Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
I hope we can draw back from the fascism that is so fashionable in our country. Hope, according to Havel, is different from optimism. It is a state of the soul rather than a response to the evidence. It is not the expectation that things will turn out successfully but the conviction that something is…
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I was on holiday in regional Victoria when duck season opened this year. After a pleasant lunch at a Maldon Bakery, I drove to Cairn Curran. I was curious, aware the local community want it off limits to duck hunters. There were few shooters and fewer ducks that afternoon. But I was intrigued by the…
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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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The inherent and unavoidable cruelty in duck shooting outweighs all the arguments in favour of keeping a bloodsport that only a minimal amount of people actually want. Add in the negative impact on residents, visitors and tourism opportunities and there is no reason to allow duck shooting to continue. Here in central Victoria, the wetlands…
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Keep up with the locals!