History of Melbourne Decade", an initiative to transition human society, economics and environment towards sustainability, was launched in the city. Melbourne has been voted the world's most liveable city for seven consecutive years by the Economist Intelligence Unit since 2010. History of Melbourne The history of Melbourne details the city's growth from a fledging settlement into a modern commercial and financial centre as Australia's second largest city. The area around Port Phillip and the Yarra valley, on which the city of Melbourne now stands, was the home of the Kulin people, an alliance of several language groups of Indigenous Australians, whose ancestors had
Young River (Western Australia) catchment area for agricultural purposes. The Department of the Environment installed four gauging stations along the river, the first in 1970, to measure discharge and water quality. Young River (Western Australia) The Young River is a river on the South coast of Western Australia that rises south of the Frank Hann National Park then flows in a south easterly direction for a distance of before flowing into Stokes Inlet which discharges into the Southern Ocean. It is also passes through the Stokes National Park. The only two tributaries to the river are Cascade Creek and Yerritup Creek. The area around