Great Western, Victoria Western Cup meeting on Australia Day (26 January), and a rodeo is also held annually. The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Mininera & District Football League. Great Western, Victoria Great Western is a town in the east of the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Western Highway, in the Shire of Northern Grampians local government area, 225 kilometres north west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town has a population of 644. The first European settlers in the Great Western area were sheep graziers in the 1840s and closer settlement
Coat of arms of Victoria (Australia) with a Chaplet of Corn and supporting with the exterior hand a Cornucopia proper. Motto: Peace and Prosperity.” The current interpretation of the arms uses St Edward's Crown. This was changed in the same royal warrant that added the Compartment and the heath. Coat of arms of Victoria (Australia) The Coat of Arms of Victoria is the official symbol of the Australian state of Victoria. Victoria was the second state of Australia to gain arms, granted on 6 June 1910 by royal warrant of King George V. The state had been named in 1851 after his grandmother, who was Queen