Portal:Victoria/Did you know/2

...that the locality of Boinka, Victoria, (pictured) which has area population of 28 people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne?
...that although Paul MacGillivray's main interest was natural history, he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?
... that the Rural City of Marong, a local government in Victoria, voted itself out of existence in 1994 after the Kennett Liberal government introduced legislation designed to void a Supreme Court injunction preventing its amalgamation?
...that the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Victoria features a collection of busts of all 25 predecessors of the recently elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd?

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