Truganina, Victoria

Coordinates: 37°49′01″S 144°45′00″E / 37.817°S 144.750°E / -37.817; 144.750
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"Truganina" redirects here. For the Aboriginal Tasmanian, see Truganini.

Truganina
Federal division(s)
Suburbs around Truganina:
Mount Atkinson
Tarneit Plains		 Deanside Ravenhall
Mount Cottrell
Tarneit		 Truganina
Laverton North
Tarneit Hoppers Crossing
Williams Landing

Truganina (

Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melton and Wyndham local government areas. Truganina recorded a population of 36,305 at the 2021 census.[1]

The suburb is believed to be named after

Aboriginal Tasmanian
woman, as she had visited the area for a short time.

Truganina is a rapidly growing suburban area, with Truganina recording a population of 20,687 at the

Skeleton-Waterholes Creek to the west; Boundary Road to the north; Foundation to the east and the Federation Trail to the south. It is home to the football club of Western United
.

Truganina is one of the key industrial precincts of the City of Wyndham and the key industries are manufacturing and logistics.

History

Truganina Post Office opened on 12 June 1878, closed in 1895, reopened in 1902 and closed again in 1942. The nearby Tarneit Post Office opened in 2008 to serve the area.[4]

In 1969 bushfires claimed about 60 houses in the area.[5]

Name pronunciation

The pronunciation of Truganina has two common points of dispute. The first is the vowel used in the initial syllable "Trug", and the second is the vowel used in the third syllable "ni". Because the suburb is believed to be named after the

native tongue.[6]

In the Bruny Island Tasmanian language (Nuennonne), Truganina was the name of the grey saltbush, Atriplex cinerea.[7] According to the pronunciation of the language around Oyster Bay,[8] the region where Truganini was born, her name would have been pronounced as "Troo-ga-ni-ni" [ˈtrugaˌnini] with short vowels, rather than with an initial unrounded open-mid vowel in the initial position [trʌ]; or with the diphthong of "nai-nai" [nɑɪnɑɪ] in the third syllable.[9] That would make the approximated Palawa pronunciation of "Truganina" as [ˈtrugaˌninə].

Taking that into account, "Troo-ga-nee-na" [ˈtrugəˌni:nə] is most likely the closest correct Anglicised pronunciation.

Population growth

Truganina is expected to have a population of 39,951 by 2031, which would be an increase of 1,350.6%, or 28,633 persons from 2006.[10]

  • 2,958 (2006)
  • 8,353 (2011 estimated)
  • 17,469 (2014 abs)
  • 20,687 (2016 census)
  • 39,951 (2031 projected)

Urban sprawl

Aerial perspective of Skeleton Creek, Truganina

Truganina (and neighbouring

RAAF Williams Base
.

Facilities

Telecommunications

People who live in developments with broadband hubs will have access to high speed DSL services, as local exchanges are too far away for effective DSL services. New houses being built are now being connected to National Broadband Network using the FTTP and FTTC technologies.[11]

Transport

Truganina's road network is laid out in street hierarchy, with almost all residential streets feeding into a grid of main roads including busy east–west corridor Sayers Road, Leakes Road, Dohertys Road and Boundary Road, and north–south links Morris Road, Marquands Road, Woods Road and Palmers Road.

As part of the

Regional Rail Link
project, bridges were built over the railway line at two locations in Truganina; Dohertys and Boundary Road's. This enables commuters to keep using the road whilst the railway line functions underneath, effectively a grade separation.

The main public transport is the

bus network
, with most of the main routes runs via Forsyth and Sayers Roads. The bus runs through the Clearwater Rise residential estate and also Marquands Road.

Off-road cycling is facilitated by the Federation Trail at the southern border of the suburb, however few of the main roads provide provision for bicycles.

The nearest railway stations is

Regional Rail Link project. This would provide V/Line diesel services on route between Geelong and Melbourne.[12] There are plans for an additional Truganina railway station
to eventually be added to the line to service Truganina.

Truganina Rabbitohs play rugby league in NRL Victoria.

Education

There are several schools in Truganina, including

  • Westbourne Grammar School,
  • Al-Taqwa Islamic College,
  • Truganina-South Primary School,
  • Truganina P-9 College,
  • St Clare's Catholic Primary School,
  • Garrang Wilam Primary School.
  • Dohertys Creek P-9 College
  • Bemin Secondary College
  • Warreen Primary School

Industry

Parts of Truganina have been planned as new areas for industrial zones. These planned areas lie northwards and eastwards of the new housing zones in southern Truganina.

Distribution centres

Many

Woolworths Liquor. Linfox also have a small logistics centre in the same complex, and to the north of the area K&S Freighters.[13] In 2010 Kmart Australia started construction on a new purpose built distribution centre in Truganina. The Kmart Australia Distribution Centre is now the largest building by footprint size in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere and tenth largest in the world.[14] Another mega distribution centre in the Truganina industrial area was built for Coles Supermarkets in 2012 which is approximately 70,000 square metres.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Truganina (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 22 July 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Truganina". ABC Pronounce. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  3. ^ Laskie, Alexandra. "How to pronounce those tongue-twister Melbourne suburb names". Domain.com.au. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  4. ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 19 January 2021
  5. ^ "Truganina Cemetery".
  6. JSTOR 3032019
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  7. JSTOR 3032019
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  9. ISBN 978-90-272-2004-2
  10. ^ Population Forecast, Forecast.id. Retrieved 3 April 2011
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ Geelong - Melbourne timetable Public Transport Victoria
  13. ^ "K&S Corporation".
  14. ^ "Jobs boom in Truganina next year - Local News - News | Wyndham Leader". Archived from the original on 14 February 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  15. ^ "Distributing more jobs in Truganina - Local News - News - Wyndham Leader". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
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