Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
I am writing to express my profound concern about disturbing content I encountered on social media this week. I inadvertently viewed two murder videos on Facebook, neither of which had adequate warnings! One video, showing a murder on a train, appeared without any warning whatsoever. The second video was blurred with a generic warning, leading…
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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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As a parent of young children in Maldon, I was delighted to see that in the recently announced 2025-2026 Mount Alexander Shire Council budget, $40,000 was allocated to ‘working on designs to upgrade the Maldon playground’. Thanks to all who championed the submission to get that line in the budget and to Council for prioritising…
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I read with horror an article published on the ABC News website, dated Friday 13 June 2025 headlined with ‘Kangaroo control streamlined for Victorian farmers facing drought’. I live in central Victoria where I have experienced and photographed, since the beginning of COVID, the wildlife slaughter that has been occurring on our major freeways and…
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