Condah, Victoria
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Condah is a small town in south west Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and is located on the Henty Highway
Henty Highway
Henty Highway is a 360 kilometre highway in western Victoria, Australia. It's primarily a north-south route, and consists of a mix of 2 laned country highway standard and 4 lane arterial road within some of the larger towns along the route....

 north of Heywood
Heywood, Victoria
Heywood is a town on the Fitzroy River in the Australian state of Victoria. It is situated at an elevation of 27 metres amidst rolling green hills in an agricultural, pastoral and timbercutting district. Heywood is west of Melbourne at the intersection of the Princes and Henty Highways and north...

. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Condah and the surrounding area had a population of 272.

Condah Post Office opened on 12 May 1868 and closed in 2001.
Condah Pub has been open since 1854 and still thrives today.

Notable people

  • W J (Billy) Millard, winner of the first Stawell Gift
    Stawell Gift
    The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short distance running race. It is run over every Easter weekend by the Stawell Athletic Club, with the main race finals on the holiday Monday, at Central Park, Stawell in the Grampian Mountains district of western Victoria.The race is run on grass...

     in 1878 was a resident of Condah

  • AFL footballers Andrew Lovett
    Andrew Lovett
    Andrew Lovett is an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League for Essendon between 2005 and 2009...

    , Wally Lovett
    Wally Lovett
    Wally Lovett is an indigenous former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL in 1982 for the Collingwood and in 1983 and 1984 for the Richmond Football Club.-External links:...

    , Glenn Lovett
    Glenn Lovett
    Glenn Lovett is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL.Lovett made his debut for Melbourne in 1987 but only managed seven games in his first three seasons. He didn't cement his spot in the side until the 1990s...


and Nathan Lovett-Murray
Nathan Lovett-Murray
Nathan Lovett-Murray is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....

 are Gunditjmara
Gunditjmara
Gunditjmara, or Gundidj for short, are an Indigenous Australian group from western Victoria . Their neighbours to the west were the Buandig people, to the north the Jardwadjali and Djab wurrung peoples, and in the east the Girai wurrung people.The name may also be spelt Gournditch-Mara...

either from Lake Condah or related to those there
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