Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
First, let me say that I am not a farmer and I am not a greenie. Although I am an avid bird watcher and lover of nature, but I have to respond to the comment of no Kangaroos in Central Victoria. I walk seven days a week for two hours plus, in a 20-kilometre radius…
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More evidence that the Castlemaine-centric Mount Alexander Shire Council doesn’t care about Maldon. I first noticed brick erosion on the Beehive Chimney back before COVID, and emailed MASC to notify them that maintenance was required. This was just after they’d spent over $1 million restoring a similar big brick chimney in The Mill precinct. Of…
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Far from making the US great again, Donald Trump would seem to be hell bent on unleashing forces which, in reality, will lead to the eclipse of American power and influence in the world. And thence, the hegemony will most likely pass to the Russians, for it is all too evident that Putin’s Russia and…
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As a parent of young children in Maldon, I was delighted to see that in the recently announced 2025-2026 Mount Alexander Shire Council budget, $40,000 was allocated to ‘working on designs to upgrade the Maldon playground’. Thanks to all who championed the submission to get that line in the budget and to Council for prioritising…
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I read with horror an article published on the ABC News website, dated Friday 13 June 2025 headlined with ‘Kangaroo control streamlined for Victorian farmers facing drought’. I live in central Victoria where I have experienced and photographed, since the beginning of COVID, the wildlife slaughter that has been occurring on our major freeways and…
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It was very interesting to read your extensive editorial last week backgrounding the story of the proposed structural repairs to the Beehive Chimney and to realise how easy it is for errors to be made in informing a target public to give them a voice in important local matters. You are to be congratulated for…
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It was very pleasing to read in the TT of 6 June that Parks Victoria had allocated money for the repair of both the Beehive Chimney and the Butts Reserve Shelter – known as The Butts Pavilion. It was, however, disappointing that the construction of the Pavilion was given by Parks as ‘around 1900’. This…
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Hey TT! Congratulations on the editorial in last week’s edition! Hard-hitting yet reasoned, well researched and fair. Keep it up, we need to push back against being marginalised by government agencies taking the easy option of informing people ‘generally in the area’. Well done to the editor Michelle! Keep flying Maldon’s flag! Name and address…
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Graeme and Barb welcome Daniel and Gifty to Maldon as the new owners of Maldon Newsagency. We trust that the Maldon community will embrace you in the same manner in which we were welcomed back in February 1997. After moving to Maldon in 1989 for employment opportunities, our faith in this wonderful community has never…
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Kicking myself that I missed last week’s deadline to submit comment on the Porcupine Village application for ‘Holiday Park Redevelopment’: 26 cabins, a petting zoo, plant nursery, machinery shed, entertainment marquee and museum. Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? That the Council’s recent about-face on their previous assurance of continued support for the Maldon…
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