User:Tirin/Major Contributions

Local geographic and local history

Victoria

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
• MoreArt

Regional Towns

Ballan, Victoria, Bass, Victoria, Boolarra, Victoria, Casterton, Victoria, Colac, Victoria, Franklinford, 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

New South Wales

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

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

Tasmania

• Arthur River - add significant content
• Bicheno - add significant content
• Coles Bay
• Cockle Creek - the southern most point you can drive a car in Australia - selected as a Did You Know fact 25 October, 2008
• Great Oyster Bay
• Levendale major editing

Western Australia

Lake Grace, Western Australia

Fauna and Flora

• River Red Gum, Red Tingle
• Nankeen Night Heron, Australian Ringneck
• Eden Park Kangaroo Cull

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), SS Dalfram

Bridges

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

Education

• Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE
• East Gippsland Institute of TAFE
• Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
• William Angliss Institute of TAFE
• Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE
• Technical Education Centre

Health, Hospitals and medical research

• List of hospitals in Australia, Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria
• Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, 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

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

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

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

Sport

Campdrafting

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

Biography

Australian

• William Charles Angliss - butcher, pastoralist, meat exporter, businessman, politician and philanthropist.
• Greg Arnold - musician, songwriter
• Tilly Aston - disability activist for the blind
• Eugene Ball - jazz musician and composer
• Redmond Barry - the hanging judge of Ned Kelly
• William Barton (musician) - Didgeridoo player (major rewrite)
• Billibellary - ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people who signed the treaty with John Batman in 1835
• Brian Boyd (unionist) - Secretary of Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Kevin Buzzacott - Indigenous Australian activist
• Kev Carmody - Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter
• Ian D. Clark (historian) - historian focusing on Victorian Aboriginal history
• Ola Cohn - Melbourne artist
• Noel Counihan - Australian social realist painter
• Roy Dalgarno - Australian social realist painter
• Wauba Debar - Tasmanian aborigine
• Thomas Dunolly - Dja Dja Wurrung civil rights activist
• 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
• Phil Heuzenroeder - musician
• 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
• Brian Inder - Tasmanian tourism pioneer
• Donald Grant - IWW member, member of Sydney Twelve, Labor Senator
• Germaine Greer - feminist, academic and author
• Ellen Jose - indigenous artist and photographer of Torres Strait Islander descent
• 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"
• Murrundindi - ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people
• Sidney Myer - businessman and Founder of the Myer Department stores
• Hubert Opperman - cyclist and politician
• Edward Stone Parker - Assistant Protector of Aborigines based at Franklinford, Victoria
• Henry A. Reynolds - historian
• Bruce Small - businessman: Malvern Star, property developer and politician
• Christina Smith (teacher and missionary) - documented the Buandig people
• Joseph Toscano - doctor, broadcaster, anarchist campaigner
• Rachael Treasure - Tasmanian bestselling novelist - Winner of Rural Woman of the Year 2007 for Tasmania
• William Trenwith - ALP politician and trade unionist
• Joy Murphy Wandin - senior elder of the Wurundjeri people
• James Wandin - ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people and Australian Rules footballer for St Kilda Football Club
• Hugh Wirth - veterinarian and animal welfare advocate
• John Zarb - first conscientious objector convicted in Australia during the Vietnam War

General

• William Blake - add political context
• Alfredo M. Bonanno - revolutionary anarchist. Rewritten during a VfD.
• Marguerite Coppin- Belgium suffragist and poet laureate
• 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

Australian history

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

Indigenous History

• Arweet, Barapa Barapa people, Buandig, Bunurong, Bunjil, Djab_Wurrung, Djargurd_Wurrung, Gadubanud, Girai wurrung, Gulidjan, Gunai, Jardwadjali, Kulin, Lake Boga mission, Tanderrum, Victorian Aborigines, Wergaia, Wurundjeri, Wurundjeri Tribe Land Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council,

Events

• Battle of Yering, Blood_Hole_massacre, Campaspe Plains massacre, Cape Grim massacre, Convincing Ground massacre (rewrite & major expansion), Murdering Gully massacre,

People

• Billibellary, Wauba Debar, Dick-a-Dick, Thomas Dunolly, Ellen Jose, William John Kennedy, Munangabum, Murrundindi, Susan Charles Rankin, Joy Murphy Wandin, James Wandin,

Native Title

• Yorta Yorta v Victoria, Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria

Business

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

Social Welfare

• The Smith Family,
• Australian Inland Mission
• Bay and Basin Community Resources - Local community charity in the Shoalhaven region of NSW
• CanDo4Kids major rewrite during VfD discussion of this South Australian charity

Music

• Club Wild
• Bennetts Lane Big Band

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 / Industrial disputes

• 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike, 1912 Brisbane General Strike, 1923 Victorian Police strike, 1929 Timber Workers strike, 1929 Rothbury Riot, Dalfram dispute of 1938, 1946 Pilbara strike, 1949 Australian coal strike, Clarrie O'Shea, Mudginberri dispute(major rewrite with references), Dollar Sweets dispute,

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

Civil Rights

• Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network

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 Change

• Climate refugee
• Sydney Declaration

Awards and Prizes

• Peter Rawlinson Award,
• Sydney Peace Prize

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