    sunshine is a suburb of melbourne, victoria, australia, lying 11 to 13&nbsp;km west of the cbd. its local government area is the city of brimbank. at the 2011 census, sunshine had a population of 8,838. ==history== the township of sunshine was earlier known as braybrook junction. the braybrook junction post office opened on 25 august 1890. in 1904 h. v. mckay bought the braybrook implement works. in 1906 mckay moved his agricultural machinery manufacturing business from ballarat to braybrook junction. this established the sunshine harvester works which became the largest manufacturing plant in australia. mckay had also secured  of land at braybrook junction with the aim of establishing housing to encourage his workers to settle in the area. in 1907 the locality was renamed sunshine, after residents had petitioned to change the name in honour of the sunshine harvester works. the name "sunshine" is assumed 
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