Articles tagged ‘Environment’.
In a shock decision announced this afternoon, the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation has ruled in favour of a proposal to treble the number ...
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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
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Dear CI, I read with interest some of the commentary on the Aquatic Centre/Western Oval debate. I keep puzzling over several issues, one of which was ...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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For the Council and beyond This is a letter of objection in regards to the “Council’s withdrawal of commercial waste collection, effective fro...
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Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam said yesterday that the Australian Defence Force posture review – an inquiry into Australian defence...
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Greens MP Adam Bandt has welcomed a decision by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to reject the Victorian government plan to graze cattle in the...
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The Government must end uranium sales to Russia if it is serious about stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Australian Greens said on Fri...
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The Federal Government could save $2.3 billion in the 2012-13 Budget by scrapping wasteful and inefficient tax breaks to the oil and gas sector and ot...
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Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden When I was around 16 years old I was sitting in the back of my parents’ car as we drove along on our way t...
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Photos and story by CI photographer Matt Wobbly The Mt Alexander Shire Souncil held their Aquatic Centre information session at the Town Hall yesterda...
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There are some very important things to be said on the issue of flooding in Castlemaine. The lower part of the town is actually built in a dam with th...
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Back in the 1960s and early 70s, the US dropped millions of tonnes of bombs and mines on South-East Asia. It was the Vietnam War, and Laos and Cambodi...
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Dear CI, I am an enthusiast of renewable energy. Regardless of all the ongoing debate about climate change, with the end in sight for fossil fuels, ou...
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The Maryborough Highland Society is well liked by some in our community: those who ‘buy’ the not for profit community group ‘sports ...
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By Chris Hosking The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation conducts hearings to grant licenses – or not grant them – to applicants seeking ...
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Dear CI, At the end of its last Council meeting for 2011, our Councillors quietly voted to stop rubbish collection in the Shire … (while you pic...
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By Alison Pouliot The start to 2012 was marred by the tragic news of the deaths of two people following consumption of Death Cup mushrooms (Amanita ph...
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From The Argus, 3 January 1889 CASTLEMAINE, January 2. The drought has broken up at last. It may be may be that those cyclonic changes about which a...
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Words and images courtesy of Geoff Park, of Natural Newstead. The Rainbow Bee-eaters along Cemetery Road are still feeding tunnel-bound nestlings, alm...
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I heartily applaud Andrea Ross for her comments and thoughts. The greatest benefit of the Aquatic Centre will be to Castlemaine NOT to the Shire of Mt...
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Dirty Money Greed, Pollution and Murder, by MATTHEW BENNS Mining is a dirty business. This book reveals that the real dirt lies in the boardrooms of s...
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Following Arc Exploration’s suspension of its operations in Indonesia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade should immediately investigat...
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Video footage has emerged of Indonesian police firing on protesters – killing three people and wounding nine – over a planned gold mine co...
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Despite widespread opposition, Council is pursuing its indoor pool option at the Western Reserve. This week Council has presented a concept design aft...
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From ABC Adelaide A young mother-of-two killed herself because she could not cope with her poker machine addiction, the South Australian coroner has f...
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Last week Council voted to not support the application by the Maryborough Highland Society for new gaming premises approval at the old Goods Shed in K...
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Gary Tepper, the bush fire advisory officer from Peter Ryan’s office, Spring Street Melbourne has ordered a full investigation into removing t...
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The heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched – the Russian Phobos-Ground probe – is about to become one of the most dangerous man-made obj...
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Last week residents met with the Mount Alexander Community Wind Working Group to guide the six-month strategy for Mount Alexander Community Wind, incl...
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By Anonymous Since when is a meeting in a bar a “modern-day fairytale”? Did Fred and Mary have a drunken shag in the dairy and then he won...
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The red zone is run away climate change, what we get if we can’t keep the global temperature rise below the ‘safe-ish’ two degrees rise. T...
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Carcinogenic chemicals stored at the Country Fire Authority (CFA) headquarters in regional Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s have been linked to the dea...
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… This might explain why state governments, in Victoria and NSW in particular, are happy to delay the rollout of renewable energy at a large sc...
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This weekend’s Castlemaine Farmers Market will include a stall where residents can collect a wide range of useful fire ready and emergency informati...
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ACF yesterday welcomed expert advice that any planned move to sell Australian uranium to India would be unlawful. The confirmation comes ahead of this...
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