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Established in 1887, Highett
Cricket Club is the second oldest in Kingston City. The Turner Road complex features three ovals, a large clubrooms and a children's playground. The Bulldogs have a long and proud cricketing history, having three times won the Victorian Turf Cricket Association (VTCA)
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The strip shopping centre near the railway line expanded, and still remains active. The suburb is undergoing substantial change and rejuvenation with a high number of residential properties being renovated or redeveloped due to the suburb's proximity to
Melbourne City and Port Phillip Bay which has
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Highett Cricket Club merged with the Moorabbin Park Panthers to form the Bayside Stingrays. The amalgamated club currently has 4 senior teams competing in Cricket Southern Bayside (CSB) and 6 junior teams competing in either South East Cricket Association (SECA) or
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In the 2016 Census, there were 10,454 people in
Highett. 66.4% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.3%, China 2.1%, India 2.1%, New Zealand 1.9% and Greece 1.6%. 73.9% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included
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In season 2016/17 the club joined
Cricket Southern Bayside. The Highett 1st XI played in Division 2. In all one day matches, Highett players wore the coloured clothing of red white and blue for the first time. Three Highett players have represented Australia in test cricket;
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In 1925 a parcel train hit a car at the
Wickham Road railway crossing, killing nine people inside the car. The gatekeeper was found not guilty of the charge of manslaughter, the jury finding the incident was due to the fault of the system and not through human negligence.
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Highett Hall was opened on 11 September 1926 and was used for dances, balls, vaudeville performances and later as a cinema. However it always struggled to find a profitable means to continue operation. It was purchased by the
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Anglicans banded together to open St Stephens Church of England, in Donald Street, Highett. This was the first church built for the local inhabitants of Highett and by 1937 there was also a Catholic church.
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The club house is situated on the Main Oval of
Highett Reserve, which is on Turner Road. Its senior teams participate in SFNL Division 1, and the junior sides participate in the South Metro Junior Football League (SMJFL).
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Inner South East Cricket (ISEC). Games are played at Turner Road Reserve in Highett and Dane Road Reserve in Moorabbin.
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727:"Home | City of Kingston | Community profile"
802:. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. p. 337.
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1182:Highett, William (1807-1880),
991:"The Highett Railway Disaster"
752:Australian National University
742:"Highett, William (1807–1880)"
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1133:Courtier, S.H. (1993).
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939:"Welcome to St Agnes'"
913:"Highett in the 1930s"
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571:Public swimming pool
562:Bayside Cricket Club
537:Highett Cricket Club
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148:Postcode(s)
132:2021 census
114: /
89:Coordinates
1510:Categories
1460:Mordialloc
1432:Heatherton
1404:Cheltenham
1277:Cheltenham
1259:Black Rock
1146:1862542953
1082:21 October
1033:3 December
676:References
591:team, the
499:Population
465:gasometers
435:Mordialloc
392:Cheltenham
295:Cheltenham
290:Cheltenham
278:Cheltenham
127:Population
1483:Waterways
1450:Moorabbin
1427:Edithvale
1369:Aspendale
1254:Beaumaris
1005:21 August
948:21 August
770:1833-7538
431:Caulfield
388:Moorabbin
346:Australia
338:Melbourne
263:Moorabbin
225:Goldstein
178:Melbourne
157:Elevation
30:Melbourne
1473:Parkdale
1412:Clarinda
1384:Braeside
1379:Bonbeach
1264:Brighton
778:70677943
658:See also
631:(1959).
358:Kingston
342:Victoria
173:Location
102:145°03′E
34:Victoria
1445:Mentone
1437:Highett
1394:Chelsea
1295:Highett
1285:Hampton
1118:12 June
833:8 April
783:17 July
706:15 July
398:History
376:Hampton
354:Bayside
311:Highett
274:Highett
270:Hampton
253:Hampton
244:Suburbs
99:37°57′S
72:Highett
32:,
25:Highett
1389:Carrum
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230:Isaacs
185:LGA(s)
645:CSIRO
476:CSIRO
1154:2021
1141:ISBN
1120:2022
1084:2008
1035:2017
1007:2024
978:2011
950:2024
925:2021
835:2021
804:ISBN
785:2014
774:OCLC
766:ISSN
756:ISBN
708:2022
554:and
425:The
356:and
165:Area
152:3190
1495:LGA
1315:LGA
1184:ADB
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