Archive for April, 2010
Every year on 17 January, the people of San Bartolome de Pinares (Spain) celebrate St Anthony by riding their horses, donkeys and mules through piles ...
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National environmental group Friends of the Earth has warmly welcomed today’s release of the Victorian government’s ‘Jobs for the Fu...
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Council has sent written notification to Theatre Managers indicating the Shire requires more time to receive information and authority from the CFA be...
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The art of preserving excess fruit and vegetables for the lean times is not lost in Castlemaine. Young and old alike are still practising the simple...
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Congratulations to Shire CEO Phil Roland who recently gave a keynote presentation at the Municipal Association of Victoria Environment Conference on T...
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A reported government decision to strip $2.5 billion of climate spending from forward estimates and shelve emissions trading until 2013 is ‘tota...
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In reaction to more than a decade of free-market reforms that failed spectacularly to end poverty but exacerbated extraordinary levels of inequality, ...
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Over 270 families have installed PV systems with MASG and they will be gathering at the Castlemaine Town Hall, today, starting at 5.30pm to celebrate...
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Cr Philip Schier Mayor, Mount Alexander Shire 30 April 2010 This is the text of the Mayor’s speech at the Anzac Day ceremony in Castlemaine....
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Attn: Steve Gibbons, MP Dear Steve, I just thought I should inform you that I’m not impressed with Kevin Rudd. Taking a stance on Climate Change w...
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For volunteers, those interested in the ownership of the School of Mines, senior citizens and artists…...
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Think we need a desal plant? Not on your life. We do need a north-south pipeline. But not the one you think it is. You have to watch this Topher’...
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Castlemaine’s – and one of the Pacific’s – largest food manufacturers, was found guilty of two charges under the Environment Prote...
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By Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps Major Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Med...
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Australia invades the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli. We establish a beach head and start killing Turks defending their homeland. We suffer a major milit...
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Dede Allen, the film editor whose pioneering work on movies like “The Hustler” and “Bonnie and Clyde” brought a new approach t...
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We got some excellent views of Swift Parrots near Mia Mia Track [location] this afternoon. (With thanks for Geoff Park of Newstead for words and Joe...
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People power CAN do it. We voted out the Menzies and the Howard era. We demonstrated and helped bring about an end to the Vietnam war. We campaigned a...
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Castlemaine-based seafood retailer, She Sells Seafood, has secured the prize catch of being named Australian Seafood Business of the Year for 2010. Th...
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By Andrew McKenna Early last century the ‘mystery man of literature’, B Traven, wrote electrifying prose about the horrors mariners were s...
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Viable, enriching, legal and happening in Castlemaine By Emma Lewis While many families are washing and ironing school uniforms, organising lunch boxe...
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By Andrew McKenna Castlemaine celebrated the Harvest Festival at the weekend, and unfortunately CI got its times mixed up and other commitments interv...
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This month, as we celebrate the ‘achievements’ of militarism, let’s also celebrate the war criminals among us. It’s a nasty, s...
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It’s a well-patronised community hub with top-rate facilities – so why can’t the long-suffering Griffith Regional Aquatic Leisure Ce...
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NON-VIOLENT DIRECT ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE By Andrew McKenna Among other projects in the 1990s the then Kennett Government tried to close the Fi...
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Dear CI, The cynicism of Mt Alexander Shire Council is astounding. It uses the needs of the elderly as an excuse for building an aquatic centre, while...
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US air crews are heard laughing on leaked footage from an Apache helicopter gunship, which clearly shows an attack on 12 ‘insurgents’ doin...
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6 April Dear CI, Over the past two weeks I have deposited petitions around Chewton calling on people to give voice to the proposed council closure of ...
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By Andrew McKenna 1 April. Early this morning former Australian prime minister, John Howard, boarded a British Airways flight for the Netherlands via ...
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By Andrew McKenna It’s April and that means this month as a nation we celebrate militarism! Thousands of Australians young and old will flock to...
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