The wasp treatment
The Age recently reported that a British doctor, suspended in the United Kingdom after reports that she tried to buy black widow spider and deathstalker scorpion venom, was looking for work in Victoria. Rapinder Adekola, who has been living on a property in Dereel in Victoria’s south-west, said she was the victim of false allegations [...] more |
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Management speak holds clues to deception
The medium is the message
On this day in 1974: Bombs devastate Dublin and Monaghan
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Proposed 2012/2013 Budget released for public comment
Castlemaine rail museum idea wins support |
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Arts
Management speak holds clues to deception
The Best Stop Motion made ever
Carlos Fuentes dies
Active listening and field recording workshop
Slam Champion Poetry Workshop and Performance |
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Active listening and field recording workshop
Slam Champion Poetry Workshop and Performance
Psychology Club launch this weekend – all welcome
Community Wind Survey – ONLINE NOW – win a prize!
Très saucy Chewton pool fundraiser
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Environment
Victorian Government report recommends opening the door to industry rip-offs
Design Sunday: wooden surfboard with CNC machined honeycomb structure
Community Wind Survey – ONLINE NOW – win a prize!
Carbon pricing explained at next ‘Agitation Hill lecture’ in Castlemaine
New research could stop Great Barrier Reef ports
Community wind power forums well attended |
Letters
The medium is the message
Unfortunately, violence sells
Wind farm ‘epidemic’
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave
Opportunity missed on pool debacle – a ‘sorry fiasco’
Reality check on wind turbines |
Social Justice
Management speak holds clues to deception
Slam Champion Poetry Workshop and Performance
On this day in 1974: Bombs devastate Dublin and Monaghan
Très saucy Chewton pool fundraiser
Castlemaine rail museum idea wins support
Dance against want |
Nature Science
Community Wind Survey – ONLINE NOW – win a prize!
Carbon pricing explained at next ‘Agitation Hill lecture’ in Castlemaine
New research could stop Great Barrier Reef ports
Why ‘gourmet’ foods are bullshit
Dirt!
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Victorian Government report recommends opening the door to industry rip-offs
Homes and businesses that have solar systems would be ripped-off under draft recommendations released today by the Victorian Government’s independent advisor on Victorian feed-in tariff arrangements, says [more]
Sunday fiction: The Kildare Pooka
Mr HR, when he was alive, used to live a good deal in Dublin, and he was once a great while out of the country on account of the "ninety-eight" business. But the servants kept on in the big house at Rathmore all the same [more]
by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
English version by Nader Khalili
Original Language Persian/Farsi
look at love
how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new [more]
The Guardian
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist and a leading figure in Latin America's 20th century literary boom of the 1960s and 70s, has died in hospital in Mexico City. He was 83 and reportedly [more]
Active listening and field recording workshop
Simon Whetham is a sound artist from the UK who will be holding an Active Listening and Field Recording Workshop on Sunday 20 May, 2-6pm. It will be free but to ensure your spot contact Simon on 0429 086 [more]
Slam Champion Poetry Workshop and Performance
Luka Lesson won the first round of the Australian Poetry Slam at The Maurocco Bar, Castlemaine, in October last year, and went on to become the Australian Poetry Slam Champion.
Co-director of The Centre for Poetics and [more]
Psychology Club launch this weekend - all welcome
A new club for men and women over 18 is about to be established to expand the thinking and understanding of the mind and for all those with an interest in psychology.
The Psychology Club, to be known as Mindspace has [more]
Community Wind Survey - ONLINE NOW - win a prize!
What do you think of a community owned wind farm in the Mount Alexander area?
Online survey NOW open.
This important survey is an opportunity to have a say about community-owned wind power.
The Mount Alexander [more]
Très saucy Chewton pool fundraiser
WITH TRACEY CANDY AND STAN MUNRO
CONCERT TRES SAUCY
A super special fund-raiser in Chewton, starring STAN MUNRO and TRACEY CANDY.
Friday, 1 June, 7.30pm.
Chewton Senior Citizens Hall.
Help maintain the Chewton [more]
Six months, and days to go, but who's counting? Seminar to consider end of world prophecy
Filled your cellar with canned food? We are nearly half way through 2012 and on December 21 a cataclysmic event is supposed to occur which, according to some, will be the end of the world.
"2012 is the year, according [more]
Vampires give teenagers taste for spirituality
Teenagers are not looking for answers to life's big questions in established religious institutions. Instead, they engage in intense idolisation of American films and TV shows about vampires, angels and other [more]
Castlemaine rail museum idea wins support
The Victorian government will consider a bid to bring a railway museum to Castlemaine.
Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer addressed a Bendigo Young Nationals conference at the weekend. He threw his support [more]
The Castlemaine Oxfam Group is holding a Bushdance on Saturday, 2 June in the Castlemaine Town Hall, from 6-10pm, to raise money for Oxfam. The Centenary Bushband is playing and the dances will be taught on the [more]
Carbon pricing explained at next ‘Agitation Hill lecture’ in Castlemaine
With the federal government’s carbon scheme set to take effect on 1 July, energy economist Bruce Mountain will explain the carbon price and what it means for households at the next Agitation Hill lecture in [more]
New research could stop Great Barrier Reef ports
New research identifying greater dangers for whales from the Government’s plans for increased fossil fuel exports should cause the federal Environment Minister to review existing approvals and press pause on further [more]
Join with the Mount Alexander Volunteer Network on Tuesday 15 May for a delicious two-course meal at the Castlemaine Town Hall and receive a complementary express massage!
The weekly community lunch, provided by the [more]
By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky
I’m not a Christian and I don’t believe in ‘God’. I’ve had little contact with organised religion. I know nothing about the Catholic Church, and even less about what it is to be [more]
The Government should be building on its commitment to mental health as there remains significant unmet need for essential services, especially in rural areas, Australian Greens spokesperson for Mental Health, Senator [more]
