Articles tagged ‘Featured slide’.
by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir English version by Vraje Abramian Original Language Persian/Farsi Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight. No way out and no...
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Global awareness is rising fast about the perils of the fossil fuel industry. It’s no longer ‘fringe’ to protest against new coal or...
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National Reconciliation Week is an annual celebration and a time for all Australians to reflect on our shared histories, contributions and achievement...
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Grevillea Tree of Life is an exhibition of woven tapestries by Jennifer Sharpe to be held at Togs cafe and Gallery. Jennifer was brought up in north-...
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Storytelling, wild folk tales and spellbinding yarns will again take centre stage in Castlemaine this month. Castlemaine resident Jan (Yarn) Wositzky ...
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Lachlan Slade, Greens candidate for Bendigo today said we do not need to cut university spending to achieve the measures in the Gonski review. This co...
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Last night’s budget is why we’ve got to keep fighting for what matters. The Labor party had the opportunity to manage the economy in a way tha...
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Forty-three students from Castlemaine Secondary College participated in The Oaktree Foundation’s LIVE BELOW THE LINE- a challenge that involves peop...
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Two years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the sur...
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By Meg Sattler Most of us don’t spend a whole lot of time contemplating or discussing our underwear. For Kathryn McAllister, founder of Wonderpants,...
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Advocacy group GetUp has welcomed the decision by Glencore Xstrata to abandoned plans for a giant coal terminal on Balaclava Island. The terminal woul...
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By Christian Monahan Let’s start off with the not so literal, in the sense of what the supermarkets actually say they’re doing to “help” us th...
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The Age The slaughter embarrassed even the most hard-headed of hunters. More than 800 abandoned duck carcasses that shooters did not bother to pick up...
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By Cath South Resident Fryers Forest Eco Village For those of us on mains water, you might be noticing that it has been dry lately. The weeds and gra...
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Free film screening on Wednesday Castlemaine residents are invited to a free screening of the multi-award winning documentary ‘Life Before Death...
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With Tuesday’s Federal Budget looming, the Government is faced with the challenge of finding money to pay for the various reforms it has announced i...
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“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of...
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So, you want to help ensure a Fair Go for our Firefighters? Almost 2,500 Victorians have signed the Fair go for Firefighters petition. The Gr...
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By Elke Johnson Last July I went to Arnhem Land to do traditional basket weaving workshops with Aboriginal women. The community was called Mapuru. It ...
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HS News Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of the red...
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Art in celebration of the living spirit. Moolana Yakama: Line Up includes… Smoking Ceremony: Ron Murrary (WambaWamba) and Rickie Nelson (JarraJarr...
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Australian indie rock singer-songwriter Laura Imbruglia is bringing her band to Castlemaine on Thursday this week (9 May). Imbruglia will visit WMAfm...
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Tequendama Falls or Salto del Tequendama is a major tourist attraction about 30km south-west of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. The thousa...
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This Saturday, Castlemaine residents are invited to meet at the top end of Barker Street (out the front of the Northern Hotel) to pose one question to...
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Join with CI and loan to Kiva. CI’s latest loans to an entrepreneur in poor countries are: 1. The communal bank “16 DE JULIO” will begin its 10...
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Greenpeace has been blown away by the response to this new TV ad exposing Coca-Cola’s efforts to crush a national 10 cent recycle refund scheme. It...
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Castlemaine’s live music scene is punching above its weight By Meg Sattler Yesterday afternoon, Itchy Scabs took the stage at the Bridge Hotel w...
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Finding affordable housing is becoming less of an option for low-income earners in Bendigo, Castlemaine and Echuca according to research undertaken by...
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Join the Compost Revolution during International Compost Awareness Week, which runs from 6 – 11 May. All over the world people will be celebrating c...
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