Newborough Yallourn Men Shed Inc

The Newborough Yallourn Men Shed Inc is located at the rear of the Heritage Listed Yallourn Production Centre.
The future of the building is to repurpose the Heritage Listed Yallourn Production Centre as
Yallourn Social Enterprise Community and Creative Hub, vibrant community space-hosting
social enterprises, arts groups, boosting economic development, social inclusion, and
cultural activities, through community connection, service delivery, participation and
activation.
This project contributes to reimagining a different future for this historic regional area, Yallourn, which under Sir John Monash’s vision, became the centre for the brown coal
power station in Australia, and is now transitioning, 100 years later, to continue to generate
opportunities for the community.
The property is owned by Environmental Clean Technology Ltb (ECT). And is heritage listed
with Heritage Victoria. The original building was started in October 1923 as the main
administration office for the State Electricity Commission (SEC) and has had a colourful
history over the last 100 years. It is the only remaining structure from the Brown Coal
Industry, set up by Sir John Monash. Over the years it has been the main administration
building, survey and planning/ drafting for the SEC. In the last 20 years it had a very
chequered history being a night club and a brothel.
Over the last 5 years it has suffered, and a lot of vandalism has occurred as well as white
ant impact. The Men’s Shed has moved in to revitalize it and to improve its existence and
long term future as a significant building in Gippsland and Victoria. The Newborough Men’s
Shed looks upon the operation as a social enterprise, a not for profit organisation working
with a commercial company-- for the betterment of the community and the company.

• Yallourn
• Yallourn North
• Newborough
• Moe
• Moe South
• Morwell
• Tyers
• Westbury
• Tanjil
• Tanjil South
• Willow-grove