User:Tirin/Major Contributions

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Contents 1 Local geographic and local history 1.1 Victoria 1.1.1 Melbourne Suburbs 1.1.2 Regional Towns 1.2 New South Wales 1.3 South Australia 1.4 Western Australia 2 Fauna and Flora 3 Structures, parks, rivers, ships and major roads 3.1 Bridges 3.2 Education 3.3 Health, Hospitals and medical research 3.4 National Parks, Conservation Reserves 3.5 Rivers and Lakes 3.6 Melbourne parks and gardens 4 Sport 4.1 Cycling 5 Biography 5.1 Australian 5.2 General 6 Australian history 6.1 Indigenous History 6.2 Business 6.3 Social Welfare 6.4 Labour movement 6.5 Civil Rights 7 Politics and General History 7.1 Awards and Prizes 8 Contributed Images

[edit] Local geographic and local history

[edit] Victoria

[edit] Melbourne Suburbs

• Aberfeldie, Victoria, Airport West, Victoria, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Avondale Heights, Victoria, Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick East, Victoria, Brunswick West, Victoria, Coburg, Victoria, Coburg North, Victoria, Essendon, Victoria, Essendon North, Victoria, Essendon West, Victoria, Fawkner, Victoria, Flemington, Victoria, Footscray, Victoria, Footscray West, Victoria, Glenroy, Victoria, Gowanbrae, Victoria, Hadfield, Victoria, Kew, Victoria, Maidstone, Victoria, Maribyrnong, Victoria, Niddrie, Victoria, Oak Park, Victoria, Pascoe Vale South, Victoria, Southbank, Victoria, Strathmore, Victoria, Strathmore Heights, Victoria, Thornbury, Victoria

• Brunswick Progress Association

[edit] Regional Towns

Ballan, Victoria, Bass, Victoria, Boolarra, Victoria, Casterton, Victoria, Colac, Victoria, Hamilton, Victoria, Horsham, Victoria, Kilcunda, Victoria, Koroit, Victoria, Kyabram, Victoria, Mallacoota, Victoria, Mirboo North, Victoria, Orbost, Victoria, Rochester, Victoria, Rutherglen, Victoria, Stratford, Victoria, Tongala, Victoria, Wonthaggi, Victoria, Warrnambool, Victoria

[edit] New South Wales

Rothbury, Tarcutta, The Entrance, Toukley, West Wyalong, Wisemans Ferry, Wyalong, The Domain, Sydney,

[edit] South Australia

• Coffin Bay, South Australia, Cowell, South Australia, Port Neill, South Australia, Streaky Bay, South Australia, Wudinna, South Australia
• District Council of Franklin Harbour, District Council of Streaky Bay
• Stobie pole

[edit] Western Australia

Lake Grace, Western Australia

[edit] Fauna and Flora

• River Red Gum, Red Tingle
• Nankeen Night Heron, Australian Ringneck

[edit] Structures, parks, rivers, ships and major roads

• Brunswick Town Hall, Cook's Cottage, Government House, Melbourne, LaTrobe's Cottage, Essendon Airport, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Sydney Road, Melbourne, Bairnsdale railway line, Victoria, Melbourne cable tramway system, The Jam Factory
• Enterprize (1829)

[edit] Bridges

• Bolte Bridge, West Gate Bridge, Sandridge Bridge, Melbourne,

[edit] Education

• Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE

[edit] Health, Hospitals and medical research

• List of hospitals in Australia, Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria
• Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Frances Perry Private Hospital, Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital, Werribee Mercy Hospital
• Howard Florey Institute, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

[edit] National Parks, Conservation Reserves

• Acraman Creek Conservation Park, Coffin Bay National Park, French Island National Park, Kalbarri National Park, Snowy River National Park, Wyrrabalong National Park, Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Walpole-Nornalup National Park

[edit] Rivers and Lakes

• Avon River, Eastern Victoria, Lang Lang river, Maribyrnong River, Mitchell River, Victoria, Moonee Ponds Creek, Nambucca River, Snowy River, Tuggerah Lake, Werribee River, Nouth Creek

[edit] Melbourne parks and gardens

• Main article: Melbourne parks and gardens
• Albert Park and Lake, Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, Brimbank Park, Melbourne, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne, King's Domain, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne, Royal Park, Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Gardens, St Vincent Gardens, Melbourne, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Yarra Park, Melbourne, Westerfolds Park, Melbourne

• Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

[edit] Sport

Campdrafting

[edit] Cycling

My contributions include articles on cycling including Category:Cycling in Melbourne, Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and past and present notable cyclists, concentrating on cyclists from Australia:

• Cycling in Melbourne, Capital City Trail, Diamond Creek Trail, Maribyrnong River Trail, Merri Creek Trail. Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, Upfield bike path, Yarra River Trail

• Bass Coast Rail Trail, Great Southern Rail Trail

Cycling organisations

Australian Cycling Federation, Bicycle Federation of Australia, Bicycle Victoria

Cyclists

Phil Anderson, Ryan Bayley, Graeme Brown, Sara Carrigan, Baden Cooke, Allan Davis, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Simon Gerrans, Dunc Gray, Brett Lancaster Katie Mactier, Lisa Mathison, Robbie McEwen, Bradley McGee, Anna Meares, Russell Mockridge, Stuart O'Grady, Hubert Opperman, Sid Patterson, Luke Roberts, Michael Rogers, Oenone Wood, Dean Woods

Cycle Races

Austral Wheel Race, Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic, Herald Sun Tour, Tour de Snowy (discontinued)

Cycling Events

Around the Bay in a Day, Melbourne Critical Mass

[edit] Biography

[edit] Australian

• Tilly Aston - disability activist for the blind
• Redmond Barry - the hanging judge of Ned Kelly
• William Barton (musician) - Didgeridoo player (major rewrite)
• Brian Boyd (unionist) - Secretary of Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Kevin Buzzacott - Indigenous Australian activist
• Kev Carmody - Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter
• Noel Counihan - Australian social realist painter
• Roy Dalgarno - Australian social realist painter
• Eliot V. Elliott - Secretary of the Seamen's Union of Australia from 1941-1978.
• John Pascoe Fawkner - founding father of Melbourne
• Chummy Fleming - anarchist and trade unionist
• Mary Gilbert - first European woman in Melbourne
• William Guilfoyle - landscape designer and director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne
• James Halliday (Wine critic) - wine writer/critic
• Clement Hodgkinson - explorer and landscape designer
• Fred Hollows - famous opthalmologist, and less famous anarcho-syndicalist
• William Holman - ALP Premier of NSW and a "rat" who deserted the ALP
• Harry Hooton - poet and bohemian
• Leigh Hubbard - Secretary of Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Donald Grant - IWW member, member of Sydney Twelve, Labor Senator
• Germaine Greer - feminist, academic and author
• William Lane - labour leader
• Charles La Trobe - Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (addit. material)
• Walter Lindrum - world billiards champion
• Lionel Lukin (judge) - infamous for handing down the 1929 timber award and the 1929 Timber Workers strike
• Robert Manne - historian, Professor of Politics at La Trobe Uni
• Emma Miller - trade unionist, suffragist, and called "the mother of the ALP"
• Sidney Myer - businessman and Founder of the Myer Department stores
• Hubert Opperman - cyclist and politician
• Henry A. Reynolds - historian
• Bruce Small - businessman: Malvern Star, property developer and politician
• Joseph Toscano - doctor, broardcaster, anarchist campaigner
• William Trenwith - ALP politician and trade unionist
• John Zarb - first conscientious objector convicted in Australia during the Vietnam War

[edit] General

• William Blake - add political context
• Alfredo M. Bonanno - revolutionary anarchist. Rewritten during a VfD.
• Robert Hunter (journalist) - and co-founder of Greenpeace. Edits on activism.
• Ron Sakolsky - anarchist and expert on pirate radio, media, and revolution. Rewritten during a VfD.
• Oscar Temaru - Polynesian politician
• B. Traven - details on books, esp Jungle Novels

[edit] Australian history

• Eureka Stockade, Australian Conscription, History of Melbourne, Pirate radio in Australasia, Victoria Police

[edit] Indigenous History

• Bunurong, Bunjil, Gunai, Kulin, Wurundjeri,

[edit] Business

• Henry Jones IXL, Snowy Hydro Limited, The Argus (Australia), Australian Ethical Investment

[edit] Social Welfare

• The Smith Family, Australian Inland Mission

[edit] Labour movement

• Australian labour movement; Sydney Twelve; Eight hour day

Trades Halls and Trades and Labour Councils

Adelaide Trades Hall, Barrier Industrial Council, United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia, Brisbane Trades Hall, Queensland Council of Unions, Melbourne Trades Hall, Victorian Trades Hall Council, Perth Trades Hall, UnionsWA, Sydney Trades Hall, Labor Council of New South Wales, Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council

Strikes

• 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike, 1912 Brisbane General Strike, 1923 Victorian Police strike, 1929 Timber Workers strike, 1929 Rothbury Riot, 1946 Pilbara strike, 1949 Australian coal strike, Clarrie O'Shea,

Trade Unions

• Australian Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union, Maritime Union of Australia, Police Association Victoria, Police Federation of Australia

Industrial Relations

• Australian Workplace Agreement, Dog-collar act, Master and Servant Act
• Australian industrial relations legislation national day of protest, 2005

Anarchist

• Jura Books, Barricade Books, Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations, Mutiny collective

[edit] Civil Rights

• Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network

[edit] Politics and General History

Benefit society, Don't Make a Wave Committee, French Polynesian legislative election, 2004, Knights of Labor, Labour council Labour Day, Tolpuddle Martyrs Trade Union, Climate refugee

[edit] Awards and Prizes

Peter Rawlinson Award, Sydney Peace Prize

[edit] Contributed Images

• See my photo gallery at User:Tirin/Photos, all released under GNU FDL.
• See my sourced images (fairuse or public domain) at the User:Tirin/Uploaded images gallery.
• Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers