Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
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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Mount Alexander Shire Councillor Lucas Maddock addresses the protest. Concerned citizens protesting at the office of Lisa Chesters MP. A group of locals protested outside Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters MP’s electorate office last week after the Federal Government approved to continue the use and extend the operating life of a gas processing plant in…
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Many local residents attended a March community meeting in Baringhup to express concerns about the levy. The proposed State Government levy at the centre of a recent community meeting in Baringhup has been passed by the Victorian Parliament. The bill relating to the Emergency Services and Volunteer Fund was debated late into the night on…
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Premier Jacinta Allan and Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards MP surprised travellers at Castlemaine Station with an announcement about free travel for seniors. Premier Jacinta Allan joined Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards MP for a train ride from Bendigo to Castlemaine on Saturday 17 May to announce free weekend travel for seniors. A…
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Volunteers at the protest with Gaelle Broad MP. Angry CFA volunteers took their fire tankers to Premier Jacinta Allan’s Bendigo office on Friday 9 May to protest about Labor’s proposed emergency services tax. Fire trucks and farm vehicles also blocked traffic on Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge and brought Spring Street to a standstill outside Parliament…
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Ballot being placed in a ballot box. Applications are now open to work at the 2026 state election, as the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) starts the process to recruit more than 1,000 senior election officials across Victoria. The VEC says senior election officials play an invaluable and significant role in coordinating elections for entire districts…
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Lisa Chesters at Maldon Community Lunch last year. There were polite digs in each direction after the tense Bendigo vote count drew to a close last weekend, with a concession of likely defeat from the Nationals’ Andrew Lethlean on 9 May, followed by the Labor Party’s incumbent, Lisa Chesters MP, claiming victory on Saturday 10…
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Barry Jones wrote, ‘Populist politics attacks reason, science, history, the arts, tolerance, diversity, the rule of law, ethics, liberal democracy and female liberation. It uses cruelty as a political weapon, reinforces racial stereotypes, refuses to recognise existential global crisis and asserts the greatest ambition for humanity is to get rich.’ Oz Patterson Nuggetty
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Lisa Chesters. Matt Evans. Andrew Lethlean. As tomorrow’s election looms, candidates for the local seat of Bendigo have been making their final election announcements and pledges. The following announcements have been sent to the Tarrangower Times in time to print. On Tuesday 22 April, The Nationals Candidate for Bendigo Andrew Lethlean and the Liberal Candidate…
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Democracy, Sausage. How to vote The big day has arrived: Election Day. You’ve brushed up on the processes of parliament and voting, perused the candidates, you know which ballot paper is which and you’ve arrived at the polling place. If it’s your local polling place you’ll be able to stroll in; if you are visiting…
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