Mansfield is the centre of a
large shire it was amalgamated
with the nearby town of
Benalla ( 60 km ) to
form Delatite Shire but after
community action became the
first de-amalgamation in
Victoria. Mansfield was formerly
heavily dependent on farming and
logging, but is now a
tourist-centre. It is the
support town for the large
Australia ski resort Mt Buller.
It is associated with the High
Country tradition of alpine
grazing, celebrated in the film
The Man from Snowy River
which was made around Mansfield
based on a poem by
Banjo Paterson with the same name.
