Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
The State Government has created a new award that will recognise vital contributions of women to the local government sector in Victoria and nominations are now open. The achievement award, announced in August, is named after Victoria’s first woman councillor, Mary Rogers, who was elected to Richmond council in 1920. Nominations are open for three…
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Mount Tarrengower has been there for a long, long time and enshrined in our local indigenous conversation for millennia.
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In 1850 the Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed to lobby for a permanent end to convict transportation. The last convict ship arrived in the eastern colonies in 1853 and only small numbers of convicts continued to be transported to Western Australia. In 1863, however, a Royal Commission into the rise of violent crime in England…
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When Lord Hopetoun Governor of Victoria agreed to open the Castlemaine Horticultural Society’s Show on Wednesday 2 May 1894, he also accepted an invitation from John McIntyre to visit Maldon.
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