Reporting on Maldon and surrounding central goldfields
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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Our trains are a popular tourist attraction in the area and we regularly bring between four and six carriages of people into town. Unfortunately, when the platform was built in the 1880s, they never envisioned large passenger trains full of people arriving at Maldon. Trains of this length are too long for the original platform…
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Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27 this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the network of Nazi concentration and death camps in occupied Poland. Auschwitz has become the dominant symbol of the Holocaust. The camps were used for slave labour and mass extermination of people considered subhuman or ‘other’. These included ethnic…
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Amazing library Volunteers. Photo courtesy of Rob Leeson. The Maldon Athenaeum Library (MAL) is set to celebrate the online publication of a series of written vignettes about its history, which includes the building on High Street and the organisations that have called it home. A special launch of the Library History Vignettes will take place…
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