Melbourne University, Dookie campus (formerly known as Dookie Agricultural College) is an agricultural campus of Melbourne University near the town of Dookie, Victoria.[1] It is the oldest agricultural college in Victoria.[2]
The campus has a broadacre farm, dairy farm, orchard and winery, alongside teaching facilities, supporting both research and the university's Bachelor of Agriculture and other courses delivered there.[1]
It was established as the Dookie Agricultural College on 4 October 1886, operated by the Council of Agricultural Education.[1] The establishment followed a decade of discussion about the possibility of establishing an agricultural college, with the pre-existing Dookie Experimental Farm site reserved in 1875.[3] It was the first of a planned series of agricultural colleges in Victoria and at its opening, had forty students undertaking a three-year course.[4]
The college became a College of Advanced Education with the introduction of CAEs in 1967.[5] It was amalgamated into the multi-campus Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture in 1983.[6][7] It was then amalgamated with the University of Melbourne in 1997, becoming the university's Dookie campus.[2]
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- ^ "Ariculture". Illustrated Australian News. No. 376. Victoria, Australia. 16 October 1886. p. 167. Retrieved 5 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967 (NO. 33, 1967)". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1982". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1982 - Endnotes". AustLII. Retrieved 5 August 2021.