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"Bush" life may sound challenging to city dwellers - but Gippsland explodes most myths and preconceptions about regional Australia.
Its strong, distinctive identity offers many different choices of lifestyle - as many as its diverse landscapes, people, industries and settlements. Community-minded, generous to newcomers, the region is an attractive tourist area. Its residents enjoy the pleasures of lives unstressed by many city pressures.
Larger than some European countries, less populous than Singapore, Gippsland gives people scope for exploring new interests. Many Gippslanders choose urban life in large towns or small communities, with their affordable range of housing and good facilities. More adventurous, independent and energetic people build homes on bush blocks within easy reach of main highways. Native birds and animals are still plentiful. Small acreage hobby farming is popular.
Twelve national parks, including well-known Wilson's Promontory on the coast and Baw Baw in the Great Dividing Range, superb coastline with glorious surf beaches, majestic alpine ranges and snowfields, native forests, Victoria’s greatest rivers, the Gippsland Lakes and fertile farmlands are all within an hour and a half’s drive of the campus. Sports and recreations of all kinds are available..
Latrobe Valley's industrial and pastoral landscapes are the product of generations of skilled, multicultural migrants who have a proud labour and union history. The state's electricity is produced here and much of Victoria's fresh produce. European and Asian communities give the area a variety of traditional foods, whilst West Gippsland is known for dairying, orchards and the Gourmet Trail.
There is a strong sense of civic pride in heritage and the arts, and a belief in the region's future in the City of Latrobe. A new centrally-located hospital serves the region and, for families, a choice of public, private and denominational schooling across Gippsland. Churchill, where the university is located, will also be the site of the innovative Education Precinct.
Gippsland is a friendly, multicultural and dynamic place to live. There are modern shopping centres, cinemas, pubs and clubs. If city lights call, or surf and sea, then two hours' travel on cheap public transport takes you to Melbourne by train, or to the Gippsland Lakes by coach.
