Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Get involved but don’t try to say MANZWG (Mt Alexander Net Zero Working Group)! MANZWG is the local group encouraging folk in the shire to move towards renewable energy use and they are holding a drop-in session on Saturday 22 February in Castlemaine. The group’s current focus is the State Government’s proposal to electrify residential…
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It’s usually only during floods and droughts that the everyday modern person thinks at all about the availability of water; we take for granted the trickle from the tap.
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Captain Brendan McKnight of Baringhup Fire Brigade reports that on Saturday 15 February, which was a particularly windy day, there was a callout to Newbridge after a smoke report from the Tarrengower tower. “It was up at the Bio Gro plant, the composting plant, it went over the fence and across the road.” Brendan said…
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Brown Falcon with cicada prey, Loddon River @ Newstead, 29 January 2026. The following is a recent blog post by Geoff Park from ‘Natural Newstead: Observations of flora, fauna and landscape in central Victoria’. Text and photographs are printed courtesy of Geoff Park: geoffpark.wordpress.com. Easily fooled The photographer is easily fooled. Last week I watched…
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