Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Photo courtesy Maldon Rose. Maldon took a step back in time over the weekend as a group from a Victorian-era historical society visited the town, delighting locals and visitors with their period-accurate attire. Dressed in exquisitely detailed gowns, waistcoats, and top hats, the group turned heads as they strolled through the streets, pausing for photos…
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Lee and Jan with Bubbles at the Post Office. The phrase ‘learning curve’ suggests a gentle incline, but when Jan Elliott and Lee Mead talk about their journey to becoming Postmistresses, they describe a very steep slope indeed. They have recently been reflecting upon their six years running Maldon Post Office, between 2006 and 2012,…
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Clover 7, Charlie 9 and Ochre the dog. Photo courtesy Rob Leeson. Stallholders at the Maldon Antique Fair last weekend were humming ‘Four Seasons in One Day’ but most reported that it was a fantastic event. Visitors from Mildura to Maryborough and from Ballarat to Bendigo swarmed around Maldon for the fair, which took place…
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Discovery Bendigo General Manager Alissa Van Soest, Jess Saunders Manager of Engagement atGoldfields Libraries and Federal Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters. Federal member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters donned a pair of lab goggles to announce funding for Discovery Science and Technology Centre in Bendigo last week, showing just how much fun science can be. Discovery…
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Volunteers working on the library’s archives. Behind closed doors on Monday mornings, a team of Athenaeum Library volunteers is busy archiving our historic documents. For the past six months, with input from an experienced archivist, we’ve been meeting to sort, organise and catalogue such things as old (sometimes mundane, more often fascinating and occasionally hilarious)…
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Adrian Upward. Today Slats and EC will spend time with serial guest and IMT pastor Father Wahid, talking old-fashioned religion in a world rapidly losing its orbit. Last Friday, St Valentine’s Day, Ann and Nancy had the pleasure of chatting with Adrian Upward (pictured) of The Good Food Providers about his fascinating journey as a…
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L-R Minister Tanya Plibersek, Bendigo Mayor Cr Andrea Metcalf, Maree Edwards MP, Lisa Chesters MP and Premier Jacinta Allan. A throng of political and media representatives converged beside the poppet head of the Central Deborah Mine in Bendigo on Friday 31 January for the announcement of a significant development in the Goldfields region’s bid for…
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Photo of the disaster relief volunteers at Muckleford Station courtesy of DRA. A new partnership between Victorian Goldfields Railway (VGR) and the Victorian Disaster Recovery Relief Team (DRRT) will provide benefits to both organisations while bringing new visitors to Maldon town and surrounds. The two groups worked together for the first time over the weekend…
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Richard’s kilometre-stone! Richard has clocked up 999.9km around the streets of Maldon in just one year! Here he is, being congratulated by Fenia, former ‘Doggo of the Week’. Fenia and Richard regularly have a chat and a pat.
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The 1917 conscription referendum. On 7 November 1917 the Australian Prime Minister William Hughes announced that a second conscription ‘referendum’ would be held on 20 December. Twelve months earlier Hughes’ first attempt to introduce conscription for overseas service had been defeated. Under his new proposal voluntary enlistment would continue but a ballot of single men…
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