During his time as a federal politician and prime minister, Alfred Deakin divided his time between his city residence in Toorak and his holiday retreat at Point Lonsdale. His family had acquired several acres of land on the Bellarine peninsula in 1904 where they had built a federation bungalow called ‘Ballara’. The word is probably derived from the Wathawurung word balla for ‘elbow’, thus ‘recl...

Consideration of sludge rheology is very important for a proper solids transport and to obtain the necessary settler capacity. Although a true yield stress does not exist, large apparent viscosities at low shear rates inhibit an efficient sludge transport. Research indicates that the dimensionless ratio of gravity to viscous forces is an important operational parameter towards settler capacity....