Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Come together this Australia Day – Survival Day. Mount Alexander Shire Council invites the community to come together for a free event to celebrate and acknowledge Australia Day – Survival Day on Monday 26 January in Castlemaine’s Victory Park from 10am to 2.30pm. A Survival Day concert from 12pm will feature performances by Amos Roach,…
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Indigenous Interpretive Garden The ‘Truth Telling, Healing and Creating for Community on Djaara Country’ project has been awarded the 2025 LGPro Award for Excellence in the First Nations Community Partnership category. The partnership between Central Goldfields Shire Council and DJAARA resulted in the creation of an Indigenous Interpretive Garden and a digital animation. The garden…
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Uncle Rick Nelson Mount Alexander Shire Council (MASC) will be recognising and commemorating Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week with a number of community events.Sorry Day, held annually on 26 May, is a day of remembrance to acknowledge the pain and injustice experienced by members of the stolen generation, and its lasting impacts. National Reconciliation…
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Last Sunday I joined mostly older people attending the Australia Day event at Victory Park in Castlemaine. The event began with a lengthy and tiresome reminder of whose land we are on. Uncle Rick then conducted a Welcome to Country ceremony in an Aboriginal language. Whilst impressive, most of us remain puzzled as to who…
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In 1838 George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, established an Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District with the aim of encouraging Indigenous people to settle in prescribed areas and so minimise conflict between them and British squatters. It was hoped that the Indigenous people would adopt Christianity and a settled agricultural way of…
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Observed on 26 January, Australia Day marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip. Many people approach this date with very mixed feelings, as it also marks the start of the occupation of an already occupied continent, the land…
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Indigenous Peoples as first scientists
Friday August 9 marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
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