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Letters to the Editor: Australia Day

Last Sunday I joined mostly older people attending the Australia Day event at Victory Park in Castlemaine. The event began with a lengthy and tiresome reminder of whose land we are on. Uncle Rick then conducted a Welcome to Country ceremony in an Aboriginal language. Whilst impressive, most of us remain puzzled as to who…

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Highlight of the paper

Every week my heart is lifted by the beautiful photos of birds and accompanying text provided by Geoff Park in the Natural Newstead article. Thank you Geoff. Birds are living jewels of this planet, and your detailed knowledge and extraordinary images of them bring me such joy. They are a highlight of the newspaper. Lauren…

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Hope

I hope we can draw back from the fascism that is so fashionable in our country. Hope, according to Havel, is different from optimism. It is a state of the soul rather than a response to the evidence. It is not the expectation that things will turn out successfully but the conviction that something is…

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