Yarra Junction Who's Who
YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR CONNECTIONS.
Meet the people behind the place.
Discover the people, businesses and groups who call Yarra Junction home, and meet members across Australia.
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Simon Reid
Victorian Central Highlands · VIC
I manage Central Highlands Energy Assessments offering Independent Advice that helps customers to manage their Energy Demand, Reduce their Electricity…
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JO Smith
Law Firm in Berri servicing Riverlands and beyond LEGAL AID AVAILABLE
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Hi! I used to work as a newspaper printer. Now, I'm a member of IPI (the Information Physics Institute). My hobbies include reading, writing, listenin…
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AllUneedresources Pilbara
Single Solution Registered Building Company Located in the Heart of the Pilbara
View Public ProfileDistinguished and Famous people from Yarra Junction
🏉 Jack Dyer
Jack Dyer moved with his family to Yarra Junction as a baby and attended the local primary school. Football ability later helped him gain scholarships in Melbourne before a long Richmond career made Captain Blood a familiar name. Playing, coaching and broadcasting carried that reputation across several generations. The local connection is a childhood in the timber district, alongside his Oakleigh birthplace. It supplies a quieter opening to the story of a footballer later associated with fierce competition and a colourful public voice: first there were family life, school and games in Yarra Junction.
📖 Arthur Upfield
Arthur Upfield lived at Yarra Junction during a writing career best known for detective stories featuring Napoleon Bonaparte, usually called Bony. The fictional investigator drew on a literary imagining of Aboriginal and European experience, and the books travelled to audiences well beyond Australia. Upfield's local residence places the town within that career without implying that every story was set nearby. The community he knew was shaped by timber work, railways and surrounding forest, quite different from the suburban Melbourne settings more commonly associated with a successful author's working life.
