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09/20/2006
While we sit back and watch the images of Peter Brock’s state funeral and Steve Irwin’s memorial service, we will hear the word ‘hero’ used a lot.Last Friday night, disabled Ki...
09/20/2006
We all remember where we were when Princess Diana died, but can you remember where you were when you heard of Mother Teresa’s death?Would it surprise you to know that the Indian nun – so...
09/28/2006
THAT City of Greater Bendigo CEO John McLean should find it necessary to call for a government investigation into his own council is a surprising development for Bendigo. While the CEO is not prepared...
10/5/2006
LIKE most local media outlets, the Bendigo Weekly received a copy of the confidential city councillors’ expense report “off the back of a truck” this week.
The report was complete ...
10/9/2006
IN a week where we heard of the shocking news about the health of City of Greater Bendigo CEO John McLean, we also celebrated his favourite sport – cycling– and the event he worked so hard...
10/16/2006
While standing in Rosalind Park waiting for the start of a press conference with two of the most important men in Bendigo’s short-term future – state Water Minister John Thwaites and feder...
10/16/2006
A quick thank you to people who have called, emailed or spoken to me in the past week passing on their congratulations for the Weekly making it to the final of the Walkley Awards.
To put this in pe...
10/31/2006
Most of our local pollies wasted no time in getting their faces and ideas out this week as the state election campaign officially began.
I said most, because the Liberal Party are still stuck on th...
11/7/2006
What a week it has been in politics.
Bendigo wasn't just the centre of Victoria geographically this week, it was also the centre of Victoria politically as the water issue finally began to eat up c...
11/16/2006
“So they can say that the trains run on timeAnother man there was made the trains run on time.”
At the risk of exposing my student leftist days, Tim Freedman from The Whitlams echoed t...
11/23/2006
Well, the final week of the election campaign caused a bit of heat between candidates and also resulted in a few unnecessary stunts.
The week kicked off with a slanging match between Bob Cameron an...
01/28/2007
About three years ago I was standing in the queue at a chemist shop when I saw, on a stand, various pairs of what looked like plastic clogs.
They were brightly coloured with holes in the toe and a ...
02/19/2007
When you are in the media, you often get to find out things at least a couple of days before the rest of the community.Whether its building plans, program launches or visits from the odd luminary or...
03/1/2007
Good news travels fast, but press releases about good news travel even faster.
On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its annual report on Regional Population Growth.
It listed t...
08/16/2007
Would you apply for this job? Of course you wouldn’t.
No matter what your thoughts are about the current batch of City of Greater Bendigo councillors, what is above is the truth –it is...
09/3/2007
When you first learn about media, either at uni or at high school, you learn about bias, spin and they way different media outlets report and portray different events.
It is nothing for different p...
09/27/2007
When I went to school it was called the Greenhouse Effect. Because of carbon emissions, the weather was going to get hotter and wetter.
Don’t know about hotter, but they certainly stuffed up ...
