South DudleySouth Dudley is a small town located in Bass Coast Shire in Victoria, Australia.Early historySouth Dudley was established in the early 1910s to house employees of the adjoining State Coal Mine. It was subdivided by a private syndicate of developers, who originally intended to establish a town three times larger than what was actually built. Freehold land first went to auction at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre on 6th April 1910, and a construction boom followed. Up until the mine's closure in 1968, South Dudley essentially functioned as a worker's village.