YALLOURN - Sir John Monash’s workers’ utopia by Winton McColl
Yallourn, as we all know, was a wonderful town to be born in, raised, schooled and to work in. The opportunities were seemingly endless. The services were probably second to none. Quality schools, kindergarten, library, medical services, theatre, sporting facilities etc etc for both males and females. Yes, it was pretty much the utopia that Monash intended.

1928 BURIED ALIVE
This newspaper report is from 1928 and is another example of the lucky escapes that some workers had from injury or death in the course of their duties at the power station and the coal mine at Yallourn. In this extract, Mr Bloomfield was actually buried by coal in a bunker; and it was only the knowledge, experience and quick-thinking of a fellow worker that saved him from death.