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 The aboriginals depended on the environment for foods, like Kangaroos, Emus, Wallabies, reptiles, birds and Possum. Aboriginals believed that the land was sacred and they had to look after it with great care. The elders in the aboriginals family are responsible to teach the young laws, tradition, hunting skills, fire-making, dancing and weapon-making. If you broke rules you would be punished, wounded or killed if rules were serious.
 * [[image:AboriginalFlag.png width="150" height="99" align="right" caption="Aboriginal Flag"]]Victoria **
 * Aboriginal histor y **

Soon after Europeans settled at Sydney cove in 1788, they started to explore Victoria, for new land for the live stock. 25 years later in October 1803, David Collins landed with convicts close to Sorrento today. Edward Hently landed at Portland in 1834, and started a farm then a year later 1835, John Batman bought half a million acres of land off local aboriginals.
 * European histor y **

The head of the state is Queen Elizabeth the second, her state government makes laws for the state.In the house if representatives there are 38 Victorian members. It is the Victorian polices job to enforce the laws of the state. The lowest Court is the Magistrate Court.This deals with minor civil and criminal matters. The capital city of Victoria is Melbourne, there is roughly 5,022,000 people living in Victoria . ** Flags  ** Victoria was the first state to have its own flag. The Victorian has a union jack at the top, left corner, at the bottom, right corner it has the Southern Cross, and on top of the Southern Cross there is a crown. The floral emblem of Victoria is the Pink Heath, it is a shrub which can grow to 1 metre high, and grows leaves up to 15mm long which are very sharp. Victoria’s faunal emblem is the Lead beaters Possum. Victoria’s climate is changing it is going to get hotter and drier from now and in the future. **Time zone ** There are 3 different time zones Central, Eastern and Western Victoria is in the Eastern Time zone. **Major industries ** Victoria’s major industries are oil mining, manufacturing, and trading.
 * Government and law s **
 * Facts ** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. [[image:leadbeaterspossum.jpg width="110" height="120" align="right" caption="Victoria's Faunal Emblem"]]
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Climat e **

**<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Native Plants and Animal s** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The department of sustainability and environment are responsible for policies and programs to manage the native floral and faunal plants and animals on private and public land. They are also in charge of the survival of the floral plants and the faunal and animal.

**<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tourist <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attraction s ** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tourist attractions of Victoria are Ballarat (Sovereign hill) with the 1854 gold rush, Phillip Island (Penguin parade) is famous because every night of the year penguins come to shore. There are also other tourist attractions such as Melbourne Zoo, the Melbourne Aquarium, MCG, Sporting events, Swan hill (European settlement), Melbourne Luna park, paddle steamers in Echuca, some of our local tourist attractions are in Bendigo the Chinese gardens, Central Deborah gold mines, the Talking tram and the Bendigo pottery. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">The great ocean road is famous for its spectacular views and the remaining apostles. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson’s promontory is for tracking and hiking it also covers 50,000 hectares. The shrine is also a great landmark all year round for people to go and acknowledge our soldiers for their loss of life for our country. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mapping and direction s ** Melbourne is the biggest city in Victoria. The Murray River is the biggest river in Victoria it is 2700 Kms long. The latitude of Victoria is 37*S and the longitude is 144*E.
 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Landmarks [[image:great_ocean_roads.jpg width="142" height="93" align="right" caption="The Great Ocean Roads"]] **

**<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reference s** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msobidifontweight: boldmsoBidiFontWeight;">Gott, R 1997, //Victoria//, Reed Library, Melbourne <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msobidifontweight: boldmsoBidiFontWeight;">Department of Sustainability and Environment <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/index.html <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.about-australia.com/facts/victoria/

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