Flag Raising Ceremony Melbourne Day 2016
Today we celebrated Melbourne Day, on our 181st Birthday. The celebrations began with a Flag raising Ceremony at Enterprize Park on the banks of the Yarra River. In 1835 the settlers came from Launceston in search of sheep-grazing land. Land had become expensive and there had long been stories told by whalers and sealers working in Bass Strait of fertile land to the north. This was the southern part of the colony of New South Wales, which the Colonial Government did not want
