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39-545: Tatura is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia , and is situated within the City of Greater Shepparton local government area, 167 kilometres (104 mi) north of the state capital ( Melbourne ) and 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of the regional centre of Shepparton . At the 2021 census, Tatura had a population of 4,955. During World War II, several internment camps were set up around Tatura by

78-534: A temperate semi-arid climate ( Köppen: Cfa/Cfb/BSk). The town experiences very warm summers and cool winters. Average maxima vary from 29.8 °C (85.6 °F) in January to 13.0 °C (55.4 °F) in July, while average minima fluctuate between 14.4 °C (57.9 °F) in January and February and 3.1 °C (37.6 °F) in July. Precipitation is low, averaging 482.4 mm (18.99 in) per annum. Rain

117-668: A Tatura complex of seven internment camps, was built by the Commonwealth on land that it acquired compulsorily from a farmer, with construction completed by February 1940. Among the more notable internees, interned by Australia for two years as "enemy aliens" in Tatura Internment Camp 3 starting with their arrival in 1940 as they fled Austria, were Jewish refugee from the Nazis (and artist and inventor) (Polish-Jewish) Slawa Horowitz Duldig , who had invented and patented

156-550: A concert was held at the Iwaki Auditorium , Melbourne, to celebrate Werder's 90th birthday. The concert included the premiere of three new works: "Ill-Tempered Clavier" (2009) and "Dice" (2010)", both performed by Michael Kieran Harvey ; and "H Factor", a work that Werder said would be his final composition, performed by the Silo String Quartet . Also, percussionist Eugene Ughetti performed "Quinney on

195-736: A leading figure in Melbourne's little band scene , Whirlywirld and Max Q , and bandmate Arne Hanna . Other students included Andrew Duffield ( Models ) and Karen Ansel ( The Reels ). Werder was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1976. He received the Stamitz Performance Prize (1984), the Australia Council Fellowship (1986), the Arts Guild of Germany Composition Prize (1988),

234-778: Is a sub-region, part of the Hume region of the Australian state of Victoria . The sub-region consists of those areas in the catchment of the Goulburn River and other nearby streams, and is part of the Murray-Darling Basin . The Goulburn Valley is bordered on the south by the Great Dividing Range and to the north by the Murray River , the state border with New South Wales . The sub-region

273-634: Is located 20 minutes from La Trobe University Shepparton Campus as well as the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE , which both offer a range of tertiary and TAFE courses for the Goulburn Valley. The main print publications distributed within Tatura include the daily Shepparton News , the weekly The Adviser Shepparton , the weekly Tatura Guardian , and the monthly Tatura Bulletin . Goulburn Valley The Goulburn Valley

312-537: Is one of Australia's most productive and intensively farmed areas and is predominantly irrigated . Major regional centres of the Goulburn Valley are Shepparton , Seymour , Echuca , Benalla , Yarrawonga and Kyabram . Aboriginal groups inhabited the Goulburn Valley region prior to European settlement. In the central Goulburn around Nagambie , the traditional owners were the Natrakboolok , Ngooraialum or Thagungwurung tribes. Downstream, at Shepparton,

351-528: Is one of the world's largest fruit canneries. Other important agricultural activities include woolgrowing and cropping . Water for irrigation is sourced from Lake Eildon and Goulburn Weir , with Lake Eildon supplying over half the water used in the Shepparton irrigation district. The Goulburn Valley wine region stretches from Seymour to Echuca on the Murray River. Wine production began in

390-719: Is represented at the federal level in the Australian House of Representatives by the Division of Nicholls as well as parts of the Divisions of McEwen and Indi . At the state level, the region includes the Electoral districts of Shepparton , Murray Plains , Euroa and Eildon . Major transport routes through the Goulburn Valley region include the Goulburn Valley Highway , Midland Highway and

429-401: Is spread across 104.6 precipitation days. The town experiences 110.0 clear days and 109.0 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 44.8 °C (112.6 °F) on 25 January 2019 and 7 February 2009 to −6.8 °C (19.8 °F) on 26 June 1965. Organisations in Tatura include Tatura Milk Industries, Goulburn-Murray Water's corporate headquarters, Jacobs Engineering Group ,

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468-634: Is the second-largest dairy show in the Southern Hemisphere) in January each year attracting over 6,000 exhibitors, vendors and onlookers from Australia as well as overseas. The Taste of Tatura Food and Wine Festival is held on the first Sunday in March. Tatura Hot Bread won prizes in the Professional Section of The Great Australian Vanilla Slice Triumph in 2006, and again in 2007. Tatura has many sporting facilities located within

507-506: The Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions , as well as major regional processing plants for multinational corporations such as Unilever and Snow Brand Milk Products . Trevaskis Engineering is a sheet metal manufacturer, established in 1959 and employing around 50 staff, manufacturing grain handling equipment and other bespoke items for the agriculture sector. The Tatura Show is held yearly in March and International Dairy Week (which

546-580: The Murray Valley Highway . Passenger rail services are provided from Melbourne to Seymour railway station the junction for they North East and Goulburn Valley lines which was opened in 1872 and then onto Shepparton and Echuca by V/Line . 36°22′59″S 145°23′56″E  /  36.38306°S 145.39889°E  / -36.38306; 145.39889 Felix Werder Werder was born in Berlin , Germany , as Felix Bischofswerder,

585-556: The "enemy aliens" were refugees fleeing the Nazis . Between 1940 and 1947, there were 10,000 to 13,000 civilians interned in the camps at different times. Before the war, Britain was home to around 73,000 Germans, who had left Germany due to the rising tensions and the rise of the Nazi regime in the country. Many of these were also young male Germans who had been in schools in Britain before

624-489: The 1960s and early 1970s, Werder wrote seven operas, which were popularly received. His opera Private was commissioned for television by the ABC and was broadcast in 1969. He also wrote works for Deutsche Oper Berlin and Opera Australia among others. Werder lived in Melbourne and his teaching included influential courses in electronic music and sound synthesis. His students in the mid-1970s included Ollie Olsen who became

663-623: The Australian government. Four of these were for " enemy alien " civilians, and three were for prisoners of war. Between 1940 and 1947, there were 10,000 to 13,000 people in the internment camps at different times. With a large corporate and manufacturing presence within the town, Tatura is a major employer within the Goulburn Valley . Attractions include the Cussen Park wetlands, the Wartime Camps, and Irrigation Museum. The name of

702-639: The Goulburn Valley wine region. Each year Tastes of the Goulburn food and wine festival is hosted in Seymour , showcasing the best local produce from the Goulburn Valley. Seymour also hosts the Victorian Wine Show. Local government in the region is provided by the City of Greater Shepparton and the Shires of Mitchell , Moira , Campaspe , Murrindindi , and Strathbogie . The region

741-686: The Japanese government when she was over 100 years old. Also notable were the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran , taken prisoner following the battle between HMAS Sydney and the Kormoran . They were housed at Camp 13, Murchison, and Dhurringile mansion. There were also about 500 German civilians detained during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941 and housed initially in

780-546: The Loveday, S.A.camps, before transfer to the Tatura camps in 1945. The Tatura German Military Cemetery ( 36°25′49″S 145°12′20″E  /  36.4304°S 145.2055°E  / -36.4304; 145.2055 ) is the final resting place of 351 German civilians and servicemen who died during internment in World War I and World War II. Tatura possesses a humid subtropical climate , but borders an oceanic climate and

819-531: The Mark Goring Memorial race, honouring jockey Mark Goring who died of injuries sustained in a fall at the Tatura track in 2003. As well as a Western & Quarter Horse arena and Club rooms, the Reserve is a thoroughbred training facility, with grass and sand track, and swimming facilities as well as practice barriers and jumps schooling course. 20 Racing Victoria-licensed trainers are registered to

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858-711: The Melbourne-Sydney route (now known as the Hume Highway). The mail service between Melbourne and Sydney had been operating for just a year when it was found that a better route was available using the "New Crossing Place" (now Seymour ). Industries in the Goulburn Valley include agricultural activities such as fruit growing and dairying , which supply processing plants in Shepparton and outlying towns such as Strathmerton and Tongala . This food processing industry produces around 25% of Victoria's rural output. The SPC Ardmona plant, founded in 1917 in Shepparton,

897-624: The Racecourse. In addition to race meetings, the club also runs regular official trials and jumpouts (unbroadcast trials). Tatura has two primary schools serving both the town and surrounding areas: Tatura Primary School is a public school located south of the town centre, whilst Sacred Heart School is a private Catholic school located on the town's main street. Due to Tatura's proximity to Shepparton , secondary education options include Notre Dame College, Shepparton , Goulburn Valley Grammar School ,and Greater Shepparton Secondary Collage . Tatura

936-615: The Roof" and "Recipe for Disaster"; Warren Burt presented a digital restoration of Werder's 4-speaker piece for analogue synthesizer "The Tempest", originally recorded and released in 1974. Werder died in Melbourne on 3 May 2012 aged 90, and was interred at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery. Whilst in the army in 1944, he married Mena Waten, the sister of the novelist Judah Waten. In 1976, aged 54, he married

975-663: The Stamitz Prize (1988), and an honorary doctorate in Music from the University of Melbourne . He formed the performance ensemble Australia Felix, which toured Europe and included Bruce Clarke , Merlyn Quaife , Brian Brown , Alex Grieve, Judy Easton, Tony Conolan, Kevin Makin and Peter Clinch . For many years, during the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote music criticism for the Melbourne newspaper The Age . On 24 February 2012

1014-591: The area was inhabited by the Yorta Yorta people . The Taungurung people are the traditional owners and inhabitants of the area Seymour now occupies. European Settlement In 1824, Hume and Hovell on their return from Port Phillip, camped by the Goulburn River not far upstream of Seymour . In 1836 Major Mitchell crossed the Goulburn at Mitchellstown near Nagambie and soon afterwards overlanders and other early settlers began to use this crossing place on

1053-813: The country in the middle of the war, predominantly to Australia (on HMT Dunera from Britain in September 1940) and Canada. The camps, in rural Australia, were surrounded by two or three parallel rows of perimeter fences of barbed wire up to 10 feet in height, separated by Dannert wire ( razor wire that formed in large coils which can be expanded like a concertina ), and by 20-foot-high guard towers, manned by sentries with rifles, Vickers machine guns , or Bren guns , as well as by sentry-manned catwalks , with banks of floodlights 60 to 80 feet high. Soldiers were instructed that familiarity with Internees "should be avoided at all times". Tatura Intgernment Camps 3 and 4 were opened in 1940. Tatura Internment Camp 1, part of

1092-602: The experience gained during internment in Egypt in World War I, they quickly established a school and a kindergarten, as well and developed work routines to prevent depression. After the war, the majority of Templer families remained in Australia. The Temple Society Australia was established in 1950. In 1941, Major Julian Layton arrived from England on a mission. Layton, a Jew like many of the Dunera internees , managed to secure

1131-759: The grass courts each March. Tatura soccer club participates in the Bendigo amateur soccer league. Tatura is home to the Tatura Racecourse Reserve, where the Tatura & Shepparton Racing Club Inc hosts a minimum of three full TAB race meetings each season, including the Italian Plate Festival in December – a celebration of the local Italian community and culture – and the Tatura Easter Cup. The Cup day also features

1170-519: The modern folding umbrella in 1929, along with her Polish-Jewish refugee sculptor husband Karl Duldig , and their daughter Eva Duldig (from the ages of two to four); Eva two decades later represented Australia at the Wimbledon Championships in tennis. Similarly, artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack had been forced to leave Germany during the rise to power of the Nazis due to his part-Jewish heritage. However, upon arrival in Australia he

1209-438: The outbreak of WWII. In June 1940, France fell to Nazi Germany and Allied soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk . The British government ordered the internment of "enemy aliens" (unnaturalised people born in enemy countries). This included both long-term residents of Britain, as well as recent refugees who were fleeing Nazi oppression, all of whom were regarded as potential spies or Nazi sympathisers . They were shipped out of

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1248-494: The region in 1860 . A syndicate raised £ 25,000 to develop the Tahbilk winery . By 1875 trade with England had been established, and the winery was producing the equivalent of 70,000 cases of wine per year. Due to the sandy soil, Tahbilk was able to withstand the spread of Phylloxera , and in 1925 was the only winery in the area. As a result, the region is home to the oldest and largest plantings of Marsanne grape variety in

1287-513: The release of many of them if they enlisted in the British or Australian Army . At the end of the war all of the Dunera internees were released. Monte Punshon , an Australian teacher who could speak Japanese, was a warden from 1943. Punshon looked after the compound set aside for those who could not speak English and for the school in the camp. Punshon was belatedly decorated for her kindness by

1326-607: The son of the composer Boaz Bischofswerder , who was a member of Arnold Schoenberg 's circle. He studied Fine Arts and Architecture in London before arriving in Australia in 1940 on the HMT Dunera , along with his father, leaving Germany because of their Jewish heritage. They were interned at a camp in Tatura , Victoria for the duration of World War II . In 1943, he wrote his first symphony . In 1946 his father died. During

1365-642: The town is an Aboriginal word meaning "small lagoon". The post office opened on 1 February 1875. The Tatura Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990. Several internment camps were set up around Tatura, Rushworth , and Murchison ( Dhurringile ) by the Australian government during World War II . Four of these were for " enemy alien " civilians, and three were for prisoners of war. Australian law in 1939 designated people "enemy aliens" if they were Germans or were Australians who had been born in Germany; later, it covered Italians and Japanese as well. The majority of

1404-634: The town, including Australian Rules football ovals, soccer fields, cricket pitches, tennis courts, Lawn Bowls greens, a multipurpose indoor stadium and the 18-hole golf course of the Hilltop Golf Club. The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Goulburn Valley Football League , the Tatura Bulldogs. Tatura tennis club hosts an annual labour day round-robin tennis tournament on

1443-687: The widowed Vera Phillip, whose first husband had been on the Dunera with Werder. Her family were also refugees from Europe in the 1930s. The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). They include the Classical Music Awards which are distributed by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). The Don Banks Music Award was established in 1984 to publicly honour

1482-414: The world. Other wine varieties grown include Chardonnay , Cabernet Sauvignon , Riesling and Shiraz . As well as Tahbilk, other major wineries include Michelton between Seymour and Nagambie , Wine by Sam, Fowles Wines and boutique vineyards Box Grove and Brave Goose vineyard in the south near Seymour and Monichino near Katunga in the north. Nagambie Lakes is a recognised and protected subregion of

1521-688: Was deemed an "enemy alien", and interned in internment camps including Tatura, from 1940 to 1942. Another person interned as an "enemy alien" at Tatura was composer Felix Werder , son of a Berlin synagogue cantor. In 1941, German Templers were shipped from the German Templer Colonies in Palestine and interned for the duration of the war. After arriving in Australia on 25 August 1941, the Templers were housed in Camp 3 in Tatura. Using

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