As a child, I grew up on the edge of the LaTrobe Valley at Rosedale in Gippsland. From the ridge above the LaTrobe River where my parents’ house stood, I could just see the outline of the paper mill at Maryvale and the then new power station at Hazelwood. Over the horizon stood the first power station in the region, built on the edge of a vast brown coal deposit at Yallourn.
My father operated a transport business and we would regularly drive through the thriving towns of Traralgon, Morwell, Yallourn and Moe while delivering stock for sale in Melbourne. The LaTrobe Valley was the great civil achievement of General Sir John Monash, who, after returning from World War I, accepted the position of General Manager of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. As the Australian Dictionary of Biography records:
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