Sunshine, Victoria

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Sunshine
Melbourne, Victoria

Devonshire Road in central Sunshine
Population: 7731 (2001 census)
Postcode: 3020
Area: 4.9 km² (1.9 sq mi)
Property Value: AUD $235,500 [1]
Location: 14 km (9 mi) from Melbourne
LGA: City of Brimbank
State District: Footscray
Federal Division: Maribyrnong
Suburbs around Sunshine:
Albion Sunshine North Braybrook
Sunshine West Sunshine Braybrook
Sunshine West Brooklyn Tottenham

Sunshine is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. The locality was originally known as Braybrook Junction, until 1907, when residents petitioned the council to change the name to Sunshine, in honour of the Sunshine Harvester company, which employed many residents.

The Sunshine Harvester Company was a manufacturing powerhouse of its time and industrial disputation between the owner H V McKay and workers, led to the Harvester Judgement which as an Australian benchmark industrial decision which led to the creation of a minimum living wage for workers.

Sunshine is the junction of the railway lines to Melbourne from Ballarat and Bendigo. It was the site of a train crash in 1908, killing 44 people.

Sunshine was originally an industrial suburb but this has now changed due to re-development. The suburb contains two shopping centres, Sunshine Marketplace and Sunshine Plaza, the former including a major cinema complex, and many shopping strips.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sunshine, accessed 27 November 2006

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