Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Mauve in Vogue Mauve in Vogue 1856, London: Mourners are less mournful following the discovery of a new pigment that can be used as a tasteful transition away from full mourning black. A serendipitous laboratory accident caused by British chemistry student William Henry Perkin, who was trying to create synthetic quinine, led to the invention…
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The Maldon Bridge club has journeyed through approximately 15 years since its inception and during that time, we have had many very valuable and much-loved players pass through our doors.
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Nuggetty Mine. By the 1860s, industrial quartz mining had begun to replace the endeavours of individual diggers, and it was a dangerous enterprise. The combination of explosives, steam-driven machinery and lax safety procedures resulted in many workplace accidents and sometimes deaths. These are a few of the mining accidents that occurred in the Maldon area…
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The deadline for not-for-profit (NFP) organisations to lodge a new self-review regarding their tax status is Monday 31 March. The new requirement from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) affects many local community groups and sporting clubs whose organisational structure is NFP. For the first time, the ATO requires NFPs to notify the ATO of their…
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