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34-460: Craigieburn may refer to the following places: Craigieburn, Victoria , Australia Craigieburn railway station Craigieburn, New Zealand Craigieburn, KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

68-542: A line that borders Roxburgh Park and Greenvale in the south, and Mickleham Road , Craigieburn Road and a line running north–south that borders Mickleham in the west. Craigieburn's first people were the Wurundjeri people. The suburb takes its name from an old bluestone inn (its site located directly opposite modern day Kingswood Drive) that catered for travellers along the Old Sydney Road . The name

102-542: A recreation hall was built by 1912. At that time, fishing and scenery in the Merri Creek (Craigieburn's eastern boundary) was noted. In the 1920s, a brick facade near the railway station was erected, intended for a harvester factory which was never completed. Post World War II , a primary school opened in 1955, but was moved in 2003 replacing the school at Somerton . In 1961, the Hume Highway overpass near

136-527: Is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , 25 km (16 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the City of Hume local government area . Craigieburn recorded a population of 65,178 at the 2021 census . Craigieburn is a satellite suburb located on the urban-rural fringe of Melbourne, ranging from the lower half of Bridgewater Road to Mount Ridley. A large majority of

170-558: Is derived from the Gaelic word Craigie, meaning craggy and Scots word burn that means stream. By 1865, Craigieburn was a small hamlet with a number of farmers, with its surrounding land unsuitable for agriculture. Craigieburn Post Office opened on 26 February 1866. In 1872, the North East railway line to Seymour opened, with a station at Craigieburn opening in that year. The hamlet still remained of little importance, although

204-532: Is served by Craigieburn railway station , which is the terminus of the Craigieburn line . Electrified railway services to the station commenced on 30 September 2007. Craigieburn was previously serviced by V/Line five-car diesel locomotives and Sprinter railcars on the Seymour / Albury line . The previous terminus was Broadmeadows station . In 2018, internal Department of Transport plans to through-route

238-731: Is the largest development in Craigieburn. Other major residential estates have been developed in Craigieburn by Delfin , Peet Limited (Aston), Evolve Development (Annadale) and Villawood (Trilium). Ten bus routes service Craigieburn: For cyclists, Craigieburn is at the start of the Galada Tamboore Cycle Path , which follows the Hume Freeway 14.7 km (9.1 mi) south to meet the Western Ring Road Trail at Thomastown . Craigieburn

272-665: The International Refugee Organisation (IRO) from the end of World War II up to the end of 1954 to resettle in Australia from Europe—more than the number of convicts transported to Australia in the first 80 years after European settlement. Following the attacks on Darwin and the associated fear of Imperial Japanese invasion in World War II, the Chifley government commissioned a report on

306-475: The Snowy Mountains Scheme . This hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia consisted of sixteen major dams and seven power stations constructed between 1949 and 1974. It remains the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia. Necessitating the employment of 100,000 people from over 30 countries, to many it denotes the birth of multicultural Australia. In 1955

340-594: The 1930s. Calwell coined the term " New Australians " in an effort to supplant such terms as Balt, pommy and wog . The 1% target remained a part of government policy until the Whitlam government (1972–1975), when immigration numbers were substantially cut back, only to be restored by the Fraser government (1975–1982). Some 4.2 million immigrants arrived between 1945 and 1985, about 40 percent of whom came from Britain and Ireland. 182,159 people were sponsored by

374-794: The ABS Census of 2011 the percentage of residents born in Australia had dropped to 61.4% and the other top responses were Iraq; 5.1%, India; 3.7%, Turkey; 3.4%, Italy; 2.4% and Sri Lanka; 2.3% ; Pakistan. In the 2016 census , 53.0% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were India 11.3%, Iraq 5.4%, Sri Lanka 2.9%, New Zealand 2.8% and Philippines 1.9%. 44.2% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Punjabi 7.8%, Arabic 4.6%, Turkish 4.6%, Sinhalese 3.4% and Hindi 3.3%. The most common responses for religion in Craigieburn (State Suburbs) were Catholic 28.4%, No Religion 15.5%, Islam 11.9%, Not Stated 7.7% and Sikhism 7.2%. On 7 May 2012,

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408-566: The Australian government and various governments and international organisations. In August Australia welcomed its 50,000th "New Australian" — or rather, the 50,000th displaced person sponsored by the IRO and to be resettled in Australia. The child was from Riga , Latvia . Work began on the Snowy Mountains Scheme – a substantial employer of migrants: 100,000 people were employed from at least 30 different nationalities. Seventy percent of all

442-670: The British, and this caused some alarm in the Australian government, causing it to place restrictions on Southern Europeans sponsoring newcomers and to commence the "Bring out a Briton" campaign. With the increase in financial assistance to British settlers provided during the 1960s, the British component was able to return to the top position in the overall number of new settlers. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Europeans migrated to Australia and over 1,000,000 Britons immigrated with financial assistance. The migration assistance scheme initially targeted citizens of Commonwealth countries; but it

476-456: The Craigieburn line with the Frankston line were accidentally released. ^ = territory divided with another LGA Post-war immigration to Australia The first Minister for Immigration , Arthur Calwell , promoted mass immigration with the slogan "populate or perish". It was Billy Hughes, as Minister for Health and Repatriation, who had coined the "populate or perish" slogan in

510-475: The Danish Agency for Culture and Realdania, which has motivated municipalities to develop the library of the future, so that it is prepared to incorporate, among other things, digital developments and local culture and accommodate diverse population groups with an open and functional architectural expression in balance with its surroundings. Highlands Craigieburn, a residential development by Stockland ,

544-648: The US providing the necessary shipping. Many Eastern Europeans were refugees from the Red Army and thus mostly anti-Communist and so politically acceptable. The 1% target survived a change of government in 1949, when the Menzies government succeeded Chifley's. The new Minister of Immigration was Harold Holt (1949–56). The British component remained the largest component of the migrant intake until 1953. Between 1953 and late 1956, migrants from Southern Europe outnumbered

578-563: The arrival of immigrants to Australia after World War II, they are still major demographic groups in Australia: This compares with 18% of Australian residents who were aged 60 or over at the time of the census Not all of those enumerated would have arrived as post-war migrants, specific statistics as at 2006 are not available. In September 2022, the Albanese government increased the permanent migration intake from 160,000 to

612-423: The camp closed in 1971, some 300,000 migrants had spent time there. By 1951, the government had established three migrant reception centres for non-English speaking displaced persons from Europe, and twenty holding centres, principally to house non-working dependants, when the pressure of arrival numbers on the reception centres was too great to keep families together. The purpose of reception and training centres

646-408: The first time. A 1958 government leaflet assured voters that unskilled non-British migrants were needed for "labour on rugged projects ...work which is not generally acceptable to Australians or British workers." The Australian economy stood in sharp contrast to war-ravaged Europe, and newly arrived migrants found employment in a booming manufacturing industry and government assisted programmes such as

680-398: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craigieburn&oldid=1224207867 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Craigieburn, Victoria Craigieburn

714-720: The new Craigieburn Library won the best new public library of the year. The prize, which was established by the Danish Agency for Culture and sponsored by the Danish architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects, was awarded at the annual meeting of the IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) in Lyon , France . The award is a part of the Model Programme for Public Libraries project of

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748-491: The new Hume Global Learning Centre was opened. The two-storey centre is home to the Craigieburn Library, a café, gallery, occasional childcare facilities and Council's Craigieburn Customer Service Centre on the ground level, and a conference and training centre on level one. The old Craigieburn Library and Council's Customer Service Centre at Craigieburn Road are now relocated to the new building. In August 2014,

782-483: The one-millionth post-war immigrant arrived in Australia. Australia's population reached 10 million in 1959, up from 7 million in 1945. In 1973, Whitlam government (1972–1975) adopted a completely non-discriminatory immigration policy, effectively putting an end to the White Australia policy. However, the change occurred in the context of a substantial reduction in the overall migrant intake. This ended

816-459: The post-war wave of immigration Australia has experienced average arrivals of around one million per decade. The breakdown by decade is as follows: The highest number of arrivals during the period was 185,099 in 1969–70 and the lowest was 52,752 in 1975–76. In the 2006 census, birthplace was enumerated as was date of arrival in Australia for those not born in Australia. For the major post-war period non-English speaking immigrant groups enlarged by

850-490: The post-war wave of predominantly European immigration which had started three decades before with the end of the Second World War and would make the beginnings of the contemporary wave of predominantly Asian Immigration to Australia which continues to the present day. Financial assistance was an important element of the post war immigration program and as such there were a number of agreements in place between

884-721: The railway station opened, replacing a previous level crossing . In 1972, the Hothlyn Corporation started construction of a residential subdivision, marking the start of suburbanisation in Craigieburn. Wilmott Park Golf Course (Craigieburn Golf Club) opened in 1974. The Craigieburn Plaza Shopping Centre opened in 1975, Craigieburn Leisure Centre (Sports Stadium) opened in 1979, the Reserve Bank's Note Printing Branch in 1980, Mitford Crescent Kindergarten And Maternal Health opened in 1980, Craigieburn Secondary College and Craigieburn South Primary School opened in 1984 but

918-426: The subject which found that Australia was in urgent need of a larger population for the purposes of defence and development and it recommended a 1% annual increase in population through increased immigration. In 1945, the government established the federal Department of Immigration to administer the new immigration program. The first Minister for Immigration was Arthur Calwell . An Assisted Passage Migration Scheme

952-403: The suburb is more than 200 metres above sea level, with Mount Ridley being the northernmost hill in northwestern metropolitan Melbourne with clear views of Melbourne's central business district 29.7 km away. Craigieburn is bounded by Mount Ridley Road, the Hume Freeway and Donnybrook Road in the north, Merri Creek in the east, Patullos Lane, the Craigieburn / North East railway line and

986-669: The workers were migrants. On arrival in Australia, many migrants went to migrant reception and training centres where they learned some English while they looked for a job. The Department of Immigration was responsible for the camps and kept records on camp administration and residents. The migrant reception and training centres were also known as Commonwealth Immigration Camps, migrant hostels, immigration dependants' holding centres, migrant accommodation, or migrant workers' hostels. Australia's first migrant reception centre opened at Bonegilla, Victoria near Wodonga in December 1947. When

1020-529: Was also established in 1945 to encourage Britons to migrate to Australia. The government's objective was summarised in the slogan "populate or perish". Calwell stated in 1947, to critics of mass immigration from non-British Europe: "We have 25 years at most to populate this country before the yellow races are down on us." The post-war immigration program of the Chifley government gave them preference to migrants from Great Britain , and initially an ambitious target

1054-1057: Was completed in 1990 and within a few years there was a Catholic primary school, community health centre, several reserves and a public golf course. By 1991, the population was over 10,000 due to large housing growth. In 2005, the Hume Highway bypassed Craigieburn with the opening of the Craigieburn Bypass . In the 2021 census , there were 65,178 people in Craigieburn. According to ABS Census 2006 data, 71.9% of those in Craigieburn were born in Australia; 1.9% were born in England; 1.9%, in Sri Lanka ; 1.8%, in Italy ; 1.5%, in New Zealand ; 1.2%, in Iraq ; and 3.9%, in India . In

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1088-511: Was gradually extended to other countries such as the Netherlands and Italy. The qualifications were straightforward: migrants needed to be in sound health and under the age of 45 years. There were initially no skill requirements, although under the White Australia policy, people from mixed-race backgrounds found it very difficult to take advantage of the scheme. Migration brought large numbers of southern and central Europeans to Australia for

1122-408: Was set of nine British out of ten immigrants. However, it was soon apparent that even with assisted passage the government target would be impossible to achieve given that Britain's shipping capacity was quite diminished from pre-war levels. As a consequence, the government looked further afield to maintain overall immigration numbers, and this meant relying on the IRO refugees from Eastern Europe, with

1156-949: Was to: provide for general medical examination and x-ray of migrants, issue of necessary clothing, payment of social service benefits, interview to determine employment potential, instruction in English and the Australian way of life generally. The centres were located throughout Australia (dates are those of post office opening and closing. ) Other hostels in New South Wales included Adamstown , Balgownie , Bankstown , Berkeley , Bunnerong, Burwood , Cabramatta , Cronulla , Dundas , East Hills , Ermington , Goulburn , Katoomba , Kingsgrove , Kyeemagh , Leeton , Lithgow , Mascot , Matraville , Mayfield , Meadowbank , Nelson Bay , North Head , Orange , Parkes , Port Stephens, Randwick , St Marys , Scheyville , Schofields , Unanderra , Villawood , Wallerawang and Wallgrove . In

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