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((Infobox Australian place
| type                = region
| name                = Western District
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| image               = Victoria Apostles.jpg 
| caption             = [[The Twelve Apostles (Victoria)|The Twelve Apostles]], a collection of natural limestone stacks standing just off shore near [[Port Campbell, Victoria|Port Campbell]]. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction.
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The '''Western District''' comprises western regions of the [[Australia]]n [[States and territories of Australia|state]] of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. It is said to be an ill((endash))defined district, sometimes incorrectly referred to as an [[Economic geography|economic]] [[Regions of Victoria|region]],.<ref>((cite web|url=http://dsdbi.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0003/65235/Meaning-of-Regional-Victoria.doc|type=[[MS Word]] requires download|title=Meaning of Regional Victoria|work=Department of State Development, Business and Innovation|publisher=Government of Victoria|date=2011|access-date=15 August 2014))</ref> The district is located within parts of the [[Barwon South West]] and the [[Grampians (region)|Grampians]] regions;<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/victorian-regions/barwon-south-west|title=Victoria's Barwon South West Region|work=Regional Development Victoria|publisher=Victorian Government|date=8 May 2014|access-date=10 August 2014))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/victorian-regions/grampians|title=Victoria's Grampians Region|work=Regional Development Victoria|publisher=Victorian Government|date=8 May 2014|access-date=10 August 2014))</ref> extending from the south-west corner of the state to [[Ballarat]] in the east and as far north as [[Ararat, Victoria|Ararat]]. The district is bounded by the [[Wimmera]] district in the north, by the [[Goldfields region of Victoria|Goldfields]] district in the east, by [[Bass Strait]] and the [[Southern Ocean]] in the south, and by the [[South Australia]]n border in the west. The district is well known for the production of [[wool]]. The most populated city in the Western District is the Ballarat region, with 96,940 inhabitants.<ref name="ABS-ERP">[http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/4BFD619814CF9F8FCA257E1300775C68/$File/31010_sep%202014.pdf ABS ERP 2015]</ref>

The principal centres of the district are: [[Warrnambool, Victoria|Warrnambool]], [[Hamilton, Victoria|Hamilton]], [[Colac, Victoria|Colac]], [[Portland, Victoria|Portland]], [[Casterton, Victoria|Casterton]], [[Port Fairy, Victoria|Port Fairy]], [[Camperdown, Victoria|Camperdown]], and [[Terang, Victoria|Terang]]. Other cities and towns in or on the edge of the district include:
[[Coleraine, Victoria|Coleraine]], [[Merino, Victoria|Merino]], [[Heywood, Victoria|Heywood]], [[Dunkeld, Victoria|Dunkeld]], [[Penshurst, Victoria|Penshurst]], [[Macarthur, Victoria|Macarthur]], [[Koroit, Victoria|Koroit]], [[Allansford, Victoria|Allansford]], [[Ararat, Victoria|Ararat]], [[Willaura, Victoria|Willaura]], [[Beaufort, Victoria|Beaufort]], [[Learmonth, Victoria|Learmonth]], [[Ballarat]], [[Snake Valley, Victoria|Snake Valley]], [[Skipton, Victoria|Skipton]], [[Moyston, Victoria|Moyston]], [[Linton, Victoria|Linton]], [[Derrinallum, Victoria|Derrinallum]], [[Lismore, Victoria|Lismore]], [[Mortlake, Victoria|Mortlake]], [[Noorat, Victoria|Noorat]], [[Cobden, Victoria|Cobden]], [[Timboon, Victoria|Timboon]], [[Beeac, Victoria|Beeac]], [[Cororooke, Victoria|Cororooke]], [[Birregurra, Victoria|Birregurra]], [[Apollo Bay, Victoria|Apollo Bay]], and [[Lorne, Victoria|Lorne]].

==Geology==
It consists of a nearly flat volcanic plain created by a number of quite recently active [[volcano]]es, the best known being [[Mount Eccles]], Mount Richmond and Mount Gambier. Whilst some of them (e.g. Mount Richmond) have given rise to cemented pyroclastic rocks that do not produce fertile [[soil]]s, others have given rise to fertile [[Andisols]] that make the district the best grazing land in Australia, as well as highly suitable for the production of vegetable crops. Away from the volcanoes, soils are of moderate to low fertility and many are sandy, supporting heathland flora like the [[Grampians National Park|Grampians]]. Drainage is very poor and most rivers flow only after prolonged periods of steady rain, resulting in remarkably variable flow when the low variability of the climate is taken into account. The major mountain range is the [[Otway Ranges]], which straddle the boundary between the Western District and Port Phillip District.

==Climate==
The climate is mild to warm and generally humid to sub-humid. Summer temperatures are warm, with February means ranging from ((convert|13.1|to|21.9|C|F)) at [[Portland, Victoria|Portland]]<ref name=BOMPortland>((cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics - Summary statistics PORTLAND|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_090070.shtml|work=Climate statistics for Australian locations|publisher=Bureau of Meteorology|access-date=25 January 2013))</ref> to ((convert|11.1|to|26.6|C|F)) in the northern part of the plain.<ref>((cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics - Summary statistics HAMILTON AIRPORT|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_090173.shtml|work=Climate statistics for Australian locations|publisher=Bureau of Meteorology|access-date=25 January 2013))</ref> Rainfall in summer is not uncommon but is only rarely heavy; though in March 1946 rains of up to ((convert|300|mm)) in a week constitute easily the heaviest falls in the district. In winter, temperatures typically range from minima of around ((convert|5|°C|°F|abbr=on)) to maxima of ((convert|12|to|13|C|F)), and rainfall is very frequent and reliable, averaging from ((convert|550|mm|abbr=on)) in the driest area around [[Lake Bolac]] to ((convert|832|mm|abbr=on)) at Portland.<ref name=BOMPortland /> In the [[Otway Ranges]], summers are mild, averaging around ((convert|20|°C|°F|abbr=on)), whilst winters are cold and very wet, with maxima averaging around ((convert|9|to|10|C|F)) and rainfall averaging about ((convert|2250|mm|in|abbr=on)) with extremes in June 1952 as high as ((convert|538|mm|in|abbr=on))<ref name=BOMWeeaproinah>((cite web|title=Monthly climate statistics - WEEAPROINAH|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_090083_All.shtml|work=Climate statistics for Australian locations|publisher=Bureau of Meteorology|access-date=25 January 2013))</ref> at [[Weeaproinah]] and a Victorian record ((convert|891|mm|in|abbr=on)) at nearby Tanybryn.

==History==
((see also|Gunditjmara))

The Western District was well-populated by [[Aboriginal Victorians]] at the time colonisation began.  For example, the ancestors of the [[Gunditjmara]] people lived in [[villages]] of weather-proof houses with stone walls a metre high, located near [[eel]] traps and aquaculture ponds at [[Lake Condah]] and elsewhere - on just one hectare of [[Allambie]] Farm, archaeologists have discovered the remains of 160 house sites.<ref>The Gunditjmara People with Gib Wettenhall, (2010) ''The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending country'', em Press, Heywood, pp.16-27</ref>

Pioneer [[Edward Henty]] wrote in his diary on 3 December 1834:
<blockquote>Pulled [rowed] over in the whale boat to Dutton's River. Light wind from the N.E. Very warm. Arrived at 6 p.m., made the boat fast in the middle of the river, and started three days' walk in the bush accompanied by H Camfield, Wm Dutton, five men, one black woman and 14 dogs, each man with a gun and sufficient quantity of damper to last for the voyage.</blockquote>

In the 5 December entry Henty wrote:<ref>((cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64255881 |title=Henty Days. |newspaper=[[Portland Guardian|Portland Guardian (Vic. : 1876 - 1953)]] |location=Vic. |date=13 January 1927 |access-date=28 January 2012 |page=4 Edition: EVENING |publisher=National Library of Australia))</ref>
<blockquote>On descending the hill we saw a native. He immediately ran on seeing us. He was busily employed pulling the gums from the wattle trees.</blockquote>
 
Both the Henty brothers and Captain Griffiths (who settled at [[Port Fairy, Victoria|Port Fairy]] in 1836), combined whaling and farming. The district was explored by [[Thomas Mitchell (explorer)|Thomas Mitchell]] in 1836 who identified the area's potential for grazing. [[Charles Tyers]] was the first to survey the area in 1839.  Sheep were first brought to the district in 1836 by Thomas Manifold at Port Henry, near [[Geelong]], and rapidly occupied the whole district.  By 1840 [[squatter]]s occupied almost all the district.

The first settlers avoided the Western District (preferring the forest country further west), as its countryside was then exceptionally dry: tussocks were so scanty it was said one could walk to Geelong without stepping on grass. Runoff after rainfall was rapid, and it was claimed that only after cattle had firmed the soil that the grass began to thicken. The regional climate also became much wetter.<ref>((cite web | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138676917 | title=Flock and Herd | newspaper=Australasian | date=29 November 1902 ))</ref><ref>((Cite book|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/currie-john-lang-3304|title = Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter = Currie, John Lang (1818–1898)|publisher = National Centre of Biography, Australian National University))</ref>

===Aboriginal dispossession===
With pastoral land in the colony of [[Van Diemen's Land]] fully allocated to colonists, [[John Batman]] turned his attention to mainland [[land speculation]] at the vast grasslands of [[Port Phillip Bay]], which began in 1835 without the consent of the British Crown. With no legal recognition or protection of the Aboriginal inhabitants, some cases of violence occurred. For example, in August 1836, some Aboriginal people killed the squatter Charles Franks and an unnamed shepherd, at Franks' station on the [[Werribee River]] (near Melbourne). In response, [[Henry Batman]] (John Batman's brother) led an indiscriminate punitive expedition against a group of 70-80 Aboriginal people (men, women & children) living in 9 large huts on the Werribee River, killing an unrecorded number.<ref>((cite book|author=Boyce, James|title=1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia|publisher=Black Inc.|year=2011|pages=105–109))</ref> In spite of this, in May 1837, Henry Batman "...was appointed acting Commissioner of Crown Lands, the official charged with overseeing the squatters."<ref>((cite book|author=Boyce, James|title=1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia|year=2008|publisher=Black Inc.|page=149))</ref> Earlier, on 4 March 1837, [[Richard Bourke|Governor Bourke]] in his visit to Melbourne addressed 120 Aboriginal people, "...whom he exhorted...to good conduct and attention to the Missionary.' The [[Kulin people|Kulin]] were given blankets and four favoured men, who had been recommended for 'honorary distinctions' by [Police Magistrate Captain William] [[William Lonsdale (colonist)|Lonsdale]], were awarded brass plates."<ref name=Boycep148>Boyce, James (2008). p.148</ref>

By 1839, large numbers of homeless Aboriginal people from surrounding pastoral districts, were "....surviving whenever and however they could on the geographic, social and economic margins of the town [ie, Melbourne]."<ref name=Boycep186>Boyce, James (2008). p.186</ref> When Chief Protector of Aborigines [[George Augustus Robinson]] arrived in the town in the winter of 1839, "four to five hundred blacks of the [[Port Phillip]] tribes" were gathering at a camp site on the south bank of the [[Yarra River]], suffering hunger and disease.<ref>((cite book|author=Rae-Ellis, Vivienne|author-link=Vivienne Rae-Ellis|year=1988|title=Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines|publisher=University of Melbourne Press|location=Melbourne|page=172))</ref> By 1840, Robinson still "....had no stores allocated to him..." by Captain Lonsdale, the Police Magistrate in [[Melbourne]], even though "...it was patently obvious that the Aborigines were starving, and many were ill and near death..."<ref>((cite book|author=Rae-Ellis, Vivienne|year=1988|title=Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines|publisher=University of Melbourne Press|location=Melbourne|page=178))</ref> With land in the hinterland overrun by "...vast numbers of sheep and cattle.." and "...conditions in the countryside becoming intolerable, the blacks swarmed into Melbourne looking for food and blankets."<ref>((cite book|author=Rae-Ellis, Vivienne|year=1988|title=Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines|publisher=University of Melbourne Press|location=Melbourne|page=179))</ref>

Between 1836 and 1842, Victorian Aboriginal groups were largely dispossessed of hunting grounds larger than the whole of [[England]].<ref name=Boycep148/><ref>((cite book|author=Broome, Richard|chapter=Victoria|editor=McGrath|title=Contested Ground|page=129))</ref>

===Eumeralla Wars===
((Main article|Eumeralla Wars))

In the [[Portland, Victoria|Portland]] area in the 1840s, the [[Gunditjmara]] fought for their hunting grounds in a series of clashes known as the [[Eumeralla Wars]], in which both they and colonists experienced violent deaths. The Gunditjmara resistance became overwhelmed by the colonisers who brought in the [[Native Police]] - an organisation consisting of highly skilled Aboriginal men dedicated to keeping the peace in their native land.<ref name=Weirp9-10>((cite book|author=Weir, Jessica|title=The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story|series=Monograph series|publisher=Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Native Title Research Unit|number=1|year=2009|isbn=978-0-85575-439-6|type=paperback|pages=9–10))</ref>  The historian Jan Critchett has documented this conflict in her 1990 book, ''A distant field of murder: Western district frontiers, 1834-1848''.<ref>((cite book|author=Critchett, Jan|year=1990|title=A distant field of murder: Western district frontiers, 1834-1848|url=https://archive.org/details/distantfieldofmu0000crit_t0t1|url-access=registration|publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Carlton, Vic. and Portland, Or.|isbn=0-522-84389-1 ))</ref>

===Aftermath===
The colonisation of the Western District had huge impacts beyond the immediate district. By January 1844, there were said to be 675 Aborigines resident in squalid camps in Melbourne.<ref name=Boycep186/> Although the British [[Colonial Office]] appointed 5 "Aboriginal Protectors" for the entire Aboriginal population of Victoria, arriving in Melbourne in 1839, they worked "...within a land policy that nullified their work, and there was no political will to change this."<ref name=Boycep177>Boyce, James (2008). p.177</ref> "It was government [[policy]] to encourage squatters to take possession of whatever Aboriginal land they chose,....that largely explains why almost all the original inhabitants of Port Phillip's vast grasslands were dead so soon after 1835".<ref name=Boycep199>Boyce, James (2008). p.199</ref> By 1845, fewer than 240 wealthy Europeans held all the pastoral licences then issued in Victoria and became the patriarchs "...that were to wield so much political and economic power in Victoria  for generations to come."<ref name=Boycep163>Boyce, James (2008). p.163</ref>

With the Aboriginal population dispossessed of hunting grounds and their centuries-old management of fire having been disrupted for almost 15 years, the Colony experienced for the first time its largest ever bushfires, burning about 25% of the land area of Victoria on [[Black Thursday (1851)]] on 6 February 1851.

===Missions===
[[Missionaries]] sought to relocate [[Gunditjmara]] people of the west to a mission established further east near [[Purnim]] in 1861, however, the Gunditjmara from the Portland region refused because of tension with rival Aboriginal clans from the eastern boundary of [[Gunditjmara]] country and beyond the [[Hopkins River]]. Five years later in 1866, ((convert|2043|acre|ha)) of [[Crown land]] at [[Lake Condah]] was set aside for use as an Aboriginal [[mission (station)|mission]]. This land was gazetted as a reserve in 1869 and an Anglican mission was established. In 1951, the Lake Condah reserve, with the exception of three small areas, was revoked and the land was handed over to the [[Soldier Settlement Commission]].<ref name=Weirp9-10/>

===Towards recognition of Aboriginal rights===
((also|Australian Aboriginal land rights|Native title in Australia))
In 1980, the Gunditjmara launched Onus v. Alcoa, taking legal action in the [[Supreme Court of Victoria]] to prevent [[Alcoa]] of Australia Ltd from damaging or interfering with [[Gunditjmara]] cultural sites located on the same place as the proposed [[aluminium smelter]] at Portland. The Supreme Court dismissed their subsequent application for leave to appeal to the [[Federal Court of Australia|Federal Court]]. However, the [[Gunditjmara]] took the matter to the [[High Court of Australia]] where they were successful. High Court Chief [[Harry Gibbs|Justice Gibbs]] judged that: "The appellants have an interest in the subject matter of the present action which is greater than that of other members of the public and indeed greater than that of other persons of Aboriginal descent who are not members of the Gournditch-jmara people. The applicants and other members of the Gournditch-jmara [ie, the Gunditjmara] people would be more particularly affected than other members of the Australian community by the destruction of the relics".<ref name=Weirp13-18>Weir, Jessica (2009) pp.13-18</ref>

On 30 March 2007, the [[Gunditjmara]] were recognised by the Federal Court of Australia to be the native title-holders of almost ((convert|140000|ha|acre)) of Crown land and waters in the Portland area.<ref>((cite AustLII|FCA|474|2007|litigants=Lovett on behalf of the Gunditjmara People v State of Victoria |date=30 March 2007 |courtname=auto)).</ref> On 27 July 2011, together with the [[Eastern Maar]] people, the [[Gunditjmara]] people were recognised to be the native title-holders of almost ((convert|4000|ha|acre)) of Crown land in the [[Yambuk]] region, including [[Lady Julia Percy Island]], known to them as ''[[Deen Maar]]''.<ref>((cite AustLII|FCA|932|2011|litigants=Lovett on behalf of the Gunditjmara People v State of Victoria (No 5) |date=27 July 2011 |courtname=auto)).</ref>

==Primary production==
[[Wheat]] was grown in the drier northern part of the district for some time until more easily managed soils in the [[Wimmera]] were developed. Dairying was developed as a major industry in the wetter southern parts during this period, as was the cultivation of [[potato]]es and [[onion]]s on the best soils.

In the Otway Ranges, forestry became the major industry, especially after the building of the [[Great Ocean Road]] which opened up these very wet areas. Because of the change in focus since the late 1960s to [[woodchipping]], many timber mills are now defunct as jobs have moved to Geelong. Tourism is the dominant industry in towns such as [[Lorne, Victoria|Lorne]] and [[Apollo Bay, Victoria|Apollo Bay]], which fill up during the summer as Melburnians are drawn by the stunning scenery and milder weather. In towns like [[Heywood, Victoria|Heywood]] and [[Nelson, Victoria|Nelson]], pine plantations have been the dominant industry since the 1950s but the industry, even as plantations mature, is under threat due to poor prices.

==See also==
*[[Kanawinka Geopark]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
*((cite journal|author=Barta, Tony|title="They appear actually to vanish from the face of the Earth." Aborigines and the European project in Australia Felix|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|volume=10|issue=4|date=2008|pages=519–539|doi=10.1080/14623520802447768|s2cid=71972779))
*((cite book|author=Boyce, James|year=2011|title=1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia|publisher=Black Inc.|location=Melbourne ))
*((cite book|author=Clark, Ian D.|year=1990|title=Aboriginal languages and clans: An historical atlas of western and central Victoria, 1800-1900|publisher=Dept. of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University|location=Melbourne|isbn=0-909685-41-X ))
*((cite book|author=Clark, Ian D.|year=1995|title=Scars in the landscape: A register of massacre sites in western Victoria, 1803-1859|publisher=Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |location=Canberra|isbn=0-85575-281-5 ))
*((cite book|author=Clark, Ian D.|year=2003|title='That's my country belonging to me' - Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria|publisher=Ballarat Heritage Services|location=Ballarat ))
*((cite book|author=Critchett, Jan|year=1990|title=A distant field of murder: Western district frontiers, 1834-1848|url=https://archive.org/details/distantfieldofmu0000crit_t0t1|url-access=registration|publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Carlton, Vic. and Portland, Or.|isbn=0-522-84389-1 ))
*((cite book|author=The Gunditjmara People|editor=Wettenhall, Gib|year=2010|title=The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending country|publisher=em Press, Heywood|location=Victoria ))
*((cite book|author=Weir, Jessica|title=The Gunditjmara Land Justice Story|series=Monograph series|publisher=Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Native Title Research Unit|number=1|year=2009|isbn=978-0-85575-439-6|type=pbk ))

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