St Luke's Dookie

St Luke’s Dookie

Dookie is primarily an agricultural farming area with sheep and seed cropping, but is also home to wineries, a rail trail and Dookie Agricultural college (a campus of the University of Melbourne). It has many active community and sporting groups and a primary school. It was the winner of a Small Towns Transformation Award in 2014

St Luke’s Dookie was built in 1892 and boasts the St. Luke’s World War I Honour Board, along with stained glass windows and furniture (including some from St Mary’s Katandra West – until 2014 a centre within its own right in the parish) gifted by local families. Local parishioners have been active in contributing to a book and a play about Dookie’s soldiers and the making of a beautiful ‘river’ of poppies to commemorate the end of WWII.