Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Nominations for the 2025 Bob Hawke Landcare Award opened last week, and for the first time in its history the criteria have been expanded to include groups and organisations to be eligible for the $30,000 prize.
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Transport Accident Commission (TAC) analysis of road fatalities from 2020 to 2024 shows that more than 70% of people killed on country roads died within a 30km radius of their home address. The research follows a tragic start to the year on Victoria’s roads, with 74 lives lost compared with 75 at the same time…
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The Newstead Community Energy Project (aka solar farm) will be commissioned during the second half of 2024 (date TBC).
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Bush bill for new national parks. On Thursday 11 September Minister for Environment Steve Dimopoulos introduced the Parks and Public Land Bill into the Victorian Parliament to create over 65,000 hectares of national park in Victoria’s Central West. The new legislation will deliver the Mount Buangor, Pyrenees and Wombat-Lerderderg national parks, the Cobaw and Hepburn…
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