Sunshine Accommodation, Hotels, Tours & Information
Places nearby Sunshine
- Alamein
- Albion
- Altona
- Altona East
- Altona Meadows
- Altona North
- Ardeer
- Avalon
- Avondale Heights
- Braybrook
- Braybrook North
- Brooklea
- Brooklyn
- Bulla
- Caroline Springs
- Deer Park
- Deer Park East
- Deer Park North
- Delahey
- Derrimut
- Footscray
- Footscray West
- Glengala
- Hillside
- Hoppers Crossing
- Hotham Hill
- Kealba
- Keilor Downs
- Keilor East
- Keilor Park
- Kingsville
- Kingsville West
- Laverton
- Laverton North
- Laverton South
- Middle Footscray
- Newport
- Newport West
- Paisley
- Point Cook
- Robinson
- Seaholme
- Seddon
- Seddon West
- Spotswood
- St Albans
- Sunshine North
- Tarneit
- Templestowe
- Templestowe Heights
- Templestowe West
- Tottenham
- Tottenham Central
- Truganina
- Werribee
- Werribee South
- West Melbourne
- Western Gardens
- Williamstown
- Williamstown Central
- Williamstown North
- Wyndham Vale
- Yarraville
- Yarraville West
Sunshine
Sunshine, administrative centre of the Braybrook Shire until a restructuring of the local government boundaries ended with the creation of the City of Brimbank in 1994, has played a pivotal role in early Victorian industrialisation and in employer-worker relations.
It hosted one of the world's first high-explosive factories when a German manufacturer set up shop in Braybrook in the 1870s. And shortly after the turn of the 20th century leading industrialist Hugh Victor McKay sparked a name change for Braybrook Junction when he moved the Sunshine Harvester Works from Ballarat to what we now know as Sunshine.
To attract labour, McKay launched a radical program to provide worker housing and subsidised electricity and roads. His paternalism didn't extend to pay and in 1907, Justice Higgins' Harvester Judgement set the benchmark for a basic family wage.
Brimbank is richly endowed with reserves, including the 121ha Organ Pipes National Park which takes its name from the distinctive, basalt columns in a gorge cut into the Keilor Plains. The pipes are set beneath a basalt shelf, a legacy of one of the world"s largest lava flows. The park is a perfect spot for a picnic in the company of resident waterfowl, blue wrens, cockatoos, rosellas and wedge-tailed eagles.
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