Archive for June, 2010
STANDARDISED TESTING: A RACE TO NOWHERE By Lisa Y Johnson-Collins Race To Nowhere is an excellent description of the standardised testing movement. Th...
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Although the morning was cold on Wednesday and the sky threatened drizzle, a beautiful private ceremony for practitioners took place in the rear of a ...
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To celebrate independent journalism in Castlemaine, and to get behind the lovely businesses that are supporting and reading CI, there will be give-awa...
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Have a look under your house or in that old wardrobe: is there a pile of old electronics, half working, fully functional, broken, that you don’t hav...
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Police in Bendigo will be equipped with tasers from this weekend as part of a 12-month pilot program in country Victoria. Over the past month, close t...
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25 June 2010 The destructive rampage at the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens last week is very saddening to the whole community. The Gardens are much lov...
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Tickets selling fast for Burke & Wills dinner In the great ironic Australian tradition that saw a municipal swimming pool in Melbourne named after...
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The sun was peeping in and out, but late last week some of the kids at CSC got out with their solar cars. With last year’s state entries Troll, Chim...
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The Commonwealth Government claimed at the G20 meeting last weekend that Australia has no fossil fuel subsidies that would fall within the scope of ...
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By Andrew McKenna It’s goodbye shipbuilding, real estate, coal, steelworks, machinery, and hello social work, teaching, psychology and healing arts....
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A United Nations independent human rights expert recently called for dialogue in Ecuador in the wake of the controversy surrounding the punishment met...
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The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement that ecological sustainability, not the idea of a â€...
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by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway (First published in Resurgence magazine) For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation hav...
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By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Then she looked at me. I thought that she was looking at me for the first time. But then, when she turned around behind the ...
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We have two species of Treecreepers locally. The most numerous is the Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus. For more go to CI’s Nature page...
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In a rare prose poem, Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral of Chile, unmasks the mysteries of the fig. Gabriela Mistral was the first female poet and the f...
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The US President, John F Kennedy, has made a ground-breaking speech in Berlin offering American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany. A crowd of...
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Mount Alexander Shire Mayor, Philip Schier, has decided to step down three months early. He has advised Phil Rowland, CEO of Mount Alexander Shire Cou...
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Hailed as a sign of renewed government transparency when they began airing last year, President Barack Obama’s weekly video addresses have grown...
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The Australian Conservation Foundation CEO Don Henry has welcomed Julia Gillard as Australia’s new Prime Minister. “I congratulate Ms Gillard a...
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Dear CI, Councillors must not be seen to be having a biased opinion. If they demonstrate to their constituents that they are for or against a particul...
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“I lost my beautiful youngest daughter to suicide 3 years ago… She was not referred on to an appropriate service after suffering post-nata...
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Despite last week’s vandalism at the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens, the gardens will stay open for the public to enjoy and the improvement works wil...
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By Matt Wobbly Mt Alexander Shire Council this week voted 5-2 in support of the new Maldon community bank building. The meeting was held in the town h...
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Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said recently that Labor has only itself to blame for getting into bed with the Liberals over climate change. ̶...
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The Castlemaine State Festival is calling on visual artists in the goldfields region who would like to be part of the Castlemaine State Festival ...
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In 2011 the Castlemaine State Festival will be presenting a number of storytelling events and organisers are looking to people to come forward and sha...
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On Friday, 18 June, mid-winter was celebrated at the Castlemaine Steiner School, as it is every year. Click on the picture for the full story on CI...
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Dear CI, Just wondering what the greatest act of vandalism is. Bulldozing a rotunda and part of a toilet block or bulldozing three swimming pools? Reg...
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By Andrew McKenna So now it’s official. We all live in ‘villages’, so we must be ‘villagers’. I wonder do we have to tro...
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Poets, dancers, mime artists, comedians, musicians, and artists are invited to FReeZa’s Open Mic Night on Saturday 26 June from 6-8pm at the Phe...
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Castlemaine Police are soon to promote the adoption of there latest concept designed to combat local motor vehicle thefts....
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By Stephen McMahon LETS = Local Exchange Trading System I’m sitting alone, at a table for 6. George and Cheryl are outside – they’ll be back in...
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By Andrew McKenna Pics by Matt Wobbly Organisers estimate more than 300 people turned out for the demonstration on Saturday morning at Western Reserve...
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By Andrew McKenna Castlemaine and its surrounding areas are renowned for … inventors? You mightn’t think so, but an inventor living near Castlemai...
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By Andrew McKenna Is greed at the bottom of the Maryborough Highland Society’s desire to install poker machines in this town (please correct me ...
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