Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
Occupants of heritage houses on Templeton Street, between Adair and Parker Streets, were distressed to discover that electricity supplier Powercor had pruned trees outside their homes last week.
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Lucinda Courtney, who was born in Cavan County, Ireland, arrived in Melbourne in April 1857 and went to live with her brother Thomas, who was head teacher at the Cheltenham Anglican Common School.
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The 1917 conscription referendum. On 7 November 1917 the Australian Prime Minister William Hughes announced that a second conscription ‘referendum’ would be held on 20 December. Twelve months earlier Hughes’ first attempt to introduce conscription for overseas service had been defeated. Under his new proposal voluntary enlistment would continue but a ballot of single men…
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Sometimes the trigger to exploring more of what’s in your own backyard is when guests arrive and you want to show them around town.
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