Latrobe City Today

Latrobe City today is a culturally diverse and vibrant community with a proud history of innovation and visionary development highly innovative and creative; the Latrobe City has become the seedbed for many exciting projects.

The Latrobe City is today one of Australia's major provincial centres. Latrobe City is home to regional headquarters for significant government and private organisations, education centres, such as Monash University Gippsland, Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE, and Gippsland Group Training.

The City has become the hospitality and sporting centre of Gippsland, with outstanding sporting facilities for tennis, athletics, swimming, and team sports, leisure centres and outstanding regional tourism attractions.

Latrobe City Region

The Latrobe region is a resource rich area, with abundant forest and brown coal resources, water resources, and rich agricultural land. The area was initially developed in the 1880's as an agricultural and forestry area and was noted for its cattle runs.

The dairy and beef cattle industries to this day contribute significantly to Victoria's agricultural standing. Other major industries in the area include the Australian Paper Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Mill at Maryvale, Monash University and the Central Gippsland Institute TAFE, the Australian Securities Commission's National Information Processing Centre; and Victoria's four major power generators. Electricity generated from brown coal mined in the area represents 85% of all electricity generated in the State of Victoria.

Latrobe City is made up of four major urban centres: Churchill, Moe/Newborough, Morwell and Traralgon, with smaller townships of Boolarra, Glengarry, Toongabbie, Tyers, Traralgon South, Yallourn North, and Yinnar.

Latrobe City is less than two hours drive from Melbourne and boasts all the recreational and cultural facilities of a large diverse regional centre including the Latrobe Regional Gallery and Latrobe Performing Arts Centre with the added benefit of being nestled amongst some of the best tourist attractions in the state, such as the Morwell National Park, Hazelwood Pondage, Lake Narracan, Powerworks Museum, Victory Park and Moe Botanical gardens.