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	Austrailain history
		February 7th - Phillip was formally proclaimed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of New South Wales with a territory extending from Cape York to South Cape, Van Diemen's Land, on the east to all the country inland westward as far as the 135th degree of east longitude and including all the adjacent islands in the Pacific Ocean.
		Port Phillip Association founded in Launceston (originally as the Geelong and Dutigalla Association) by John Batman, Joseph Tice Gellibrand and others to arrange the private colonisation of the Port Phillip District.
		Port Phillip is declared an independent Colony and is to be known as Victoria.
	www.featherstone-society.com /history/australian_history.htm (6699 words)

	early history of melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Murray in the Lady Nelson was the first to sail into Port Phillip in 1801, but he did not reach the northern end of the bay.
		Accordingly, in August Sir Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales, issued a proclamation that Batman's "treaty" was void and that anybody settling at Port Phillip would be trespassing.
		In 1851 he was elected to the first Legislative Council of the Port Phillip District, and in 1856 he was elected to the first Parliament of the self-governing colony of Victoria, as MLC for Central Province.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Early_history_of_Melbourne.html (1739 words)

	Faculty of Humanities - La Trobe University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Port Phillip District, 1834-1850' and using the book of the same title by Richard Broome and Alan Frost, part of the La Trobe University Studies in History Series.
		Despite some explorations of Port Phillip Bay soon after, the area lay free of European penetration until the mid 183 0s, when the Hentys at Portland in 1834 and John Batman at Melbourne in 1835 laid the land open to European immigration and pastoral expansion.
		A group of Hobart professionals who formed the Port Phillip Association which funded Batman's venture in 1835, were but part of a group of Tasmanian businessmen who sought wider fields for their flocks and venture capital.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /history/news/digital/colonial.htm (2070 words)

	Thomson, Alexander
		He became interested in the colonization of Port Phillip, but did not join the Port Phillip Association, though invited to do so, and in November 1835 he sent across the first cattle to arrive in the new settlement, a draft of 50 Hereford cows.
		He was a director of the Port Phillip bank, which was a failure, and the Port Phillip Steam Navigation Company, and he was the first to make cash advances on wool.
		He had been elected a member of the New South Wales legislative council as one of the representatives of the Port Phillip district in 1843, but as it was impossible to attend the meetings at Sydney, soon resigned.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/australia/thomson_alexander.htm (671 words)

	Street Names
		Joseph Tice Gellibrand, a lawyer, was a member of the Port Phillip Association which crossed from Tasmania to Victoria and took possession of the land around Melbourne and Geelong under an illegal treaty with the native chiefs.
		Although not a member of the Port Phillip Association, he was an early arrival in the Port Phillip District and his disappearance with J. Gellibrand (as yet unsatisfactorily explained) was the greatest mystery of the day.
		H.M.S. "Beagle" surveyed Port Phillip and Tasmanian waters on several occasions between 1838 and 1843 - Capt. Lort John Stokes was in command of the vessel.
	www.zades.com.au /bellhs/qustreet.html (2072 words)

	Werribee History
		In 1803, Lt Tuckey whilst on a survey mission in Port Phillip Bay from the Sorrento Settlement, shot on Werribee soil the first aborigine to be killed by a white man in Victoria.
		John Batman and J.T. Gellibrand sent a petition to the Governor of NSW in 1827 asking for land in the Port Phillip district.
		As more settlers arrived in the Port Phillip area, the authorities in Sydney were forced to acknowledge its existence.
	avoca.vicnet.net.au /~wfhg/history.htm (696 words)

	Surf Coast - Winchelsea - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Batman and other association members sailed from Tasmania (Van Diemens Land) in 1835 searching for pastoral lands to expand their businesses.
		His observations helped encourage "squatters" and pioneers to move westwards from Port Phillip along the Barwon River and into the western districts.
		The township quickly developed as the "gateway to the Western District", particularly when the river was spanned with a wooden bridge in the early 1850s.
	www.greatoceanrd.org.au /surfcoast/winchelsea/history.asp (241 words)

	Rooming Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In September 2003, Port Phillip had 63 rooming houses with 1,220 beds, comprising 25 private rooming houses (577 beds) and 37 public/community rooming houses (643 rooms).
		Port Phillip's rooming houses are rapidly closing at a rate of about 12% per year.
		As a result, the City of Port Phillip supports the maintenance of private rooming houses and the provision of publicly owned-community managed rooming houses.
	www.portphillip.vic.gov.au /rooming_houses.phtml (649 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Melbourne
		View from the port of the city centre and Mt Wellington Hobart is the state capital of Tasmania, Australias island state.
		Map of greater Melbourne showing Geelong to the south west Geelong is a port city of 184,332 people (2001 census) on Corio Bay, 75 kilometres south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.
		By the time of Federation in 1901, Melbourne was considered Australia's premier city in terms of wealth and growth, and was known throughout the British Empire as "Marvellous Melbourne".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Melbourne (4019 words)

	History of Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Murray in the Lady Nelson was the first to sail into Port Phillip in 1801 but he did not reach the end of the bay.
		In April 1835 Batman hired a sloop called the Rebecca and sailed across the Strait and Port Phillip to the mouth of the He explored a large area in what now the northern suburbs of Melbourne as north as Keilor.
		In 1851 he was elected to the first Council of the Port Phillip District and 1856 he was elected to the first of the self-governing colony of Victoria as MLC for Central In Melbourne as in Launceston he made enemies before dying as the grand old of the colony in 1869.
	www.freeglossary.com /History_of_Melbourne (1892 words)

	Walkabout - Geelong
		Geelong has always been a major port and has always had a symbiotic relationship with the fertile agricultural and pastoral districts to the west and north-west of the city - a relationship which is manifest in the form of huge bay-side grain silos.
		From the outset of settlement at Port Phillip, there had been an intense sense of rivalry between Melburnians and residents of Geelong; each regarding their town as the new district's rightful capital.
		Nonetheless, its role as a port to the rural hinterland ensured its survival and the town's industrial base was growing.
	www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/VICGeelong.shtml (6383 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Discovery of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and its early settlement 1802 - 1835-
		He sent off Bower, his first mate, with five sailors in a launch to examine this inlet, Bower rounded the promontory which Grant had named Point Nepean, and his launch was swept by the rushing tide of the rip through the narrow entrance into the wide expanse of this new waterway on the 1st.
		All official attempts at settling Port Phillip and its surrounds had failed when using both soldiers and their convict charges, as land ran out in Van Dieman’s Land, the land hungry squatters now cast their eyes on the Western District of Victoria, to the west of Port Phillip Bay.
		Fawkner always saw himself as the founder of the Port Phillip settlement, and disputed Batman’s treaty with the Aboriginals, but Batman believed he had acquired all his land legally, and viewed Fawkner as an interloper upon his property.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheDiscoveryofPortPhillip.html (2486 words)

	Little Hills Press \| Travel Info \| VIC: Melbourne
		Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, is situated on the shores of Port Phillip Bay.
		The Australian Colonies Government Act was passed in August 1850, and constituted the Port Phillip district as a separate colony, with La Trobe as its first Lieutenant-Governor.
		Phillip Island is 129km (80 miles) from Melbourne, and is the home of the fairy penguins.
	littlehills.com /travel_information/vic.melbourne.shtml (7941 words)

	History of Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Murray in the LadyNelson was the first to sail into Port Phillip in 1801, but he did not reach the northern end of the bay.
		Accordingly, in August Sir Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales, issued a proclamation thatBatman's "treaty" was void and that anybody settling at Port Phillip would be trespassing.
		Here he was amazed tomeet an Englishman, William Buckley, a former convict who had escaped from the settlement at Sorrento in 1803 and who had lived with the Aboriginal people around Port Phillip for more than 30 years.
	www.therfcc.org /history-of-melbourne-48191.html (1869 words)

	Batman 170th - Treaty Past, Treaty Present
		He was the head of an expedition sent on behalf of the Port Phillip Association – a representative body of squatters and businessmen from Van Dieman’s Land.
		Their aim, as spelled out by Batman in his journal, was ‘that of secretly ascertaining the general character and capabilities of Port Phillip [as yet unsettled], as a grazing and agricultural district.’*
		With the help of surveyor John Helder Wedge, also of the Port Phillip Association, he soon had a map made of the Port Phillip area, showing the boundaries to the tract of land he purported to have purchased.
	www.antarvictoria.org.au /Batman/story.htm (876 words)

	wwwlive's Information on Noted Australians - BATMAN to BELLINGHAUSEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before the Association sought registration Batman was sent to examine proposed area of settlement.
		Batman returned to Van Diemen's Land in June 1835 to report to the Association and returned almost immediately to Port Phillip to establish a settlement and forestall trespassers.
		The Port Phillip Association was registered on June 29th, 1835.
	www.bendigolive.com /aust/notedaussies5.htm (1323 words)

	City of Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These settlers formed the Port Phillip Association for the purpose of the pastoral exploration of Port Phillip.
		Batman and his party, after entering Port Phillip Bay on 29 May, anchored their ship a short distance from the heads and made several excursions through the countryside.
		John Pascoe Fawkner had made a similar decision to settle at Port Phillip and formed a syndicate in Launceston that purchased the 55-tonne schooner ‘Enterprize’.
	www.melbourne.vic.gov.au /info.cfm?top=52&pg=703 (1020 words)

	History of Port Phillip
		The coasts of the Port Phillip district were examined between 1798 and 1802, firstly by George Bass, 1798 then by James Grant, 1801 in the Lady Nelson then by John Murray, 1802 in the Lady Nelson and then by George Bass and Matthew Flinders, 1802 in the Investigator.
		Port Phillip area was still unsettled in law, a tacit arrangement had been
		The first Mass was celebrated on the site in February 1858 in a former partially completed church, some of which was incorporated into the south aisle of the present building; by 1868, the completed nave of the Cathedral first served the needs of the community for regular worship and prayer.
	home.webaxs.net /%7Erncutter/portphillip/history.html (2573 words)

	Artist's Footsteps
		Although convict, William Buckley had resided in the area with the local Aborigines for the previous thirty-two years, after escaping from David Collins's expedition to Port Phillip in 1803, European settlement of Geelong is considered to have dated from 1835, with the signing of the 'Geelong Deed' by John Batman.
		On behalf of the Port Phillip Association, Batman acquired 40500 hectares of land in the area from eight Aboriginal chiefs.
		Corio Bay is the western arm of Port Phillip Bay, and the entrance to Inner Harbour is marked by Point Lillias in the north and Point Henry in the south.
	www.artistsfootsteps.com /html/vcctibbits_geelong.htm (995 words)

	Walkabout - Colac
		It was also in 1837 that the explorers Joseph Gellibrand and George Hesse, of the Port Phillip Association, went missing in the area.
		The settlement at Colac, one of the earlier townships in the Port Phillip district, emerged around a coaching inn which was established in 1844 at the southern end of the lake (at what is now the corner of Hesse and Murray Streets).
		To the south of town are the enormous tracts of forest associated with the Otway Ranges.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICColac.shtml (4143 words)

	Yarra River, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
		On its journey through Melbourne and to Port Phillip, it supplies 9 catchment dams and provides drinking water to about 2.6 million households.
		The particles are kept suspended by the turbulence in some parts of the middle and lower sections of the river.
		When the river water combines with marine salts as it enters Port Phillip, the suspended particles clump together and sink.
	www.yarrariver.info /history.htm (1588 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
		He joined the Port Phillip Association and in 1835 after Batman (q.v.) had made his famous purchase from the aborigines, resigned his position as assistant surveyor-general, and sailing to Port Phillip, arrived on 7 August 1835 (J. Bonwick, Port Phillip Settlement, p.
		Wedge pointed out that they were trespassing on the land of the Port Phillip Association, and then went on to examine the land to the north of the Yarra.
		Wilson strenuously opposed the influx of convicts from Tasmania, fought for the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales, and opposed Governor Hotham in his attitude to the miners; but when the rebellion broke out he took the stand that there were peaceable and legitimate methods of obtaining redress.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html (20436 words)

	ISR - Events - Does size matter? Growing community housing
		Hal is now an Associate of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research and works as an affordable housing consultant to State governments, private developers and not-for-profit community organizations.
		Instead there is the rollout of initiatives such as Housing Associations, which are developed in the absence of an analysis of the existing service landscape, a vision for its future, and a policy framework for progressing that vision.
		There would also appear to be a contradiction in the aims of large housing associations and the government policy emphasis on community building.
	www.sisr.net /events/2004/04dsm.htm (2726 words)

	The Peninsula
		The Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia : bounded by Bass Strait to the south, The Rip at Port Phillip Heads to the east, Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay to the north, and the Barwon River to the west.
		The early immigrants landed at Point Henry because of a sand bar across the inner harbour of Corio Bay and the entrance to Geelong, and a channel was not dredged till later.
		Situated 1 mile from Lake Lorne, 2 miles from Drysdale jetty, on Port Phillip bay, 12½ miles E. of Geelong and is 57½ miles S.W. of Melbourne by road.
	www.zades.com.au /bellhs/bellpen.html (2161 words)

	Port Phillip Business Association, Helping Business Grow
		Tony was a founding member of the Port Phillip Business Association in 1996 when the association was formed to provide a voice for all businesses.
		He is a founding member of the Port Phillip Business Association, previous Vice President of the Bay Street Committee and past owner of The Flower Hotel in Port Melbourne.
		Adrian is responsible for overseeing the financial operations of the Association.
	www.ppba.org.au /abo_com.html (490 words)

	George Dempster Mercer of Gorthy & Dryden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George also joined the Geelong and Dutigalla Association (later to become the Port Phillip Association) in 1835 and, according to written records left by William Lindsay Mercer, sent over several thousand sheep and other stock to settle on a large tract of land (ceded by natives to Mr.
		The name of his company was changed to "The Derwent Company." Disputes with government later led to the land being sold over their heads and the Company was dissolved in 1842.
		According to one of our contributors, other sources (the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Clyde Company Papers) have it that George was the chief shareholder in the Port Phillip Association and the Derwent Company but never visited Victoria.
	www.mercermillions.co.uk /mercers_of_perth/13_george_dempster_mercer.htm (456 words)

	Redreaming the Plain: an e-journal about sustainability
		Print entitled 'The Land Racket of 1837' showing people buying allotments in early Melbourne, only two years after the Port Phillip Association was founded by John Batman, Joseph Tice Gellibrand and other land speculators.
		An interpretation of Melbourne in 1838 showing the consequences of the 'land racket' the Port Phillip Association precipitated in 1835.
		Seven years later, he helped Batman to found the Port Phillip Association and drafted a 'treaty' for Batman to present to the traditional owners of Port Phillip.
	www.redreaming.info /DisplayStory.asp?id=72 (422 words)

	CONSTITUTION - Port Phillip Conservation Council Inc.
		17 The Association at an Annual General Meeting may appoint as the Life Governor an officer of the Association that does not seek re-election, and he shall, unless he resigns, be a permanent member of the Association and a permanent member of the Committee.
		21.2 The officers of the Association shall be the officers of the Committee.
		The senior ranking of such persons shall be the Director of the Association and may attend and speak at any meeting unless the meeting requires that he absent himself from all or part of that meeting.
	ggd.customer.netspace.net.au /public_html/constitu.htm (3878 words)

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