Placing You Above The Rest!

Some interesting facts about Victoria and its people.

The Vietnamese surname Nguyen is the second-most common name in the 2004 residential White Pages, with 4190 entries. Smith is the most common Victorian surname, with 7611 entries.

Melbourne is home to the third-biggest Greek population in the world, after Athens and Thessaloniki. Melbourne's Greek community is 350,000 strong.

Melbourne was Australia's political capital from 1901 until the completion of Canberra in 1927. The Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton was home to Australia's first parliament.

The Story of Ned Kelly , made in Melbourne in 1906, is recognised as the world's first feature film.

More than 200,000 backpackers visit Victoria each year, mostly from the UK, Germany, USA, Japan, Canada and Korea.

Melbourne was briefly named 'Batmania' after one of its founders, John Batman.

In 1910 there were 2735 passenger vehicles registered in Victoria. By 2003 that figure had climbed to 3.5 million .

Fearful of foreign invasion , the government fortified the heads of Port Phillip Bay in the 1870s.