Churchill, Victoria

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Churchill is a town in Victoria, Australia.

Churchill began as a service centre for the Hazelwood Power Station and future replacement for Yallourn and Morwell townships. Construction began on Churchill in 1965. The town was planned with a well defined commercial centre, expansive parklands, a mix of government and privately owned quarter-acre (1,000 m²) town blocks and light industrial estates spaced from residential areas by a belt of parkland. The transport system was to be a network of restricted-access highways and a ring road fully encircling the town. Slow development of services and a slowdown of the state of Victoria's power station construction program meant that Churchill was to never realise its potential, and population reached a modest level of 5000 by the mid 1980s, a level which has remained static ever since. In early 2005, a new housing estate development opened, the first for some years.

Monash University's third largest campus is located in the town. The Gippsland Campus has about 7000 students, most studying by off campus learning. It began as the Yallourn Technical School, then College, and from the late 1960s the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. It was amalgamated with Monash University in 1990.

Come August 2006 there will be no traditional pub located in the town. The traditional pub will be replaced by a Woolworths Limited supermarket and smaller retail stores.

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