Yendon, Victoria The stone from the railway station was reused to build garden retaining walls at the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (now Federation University). Yendon's first school, the Common School opened in 1864, which in 1879 became Yendon State School and closed at the end of 1993. Yendon, Victoria Yendon is a small town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, west of the state capital, Melbourne and approximately south east of Ballarat. The town was originally called Buninyong East, but was changed in 1879 to Yendon, believed to be an Indigenous Australian word meaning "waterhole".
Government of Victoria Government of Victoria The Government of Victoria is the executive administrative authority of the Australian state of Victoria. Functioning within the scope of Victoria's status as a sub-national parliamentary constitutional monarchy, the Government was first formed in 1851, when Victoria first gained the right to responsible government. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Victoria has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, Victoria ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth.