Archive for August, 2010
29 August New fabric made from tea Fabric grown in vats of tea is being used to produce a new type of material for the fashion industry. Fashion desig...
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27 August 2010 I am delighted to have been endorsed by my fellow Councillors as the first female Mayor of Mount Alexander Shire for a short term and I...
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By Richard Eckersley No more ‘politics as usual’ should mean having enough courage to tackle the sickness of mindless consumption. Nearly ...
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Victoria University mathematician and electoral analyst Professor John Zeleznikow says the seat of Brisbane is likely to hold the key to the outcome o...
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By Tim Preston At short notice this afternoon protesters gathered to object to the proposed poker machine venue in the historic rail shed next to Cast...
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The impending global water crisis can be averted if nations rethink how they use their water resources. This is the main message of the book Out of W...
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After a reported $80,000 external consultants’ report, numerous soul searching, breast beating and crazy ideas, Mt Alexander Shire has now dec...
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There are many forths around, and in that one beyond, there is often music heard. The smith’s father heard the music one time he was passing and...
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‘The scourge I’m referring to will come in the form of DPI spray planes and helicopters, which are set to dump deadly pesticides over vas...
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By Arabella Davison Don Hester is the manager of the Maryborough Highland Society, and I interviewed him on Friday, 13 August about the Highland Socie...
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What will it really take for us to start moving away from an oil-dependent economy? This 17-minute talk by Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundati...
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COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE: On Tuesday night Mt Alexander Shire councillors voted to prepare a Gaming Policy for the Shire. Council has identified the dev...
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By Andrew McKenna Before the recent Federal election, the government was planning to reform our health system. Here are some incredible statistics abo...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘It’s our own inner fragmentation that we see in polluted landscapes and corrupted environments. Before we can heal the earth we...
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Lies, damn lies and climate change deniers: What has caused recent global warming? a public lecture to be presented by Professor David Karoly. Profess...
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By Andrew McKenna Upwards of 80 people swelled a classroom at Winters Flat PS last night in the first public meeting in town for residents to express ...
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By a Castlemaine resident (Editor’s note: some readers may be tired of the Chewton Pool debate, but the issue is not going away and this piece p...
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Christoph Schlingensief, the German stage director who scandalised conservative Wagnerians with a rotting hare at the Bayreuth Festival, died on Satu...
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Here CI is letting the cat out of the bag again with our soft spot for volcanoes. There was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in Iceland, and then Tungurahua in...
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Six hours, sausage sizzles, mountain bikes, great fun and a great community event. On Sunday around 300 men and women in lycra and cotton assembled ou...
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Sensitive Permaculture, by Alanna Moore Book review by Linda Marold (lindamarold@yahoo.co.au) Once again Alanna Moore has published a book that comb...
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Once upon a time . . . a widow had an only son whose name was Aladdin. They were very poor and lived from hand to mouth, though Aladdin did what he co...
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Election guide CI recommends you vote for a politician in today’s election. Either vote below the line for an individual politician or vote above th...
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By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound Keep reading...
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Dozens of people have been killed in a massive military clampdown in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries. Several members of the liberal Czec...
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by Vachel Lindsay, from General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems (1919) I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkin...
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By Andrew McKenna On the eve of the Federal election, the Caretaker Government has announced that if re-elected, it will create an intervention in the...
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