Elaine is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Midland Highway between Ballarat and Geelong. At the 2021 census, Elaine and the surrounding area had a population of 232.
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The electoral district of Buninyong was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.
It largely covered the area of the abolished district of Ballarat East, covering south and southeast suburbs of Ballarat as well as the rural areas to the south and east of the city. It included the suburbs of Eureka, Canadian, Sebastopol, Mount Clear, Buninyong and Golden Point. It also included the rural towns between Linton, Corindhap, Lethbridge, Ballan and Bungaree.
Buninyong was first contested at the 2014 election, and was won by the incumbent Labor MP for abolished Ballarat East, Geoff Howard.
The seat was abolished by the Electoral Boundaries Commission ahead of the 2022 election and largely replaced by the electoral district of Eureka.
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Clarendon is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Moorabool and on the Midland Highway, 119 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne.
At the 2021 census, Clarendon had a population of 163.
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Lal Lal is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool and on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line, 108 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Lal Lal and the surrounding area had a population of 476.
Lal Lal Falls and the Lal Lal Reservoir on the Moorabool River are to the north-east and east of the town.
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Lal Lal Iron Mine and Smelting Works were located close to the western branch of the Moorabool River, near the town of Lal Lal, Victoria, Australia, which lies on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line about 19 km from Ballarat. From 1875 to 1884, pig iron was made there in a blast furnace using iron ore mined at the site, locally produced charcoal, and limestone from a nearby deposit. The works ultimately proved to be uneconomic. It remains the only attempt to establish an iron smelting industry in Victoria.
The ruin of the blast furnace on the site is one of only three extant 19th-century blast furnace structures in Australia—the other ones being in northern Tasmania and southern New South Wales—and it is the only one of its type in the southern hemisphere. The site is on the Victorian Heritage Register and the Register of the National Estate.
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Scotsburn is a locality in Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 16 kilometres from Ballarat on the Midland Highway toward Geelong. Its local government areas are the Shire of Moorabool and the City of Ballarat.