In Popular Culture
Two Australian Navy boats have been named after Mildura, HMAS Mildura and HMS Mildura.
The songs Mildura (Home of Mine) and Come to Mildura – the Land of Winter Sunshine were written by Reg Stoneham in the 1920s. Mrs GH Ball’s My Old Home Town (Mildura) was recorded on the B side of John Collinson’s first recording of Waltzing Matilda in 1926.
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