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ISSUE 1015 FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017
BACK TO BASICS By JOEL PETERSON
A STRIPPED-back City of Greater Bendigo budget for 2017/18 with significantly less large capital works projects than previous years could be a sign of what’s to come under a rate-capping environment. The council released its proposed budget on Wednesday, and it was passed unanimously at the council meeting that night with several councillors speaking in support of the document. A major feature of the budget
• Two per cent rate rise • $58.4m capital works • $163.3m for services • $14m for roads • Budget plays it safe
Budget spend reflects rate cap is a drastic reduction in capital works from 2016/17’s recordbreaking figure of close to $100 million. The total capital works expenditure of $58.4m is somewhat a regression to the mean and indicates what can be expected in coming budgets, according to CEO Craig Niemann. With rates capped at a two per cent rise per year, council has
stated the need to work harder to attract outside funding to deliver large projects. “I think we’re going back to where we were. Our capital works in previous years have been in that $50-60 million range, and again that’s a lot of work,” Mr Niemann said. “So if we can sustain that level, which I think we can, we’ll be looking at other funding options
and maximising funding from state and federal governments. “(We’ll also be) looking at the contributions that entities might make towards capital works projects and I think we are going pretty well in terms of trying to meet that demand.” Council will spend more than $163.3m on service delivery, including $18.5m on waste, $11.4m on works including foot-
paths and road maintenance and $10.6m on parks. Major projects such as the Bendigo Stadium expansion and Bendigo Indoor Aquatic Leisure and Wellbeing Centre will also see funding continued in the 2017/18 budget, to ensure they can be completed. Garden Gully Hockey Complex, which hosted international hockey in 2016, will see $1.5m for pitch resurfacing and Eaglehawk’s Albert Roy Reserve Pavilion will be rebuilt. – Continued Page 6
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Roman baths revealed THE latest chapter in the rejuvenation of one of Bendigo’s finest heritage assets was played out at Villa Fortuna on Wednesday afternoon. Before a small crowd of family, friends, tradespeople and the media, Fortuna owner Paul Banks announced the official completion of the villa’s stunning roman baths. Mr Banks praised his loyal band of tradesmen who have been part of the journey towards restoring Fortuna, since he bought the property in 2013. St John of God hospital chief executive Darren Rogers joined Mr Banks in cutting the red ribbon to complete Wednesday’s ceremonies, before Mr Banks fittingly dove into the pool to celebrate and enjoy his latest achievement. The redevelopment of Villa Fortuna has seen much of the historic villa returned to its former glory, while an approved subdivision of the prized site will now allow for up to 79 residences to be established on 2.8 hectares that was once part of the Lansell estate.
worth is also the chair of the city’s rural communities committee, and spoke of her support for the plan. When mentioning the need for public transport in the area, Cr Wrigglesworth said that those concerns were being heard loud and clear.
BETTER public transport links for Junortoun are a key consideration of the suburb’s 2017-2021 community plan, adopted by council this week. The plan was launched earlier this year but was presented to councillors this week, and outlines planning priorities for the community up until 2021. Councillor Yvonne Wriggles-
THE Victorian government is undertaking the biggest review of property legislation in the state’s history. This includes a focus on five key pieces of legislation that govern the way property is bought, sold and leased in Victoria. These reviews are being run concurrently by Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) under the umbrel-
DID HE DIVE: Or was he pushed? Paul Banks takes the plunge. las Consumer Property Law Review and Fairer Safer Housing. The Consumer Property Law Review encompasses the Sale of Land Act 1962, Estate Agents Act 1980, Owners Corporation Act 2006 and Conveyancers Act 2006. Two Options Papers in this review – Sale of Land and Business and Estate Agents and Conveyancers – are currently open for public consultation until the April 28 and May 16 respectively. While both of these options papers aim to modernise existing legislation they also consider changes relating to off-the-plan sales, early release of deposits, contracts of sale and licensing and conduct of agents. The REIV strongly encour-
ages property owners to provide feedback on proposed reforms as the removal of early release of deposits would necessitate bridging finance, significantly increasing vendor costs during the sale of land process. Likewise, if you live in or own one of the state’s 500,000 rental properties, you’ll be affected by changes to the Residential Tenancies Act. This review is in its final stages with an options paper released in early January. The REIV has significant concerns regarding many of the proposed changes to the legislation with more than 77 per cent of the 141 options favouring tenants. If the proposed reforms were adopted, landlords would lose a number of valuable rights. Meanwhile, tenants would gain a range of rights which will undoubtedly make residential property one the least attractive investment portfolios. Balanced protections for both stakeholders are necessary to ensure an adequate supply of rental properties in Victoria. If a landlord’s security over a significant financial investment is eroded it will result in landlords increasing rents to cover the added risk to their rental property. For more information on the REIV’s key concerns with proposed reform of the Residential Tenancies Act, or to sign the petition against the changes, visit reiv. com.au/rtareview
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increased dramatically. “I can confirm there is a significant increase in the number of bats, we normally see around 300 bats in Rosalind Park,” he said. “A count undertaken by (the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning) showed 5500 bats which we believe have come down from Queensland following the cyclone, they’ve been displaced by the weather. “I think this has occurred in previous times in Bendigo.”
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ROSALIND Park is again aflutter with bats, which have drastically increased in numbers in recent weeks. Councillor Yvonne Wrigglesworth said at Wednesday’s council meeting that several residents had raised the issue with her on social media after being in the park over the Easter weekend. Council’s presentation and assets director Craig Lloyd told the councillors the number had
The reported increase, more than 1700 per cent, means that bats now occupy most of the park and not just the fernery area as is usual.
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Mr Lloyd said council expected that the animals would remain in the park during the winter months, before likely seeing a reduction in
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numbers in spring. Council can not move the bats on, and risks significant fines if it attempts to do so.
New look for blood donors The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has a surprise in store for Bendigo’s blood donors with the service yesterday announcing a half a million dollar refurbishment to the Bendigo Blood Donor Centre. The refurbishment will see a substantial reconfiguration of the centre providing a more open-plan design. Speaking about the update state donor services manager Maureen Bower said the team was excited about the refurbishment. “The team is really looking forward to welcoming our donors to the refurbished centre and working in an updated and more efficient design,” Ms Bower said. “These changes will provide a much needed update to the centre and help improve the donor experience. It will be more comfortable and efficient.” During the refurbishment from
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“The DELWP inspectors have had a look and as you all know we can’t move them on, to do so we would be liable for fines of up to $8.5m,” Mr Lloyd said. He said council and DELWP would monitor the park and the animals over coming months. Council‘s Debbie Wood said if any of the animals are found on the ground, people should not touch them, but they should call the Wildlife Rescue Information Network on 0419 356 433.
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Saturday, April 29 to Sunday, May 28 the Bendigo Blood Donor Centre will be closed. To help maintain the blood supply during this time a mobile donor centre will be available at the Tom Flood Sports Centre from Monday,
May 8 to Saturday May 20 for whole blood collections. “Some of our existing blood donors have already put their hands up to donate during May at the mobile donor centre however there are still 300 appointments available,”
Ms Bower said. “Bendigo donors have invested in us, and we are now investing in them.” Donors are asked to call 13 14 95 or to visit donateblood.com.au to make an appointment.
Sod turned on school A new school for Epsom primary school students is a step closer with work starting on their $5.7 million building project this week. Member for Bendigo East, Jacinta Allan, joined parents, students and teachers to turn the first sod on Wednesday to mark the start of construction. “It is great to see Epsom Primary School move a step closer to opening its exciting new facilities,” she said.
The new project will provide better classrooms for local students so they can get the best out of their education. The project includes a new main building that includes classrooms, reception, administration, library, art room, staff facilities, canteen; plus a new multi-purpose hall and new play areas and equipment for students. The new school is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
new view: Jacinta Allan looks over the future plans for Epsom school.
THE regional Victorian bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth games took many by surprise, including some of the councils involved in the proposal. The bid was announced last Friday, with Greater shepparton spearheading the charge that included Wodonga, Bendigo, Ballarat, Warrnambool, and Traralgon. However, several regional councils, including Bendigo’s, only learnt of the plans in the days leading up to its announcement. The star-studded taskforce, featuring the likes of Olympians Lauren Jackson and John Steffensen talked up the possibility of Victoria sharing the games. But City of Greater Bendigo mayor Margaret O’Rourke said council had not been informed of the plans, but that it was “a nice surprise”. “I got the message the night before the announcement and I emailed the Shepparton mayor, Dinny Adem, who was in town the week before,” she said “(Council CEO) Craig Niemann and myself were just surprised to think that ‘gee, wouldn’t they have just given us a heads up’.” The bid lists Tom Flood Sports Centre as a possible host for track cycling events and the Bendigo Aquatic and Leisure Centre as a host for swimming events. That is despite Tom Flood’s velodrome being outdoors, and the soon-tobe-complete aquatic centre in Kangaroo Flat only having plans for up to 500 seats. “World-class facilities are what’s needed for something like the Commonwealth Games. It’s certainly going to put Greater Shepparton on the map in terms of it being their idea,” she said. “There’s a lot to be worked through 3000 days before the bid is due.” Mayor O’Rourke repeated those sentiments at Wednesday’s council meeting, noting that bookmakers have installed the regional Victorian bid as the early favourite to host the games.
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THE lofty ambition of making Bendigo the world’s most liveable community is the clearly-stated goal of the new City of Greater Bendigo Community Plan. The community plan, formerly known as the council plan, was unanimously passed at Wednesday’s council meeting, with every councillor weighing in on the changes made by the current council. The plan includes six underpinning themes, from strengthening the economy to protecting and en-
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hancing the environment. It also states that council will lead and govern for all, which mayor Margaret O’Rourke stressed in speaking about the plan. Council will measure its efforts against what it says are liveability indicators, and the plan will influence the council’s decision making over the next four years. Cr O’Rourke said the plan was one of the most important documents that council has produced. “The councillors have done a great deal of work to get to this point with the draft plan,” she said. “It is owned and written entire-
ly by the councillors for the whole community.” Cr O’Rourke said the plan had seen a tremendous amount of feedback received. “This community plan has been
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She said she hopes that the current council will be remembered for its long-term views and planning. Whipstick ward councillor Andrea Metcalf also praised the
The councillors have done a great deal of work to get to this point with the draft plan
informed by more people than the development of any recent council plan,” she said. “Anyone that has been interested has been able to participate.”
plan, saying it is the easiest-toread council document she has seen in her years of following local government. Lockwood ward councillor Jen-
Fine year for festival Bendigo’s wine region could produce some of the highest-quality vintages of the past five years as seasoned winemakers recall one of the best growing seasons. Bendigo Winegrowers Association president Wes Vine said it’s with caution that winemakers talk about a vintage while it’s still in full swing, but harvest 2017 is looking good. “Plenty of spring rain last year, followed by cool summer nights and hot days mean more topend grapes are produced in the region,” he said. “The flavour is coming up well and bunch sizes are good. “Shiraz is going particularly well, but we’re also seeing great quality in styles like cabernet, riesling and nebbiolo. As autumn rolls on there’s a lot of excitement around quality.” The winemakers of Bendigo celebrate the end of harvest with the Strategem Bendigo Winemakers Festival on Saturday, April 29 in Rosalind Park. This is the event’s second year back in Bendigo, after changing from its previous venue in Castlemaine. The event gives patrons the chance to in-
nifer Alden said the plan aimed to make decision making more focussed on the needs of residents. “It is not for or by the council only, it is accessible in language and aspiration,” she said. “By enabling broad participation in the consultation process, we can provide citizens with more control over their lives.” Council has also introduced a new way to provide feedback on the plan, through online comments. To do this, visit www.bendigo. vic.gov.au/communityplan. The draft plan is available for comment from until May 19.
Work to start on soldiers memorial WORKS on the Bendigo Soldiers Memorial Institute revitalisation project will begin next month after a tender was awarded at Wednesday night’s council meeting. The construction tender for the $4.5 million project was awarded to Nicholson Construction, which has overseen several other major projects in the region including the Canterbury Park redevelopment. The project will see the main building refurbished and restored, and a new exhibition space constructed. Councillor Julie Hoskin said the Bendigo District RSL and council had been working on the project for five years. Lockwood Ward councillor Matt Emond said projects of its kind were extremely important to Bendigo. “We have to preserve and protect those buildings that
separate us from other places,” he said. Cr Emond said it was a very exciting project and he looked forward to watching it unfold. Cr Hoskin moved the motion and spoke in glowing terms about the project. “I am really pleased that the council has undertaken this revitalisation project of one of Bendigo’s most important and iconic landmarks,” she said. “This is a beautiful building of significant historical and architectural design, with its construction dating back to 1921.” Bendigo RSL is contributing $500,000 toward the project and the state and federal governments contributed $2.9m in funding. Both were given the opportunity to take part in the tender evaluation panel. Works are expected to take 18 months, and will finish in late 2018.
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COUNCIL BUDGET 2017
Services an ongoing cost
Rate-capping impacts on city spending
WHILE the glitz and glamour level of services provided to the of large projects catches the community, and the challenges eye, council says continuing to doing so with the rate cap in provide critical services and up- place. grades to roads and footpaths The budget lists $163.3m represent one of the most im- invested for service provision, portant parts of the budget. including $10.6m spent on Among the spend is $14 parks, $3.2m on libraries and million on sealed and unsealed $3m on tourism. roads, $3.3m on drainage and Cr Andrea Metcalf said that $2m toward footpaths, includ- most of the money was simply ing new shared pathways in business as usual, as council White Hills and Ascot. has to provide the services. Motorists will see an inCouncillor Rod Fyffe mencrease to parking prices in the tioned that council had lost CBD, with parking in zone one $2.75m in indexation fees, areas up 10 cents to $1.70 per equivalent to providing 12 kilday and parking in zone two ometres of footpaths. areas up from 80 cents per day He said council provided FUNERALS & to $1. over 100 services that people PRE FUNERALS Council said fees and user- PAID accessed every day. charges will raise approxiMayor Margaret O’Rourke mately $26.5m in the 2017/18 said council had been able to financial year. develop a draft budget that acIn unanimously adopt- counted for the two per cent ing the budget on Wednes- rate rise without impacting day night, several councillors service delivery. spoke about the importance of continuing to improve on the PARKING COST RISE: Up next year.
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The Queen Elizabeth Oval will undergo more than $1m of work identified in the Rosalind Park master plan and the former Bendigo Municipal Baths sites will have design work done to plan for its future use. Council expects to collect $26.5m in fees and charges in the coming financial year, with parking costs in the CBD increasing in zones one and two. Councillor Rod Fyffe described the budget as fair, reasonable, and one council can be proud of. “This is an important budget, it’s one that picks up from the last council and we have never had bigger capital works budgets than what we did with the last council,” Cr Fyffe said. A common theme among councillors was lobbying state and federal governments for funding to ensure large-scale projects can still be delivered. In handing down her first budget as mayor, Margaret O’Rourke said the process had been an enjoyable one to be involved in. “It’s been a really good process to work through, everyone has come to the table with very different platforms coming off an election and all wanting to get what they want for their communities,” she said. “We’ve worked through that really respectfully, and I think we’ve been really clever about trying to get the best outcomes.” Groups and organisations can still make submissions to the budget, which close on May 19. For more information, contact council on 5434 6000.
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COUNCIL BUDGET 2017
CEO confident on works By JOEL PETERSON
WHILE this year’s budget may lack the major projects of recent years, CEO Craig Niemann remains confident that council can continue to deliver large-scale projects to meet community needs. After a record $99.3m was spent on capital works last year, the two per cent rate cap had seen council rein in spending on large projects. That does not mean that no large works will be undertaken over the next financial year, but council
Mr Niemann said he expects that capital works in future budgets will remain at a similar figure. “We reckon if we can pitch it at that $50m to $60m mark we can continue to deliver great assets from our community,” Mr Niemann said. Major works will be undertaken at the QEO, a new visitor hub will be built at the Bendigo Botanical Gardens and the city will even get $100,000 worth of new Christmas decorations. Several councillors noted at
Sporting win with QEO upgrades A NEW kiosk, entry and shelter around the ground are among a host of works at Bendigo’s Queen Elizabeth Oval to bring spectator facilities up to the level of the sport that the ground hosts. Public toilets, spectator shelters and the design of netball change rooms are other big ticket items in more than $1 million worth of works to be carried out at Bendigo’s premier sporting complex. The entry to the ground from View Street will be redeveloped, with the existing public toilets and kiosk to be demolished as part of the works. They will both be rebuilt in the same area of the ground, with works expected to start after the end of the local football season in September. “The QEO hosts many important sports events and investment is needed to ensure it has adequate facilities for both the public and sports players,” mayor Margaret O’Rourke said. Bendigo’s former municipal baths, in between the Bendigo Aquatic Centre and Bendigo Bowls Club, will also undergo design work to assess its potential for future development.
Wednesday’s council meeting that residents had commented on the state of the Christmas decorations around town, saying they were in need of an upgrade. A common theme among councillors was the increasing difficulty of funding large projects in coming years. Due to the rate cap at two per cent, several councillors spoke of the need to push for further funding from state and federal governments to fund projects. “This budget maintains the
strong financial position of council while working in the constraints of rate capping, and delivering and maintaining both the quality and services expected of it,” councillor James Williams said. “This will, however, become increasingly difficult into the future, and our ability to both lever are attract additional funding from other tiers of government and private sector investment remain critical to growing the city and the region.” The majority of large funding in the budget is going toward
finishing off projects currently in construction. The Bendigo Stadium project, due to be completed later this year, is set to get $5.7m worth of funding, the Greater Bendigo Indoor Aquatic and Wellbeing Centre will get $2.5m, the Bendigo Tennis Complex $1m and $3.1m for the RSL Soldiers Memorial Institute. Mr Niemann said that this funding had been accounted for through the duration of planning for the projects, and is essential to ensure they are completed on time.
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NEW LOOK: More than $1 million will be spent at the QEO.
Mayor Margaret O’Rourke said the high profile site offered a lot of potential, and the funding would help council plan for its future use. The area currently sits vacant, with $100,000 worth of design for the site’s renewal slated in the budget. Nearby Rosalind Park does not miss out either, with a traffic and pedestrian movement study to be carried out to guide the way people will move around the area in coming years. All works are part of the Rosalind Park
master plan, which council says it is committed to implementing in full. With the QEO, art gallery, Capital and Ulumbarra theatres, Bendigo Senior Secondary College and a raft of restaurants and bars in the area, pedestrian and vehicle movement will become a key consideration for council, especially during times of major events. Cr O’Rourke said all the projects had been planned for some time, and the funding in the 2017/18 budget would held move them to the next stage.
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Council for the people By peter kennedy
This weekend marks the six month anniversary of local government elections that saw an unprecedented level of change in the makeup of the City of Greater Bendigo council, and the subsequent election of business woman Margaret O’Rourke as mayor. Cr O’Rourke is warm, generous with her time, friendly but firm and ever so strong on her belief and understanding of the role she has in the fabric of this city and as the leader of a raw, but dedicated team of councillors. She is fiercely determined to not allow the infighting and disharmony that dogged previous councils a foothold in the one she now leads. “It’s really about respect... the very first day that the polls were announced for us, as a group of councillors we met for that whole week and had induction training and a number of other elements around our role,” Cr O’Rourke said. “That first day we had a very frank conversation as councillors to say what did we want to be known for in our term and I think we all decided that we didn’t want to have the turmoil that had been there in the past, and there’s lots of reasons why all that occurred but I think that it’s something that this council is very strong around – the respect for one another. “We are very diverse, we all come from very different platforms in the lead up to the election, but it’s about debating the issue and then moving on, and making sure that people are respected in the process.” Cr O’Rourke believes the greater Bendigo community want
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and need stability, something she’s heard while out and about from all corners of the municipality, and from all demographics. She says not much has surprised her so far – but admits last week’s regionally based Commonwealth Games bid announcement did come as a shock, albeit a nice one. “I’m not against big ideas, let people have them and then you work back from that it’s about whether it can be done,” she said. Rate capping remains a bogeyman for councils and it’s hard to not see the issue coming to the fore in the years ahead. “I think we won’t probably see the pinch of rate capping for another 12 months or more, and then I think we will really start to find it difficult,” she said. Cr O’Rourke is also quick to highlight the achievements of previous councils that has helped lift
the city to its present status. “I know people get caught up in the emotional turmoil but more business went across the table in the last term of council than has in many years in terms of infrastructure, and those opportunities come along when state and federal offer money and you have to be prepared for those opportunities. We won’t ever be able to pay for the big ticket items ourselves,” she said. Cr O’Rourke believes her previous roles in business, as a senior Telstra executive and a sought after and highly regarded company director have helped her in her new role of mayor. She’s been keen to take the council to more of the people, because for her, the community is such a big part of what council does. “We certainly got that message through the campaign that people
were feeling that they were not consulted with, although in saying that local government has requirements that they have to consult with the community,” she said. “Sometimes I think people maybe don’t like what they hear and that’s what I am also understanding a bit more…. If your idea or suggestion is not picked up well then people feel that they have not been consulted and so it’s about understanding the process.” The roughly 15,000 people who live in rural communities will be more of a focus over the next four years. “Large populations tend to get looked after because of the numbers whereas regional and rural communities…. They do need help, their voice gets lost in the urban environment,” she said. Greater trust and accessibility are integral to the new councillors, and Cr O’Rourke said councillors were aware that there needs to be some trust built to repair and improve relationships with the community. “The community won’t always get what they want but its understanding that and knowing when it’s time to move on.” She says her involvement in the independent review of the Greater Bendigo council has given her a valuable insight into the organisation and how it operates. She is strong in her praise of the council executive team and the work it does under chief executive officer Craig Niemann. Cr O’Rourke wants the council she leads to be acknowledged for the stability and good governance she hoped will be its trademarks. “I want people to have faith back in local government,” she said.
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she took aim at the federal government over what she said were plans to cut $30 billion from school funding over the next decade. She said the proposed shortfall would have a big impact on education facilities in the Bendigo electorate. “It means a $3.5m cut from this school over the next two years and $36m cut from this federal electorate over the next two years,” Ms Plibersek said. She said that the Bendigo region couldn’t cope with such a significant
funding shortfall, which would make specialised courses and vocational programs harder to deliver. However, she admitted that the figures were derived from the difference between the proposed Gonski model and it not being funded. “Their own budget papers in 2014 indicated that the difference between Labor’s funding proposals and what the government will do is $30b over the decade,” she said. “The difference be-
tween fully funding the six-year rollout of the Gonski needs-based funding... is $36 million for this electorate. So that’s the difference between what the Liberals promised and what they’ll deliver. “So of course as the number of school kids goes up and teacher salaries go up, you do see some increase in the dollars. But there’s not enough extra dollars to deliver extra services. “This is a cut based on what they promised they would deliver.”
Mobile plus for rail commuters BENDIGO line commuters will benefit from a badly-needed upgrade to mobile services under a state government program to invest in better network coverage along the rail corridor. The country’s three major carriers, Optus, Vodafone and Telstra, will all contribute to the $18 million Regional Rail Connectivity project. The Bendigo line carries 2.4 million passengers per year, underlining the importance of better connections along the line. Up to 11 new mobile towers will be created along the line, with an emphasis between par-
ticularly Sunbury and Riddels Creek, Kyneton and Malmsbury, Taradale and Chewton, Harcourt and Kangaroo Flat and near Macedon from the end of this year. Victoria will also be an Australian-first pioneer of in-train repeater technology to boost mobile signals. Vodafone has undergone extensive upgrades in Bendigo and this adds to that, according to its chief technology officer Kevin Millroy. “Vodafone is a proud participant of the initiative. This a great example of government and industry working together
to achieve better outcomes for regional Australians,” Mr Millroy said. Small business, trade and innovation minister Phillip Dalidakis said the network would be a huge boost for commuters. “This Australian-first project is a massive win for Bendigo commuters – no matter which network they use, they will see significant improvements in connectivity on their journey,” he said. Commuters should see improved network connectivity by the end of the year. - Joel Peterson
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environment to suit students with ASD is essential if they are to gain the full benefits of participation in sport.” Mr Doherty said the school has 14 Girton student coaches who experience and develop a real sense of empathy, patience and humility. “Parents of the children in the program also benefit by being able to connect with one another and enjoy a small but well-earned break each week,” he said. Louis Beale from Bendigo Special Developmental School is 16 years old and after four years in A Sporting Chance Program, has managed to improve his
social skills and confidence in ways his mother did not think was possible. “This program has helped Louis to go on to be part of a mainstream Tap Dancing and Musical Theatre at CV Dance Studio and we are eternally grateful to all of the wonderful Girton student coaches and teachers,” Louis’ mother Natalie Beale said. Several other participants in the A Sporting Chance program have gone on to join mainstream sports teams, allowing participants to enjoy a fuller life, having gained confidence and appropriate social behaviours.
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workout: Pioneers coach Rick Coburn, player Riley Burns and La Trobe exercise physiology student Sian Ilott in the new lab.
Pioneering exercise students, researchers and sporting associations now have access to a high tech exercise conditioning lab at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus. Exercise physiology associate professor Michael Kingsley said students enrolled in the Bachelor of Exercise Science and Master of Exercise Physiology courses were already benefiting from the lab’s state-of-theart equipment, as were Bendigo athletes. “Students are using this new facility to develop and practise their skills in exer-
cise testing and prescription,” he said. “It is also being used in conjunction with our sporting partners and the broader community for research projects aimed at enhancing rehabilitation outcomes and improving sporting performance.” Bendigo Pioneers and the Bendigo Academy of Sport athletes were already working with students in the lab weekly on strengthening and conditioning programs. Bendigo Pioneers coach Rick Coburn said he hoped
the collaboration would produce benefits on the football field. “The opportunity to access a high-performance gym of this quality will greatly assist our quest to develop our players’ strength and conditioning to a level where they can transition into the highest level of football required,” he said. Dr Kingsley said the benefits would also reach beyond Bendigo. “The lab features satellite technology allowing us to connect with students
and athletes on other La Trobe campuses around Victoria,” he said. Dr Kingsley said with an ageing population and rising levels of obesity, diabetes and other lifestylerelated diseases, exercise physiologists were increasingly sought after. “Students will use this lab to learn how to design and deliver client-centred exercise, lifestyle and behavioural modification programs to restore function and improve health outcomes for individuals,” he said.
Food Campaigner Rob Rees has been the driving force for improvements in healthy eating and will be sharing his views on Wednesday at a Create Change with Food event. He was recently in residence with Bendigo Senior Secondary College facilitating the kitchen challenge, motivating students to think differently about themselves through cooking. Bendigo Foodshare is putting the event on with the Bendigo business council. There will also be discussion on food hubs in Bendigo, and the total fundraising efforts for the 2017 Million Meals in March campaign will be announced. The event runs from noon until 2pm at The Banquet Room at The Capital, 50 View Street. Tickets: $50 each Tickets are available at bebendigo.com.au or call 5442 7816 to reserve your place.
value your antique Ever wondered how much that antique piece you own is worth? Find out at the Bendigo Pottery Antiques and Collectables Centre on Saturday from 10am to 2pm. The centre is at Midland Highway, Epsom Cost is $5 per item, with a limit of three items per person. You can take along detailed photos of large items and advance bookings available by phoning 5448 4404. Valuations will be by Harry Glenn from Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne Dr Glenn has more than 16 years’ experience as an auctioneer and valuer.
All funds from the Valuation Day will support the Zonta Club of Bendigo to purchase components for birthing kits. Zonta Birthing Kits provide for a clean and safe birthing environment for women without access to professional medical care.
outside the square AN Outside the Square conversation about resilience is taking place for community groups, clubs, individuals, businesses, authorities and not-for-profits on Thursday. Organiser Karen Corr said some people say resilience is a word that’s overused, others say they don’t know what it means. “With reflection upon life experiences people have shared that resilience is to get through life’s challenges and to bounce back.” Outside the Square is taking place at The Engine Room, 58 View Street, Bendigo. Registration is essential as places are limited. Register at www.makeachange.org.au/event/ rampupresilience
roadworks continue The final resealing works and linemarking on the Bendigo-Redesdale Road at Strathfieldsaye will continue until April 25. Reasealing took place this week, while linemarking will be done on April 24-25. Motorists are advised that minor delays may be experienced while the works are being carried out and reduced speed limits and traffic management will be in place. Please plan your travel accordingly.
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WHEN is the best time to make a change in your life and try new things? Is it when everything in life is nice, stable and predictable? It might be. However, research suggests that is also when the big changes in your life occur – like moving house, the start of a new relationship or a new job – that other changes might be more likely to be tried and to stick. Studying at university is one of these moments for many people. Whether you’re fresh out of school or returning to study, it’s a time when learning and adapting is part of the deal, but sometimes you just need that little bit of support to try something new to get going – on your bike. Bike Bendigo with the support of the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, is launching an exciting and ambitious new project: Bike Bendigo LTU. The project aims to build the cycling culture of the university community in Bendigo through small projects and regular events that promote a bicycle culture, support and celebrate staff, students, their families and friends to cycle as part of their university experience. Bike Bendigo LTU will work with students and staff to celebrate and support existing initiatives
across the university such as the monthly bikers breakfast, Ride To Uni day and encourage the continued development of facilities, infrastructure and spaces that encourage the community to ride and walk. The initiative will also provide opportunities for students to access bikes, to meet and ride socially and for transport with other staff and students, build skills in riding and bike maintenance. There will be events to promote cycling culture and engagement with the university community to understand riders needs to improve infrastructure and cycling conditions.
Join us for our first Bike Bendigo LTU supported ride on Tuesday 2 May and meet other people from the university who ride. Meet 8am at Chancery Lane (Hargreaves Street end), at for a ride to the university in Flora Hill. Breakfast will be at Sweenies in the student union from 8.30am. We would love to hear from you if you would like more information, wish to be a part of our mentor program or wish to gain support for your existing work in this area. Contact Jac Torres-Gomez on j.torres-gomez@ latrobe.edu.au or 5444 7303. - Jac Torres-Gomez
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Statement offensive On St Paul’s latest subtle political statement – I find it extremely offensive: especially when fellow Christians, Yazidi and other minority religions are literally being crucified and worse by Islamic fundamentalists right now in various parts of the world. Where is the outrage and indignation from St Paul’s Rev Roundhill when his fellow Christians are raped, murdered, enslaved, blown to pieces and persecuted in all manner of ways by these Islamists? Manus Island, Nauru and Christmas Island cannot be compared to places of real human rights abuses. Helen Leach, Bendigo
All is not well The Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, the Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP reassured us in the Bendigo Weekly, April 13, that all is well with the future of electricity supply in Victoria. Supply is assured and prices will come down as “we transition to a modern energy system”. The scheduled additions to the system will be renewables, which is commendable, but there is no mention of replacement for the ageing base load power stations which meet the bulk of the load. Last week, at 8.15am on Saturday, April 15, the total contribution of the wind farms in Victoria was zero. It continues to be a poor month for these turbines. The solar input at that time was 80 megawatts. By 3.45pm the figure for wind had climbed to 14MW in a power demand of about 5500MW Since a balanced grid should supply about 60 per cent from reliable (fossil, hydro?) generation and 40 per cent from intermittent renewables over the year, there is a great deal being left unsaid about the electricity outlook. The only reason that there is currently “no threat to supply and Victoria will continue to be a net exporter of electricity” is because industry is shutting down. Brian Stanmore, Junortoun
beries have increased 24.4 per cent. Daniel Andrews has watered down bail laws, weakened sentencing, closed police stations and cut frontline police numbers and now our justice system is at crisis point. Victorians have had enough of the state government being soft on crime – it’s time for a different approach. It is important to address the factors that lead people to crime, but it is equally important to have a tough law and order system. If a Liberal Nationals government is elected in 2018, violent re-offenders would face mandatory minimum sentences for 11 violent crimes. These include aggravated car-jacking and aggravated burglary, which would carry minimum jail time of 10 years, while rape or manslaughter (one punch) would have mandatory sentences of 15 years. Violent re-offenders found guilty of murder would face a minimum of 20 years in jail. No more excuses, no more second chances – it’s two strikes and you’re in. Youth re-offenders, emboldened by the state government’s soft approach to crime, would also face tougher consequences under a Liberal Nationals government. To put public safety first, our courts would have the power to name and shame those young re-offenders who disrespect our justice system and commit serious offences while on bail. We would also seek to make three significant changes to fix our broken bail system and make Victoria safer. These are the presumption of remand, not bail, for violent crimes; a one strike and you’re in policy for anyone breaching bail; and reinstating the offence of breaching bail for youth offenders. An elected Liberal Nationals government would put the rights of victims before criminals and make sure the penalties for violent crime reflect community expectation. Daniel Andrews’ soft touch isn’t working. It is time to do something different to keep our communities safe. Peter Walsh, Leader of The Nationals
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Art show a success
More and more country Victorians do not feel safe in their own homes, and it is no wonder. Victoria’s crime rate has skyrocketed 20 per cent since December 2014 – it is clear the Andrews government’s soft touch isn’t working. In the past year alone, assaults have spiked 11.8 per cent, while rob-
The 2017 Rotary Easter Art Show held at the Bendigo Town Hall was an outstanding success with a record 196 exhibits sold from 806 on display. Tremendous support from artists from central Victoria, Geelong, Melbourne, southern NSW and Sydney made for a diverse range of works on
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display. The event was well attended over the weekend with some 3500 patrons viewing (and buying) the exhibits. Jian Xiong Wu’s oil titled Flowers in Black Vase was awarded the Best in Show prize sponsored by the Bendigo Weekly. The success of this annual community art show is greatly assisted by financial and in-kind sponsors. Special thanks in 2017 to our Gold Sponsors, Bendigo Weekly, The Bendigo Club and William Farmer.
Thanks also to the following supporters/sponsors, Ace Body Corporate Management, Wild Plumbing, David and Val Wilkinson, BartnPrint, WIN TV, SASI Marketing, CV Web Design, Vanstans Pharmacy, The Schaller Studio and Mandurang Valley Wines. Next year in 2018 with be the 50th consecutive Easter Art Show conducted by the Rotary Club of Bendigo. All net proceeds from the 2017 Annual Easter Show are used by the Rotary Club of Bendigo to fund exist-
ing and new community, youth and international projects. The Rotary Club of Bendigo also wishes to extend its appreciation for the support of City of Greater Bendigo in regard to making the iconic Bendigo Town Hall available for this annual Easter event – the venue provides a stunning backdrop for the diverse range of exhibits of display and contributes greatly to the success of the event. Brian Figg, Rotary Club of Bendigo
Anzac Day Commemorations 2017 Flags are to be flown at halfmast until noon. Dawn Services Bendigo: 5.50am March from the Soldiers Memorial Institute, Pall Mall to the Cenotaph, View Point. 6am Service to start. No wreaths to be laid. Eaglehawk: 6am Brassey Square, Eaglehawk Road – form up at the memorial. Kangaroo Flat: Soldiers Memorial, High Street – form up at the memorial. Please contact the Kangaroo Flat sub-branch to confirm time.
Bridgewater: 5.50am March starts at the intersection of Calder Highway and Erskine Street near the end of the end of the Avenue of Honour. 6am Bridgewater Memorial Hall, Eldon Street. Gunfire breakfast will be provided after the service. Woodvale: 6am Woodvale Public Hall followed by a complimentary community barbecue breakfast. Morning marches and services Bendigo: 10.30am March from McCrae Street/Pall Mall (assembly
area outside Bendigo TAFE) to the Soldiers Memorial Institute, Pall Mall. 11am Service to start on the forecourt of the Soldiers Memorial Institute.
Axedale: 7.30am Free barbecue breakfast at Axedale Park, High Street. 8.30am sharp Service to start.
Eaglehawk: 8.20am March (assembly area in front of the Eaglehawk Citizens’ Brass Band Hall, Peg Leg Road to Brassey Square.) 8.30am Service to start at Brassey Square.
Huntly: 9am sharp March and Service to be held in the Garden of Remembrance (adjacent to the Huntly Memorial Hall, Midland Highway). Refreshments will be served in the Huntly Memorial Hall after the service.
Kangaroo Flat: 9.20am March (assembly area High and Station streets, St Monica’s Church) to the Soldiers’ Memorial. 9.30am Service to start at the soldiers memorial.
Inglewood: 10.30am March starts at the Inglewood Town Hall, Verdon Street. 11am Service to start at the Inglewood Monument, Grant Street. BBQ lunch to follow.
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No frills budget Editorial Comment It’s a case of steady as she goes. That’s the lesson emerging from the plethora of City of Greater Bendigo budget announcements unveiled this week as part of the flurry of activity normally associated with one of the most important weeks of the council year. Council is hamstrung by the state government imposed rates cap of two per cent, and whether this turns out to be a case of “be careful for what you ask for, you just might get it” or not, remains to be seen in the years ahead. The days of six per cent-plus rates rises may well be over, but the day where a two per cent cap is our limit, will need to be tested in the years ahead. Few within council would be prepared to admit that for all the benefits of rate capping, and the associated focus on the need for greater fiscal responsibility and consideration of ratepayers, we won’t one day soon need to go cap in hand to the state government and seek an exemption so as to extend the rates increase and achieve a greater cash flow to fund programs and services across the municipality. The current group of councillors present as one acutely aware of the need to rein in costs and limit rate rises, and they will be keen not to be bruised by any fluctuation in rates policy, so what our city
wants versus what it needs will be something for them to reflect on throughout their tenure. More than ever, cost shifting is, and forever will be, toxic to local government. There is an ever so silent bracket creep happening beneath the surface at the moment, whereby fixed costs remain so, while others will only continue to rise, and by council’s own admission, its particular CPI model will just about outstrip the two per cent restriction a rates cap imposes upon the organisation. One day. It’s difficult to see the state government, or to be more precise, the Essential Services Commission, buckling in 2018 to allow council some relief, because in doing so it will allow for an added layer of pain to Victorian households in a state election year that could prove
disastrous to the government political fortunes. All of this makes the case for pitching for a greater share of state and federal government grants funding even more compelling and important. Our city has an enviable track record when it comes to securing financial assistance from the other levels of government and relationships with our state and federal representatives, their ability to lobby for Bendigo within government and the importance of good consultation at a grassroots level, will become even more important in the years ahead. The return of indexation to the Financial Assistance Grants program payable to local government would be a great start, but would only allow for these grants to effectively mark time with the cost of living.
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Jobs bring joy Throwing more fuel on the fire by freeing up superannuation for the purposes of assisting first home buyers does nothing to solve a problem of today and will go a long way towards creating a problem for tomorrow. The city-centric housing affordability debate needs to be addressed head on, not by giving people greater access to funding, but by dealing with issues around supply, property investment and yes, even negative gearing. Big picture policy making that could involve shifting the focus from rural urban fringe development in the major cities to regional centres such as Bendigo, Ballarat, Shepparton and Mildura in Victoria, or Tamworth, Wagga, Coffs Harbour, Lismore in New South Wales and so on. Every state has these sorts of communities, and therefore everyone has opportunity. Investment in these centres will have a far greater impact on the respective communities that the investment is tied to, and might go a long way to addressing the growing pains of the already larger centres of Sydney and Melbourne. For her part, Nationals’ Senator Bridget McKenzie says it’s crucial that every part of Australia benefits from economic growth and jobs. “Decentralisation of government jobs puts the focus on benefiting regions through local job creation and economic diversification. Hopefully, moving more government departments to regional locations will encourage larger companies to do the same and our regional and rural towns will thrive as a result,” she said.
Senator McKenzie, and probably every single one of her colleagues in the National Party, is a keen advocate of decentralisation, focussed on the benefits to communities in regional Australia that would be achieved if more public sector jobs were established in country areas. For our own selfish point of view, Bendigo claims to being ready, willing and able to host more government department jobs is a given. We’ve just settled down the Victorian government’s State Trustees as the anchor tenant in the still brand new building on King, Queen and Edward streets otherwise known as the cheese grater. We’re an established city of commerce, with the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s sparkling HQ dominating the city skyline. We have a multi-university and tertiary education sector. We have excellent public transport linkages to Melbourne via the railways, although it’s showing signs of growing pains. Traffic jams are rare, the climate is ideal, the cosmopolitan lifestyle on offer is rapidly growing, so too our sense of sophistication and ever increasing appreciation of culture, with regional Australia’s best art gallery and the superb Ulumbarra Theatre much loved icons of our city. But most of all, we have an abundance of affordable real estate, whether it’s houses, apartments, land or rural farmlets… there’s a diversity of dream homes matched only by the lifestyle on offer in our particular part of regional Victoria that most city slickers can only dream of. twitter@peterkennedy23 pk@bendigopublishing.com
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Wish for a fish dish As a treat for Easter the Kendalls opted for change
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LEARNED last week that’s it’s not the done thing in some circles to eat red meat on Good Friday. I admit I have been sheltered from the religious side of Easter for most of my life, but it’s never too late to learn I guess. So, I went shopping at large store for some fish, just to try out the idea. Considering it was a major chain supermarket I was surprised to find only four types of fish, one was salmon and the other three I had never heard of. I asked for some advice and was given none. I had chosen the bogan route and was going to deep fry the fish in beer batter. The person on the deli counter could offer no advice on the remaining three fish types and their reaction to deep frying. So I guessed and picked a white flaky thing. I can’t remember its name. The long-suffering Mrs Kendall and I are not really deep fat fryer people, and the unit we have was a wedding gift some 17 years ago from Big Ron, Mrs K’s dad. I would say it had been unused for 10 years, but we thought we’d give it a go and
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bought two litres of sunflower oil. Come the big moment and Mrs K poured in the oil. It barely covered the heating element. No deep fat frying was going to happen in that unit, it needed five litres. We’d sort of decided on battered fish by then and poured the oil into a wok and put the innards of the deep fat fryer into the dishwasher. The batter was a masterpiece of flour and lager (grudgingly handed over). Mrs K then decided the wok was wrong so we hauled a pan with a lid off the shelf. This was in case the oil caught fire. So the wok went into the dishwasher. As you can now tell, it was hardly a calm time in the Kendall kitchen. We gave up on the idea of
the chips in the fryer, so they went in the oven instead. When the oil hit the right temperature, guessed, Mrs K battered the nameless fish and gently lowered it in. To be honest this bit went to plan and the fish turned out perfectly cooked. Beautiful crisp batter and spot-on fish, text book. The chips let the whole thing down, I had bought the wrong type of potato. However, we had our fish on Friday, and we have since decided to say farewell to the deep fat fryer. Once out of the cupboard in 10 years is not worth it, especially as we didn’t even get to use it. I am sure we will manage without it. - Steve Kendall Twitter@stevekendall1
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OVERS of Shakespeare’s work need not travel far to see one of his finest works. Ozact is presenting Macbeth in the Castlemaine Botantical Gardens. Bendigo-based MarieClaire Tchernomoroff has returned to the group for her fourth production, this time portraying Lady Macbeth. “Macbeth has long been my favourite Shakespeare play, and I’ve always wanted to have a go at tackling such a complex character,” she said. “Bendigo gave me the opportunity to play adaptations of Lady Macbeth twice when I was growing up – the first was at Flora Hill, and the second was in Bendigo Theatre Company’s
DARK TALE: Marie-Claire Tchernomoroff and Andy Delves in Macbeth.
production of Tom Stoppard’s fantastic Cahoots Macbeth. “I’m excited to be a part of bringing the original and best Macbeth to central Victoria, and cannot wait to show home audiences what I’ve been working on since September last year”. Macbeth has long been one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. It has two of Shakespeare’s strongest and
most intriguing characters, in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and tells of their journey from lofty dreams of power to the deepest pits of desolation and despair. Macbeth will be performed at Castlemaine Botanic Gardens on Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23 at 3pm. Tickets adults $35; Concessions $30; Children $20. www.ozact.com or phone 0419 330 516 for details.
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VERY city has its fair share of scandals and Bendigo is no exception. As part of Victoria’s Heritage Festival, Bendigo Tramways will be running two exclusive guided tours to unearth the fascinating, and sometimes less than savoury stories of our gold rush past. “Bendigo is already a well‐known gold mining town but there’s more to this town and its enriching history that many don’t know about. There are local stories dating back centuries that are yet to be uncovered,” local historian Darren Wright said. Throughout the 1.5-hour trundle, Mr Wright will take guests past some of Bendigo’s major historical statues, monuments, water features and sites including many 19th century buildings in the CBD while sharing some of Bendigo’s scandalous stories.
what’s on... Friday, April 21 Tuning in the sky with the Square Kilometre Array: 7.30pm at the BAREC club room, 20 Longlea Lane, Longlea. $2. Tea, coffee and biscuits available. Details: 0417 015 735. Saturday, April 22 Social Dance: Greater Bendigo Danceland, 8pm-11pm, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church Hall, Myers Street. Supper, lucky door and raffle. Entry $8. Details 5447 9783.
“Behind the façade of Bendigo’s iconic buildings and picturesque landscapes there lies a less than charming story,” Mr Wright said. “Like so much in Bendigo, Lake Weeroona had a less than beautiful beginning and was once a ‘foul smelling putrid pond’ that consisted of run off from the former Bendigo Saleyards. “We’ll uncover the stories of rags‐to‐riches and riches‐to‐rags, the trials, the tribulations, the good, the bad and the downright ugly.” Two tours will be departing from the Bendigo Tramways Depot and Workshop. One is on Saturday, April 29 at 2pm and the second on Sunday, May 7 at 10am Tickets are $30 per person. Seats are limited. Book early online at bendigotramways. com or phone 5443 8255.
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Military Exemption Courts 1916. Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23 Run Cycle Walk and Roll The O’Keefe: Bendigo to Heathcote all inclusive, all abilities and aims at encouraging and promoting health and wellbeing. Details: 0417 350 911 or visit the website www.theokeefe.com.au
Dance: Spring Gully Hall, 8pmmidnight. Music by Rod McKenzie. Good program. Prizes and raffle. Entry $9. Home cooked supper. Details: 5444 2953.
Monday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 26 Nordic Walking: Bendigo Arthritis Club is conducting classes in the technique. Six sessions will be conducted by volunteer leaders trained by MOVE Victoria. Details: 0447 493 493 or 5442 6232
Bendigo Family History: Large meeting room at the Goldfields Library in Hargreaves Street. 2pm. Australian
Wednesday, April 26 Evening VIEW Club: 6.30pm for a 7pm start. The Kangaroo Flat Sports Club
McKenzie Street West. $22 for a dinner meal plus tea or coffee. Details: 0439 316 021. Thursday, April 27 Trading Table: For the St John of God Hospital Auxiliary. Strath Village Shopping complex. Delicious cakes, slices, jams and handicraft will be on sale. Ramp up Resilience: First of three Outside the Square events by Make a Change Australia. The Engine Room, 58 View Street, Bendigo. 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Free. Register at www. makeachange.org.au/events Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society: 7.30pm at the Uniting Church Hall, Church Street, Kangaroo Flat. Celebrate the group’s 35 years of family history participation. Details: 0414 819 986.
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T’S A busy few months for Kerr’s Cur, the Bendigo-based garage-indie outfit. Launching double A-side single Whipy / What’s Going On? sees the trio embark on a Victoria-wide tour, which includes a stop-off at the Golden Vine, this Saturday, April 22. The single comes from the longin-progress, eponymous debut album, due for release in October. “The single is a pretty close representation of our live sound,” said rangy bassist Mr S, clearly pleased with the work of Sound Recordings’ Alex Bennett in Castlemaine. “The upcoming album is up another level.” The mixing session did have a worrying moment though. “The mixing session was nearly scuppered when a mobile phone signal made its way onto the master tape. The perils of analogue technology. Luckily it was picked up before the tape was sent off for mastering.” Kerr’s Cur, who have previously visited Snowtown in their work, don’t shy away from the potentially challenging or uncomfortable. “Whipy is about my hard-living brother of the same name. He’s been a sounding board for the past 22 years. The song is about pornography self-destruction, addictions. Absolutely no apologies,” flamboyant front-man Mr D said. “What’s Going On?” he adds enigmatically, “can best be described as looking for something that’s already found you.” I’ve seen Kerr’s Cur a dozen or so times in the past 18 months. They’ve evolved into a very tight, polished outfit. This tour sees them take their sound further afield with gigs also lined-up at Ballarat’s Babushka Bar, The Brunswick Hotel in Melbourne, and in Geelong and Warrnambool. Support on Saturday night comes from talented young gun Frank Bell, with the Dead Lurkers rounding-out the evening. Doors at 8.30pm.
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chart number 1, Waco. Violent Soho have a bit of a party animal reputation. Their set will be a highlight. The Smith Street Band has been honing their punky, folky, pub rock-ish sound across four albums since 2010. At the forefront of talented 30-something punky Melbournebased bands, Messrs Wagner, Cowburn, Hartney and Fitzgerald have a generated an almost feverish football club-like following among fans. Expect a good airing of tracks from new album More Scared of You Than You Are of Me. They take to the Triple j stage at 3.25pm. Tash Sultana arrives in Bendigo on the back of sold-out gigs across Australia. The 21-year-old former Melbourne busker first picked-up a guitar as a pre-schooler. Solo artist Sultana’s rise has been little short of sensational in the last year and is carving out an international reputation. Recent EP Notion includes the lauded Jungle and the live Big Smoke parts 1 and 2. Sultana has a mid-afternoon slot on the Cattleyard Stage. – Simon Wooldridge twitter: @spwooldridge
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CELEBRATION will be held on Sunday to mark 150 years since Bagshot School 852 opened in 1867. Typical of the history of education in the country districts of Victoria, schools were built not by Melbourne-based bureaucrats, but by local farmers who believed in the value of an education for their children. The district pioneers of Bagshot were great examples of this homespun initiative. In between building houses and barns, hoeing fields and raising lambs, people like the Pitsons, Clays and Peatlings looked around for a school for the quickly growing population. In 1857 a local farmer, Bryan Farrell made his barn available for school lessons. Eventually in 1867 a local committee raised half the cost for a permanent building and appointed
REUNION: Barry Clay and Kevin Pitson.
a teacher – a Mr A Carter who was in charge of 25 students. The school flourished until 1972 when after numbers dropped it was decided students would be bussed to Huntly. The reunion will be Sunday from 11am to 5pm. Morning and afternoon tea will
be available as well as a barbecue lunch to buy. Friends, families and former teachers are all welcome to enjoy the day. Please contact Barry Clay on 0428 556 006 or barryclay1@gmail. com for further information.
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Torn in two
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AVING written of Hyde’s Pleasure Garden adjacent to the First White Hill, I will now turn to a still existing garden, just beyond, and north of the Seventh White Hill which was established by Dawson and Gill. When travelling on the Northern Highway along Napier Street on the way to Epsom, on the left hand side immediately beyond the Botanical Gardens was the cactus garden of Dawson and Gill. Both Tom Dawson and Justin M Gill in their youth were keen collectors and growers of cacti, in time the two men combined their efforts and what was a hobby became established as a successful business operation. The fascinating variety of cacti was what appealed to Justin Gill who was born in 1903, he as indicated began collecting and growing these plants when still a young man. Cacti’s endless variety of form, colour and texture and greatly contrasting
elements of their appearance was what appealed to him. Justin’s father, Eustace Justin Gill was for 35 years the manager of the State Savings Bank in Hargreaves Street. Gill senior was a great sportsman and amongst other things was a foundation member of the Golf Club. Financially secure, Eustace was in a position to allow Justin to attend the best private schools. Eventually Justin who was living with the family at their home in Rowan Street; this house was designed by Edward F Billson who had been articled to Walter Burley Griffin. When the Gill family resided there, a portion of the garden had been taken over by Justin and planted with cacti. He also had a large number of specimen plants growing in pots. Justin did further studies at the Bell-Shore Art School in Bourke Street, Melbourne, this school had been founded
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by George Bell and Arnold Shore and began in 1932 Justin Gill was one of their early pupils. Justin worked in oils, water colours, gauche, did print making in mediums such as lino-cuts, lithographs and monotypes. Water colour illustrations by Justin Gill showing globular cacti in flower are reproduced here.
Word is out about Write Stuff T
HE Write Stuff, a collective of central Victorian-based writers, will come together this weekend in Bendigo for their second spoken word event. The Write Stuff #2 will take place on the ground level of MusicMan, 264 Hargreaves Street Bendigo on Sunday, starting at 3pm. It will run until around 5.45pm. About 10 local writers will read their work and discuss the craft of writing. Poet Tru S Dowling will be reading an extract from her soon-to-be released verse novel, as well as discussing the process involved. Singer-songwriter Shann Lions will discuss how he approaches the lyric-writing process. Melbourne beatbox champion Lance Ace Oliver will deliver some acute life observations via his unique staccato rap-influenced style. The organisers, Em Burgess-Gilchrist and Simon Wooldridge, will both also read work. Burgess-Gilchrist, a poet
S if a typical tiny country town doesn’t have enough social divisions separating its people, now Mulukuk’s only bridge has collapsed, severing the sole physical link that once connected the dusty opal-mining community’s geographically separated northern and southern halves. Affected worst of all by the bridge’s disintegration is Janice, a young mother whose car plummeted into the chasm that runs through the centre of Mululuk when the bitumen beneath her gave way late one night. Now, battered, bruised and barely alive after spending weeks in a coma, Janice has been released from hospital and is back in the house she shares with husband Craig and baby Flora. The mystery of why the structure fell apart preoccupies the locals. Conspiracy theories are rife. Plans to break an official ban on using the original bridge’s hastily built replacement are fomented and a protest march is arranged as residents demand the new stretch of roadway be opened. It’s into the midst of this chaos that teenager Rachel ar-
rives, despatched from faraway Melbourne to the outback by her family to spend time in the care of her uncle Frank, more commonly known to Mulukuk as its priest, Father Nott. Mulukuk’s characters are as unpredictable as the dugout-riddled countryside in which they live: huffing puffing, bustling organiser Gussy; alcohol-soaked vagabond Charlie, back unexpectedly to visit from Alice Springs; insurance investigator Richard – an unwelcome intruder swirling like an abandoned takeaway coffee cup through the lonely red-crusted streets and unsettling those around him with his intrusive questioning. But in Rachel’s eyes, there’s only one who matters: Shane, a tough, irresistibly handsome 20-something miner who introduces himself as Janice’s estranged brother. As Mululuk struggles to piece itself back together, how many secrets will be exposed, grubbed – much like opals – out of the grimy, clinging, rust-coloured grit by a mix of perseverance and luck? - Rosalea Ryan
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WRITERS ALL: Simon Wooldridge, Em Burgess-Gilchrist and Jeff Bray. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
whose work seeks to combine the lyrical and the mystical will be reading a short selection. Wooldridge will read from his forthcoming sports-travel memoir, I Like To Watch. There will be an open mic session towards the end of the afternoon.
Local blues singer, Frank Bell, will perform a few songs midway through the afternoon. The goal of The Write Stuff is to bring together writers, readers and other interested folks in a relaxed, supportive and fun environment, exploring different genres and dis-
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cussing things writing-related. There are two reader “slots” still to be filled and the organisers would love to hear from potential readers at thewritestuff3550@gmail.com The Write Stuff is an allages event. There is a licensed bar. Entry $2.
HAT do you love about the heritage of Greater Bendigo? The Greater Bendigo Heritage Advisory Committee would like to know. To celebrate the National Trust Heritage Festival, the Committee’s Heritage Through the Lens photo competition is on again. Entries for 2017 are open now. All you need to do is take a picture of the heritage you love – it can be a person, place or thing – and in 25 words or less say why you love it. Anyone can enter by uploading your picture at www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/heritagethroughthelens during the National Trust Heritage Festival, which runs until Sunday May 21. Each week one entry will be recognised as Pick of the Week. There will be grand prizes awarded for the best photo and caption in the categories of Primary School (under 12 years old), Secondary School (between 12 and 18 years old) and Open (over 18 years old). Photos must have been taken in the City of Greater Bendigo in the past 12 months and there is a maximum of five entries per person. Photos that are entered may be used for exhibition and promotional purposes by the council.
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Inspiration in sustainability
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HE Long Gully Community Garden is an entrant in this year’s Bendigo Sustainability Awards. The community garden encourages the eating of fresh and healthy food, fostering a sense of pride and achievement for gardeners while providing a meeting place to grow not only vegetables but community spirit. There are 28 plots in the garden, leased by members of the community. Most owners eat their own produce, but occasionally there is an abundance of vegetables which are distributed throughout the community. Young gardeners are overseen by a coordinator who helps organise the larger jobs such as pruning the orchard which supplies, apples, oranges, lemons, apricots and plums. There are seven garden beds available for anyone who wants to grow a supply of vegetables in the garden. The garden attracts up to 20 gardeners on Mondays and Thursdays providing not only a great sense of community and friendship but also fresh food to take home and cook. By entering the sustainability awards members of the Long Gully Community Garden are hoping their effort will be recognised and provide inspiration for other gardeners to join in and share. The Bendigo Sustainability Group encourages community groups, schools, businesses and those with house and gardens using sustainable ideas to enter the awards. Visit the www.bsg.org.au website or the Bendigo Sustainability Group’s on Facebook page for more details.
COMMUNITY GARDENER: Dan Boyd at work on the Long Gully Community Garden. Photo: LIZ MARTIN
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CCESS Australia Group, a diverse notfor-profit community organisation is holding a community event regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which is available to Loddon region residents from the start of next month. The NDIS will provide people with disability the support they need to live a full and independent life. Destined to be the biggest social reform since Medicare, with more than 450,000 people with significant and permanent disabilities across Australia receiving support, to lead a better life when the scheme is fully implemented. People with disability and their
families/carers are encouraged to attend this informative, community event on Monday, May 1 at Pepper Green Farm in North Bendigo. Representatives from Access Australia, NDIA and Intereach’s Loddon local area coordinator will be in attendance to answer questions about the scheme. Topics covered during the session will include how to access NDIS, starting your first NDIS plan, and finding and engaging service providers. Phone Access Australia Group’s Jenny Heenan on 5445 9800 for further information.
INFORMATIVE: Access Australia Group’s NDIS planning session.
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Public tours of Bendigo’s Remembrance Parks offer an often fascinating insight into the lives and times of our forebears
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RETA Balsillie, Larry Wust and Rodney Doyle along with numerous other volunteers have been busy getting ready for Bendigo Remembrance Park’s Anzac tours, focusing on Bendigo people who enlisted and went to war. Some returned and were later laid to rest in the Bendigo Remembrance Park. However, many were not able to be repatriated and were buried on the battlefield. As the years passed many families chose to have their “boys” memorialised with their parents in Bendigo. “We have stories about them all,” Greta said who has researching for years to bring these and many more stories to light. Including the story behind Sir Gilbert Dyett – the first national president of the Returned Serviceman’s League and the Connolly brothers, whose father was one of the first mayors of Sandhurst. Remembrance Park volunteers will also be working on making tributes for Anzac Day for distribution to retirement homes across Bendigo for pre-Anzac day services
Volunteer 14-year-old Alice, under the guidance of Greta, has been locating “Dead Man’s Pennies” a bronze commemorative medallion presented to those who lost sons in the war. “It is important to remember and recognise this service to their country,” Greta said.
It is important to remember and recognise this service to their country Anzac tours will take place at 2pm on Wednesday, April 26 and Sunday, April 30 at Bendigo Remembrance Park, 70 Carpenter Street, Bendigo. Bookings recommended – see the website www.rpcv.com.au for more details.
POPULAR: Rodney Doyle, Greta Balsillie and Larry Wust have been busy in preparation for this year’s Rembrance Park’s Anzac tours. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN.
2017 Bendigo Sustainability Awards ENTER NOW! Do you know a business, group, family or individual who has undertaken a great sustainability project or who has made a difference in our Greater Bendigo community over the last 12 months?
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BOOK FOR THE AWARDS NIGHT The awards night is an evening to celebrate the businesses, organisations, groups and individuals in our community who are making changes towards a more sustainable way of life. Our special guest presenter is Dr Josh Byrne. An environmental scientist, author and a presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia program.
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CASTLEMAINE ARTISTS MARKET is back in 2017 and it’s bigger then ever! Held on the first Sunday of every month, this unique local market now boasts more than 70 art, craft and design stalls alongside music, performances and delicious food offerings. So get the family together, grab a wood fired organic coffee, wander the stalls and watch some amazing local talent.
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AJINDER and Satvir Singh proprietors of the popular Sargun Indian Tandoori Restaurant in Pall Mall have recently received a well deserved, 2016 Menulog Restaurant Award, for best Indian restaurant in Bendigo. Awards are won on a combination of popularity, restaurant reviews and overall customer satisfaction according to Menulog, Australia’s largest and most comprehensive takeaway and home delivery platform. Sargun Indian Tandoori Restaurant, open for dine-in and takeaway patrons, seven nights a week for authentic Indian cuisine.
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T will be a dramatic but welcome change of lifestyle for Murray and Lynne Gray when the hammer falls on the final lot of their unreserved, clearing sale on Sunday, April 23 at 575 Midland Highway, Huntly. After a lifetime of collecting everything and anything the time has come to move on and cash in their collection or superannuation as Lynne calls it of antiques and collectables including a rare Furphy collection, antique furniture and household collectables. “We’re looking forward to going on a good holiday when this is done,” Lynne told the Weekly when we dropped in on her earlier this month while she was preparing for the auction. “If Murray could buy it he would collect it, Lynee said with a grin. Intending buyers will need to register before auctioning begins
at 9.30am as a number system will operate with cash or cheque accepted. The Furphy collection goes under the hammer, at noon and is sure to draw a crowd with collectors from near and far interested in one of the 10 complete tanks, as well as many more incomplete units with an assortment of Furphy tank ends, wheels and shafts. There is also a collection of horse drawn vehicles. In fact there is something for everybody among the hundreds of lots which will be open for inspection from noon until 3pm tomorrow at 575 Midland Highway just a few doors down opposite the Huntly Hotel. Alternatively check out the Kevin Hicks Real Estate website at www.kevinhicksrealestate.com.au for further details.
HELPFUL: Sam Hamilton can assist with a range of ailments. Photo: GARRY PATERSON.
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T Bendigo Body and Soul there are several treatment options to choose from. These include the original Bowtech Bowen therapy, detox foot spa treatments, biochemic medicine mineral analysis and ear candling, which includes Bowen therapy to assist relaxation, sinus pain and drainage. Sam Hamilton a member of Bowtech and the Bowen Association of Australia has the highest qualifications available for Bowen therapists.
The association ensures therapists are qualified and adhere to guidelines and a code of conduct, resulting in Sam being recognised by private health funds and eligible to issue Bowen association receipts. Sam has been a Bowen therapy specialist for 12 years in Bendigo and welcomes past, current and potential new clients to her easyto-find Maiden Gully clinic in peaceful surrounds with free parking. Sam treats men, women and children, babies and the elderly.
Sam has been a professional sports trainer for 15 years and also treats a variety of sports injuries. Do you suffer from back pain, neck pain, headaches or migraines, shoulder injuries or frozen shoulder, TMJ and jaw issues, hip, knee or ankle pain, digestive disorders, depression, anxiety or PTSD and so much more? If so, phone Sam on 5449 7938 or 0448 531 056 for your next appointment.
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• Detox foot spa • Constipation and digestive issues • Incontinence, prolapse, frequent or urgent urination for men and women • Prostate and high PSA • Cold hands and feet • Joint swelling (odema) and arthritis • Poor sleep and insomnia • Hay fever • Sinus promblems • Stress
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LEN Reidy of Bendigo Mobility Services situated in the lane behind the Eaglehawk Pharmacy in Victoria Street Eaglehawk, has been servicing a large range of mobility appliances for more than four years. Bendigo Mobility Services repair and service scooters, electric lift chairs (recliners), electric beds, wheelchairs and E-bikes for numerous institutions as well as domestic clients. “I comply with all the necessary mandatory requirements in the aged and health care sectors, and I’m also an accredited contractor to a number of care facilities in the region,” Glen said. Glen’s previous mechanical engineering background has given him the expertise to keep both young and old out-and-about,
indoors and out with prompt, professional and affordable service to those in need. Bendigo Mobility Services carry an extensive range of spare parts for scooters and mobility aids, and often what they don’t have on hand can be manufactured on site in the fully equipped workshop. “Mobility means everything to my clients,” Glen said. “That’s why I strive for a fast turnaround.” Bendigo Mobility Services offer on-site servicing and a pickup and delivery service for workshop repairs. They also offer a buy and sell service, selling your pre-owned mobility equipment after it’s thoroughly cleaned and serviced. Bendigo Mobility Services 3/89 Victoria Street Eaglehawk, phone 5446 2012 or find them on Facebook.
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O you have finally made your decision on what make and model your new utility will be. Well done. Now it is time for you to decide on a tray for your new workhorse. Do you want a cheap tray because that is all you can afford? Remember your tray will generally bear the brunt of all your hard work. That is where bUTE Trays can help you. At bUTE Trays they take pride in their fully welded steel trays. Not only do they look good they are functional and built to work as hard as you do. All bUTE Trays are standard with a mandrel bent hurdle and your choice of window protection at no extra charge. Owner of bUTE Trays Colin and his son Damien invite all potential customers
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LONG GULLY IRONBARK
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WEST BENDIGO
EAST BENDIGO STRATHDALE
BENDIGO
KENNINGTON
This role is focused on operational improvement within the Lockwood site and is very much a hands on role, you will possess strong influencing skills, whilst providing coaching and leadership to frontline employees to make decisions on daily improvements in their area of work.
The successful candidate will have: • A Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or related discipline) • 3-5 years in the poultry industry would be advantageous • Ability to influence and inspire and excellent communication, relationship management skills • Experience across supply manufacturing • Ability to review processes, recommend improvements, build buy in and execute with excellence • Evidence of practical problem solving and strong analytical skills • Working knowledge and appreciation of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement • Ability to deal with multiple priorities and opportunities, in a fast paced environment • Well-developed Microsoft Office Software (Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) experience • Leadership experience in a team environment, ideally in FMCG manufacturing
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EAGLEHAWK JACKASS FLAT
This newly created position provides an exciting opportunity for the right person to join the Hazeldene’s team.
Key Responsibilities: • Implement and champion lean-manufacturing techniques: including visual management, 5 s, practical problem solving techniques, process control of variation, time in motion and the master schedule • Using the DMAIC model for process improvement and statistical tools/techniques you will make fact-based decisions • Analyse results to identify then deliver on improvement opportunities • Ensure employees have the information required to make decisions • Lead and deliver daily operational improvement, together with working with production management to support daily operations • Lead the partnering with other Business functions to develop an overall CI leadership framework from farm to fork • Develop in consultation key standardization of reports data collection and interpretation of results • Responsible for development and deployment of lean strategy on Site • Work closely with General Manager Plant Operations in the development and delivery of the Site Operating Plan
SAILORS GULLY
GOLDEN SQUARE
QUARRY FLORA HILL HILL
GOLDEN GULLY
Coordinator Payroll Services and Metrics
SPRING GULLY
STRATHFIELDSAYE
KANGAROO FLAT
✓ Regional Lifestyle ✓ Leading Family Owned Business A fantastic opportunity exists to join one of Australia’s best family businesses in the dynamic, global poultry industry. The Coordinator Payroll Services and Metrics will ensure the provision of an accurate, efficient and timely payroll service for Hazeldene’s and all of its employees. Reporting to the People & Performance Manager, the Coordinator Payroll Services and Metrics will take responsibility for providing an effective day to day service for the weekly payroll, ensuring that all matters affecting employees’ pays are processed accurately and in a timely manner. This role is accountable for maintaining company and legislative requirements across all payroll functions. This role will also be instrumental in developing, reviewing and formalising systems of work. The successful candidate will continually review current systems and process to ensure optimal efficiency, and as required provide business cases for the introduction of new technology and then project manage the implementation of any process updates of new technology. This role will operate in conjunction with the Payroll Officer. This is a busy people focussed role and the successful applicant will need: • Proven experience running a large payroll • Extensive knowledge of Payroll systems • The ability to accurately interpret Awards and Agreements • The ability to provide meaningful business metrics • Strong communication and negotiation ability • Relevant tertiary qualification would be preferred An attractive salary package for this position will be provided, commensurate with the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
Interested? Details available www.hazeldenes.com.au. Please forward your application to: jobs@hazeldenes.com.au or post to Human Resources, Hazeldene’s, PO Box 1147, Kangaroo Flat 3555. Applications close Wednesday 1 May, 2017.
To apply, please visit our website at www.hazeldenes.com.au or post your application to Human Resources, Hazeldene’s, PO Box 1147, Kangaroo Flat 3555. Applications close Monday 1 May, 2017.
Hazeldene’s are an EO employer.
Hazeldene’s are an EO employer.
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Junior games kick off THOUSANDS of junior footballers will hit fields around central Victoria this weekend as the Bendigo Junior Football League season kicks off with grading matches. A record 149 teams will be in BJFL competitions, including the new under-15 girls age group. A new club has also joined the league– Heathcote’s under-12 side takes the total number of clubs in the BJFL to 23. “It’s great to see so many kids and families wanting to be involved with the Bendigo Junior Football League, with nearly 3000 players registered,” BJFL manager Norm Sheahan said. “Extending our reach to the Heathcote area is terrific, and
we are excited to have such a proud club as part of our league. We hope that partnership grows in years to come.” A record 149 teams will be fielded this season in eight age groups, from under-nines to the new under-15 girls competition through to under-16 boys and under-18 girls grades. “The under-nines along with the under-12 girls format is a great entry level for young players as it is a very safe modified version without tackling or bumping and provides a really enjoyable non-competitive environment for our youngsters,” AFL CV region general manager Carol Cathcart said. With the new Northern Country Women’s League in its inaugural year and building off
the strength of AFLW, the BJFL has again experienced growth in female football. “The exciting addition of the new U15 girls really strengthens the strategic growth of female football in the region,” Sheahan said. “This season there are 24 local teams compared to four teams in 2015, with clubs still looking for additional players to complement their teams in the U12, U15 and U18 youth girls.” Sheahan said that a host of valuable sponsors are key to the league’s success. “The league would not be in the position it is in without wonderful support from its major sponsors, the Bendigo Bank, IGA and Cavalier Homes, also
Tomkinson Group, Bendigo Toyota and La Trobe University,” Sheahan said. “We are also rapt to have Steamatic support our BJFL Umpire Group with the BUA to provide training for parents to understand the basic requirements of umpiring. “And even though football is one of the most affordable sports around, we are working with the Bendigo Club on an incentive to support and partfund our youngsters whose families are struggling financially.” The first of four weeks of grading games start this weekend. The BJFL is also urging any youngster that still wishes to play to visit its website for further details.
EARLY WIN: Golden Square was too good for Kangaroo Flat in round one.
Hawks ring in new rooms From Page 32
TACKLE TIME: Junior footy begins across Bendigo this weekend.
Thunder set to roll By JOEL PETERSON
A NEW-look Bendigo Thunder will tackle a new challenge on Sunday when the club begins its first season in the new Northern Football league’s women’s competition against Darebin Falcons. The Thunder has been shuffled to one of the metropolitan leagues in AFL Victoria’s restructure of the former Victorian Women’s Football League and will be without several stars from last year’s grand final team. Hayley Trevean, Jess Kennedy, Emma Grant, Bella Ayre and Sarah Last are among the outs, while Elise Strachan is starring ahead of lining up for Geelong in the VFL Women’s league. Among the inclusions are former basketballers Kerryn Harrington and Andrea Walsh, while fellow Spirit player Andrea Wilson has also suited up during practice games. The club will also have the talent of young gun Tiahna Cochrane through the middle, while Leah French takes on the role of captain after two standout seasons in the midfield. “That’s probably the exciting part, that we do have some really good young talent coming
through,” coach Cherie O’Neill said. Bendigo will play in division one of the inaugural NFLW season. That competition will consist of 10 teams from the former Victorian Women’s Football League. Along with the Thunder, Darebin, Deer Park, Diamond Creek Women’s, Kew, La Trobe Uni, Melbourne Uni, Pascoe Vale, VU Western Spurs and Whitehorse will play in the league’s top flight. O’Neill said she expects the competition will be a step up from what the Thunder played in last season, but hopes they will be more than competitive. “The practice matches have been really encouraging, we’ve been able to really work hard on some things we identified in those games,” she said. Bendigo will play four home games at the QEO, three at its home training base at Weeroona Oval and one at Castlemaine’s Camp Reserve. “It’s great to be at the QEO, it’s something that not a lot of players will get the chance to do so they really enjoy it,” O’Neill said. Sunday’s game starts at 2pm.
BIG LOSS: Carlton’s Bella Ayre is one of Bendigo’s big name departures. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
The club’s netball side has also recruited well and thumped the Bloods in the season opening game. The Hawks’ A-grade side take on a Kangaroo Flat side that will be out to bounce back from a loss to Golden Square last week. The under-strength Roos defence could not curb the threat of Gabe Richards in attack for the Bulldogs, who came away comfortable victors. Golden Square meets Strathfieldsaye at Wade Street in the match of the round in senior football. The Dogs mustered a gritty performance to overcome a gallant Roos side, while Strathfieldsaye monstered reigning premier Sandhurst early before producing a late fightback to claim a stirring 13-point win. The Storm produced their attacking best early, Jayden Donaldson emerging as a marking threat forward alongside Lachlan Sharp. Sharp booted four goals on his return to senior football and added some much needed dynamism to a Storm forward line that at times looked sluggish last season. Square should regain Travis Baird, Clayton Anderson and Tom Toma among a raft of inclusions into a young Dogs side. Gisborne hosts South Bendigo in a battle of two sides who produced late fightbacks in round one, and were starved of success last year. South has the Dogs, Castlemaine, Maryborough and Kyneton in its next four weeks, and anything less than being 3-2 after round five would be a disappointing start for the Bloods. Kyneton travels to Maryborough to take on an improved Magpies outfit, while Sandhurst hosts Castlemaine under lights on Saturday at the QEO.
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Friday, April 21, 2017 – Bendigo Weekly
Double fight for Braves By JOEL PETERSON
A TOUGH double-header weekend greets the Bendigo Braves and Lady Braves as they return from the Easter break. Both sides host Albury on Saturday night at Bendigo Stadium, before travelling to Nunawading on Sunday to face the Spectres. The Braves have had an interrupted start to their championship defence, losing Dyami Starks to injury after finally getting import CJ Aiken into the fold. The Braves showed signs of gelling in a win over Sandringham, but then fell to Geelong in the weekend before Easter. Aiken was dominant with 13 points and 23 rebounds against Sandringham before another double-double in the loss to the Supercats. The Braves’ offence is yet to get going without the floor spacing that the injured Chris Hogan and Dyami Starks provide, while Taylor Bell has also missed time. Their defence has not slipped much, and as they regain key players they should pick up on
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GOERS SUFFER BLOW BENDIGO Cricket Club has suffered a blow, losing star all-rounder Nathan Fitzpatrick. The talented 20-year-old is off to coach North Geelong after a year which saw him represent Victoria Country at the Australian Country Championships. Vic Country teammate Tom Mathieson plays for North Geelong, and played a key role in getting Fitzpatrick to the Magpies. Fitzpatrick also played in Melbourne Country Week for the Bendigo District Cricket Association. He leaves a big hole in Bendigo’s lineup, having opened the bowling and batted in the middle order. The winner of the BDCA’s best player under 21 years of age in each of the past two seasons, Fitzpatrick made 212 runs and took 29 wickets last season in first XI action.
the offensive end. Adam Doyle has had a slow start but will benefit from more space to operate in. The Lady Braves will aim to extend their unbeaten run to start the season in their two games this weekend. The Lady Braves sit atop the eastern conference table with a 2-0 record, while Albury and Nunawading are fourth and sixth, respectively. Choe Bibby dropped 30 points in her last outing against Sandringham and has showed why she is one of the most promising youngsters in the country. Tahnee Cannan has also started the season well, doing a little bit of everything in the win over Sandringham. Bendigo’s defence has been its standout quality, conceding just 118 points in its two games so far this season. The Lady Braves tip off at 6pm on Saturday night in the first match of the home double-header.
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SCORING PUNCH: Dyami Starks. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
Heavy losses mount for struggling City FC BENDIGO City FC’s hopes of staying in the National Premier Leagues Victoria competition are slipping away with every passing game, but the club will be eyeing next month’s midseason transfer window to give it a boost and avoid relegation. City is still yet to win a game this season and has been beaten pillar to post in the four matches since an encouraging performance against GV Suns. Since the 4-2 defeat to the Suns, one of just two games in which City has scored this season, Bendigo has lots its last four games while conceding 19 goals. It was thrashed 7-0 by Ballarat last weekend after being beaten 5-0 in its previous two games. While there is no lack of effort from City’s young squad, it is simply overmatched against the stronger, more freely-spending NPL clubs. In a worrying sign, Ballarat sit only eighth on the table, two spots ahead of Bendigo, yet dealt the side its biggest loss of the year.
TOUGH TIMES: City has yet to win a game this season. The midseason transfer period opens on May 22, and City used it to bolster its squad last year when it was in a similar position. The club needs a goal-scoring
presence, however it badly requires more midfield depth and the ability to keep possession effectively through the middle of the pitch. The signs aren’t much bet-
ter for City’s under-20 squad, for which a lot of its senior players would still be eligible. Like the senior squad, City’s under-20 team has claimed just one point for the season and has a goal difference of -38. The threat of relegation looms large for City, and the club has stated that avoiding it is the main goal for the season. Football Federation Victoria’s competition rules state that those clubs finishing in 10th in both NPL2 East and NPL2 West at the end of the NPL2 regular season may be relegated in the following regular season. That would be in accordance with the NPL/state league relegation policy and the competition licence. City’s next test comes against the Archie Thompson-led Murray United on Saturday at Epsom Huntly Reserve. Murray sits fourth in the NPL2 East with 13 points. Kick off in the seniors match is at 5pm on Saturday.
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THE Bendigo Pioneers will hit the QEO under lights tonight against Oakleigh. Bendigo has had an up-anddown start to the TAC Cup season, and is looking to find consistency, especially after half time in its matches. Eleven Pioneers players participated in a 65-man camp last weekend for the Victoria Country squad for the national under-18 championships later this year. Bendigo’s four AFL academy members, Paddy Dow, Kane Farrell, Lochie O’Brien and Jye Caldwell, were all named in the 65man Vic squad. Teammates Jacob Atley, Mitch Kemp, Brent Daniels, Lewin Davis, Bailey Henderson, Darby Henderson, and Angus Schumacher are also in contention to be picked for June’s AFL Under-18 Championships. Tonight’s match starts at 7pm.
STADIUM SET FOR ACTION STATE league volleyball will hit the Bendigo Stadium on Saturday when the Phantoms Volleyball Club makes its Bendigo debut for 2017. The club has recently signed up Bendigo Stadium as a major sponsor ahead of its debut campaign hosting games at the facility. The side has approximately 15 Bendigo-based players. Play starts from noon on Saturday on courts six and seven at the stadium. The Phantoms will field five teams across the grades of the competition.
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New home for Hawks
By JOEL PETERSON
EAGLEHAWK will christen its new Canterbury Park clubrooms this weekend when it hosts Kangaroo Flat in round two of the Bendigo Football Netball League season. The clubrooms have been a year in the making for the Hawks and marks the biggest and most visible stage of council’s Canterbury Park redevelopment. The club is thrilled to finally have them in use. “It’s something that we were talking about before I left to go to Western Australia,” senior coach Josh Bowe said at the BFNL season launch. “After four years away it’s good to see them finally. They will be great for the club and the whole community.” To add some sweetness to the deal, the Hawks are coming off a win over South Bendigo in round one. It wasn’t pretty for large portions and Matt Gretgrix booted six of their eight goals, but the signs were there to show the Hawks will be strong again this season. As always, the side was set up by its stellar defence, featuring regulars Tim Hill and Tyler Miles, one of the league’s most improved players in recent seasons in Brenton Conforti and standout youngster Lachie Atherton. With Damian Wust, Glenn Daly and Sam Harper set to provide run off half-back, the Borough’s defensive unit again looks like one of the competition’s best. The club’s netball side has also recruited well and thumped the Bloods in the season opening game.
4Continued Page 30 WINNING START: Eaglehawk was too good for South Bendigo in round one.
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