Articles tagged ‘Politics’.
Luka Lesson won the first round of the Australian Poetry Slam at The Maurocco Bar, Castlemaine, in October last year, and went on to become the Austra...
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Three car bombs have exploded in Dublin, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100 others during rush hour. Five more people died and another 20 we...
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What do you think of a community owned wind farm in the Mount Alexander area? Online survey NOW open. This important survey is an opportunity to have ...
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WITH TRACEY CANDY AND STAN MUNRO CONCERT TRES SAUCY A super special fund-raiser in Chewton, starring STAN MUNRO and TRACEY CANDY. Friday, 1 June, 7.30...
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Teenagers are not looking for answers to life’s big questions in established religious institutions. Instead, they engage in intense idolisation...
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At last week’s meeting, Council resolved to release the proposed Budget for 2012/2013 for public exhibition from Monday 14 May 2012. It will b...
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The Victorian government will consider a bid to bring a railway museum to Castlemaine. Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer addressed a Bendigo Yo...
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The Castlemaine Oxfam Group is holding a Bushdance on Saturday, 2 June in the Castlemaine Town Hall, from 6-10pm, to raise money for Oxfam. The Cente...
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Join with the Mount Alexander Volunteer Network on Tuesday 15 May for a delicious two-course meal at the Castlemaine Town Hall and receive a compleme...
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky I’m not a Christian and I don’t believe in ‘God’. I’ve had little contact with organised religion. I know nothing...
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The Government should be building on its commitment to mental health as there remains significant unmet need for essential services, especially in rur...
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A second IRA hunger striker, 25-year-old Francis Hughes, has starved to death in the Maze Prison near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His ...
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Wednesday night’s Community Wind Forum in Castlemaine Town Hall marked the last of six held across Mount Alexander Shire in the past three weeks...
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By Chris McGreal May 06, 2012 “The Guardian” – - A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has c...
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Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden So there I was, money in hand at the local wood fired “artisan” bakery, before I even mention that the very ...
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Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says that unemployed Australians have been overlooked in the Federal budget. “The budget is good news for w...
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During compost week get into this inspiring film, DIRT. DIRT! The Movie, tells the amazing and little known story of the relationship between ...
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The University of Melbourne is leading a long-term study into the health and wellbeing of people affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires. The study a...
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Victorian College of the Arts students will receive a crash course in how art can be used as a tool of protest and as a catalyst for social change, by...
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The Greens will this week move for a Productivity Commission inquiry into the Federal Government’s funding of childcare services including a rev...
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The new Castlemaine citizens’ club formed to support the Maryborough Highland Society’s proposal for their Castlemaine Sports and Communit...
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Kyneton as Anything is a not-for-profit community kitchen aimed at connecting people with good quality, local food and with each other. Inspired by t...
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It started, as many days do in Greece, with a trip to the kiosk to buy cigarettes. Still half-asleep, Panayiotis Roumeliotis was surprised to be asked...
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The big untold story of Tuesday’s State Budget was the government’s 80 per cent cut to the Parliamentary wages bill. The Government said Parliame...
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University of St Andrews art historian Dr Kathryn Rudy has devised an ingenious new way to unveil the deepest fears, reading and prayer habits of medi...
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Argentina’s only cruiser, the General Belgrano, has been sunk by a British nuclear submarine in the South Atlantic. It is the first serious atta...
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Premier Baillieu is mad to set aside funds for the East West Tunnel in today’s Budget, Mr Bandt said. Mr Bandt said the tollway plan will wreck inne...
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Thanks Rosemary for your article. As a teacher and parent I too am concerned about media popularising violence especially in young people who have not...
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Dear Editor, Currently community forums are being held around the Mt Alexander Shire to discuss community based wind turbines, as inspired by the Hepb...
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The Gillard Government and Opposition are out of step with community attitudes towards welfare payments with a new survey showing that Australians sup...
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Long-term planning, upstream investment and early action prevent harm. We must get better at preventing harm – to people, planet and the economy. Th...
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By Rosemary McKenry A 13-year-old girl, Ruby, puts up two ‘likes’ on her Facebook page. ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Kony 2012.’ Her friends do...
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By Mark Steel If the Spanish Inquisition was around now they’d have the Pope interviewed on Channel 4 News, saying, “I have tremendous res...
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Victorians are blowing almost half a million dollars an hour on poker machines during busy periods, with problem gamblers estimated to be losing up to...
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By Joyce Sanders We remember the names of a lot of the heroes of the first World War: on 25 April, 1918, the battle at Villiers-Bretonneux gave hero ...
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