Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Official opening of the new Health and Learning Hub. State Member for Bendigo West Maree…
Chris, John, Les and Ross - Hickory golfers. “We’ve organised the weather to be beautiful…
Irish band The Sweet Sorrows will appear at the 2025 Maldon Folk Festival. 2025 is…
Maldon Playground, situated between the Shire Gardens and Bill Woodful Reserve. The recent revelation that…
Councillor Rosalie Hastwell, Bank Chair Ross Egleton and Jenny Merkus from the Tarrangower Tomorrow group…
Julie Andrews. Photo courtesy of Leon Schoot. No this is not about the singer, but the artist Julie Andrews whose landscapes are both mysterious and meditations on the early evening or twilight time, when everything is softer and dream like. They are on show at Cascade Art Gallery in a highly desirable exhibition of work…
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The Sky Dragon at Bendigo’s Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday 1 February.Photos courtesy of Carolyn Vickers. One of the most wonderful legacies of the Victorian Gold Rush is the enduring influence of the Chinese miners who journeyed here en masse to seek their fortunes. While the remaining traces are fainter in Maldon and surrounds…
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In 1838 George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, established an Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District with the aim of encouraging Indigenous people to settle in prescribed areas and so minimise conflict between them and British squatters. It was hoped that the Indigenous people would adopt Christianity and a settled agricultural way of…
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Observed on 26 January, Australia Day marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip. Many people approach this date with very mixed feelings, as it also marks the start of the occupation of an already occupied continent, the land…
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It is a sensational time of year to enjoy a trip on the heritage train between Maldon and Castlemaine and adjustments have been made to ensure maximum safety for passengers and residents.
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Castlemaine’s historic Market Building is full of new local artworks as part of the Market Building Art Exhibition until 16 March 2025.
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Maldon’s historic postbox has had a lick of lovely fresh paint and it seems like the perfect symbol of renewal to say: Happy New Year!
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The 2025 Maldon Twilight Dinner will definitely, absolutely, positively go ahead with an emphasis on the positive, according to the organisers who have taken over the reins for the first time this year.
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Maldon Golf Club and the Maldon RSL Sub Branch have teamed up to offer two days of music, food and fun to the local community for Australia Day.
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We are very grateful to all our book donors who continue to provide interesting books that enhance the library’s collection of both fiction and non-fiction.
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