* Diggers Rest ( Shared with the Shire of Melton )

* Diggers Rest

** Koora Koora Cup ( Sunbury ) Venturer Unit ( 1st Sunbury Unit but incorporating 3rd Sunbury as well as 1st Diggers Rest )

Diggers Rest ( formerly Diggers ' Rest ) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km north-west from Melbourne's Central Business District.

At the 2011 Census Diggers Rest had a population of 2, 275.

Diggers Rest lies on the Old Calder Highway, near the Calder Freeway.

To the north of Diggers Rest township within the locality is the former township known as The Gap or Buttlejorrk.

The four Sunbury Pop Festivals were held on on the same 620-acre ( 2. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) private farm along Jacksons Creek, on the southern outskirts of Sunbury, between Sunbury and Diggers Rest.

Also because of its close proximity ( 2 km ) to the smaller township of Diggers Rest, many of the attendees who traveled to Sunbury by train, actually alighted at Diggers Rest Railway station, and not Sunbury.

Diggers Rest contains a general store, a primary school and a CFA fire station, along with three large recreation reserves.

Sporting groups in Diggers Rest include Diggers Rest Football Club who play in the Riddell District Football League.

Diggers Rest Primary School was first opened in 1882 and moved to its present site in 1990.

Diggers Rest Primary School features excellent facilities including air conditioned and heated classrooms, computer and Internet access to all grades, modern sports and playground equipment and landscaped grounds.

Diggers Rest Primary School is an integral part of the wider community and hosts annual events such as the Community Carols, Billy Cart Derby and Grandparents ’ Day.

Other facilities in the Diggers Rest area include the Holden Flora and Fauna Reserve, Animal Land Children's Farm and SPSK Jadran, a Slovenian social club which services nearby St Albans and Keilor.

At the same time that John Lilburne began his campaign, another group led by Gerrard Winstanley styling themselves True Levellers ( and became known as Diggers ), advocated equality in property as well as political rights.

In 2011, an annual festival began in Wigan to celebrate the Diggers.

During this civil war, dissenting Protestants and rural workers began forming utopian communities, such as the Diggers, based on common ownership of the tools of production.

After this cinematic feat Mollo and Brownlow began another project, Winstanley, about Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers commune following the English Civil War.

Haight residents eschewed the material benefits of modern life, encouraged by the distribution of free food and organized shelter by the Diggers, and the creation of institutions such as the Free Clinic for medical treatment.

* " The World Turned Upside Down " by Leon Rosselson, 1975, a song about the Diggers and their activities on St. George's Hill in 1649 ; this song was performed by Billy Bragg on his Between the Wars EP, 1985 ; by Dick Gaughan on Handful of Earth, 1981 ; by Chumbawumba on the b-side of their single " Timebomb ," 1993 ; by Attila the Stockbroker with Barnstormer on The Siege of Shoreham, 1996 ; by Oysterband on their albums Shouting End of life and Alive and Shouting, 1995 and 1996 ; by Clandestine, a Houston-based Celtic group, on their To Anybody At All album, 1999 ; by the Fagans, an Australian folk group, on their album, Turning Fine, 2002 ; and by Seattle Celt-rock band Coventry on the album Red Hair and Black Leather, 2005.

The Diggers coined various slogans that became part of the counterculture and even the larger society, such as, " Do your own thing " and " Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Royalists wished to place King Charles II on the throne ; men like Oliver Cromwell wished to govern with a plutocratic Parliament voted in by an electorate based on property, similar to that which was enfranchised before the civil war ; agitators called Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate of every male head of a household ; Fifth Monarchy Men advocated a theocracy ; and the Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, advocated a more radical solution.

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

In 1649 – 1650 the Diggers squatted on stretches of common land in southern England and attempted to set up communities based on work on the land and the sharing of goods.

*" Well Diggers Trick ", June 1951, Popular Science article on how flood control engineers were using an old method to protect flood levees along rivers from seepage undermining the levvee-i. e.

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

It is traditionally played on Anzac Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia, in part to mark a shared experience with Diggers through the ages.

The Marxist view also developed a concept of a “ Revolution within the Revolution ” ( pursued by Hill, Brian Manning and others ) which placed a greater deal of emphasis on the radical movements of the period ( such as the Agitator " Levellers ", Mutineers in the New Model Army and the Communistic " Diggers ") who attempted to go further than Parliament in the aftermath of the Civil War.

He went on to star as a boyish crooner in movie musicals such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, Flirtation Walk, and On the Avenue, often appearing opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.

Even Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of another English dissenting group called the Diggers, commented on Ranter principles by denoting them as " a general lack of moral values or restraint in worldly pleasures.

His recent death is mentioned early on in Diggers.

" In doing research on this project, early mention of " Ore Diggers " and " Muckers " for the nickname was found, but nothing to determine if the name " Miners " was voted upon by the student body, or if a faculty member, John W. ( Cap ) Kidd, chose the name.

The Diggers tried ( by " levelling " real property ) to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

From the conquest on, the Diggers argued, the " common people of England " had been robbed of their birthrights and exploited by a foreign ruling class.

The harassment from the Lord of the Manor, Francis Drake ( not the famous Francis Drake, who had died more than 50 years before ), was both deliberate and systematic: he organised gangs in an attack on the Diggers, including numerous beatings and an arson attack on one of the communal houses.

He used his power to stop local people helping them and he organised attacks on the Diggers and their property.

Between 1998 and 2003, the term was used in the name of a team in the Victorian Football League, the Bendigo Diggers.

After losing the Fremantle job, Drum moved back to Victoria, and took up a position as coach of the Bendigo Diggers team in the Victorian Football League.

By late 1966, the Diggers opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

The San Francisco group known as the Diggers articulated an influential radical criticism of contemporary mass consumer society, and so they opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

In 1649 Diggers, a small people's political reform movement, published The True Levellers Standard Advanced: or, The State of Community opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men.

During the middle and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers ( who took their name from the original English Diggers ) opened stores which simply gave away their stock ; provided free food, medical care, transport and temporary housing ; they also organized free music concerts and works of political art.

During the mid-and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers opened stores which simply gave away their stock ; provided free food, medical care, transport and temporary housing ; they also organized free music concerts and works of political art.

Diggers Rest station opened on 2 October 1859 with the line, being the terminus until the line was extended to Woodend in 1861.