Talk:History of Victoria

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Dunno if Melbourne can be called the financial centre of Australia and New Zealand. Throughout Australias history melbourne and sydney have been fairly equal. thats why canberra was built. (Message posted: 00:14, 4 Jun 2005 by IP 195.110.75.89)

During the second half of the 19th century Melbourne was the financial centre of Australasia....that's why even today lots of Australia's largest banks and financial institutions have their HQ in Melbourne. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.150.113.89 (talk • contribs).

This article could be greatly expanded and improved. I've made a start with some early European stuff, and I'll gradually develop it further - at least to the gold rushes. MulgaBill 22:41, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

- more on the period 1803-1834, and on Aboriginal Victoria. MulgaBill 01:23, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

As we have established in the discussion at History of Australia, what happened in the area which is now Victoria before the arrival of Europeans is prehistory, not history. It is absurd that an article on the History of Victoria should take up three-quarters of its length with events before 1834, and squeeze all of the actual history of Victoria into its final paragraphs. Adam 00:50, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, the article seems long enough that it could be forked and the pre-european sections reduced to a summary section. --Martyman-(talk) 08:00, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Snowy Mountains Scheme

I would have thought this was pretty significant to the history of Victoria, but can't find any info here.

[edit] More work needed

Even with the non-history removed (and I have just removed the inevitable "Portuguese discovery" mythology), this article is still very inadequate. More than half it deals with doscovery and early settlement, and everything since 1855 is queezed into a few paragraphs at the end. This is what happens when history articles are written by amateur antiquarians rather than historians. Adam 06:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)