Samuel Hawkings, a former British soldier, joined Charles La Trobe’s Port Phillip Border Police in about 1841. He was stationed for several years at Gisborne and later Mount Macedon. In September 1846, however, he applied for and was granted a publican’s licence to open the Porcupine Inn at the head of Bullock Creek. The Inn…
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TEDxMaldon is back in August, to be presented on one of the nights of the Maldon Vintage Machinery and Museum’s Goldfields Gothic Festival.
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In Maldon Today: 8 August 2025
Loz, Rosalie Hastwell and Kat. Today EC and Nancy greet serial guest and ubiquitous thespian Graham Pitts in a program bearing the title, ‘The Lair, the book and the Necklace’ and something to do with the Sydney Push (don’t ask me, I just transcribe this stuff). To find out what all that means, you’ll have…
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Djaara Elders arts and cultural talks afternoon
The new Indigenous Interpretive garden space, garingilang gatjin wii, at the Central Goldfields Art Gallery in Maryborough, was the setting for an arts and cultural talks afternoon last Sunday.
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