Wallaby Track
Buninyong to Daylesford
92km walk traversing the Great Dividing Range between Daylesford, Creswick, Ballarat and Buninyong
Passes Through:
- Mount Buninyong
- Buninyong
- Ballarat
- Creswick
- Mollongghip
- Dean
- Sailors Falls
- Daylesford
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Wallaby Track
This track, previously known as the Federation Track, now including the section from Ballarat to Buninyong, crosses the top of the Great Dividing Range between Ballarat and Daylesford, and is now known as the Wallaby Track.
The Great Divide also marks the boundary of two Aboriginal nations - the Djadja Wurrung to the north and the Watha Wurrung to the south.
Commemorating the Centenary of Federation, the former Federation Track acknowledged the contribution of the trade union leader W. G. Spence to the formation of Federation. Spence was brought up in a slab and bark hut near Creswick and rose to become the first president of the powerful Shearers Union and a founding member of the first Federal Australian Parliament. At the time of Federation in 1901, the area was one of the most densely settled mining and rural areas in Australia.
It was oficially renamed the Wallaby Track by Steve Moneghetti in November 2006 to coincide with the addition of the Ballarat - Buninyong section, and in recognition of the characterisic Black Wallabies found along much of the forested parts of the track . [PLEASE NOTE: The former Federation Track map from Daylesford to Ballarat was replaced in 2007 by the new 'Wallaby Track' map that ialso ncludes the new 20km of track from Ballarat to Buninyong. It is now available for sale via GDTA for $7.50 each and will progressively become available for sale at Visitor Information Centres).
Swearing allegiance to the Southern Cross
(Water color by Charles Doudiet, 1854. Collection: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery