Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Clean Up Australia Day returns on Sunday 1 March 2026, and the organisers are calling on individuals, families, schools, and community groups across the country to register now and get in on the action to be part of Australia’s largest environmental movement. Volunteers can receive a free Clean Up kit, containing gloves, bags and other…
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The company proposing to dig a hornfels rock quarry at Bradford, near Maldon, have provided some updated information and encouraged residents to check its website for unfolding news. Some of the issues raised by residents at the community consultation session held at Baringhup in December continue to be followed up by Mawsons Concrete and Quarries.…
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The Australian alternative Easter emblem, the bilby, is iconic but at risk. Bilbies once occupied much of arid and semi-arid Australia but have disappeared from about three quarters of their historic range. Today they are found only in parts of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, and Queensland, so researchers undertake surveys of remote habitats as…
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The management, storage and disposal of farm waste products has become a focus after residents reportedly discovered a smouldering fire in a chicken litter stockpile last week.
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