Location: LGA: City of Latrobe County: Buln Buln State District: Narracan Federal Division: McMillan Moe (
i/ˈmoʊ.i/ moh-ee)[2] is a city[3] in the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is about 135 kilometres (80 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.[4] 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.
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History
Moe Jazz Festival 2005
George Street, MoeA 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.[5] A Post Office opened on 17 March 1862.[6]
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.
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%)[1]
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 College, a single campus year 7–12 state secondary college located in nearby Newborough, and
- Lavalla Catholic College, 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
Lake NarracanMoe 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.[7] 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.[8] 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.
Transport
The main form of transport is the automobile. 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.
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 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.
Notable people
- Jason Bright (V8 Supercars Driver)
- Ted Hopkins (VFL Player, member of Carlton's 1970 Premiership team)
- Brad Knowles (Cricketer)
- Troy Makepeace (AFL Player)
- Barry Rowlings (VFL Player, Premiership winner with Hawthorn in 1976 and Richmond in 1980)
- John Somerville (VFL Player, member of Essendon's 1962 Premiership team)
- Peter Somerville (AFL Player, member of Essendon's 1993 Premiership team)
See also
References
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Moe-Yallourn (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=UCL234800&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
- ^ Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. ISBN 1-876429-14-3
- ^ Latrobe City website: History section
- ^ Latrobe Visitor Information Centre: Moe
- ^ Local history of Moe' ' - LocalHero' Retrieved 1 July 2007 Archived September 27, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocd.w?, retrieved 2008-04-11
- ^ Golf Select, Moe, http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=298, retrieved 2009-05-11
- ^ Country Racing Victoria, Moe Racing Club, http://www.countryracing.com.au/index.php?option=com_club_info&club=42&Itemid=80, retrieved 2009-05-07[dead link]
External links
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