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ISSUE 1039 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017

Project uplift BRA bins have popped up around Bendigo this month as part of Octobra, which involves collecting old and unused bras to send to women in developing countries.

Bra bins are available at locations including Fernwood Fitness, Professionals Bendigo and the Bendigo Weekly.

Organiser and Professionals Bendigo director Jacinta McIvor said Bendigo women have donated more than 9000 bras to Octobra in the past seven years.

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By JOEL PETERSON

BENDIGO’S reputation as the city in the forest appeals to many, but an update to a Victorian government planning overlay may make planning developments in the urban fringe more difficult.

The Victorian government this week introduced changes to the Bushfire Management Overlay, stemming from the royal commission into the Black Saturday bushfires.

The commission identified a more strategic and consistent approach to mapping was necessary

Bushfire overlay impacts on planning

and that protection of properties and life should be the number one priority from a planning perspective.

Bendigo is the second most affected council area in the state government changes, which were introduced by planning minister Richard Wynne this week.

The minister elected to roll the changes out without public notification, so council is sending notices

out to the 10,600 property owners affected by the change to notify them of the controls.

Council’s Andrew Cockerall said residents should receive letters this week to notify them of any change that applies to their land.

But he said only owners proposing new developments will be affected by the changes.

“If you’ve got an existing house

and you aren’t proposing any major extension the controls are not going to impact on you,” he said.

Any area of vegetation greater than four hectares meets one part of the criteria for the overlay, with a buffer zone of 150 metres of that area will be affected.

Only the Yarra Ranges council has more properties affected by the changes. In the City of Greater Bend-

igo, the number of properties that come under the overlay will increase by more than 200 per cent.

It triggers the need for a planning permit for certain developments and requires new developments to include appropriate bushfire protection measures.

Among the exemptions among developments from the overlay are extensions to existing homes that are less than 50 per cent of the floor area and constructions of outbuildings less than 100 square metres in size.

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Cash rates remain low THE Reserve Bank of Australia opted to keep cash rates unchanged at a record low 1.5 per cent when it met earlier this week.

In a statement released by Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe, the board said conditions in the global economy have improved, labour markets have tightened and abovetrend growth was expected in a number of advanced economies, although uncertainties remain.

Growth in the Chinese economy is being supported by increased spending on infrastructure and property construction, with the high level of debt continuing to present a mediumterm risk. Australia’s terms of trade are expected to decline in the period ahead but remain at relatively high levels.

Wage growth remains low in most countries, so too core inflation. Headline inflation rates are generally lower than at the start of the year, largely reflecting the earlier decline in oil prices.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve has indicated that it will begin the process of balance sheet normalisation in October and that it expects to increase interest rates further.

In the other major economies, there is no longer an expectation of additional monetary easing. Financial markets have been functioning effective-

ly and volatility remains low.

The Australian economy expanded by 0.8 per cent in the June quarter. This outcome and other recent data are consistent with the bank’s expectation that growth in the Australian economy will gradually pick up over the coming year.

Housing Industry Australia principal economist Tim Reardon said while new dwelling approvals rose marginally in August, they remain below the peaks of 2016, supporting the decision of the RBA to leave rates on hold.

“Residential building approvals are around 11 per cent lower than their peak last year.

The slow-down in activity has been gradual but activity still remains at high levels,” he said.

“The move to record low interest rates was instrumental in bringing new home building starts to an all-time high last year.

“A move to increase rates at this time would unnecessarily compound the decline in activity that is already under way.”

PROPERTY investors have been urged to lodge their tax returns for the 2016/17 financial year before the Australian Tax Office’s deadline of October 31 to ensure they avoid any penalties while maximising the cash flow from their invest-

ly introduced into parliament,” Mr Beer said.

“The new legislation intends to limit plant and equipment depreciation deductions

Investors may feel left in the dark EARLY RETURN: BMT’s Bradley Beer. ment properties.

BMT Tax Depreciation chief executive officer Bradley Beer said while depreciation deductions provide a valuable opportunity for investors to maximise their cash flow, this could be reduced if they incur penalties from the ATO for failing to lodge tax returns on time.

BMT has worked with more than half a million Australian investors to help them utilise tax depreciation to uncover legitimate tax deductions for the wear, tear and ageing of their investment properties.

“Earlier in the year, the government proposed changes to rules surrounding plant and equipment deductions and the proposed legislation was recent-

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Existing investments, where contracts were exchanged prior to 7.30pm on May 9, 2017, will be grandfathered. However, should the new legislation be passed through the senate, the new rules will apply to properties in which the contracts were exchanged after this date.

“Some investors may feel left in the dark about how these rules will affect them and I would encourage people in this group to get in contact with an expert quantity surveyor and accountant to ensure they are claiming every legitimate deduction they are entitled to,” Mr Beer said.

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Vote list boost for survey

By Sharon kemp

THE campaign to convince young voters to enrol appears to have worked in Bendigo, with more than half of 712 additions to the roll aged 18 years old.

Australians also seemed to have heeded the advice of campaigners to post back the survey that first appeared in letter boxes in mid-September.

From this week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will publish weekly estimates of the number of survey forms received for the mar-

riage law postal survey.

As of last Friday, the bureau said it had received 9.2 million survey forms, representing 57.5 per cent of eligible voters.

With more than a month before all surveys have to be returned, campaigners are likely to keep urging voters to returns forms given voting is voluntary.

The pattern in federal elections in which voting is compulsory, is an early surge in voting, trailing off until election day.

Australian Electoral Commission statistics show 450 18-year-olds

were added to the roll in the Bendigo electorate in the three weeks from August 8 to 24, out of a total 712 increase in voters.

Voters aged 19 made up 57 of new voters, and 51 were aged 20 to 24 years.

Females comprised 408 of the new voters, men 304 of the total.

The pattern is replicated across every electorate, giving yes campaigners hope the postal survey result will be a resounding yes to changing marriage law to include same sex couples.

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politics associate Ian Tulloch has forecast younger voters are more likely to vote for the law change, but they would be the least likely to vote.

The addition of new voters, particularly those who are younger, may prove to be a challenge for the Coalition at the next election.

Meanwhile, it was announced yesterday the Regional Victoria LGBTI Local Drug Action group will receive $10,000 from the federal government.

The primary focus of this local drug action team is the prevention of alcohol and other drug-related

harm particularly in the LGBTI community in Bendigo.

Its work will centre on building primary prevention resources for the community and will be a pilot for other locations in Australia.

Through its partnerships, the team will be leading the design of an action plan to increase awareness of alcohol and other drug harms.

It will be led by the Victorian AIDS Council and will be working with a number of organisations, including Bendigo Community Health Services, Youth Support and Advocacy Service and Headspace.

New row brews over med school

solo sail: One lone sailor remained after a busy day on the lake. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

Lake Weroona plays hosts to sailboats THE Bendigo Yacht Club’s Sailability program was in full swing this week under sunny skies at Lake Weeroona.

The program is run by the club, the Cairn Curran Sailing

Club and Sports Focus and gives people from disadvantaged backgrounds or those with a disability the opportunity to hit the water.

The program operates in

numerous countries throughout the world, through activities at 350 local clubs.

The Bendigo program has been running for several years and is held once a month, with

volunteers from both clubs helping people experience being out on the water.

For more information, contact Sports Focus on 5442 1301.

THE proposed Murray Darling Medical School should include a campus in Shepparton, according to a National party MP who claims La Trobe University was amenable to the idea if the project was supported by the federal government.

Euroa MP Stephanie Ryan made the comments in a speech to La Trobe University, which is a partner to the project with Charles Sturt University.

But Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters has labelled Ms Ryan’s proposal as pork barrelling.

The current Murray Darling Medical School proposal is for undergraduate medical programs at Bendigo, Orange and Wagga Wagga.

The partner universities require funding for the school which failed to come during the last Federal election despite expressed support from the Nationals.

The proposal has attracted criticism from the medical students who claim they need more post graduate training opportunities, not undergraduate places.

Ms Chesters said Ms Ryan was cherry picking National Party held seats to allocate medical student places.

“This proposal is hardly practical and another example of National Party pork barrelling and cherry picking their favourite projects for their own electorates,” she said.

“The La Trobe University Shepparton does not have the infrastructure required to host a medical school but the Bendigo campus does.

“The Shepparton campus would need a significant and expensive rebuild.”

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Cash grab land sold

THE Huntly land at the centre of a land banking scheme is part of a lanning application submitted by a new owner less than five years after spruikers used it to raise more than $24 million from option holders who are unlikely to ever see a return.

The option holders, who between 2011 and 2013 paid an average of $40,000 each for an option to purchase lots of vacant land two kilometres east of Huntly, have been told getting their money back depends on recovery actions and potential litigation of the companies involved in the scheme.

That is likely to take years and the asset, the Huntly land, has been sold to a new owner who says he has no association with the companies associated with notorious businessman Henry Kaye that promoted the options schemes.

The Federal Court heard testimony last month from key players in two schemes including the one spruiking the Huntly land, in public hearings conducted by the liquidator PPB Advisory and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission which is funding PPB’s investigation.

The 146 hectares of Huntly land was sold last year by the company that claimed to have a mortgage over it, as a package including a development plan that was approved by the City of Greater Bendigo in 2015.

The new owner, James Morrow, said he planned to develop the land with business partners, in the conventional method of buying lots rather than options.

“We purchased the property as a clean transaction and we don’t have any of that baggage as far as I am concerned,” Mr Morrow told the Bendigo Weekly.

“We are still going through a process of redesigning the plans.”

In a twist, the consultant Mr Morrow has employed to develop the project, Ian Fowler, conducted the development work for the company Project Management Australia Pty Ltd which is also a defendant to ASIC’s proceedings.

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was told he was clean, there were no issues with him and he maintains he has no knowledge of what went on behind the scenes.”

The Bendigo Weekly has seen the latest permit application before the council’s planning department.

All plans except the covering paperwork are dated from 2015 or

We purchased the property as a clean transaction and we don’t have any of that baggage

Mr Morrow said Mr Fowler had been cleared of any wrongdoing in the scheme and had significant knowledge of the proposed development which made him an obvious choice to do the work.

“He wasn’t involved with any of the shenanigans that were related with Henry Kaye,” Mr Morrow said.

“I did get legal advice in regards to his position in all of this and I

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earlier, indicating they were part of the $1.7m spent on property development out of the $24m that was raised.

The cost breakdown is from the 2015 administrator’s report completed by PPB that formed the basis of the Federal Court judgement that placed the companies at the centre of the Huntly scheme in liquidation.

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In the judgement at the time judge Jonathan Beach said: “The schemes targeted unsophisticated retail investors”.

“They appear likely to have been induced to enter into the schemes by misleading representations or misleading or deceptive conduct on the part of the promoters.”

The recent hearings in Federal Court were ordered to produce specific books and records and to get the testimony of 10 people under oath.

Mr Kaye was summoned for public examination and failed to appear but Mr Fowler’s previous boss Michael Grochowski who was responsible for project development, did testify.

Meanwhile, council’s Ross Douglas confirmed the Huntly land now the subject of a planning application was “part of the failed land banking scheme”.

Donation shines light on stupa

THE Canadian gold company that owns the Fosterville gold mine is working to list on the Australian Stock Exchange by the end of the year.

Kirkland Lake Gold is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange but half of its production now comes from the Fosterville mine, 20km from Bendigo.

Australian operations manager Ian Holland said the company believed its share ownership should reflect some Australian interests which also includes exploration targets in the Pilbara.

With the listing, local investors will be able to purchase shares in Australia rather than buying them offshore.

Kirkland Lake Gold’s share price has more than doubled this year thanks in part to the increase in underground gold reserves at Fosterville to more than one million ounces.

The Toronto-based company became the owner of Fosterville in 2016 when it merged with another Canadian gold miner Newmarket Gold.

Since then, the company has released plans to spend millions on exploration in the region and chief executive Tony Makuch has described Fosterville as rapidly becoming one of the world’s great underground gold mines.

The company hopes to be listed in November.

new light: Sameer Syed and Ian Green and other representatives with the stained glass. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN BENDIGO’S Buddhist and Muslim communities have much in common at the moment, including their respective work to construct places of worship near the city.

But a stronger connection is being created at the Great Stupa at Myers Flat, to which Bendigo’s Muslim community has donated an Islamicinspired work of art that will ultimately become part of a meditation area in the stupa’s Peace Park.

Bendigo Muslim community members Sameer Syed, Heri Febriyanto, Atalla Khawaldeh and Selemani Ndikumana saw for the first time on Wednesday plans drawn by the stupa’s Graeme Booth depicting an Islamic garden including a water feature and meditation cave in which the stained glass mosaic artwork will be mounted to catch the sun.

“We have been fond of the Great

Stupa for a long time,” Mr Syed said.

He said the Buddhist place of worship was a sacred space in which it was appropriate to display a symbol of Islamic faith.

The Bendigo mosque committee has just begun work on its own place of worship, in East Bendigo, a project for which it is continuing to raise funds.

The Great Stupa was constructed thanks to funds donated from Bud-

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Mr Green said the stupa committee was a supporter of interfaith in Bendigo and will have installed symbols of other faiths in the Peace Park before next year’s Festival of Light.

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3From Page 1 “Of the 10,600 properties, 10,000 are residential and 9000 already have a dwelling on them,” Mr Cockerall said.

“So there is really only 1000 that will need to go through the planning permit process when they want to build a house.”

The mapping was done by the state government in conjunction with the CFA and the CSIRO and has been included in the City of Greater Bendigo’s planning scheme.

Mr Cockerall says the main areas to see an increase in the number of properties affected by the overlay are in the north-west of Bendigo in areas such as Jackass Flat and Maiden Gully as well as around Heathcote.

The updated overlay requires residents to build to current bushfire construction standards, locate buildings away from the bushfire hazard, manage vegetation and fuel loads, install a water tank and provide fire truck access and in some cases to refer the permit application to fire authorities.

In some cases residents may need to assess their insurance if they are affected by the overlay, but Mr Cockerall says that is an issue council’s planning department has no control over.

“So what we would recommend is to seek independent advice and there is also information available from the insurance council website,” he said.

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overlay: The updated overlay map showing Bendigo and surrounds. Existing areas of the overlay are in orange and green with proposed areas shown in blue and pink.

plan ahead: Council’s Andrew Cockerall briefs media about the overlay.

Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

In some cases residents may need to assess their insurance

A WARMER than average start to summer is on the cards, with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a hot December on the way.

The bureau’s latest climate outlook shows close to average maximums for the remainder of spring, with a rise expected in the early part of summer.

The bureau says the likelihood of above median temperatures through until the end of December is about 65 per cent, but close to average maximum temperatures are expected in both October and November.

The bureau lists the maximum temperature outlook’s accuracy as high, a strong indication that a hot summer may be on the way.

The likelihood of above average minimum temperatures is even higher, but historical accuracy is lower.

It comes after Bendigo recorded its hottest September day on record last month, with 32.8 degrees on September 23 blowing away the previous record of 30.4 in 2009.

Areas such as Kyabram and Swan Hill also experienced extremely dry Septembers, with the lowest rainfall on record in both towns.

Bendigo got just 13.6 millimetres of rain into the gauge after several above average months of rainfall.

Over the next three months, the bureau says median rainfall is likely for the rest of this month before a dry November, with rainfall likely to be below average to end spring.

The bureau’s Bendigo airport site has gone 13 consecutive days without recording any rainfall after no stretches of four or more days without rain in the previous three months.

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Op brings results

By joel peterson

A FOUR-day operation monitoring driver behaviour in Bendigo has returned mixed results, with 30 drivers nabbed for speeding across the grand final long weekend.

That number was down on other areas, but still more that police said they would like to see.

Statewide, more than 2250 speeding offences were registered along with police intercepting 184 disqualified/suspended drivers, 291 unlicensed drivers and 684 unregistered vehicles.

A total of 261 drink drivers and 162 motorists were picked up for drug test offences with a strike rate of one in 560 and one in 10 tested respectively.

In the Bendigo police service area, three drink drivers and one

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drug driver were detected as well as three disqualified drivers.

Thirteen unregistered vehicles were stopped by police, two people were charged with seatbelt offences and eight for disobeying signs and signals.

Although Bendigo’s numbers were not as bad as across the state, police said the Victorian numbers were disappointing.

“Year in year out we still see very similar results whereby a core group of motorists think they can flout the law,” road policing command Assistant Commissioner Doug Fryer said.

“I know that motorists still try to get away with using their mobiles but the very basics of not wearing your seatbelt, I just don’t understand it.

“I find it unacceptable also that over 2200 motorists were

bright lights: Ashlee Browell and Tyler Lowe.

caught speeding, when you break it down that is about 563 motorists a day caught risking not only their lives but the lives of others.

“We know speed not only kills but increases your risk of serious injury.”

Throughout Victoria, 395 mobile phone offences were detected, 549 for disobeying signs/signals, 68 vehicles were impounded and 232 drivers charged for seat belt offences.

The results come off the back of crime statistics that show the number of criminal offences rose in Bendigo in the past financial year.

Property and deception offences were up 11 per cent and assaults rose 14 per cent.

Overall, crime was up by 10.1 per cent in the greater Bendigo local government area.

A light in the night

City labelled an innovation lagger BENDIGO finds itself among the innovation laggers in regional Australia, stuck in its history of old economy manufacturing and mining and lacking what a report describes as business dynamo.

The Regional Australia Institute ranks local government areas on competitiveness in 10 themes.

In innovation, the City of Greater Bendigo ranks 330th out of 563 regional areas, rating particularly poorly in attracting the owners and managers of businesses, and in business dynamo which the institute describes as the measure of the commercial environment in which innovation thrives.

The institute’s report said this environment becomes particularly important as the Austral-

ian economy transitions “away from a resource fuelled boom towards an economy shaped around knowledge and service products (in which) our ability to compete will depend largely on our collective capacity to innovate.”

is becoming a major driver of economic output and productivity growth (and) innovation in regions will be crucial to embrace this cultural shift.”

On the positive side, the report shows Bendigo ranks highly as

“Innovation will the major driver of any productivity growth” “In order for Australia to maintain its quality of life during this transition, we will need a significant increase in national productivity,” the report stated.

“Innovation will the major driver of any productivity growth.

“This presents both significant challenges and opportunities for regional Australia.

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the place of residence of research and development managers, and also in knowledge-based industries.

The headquarters of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank means it is a large employer in the city, in a knowledge-based field.

The bank sponsored the institute’s research, which gives regional Australia better chances of becoming the epicen-

tre of innovation than in the past.

“The digital revolution has further transformed the commercial face of innovation, exemplified by the rise of the born-global ‘startups’ where individual innovators can rapidly build globally dominant products and services, often with little input from traditional researchers,” the report said.

“These innovators are building on the inventions arising from research, turning them into applications that appeal to world markets.

“As such, innovation relies not only on the specialised capabilities of any one business but its surrounding environmental.

“This model means that innovation systems are no longer tied to the CBDs of large cities.”

Bendigo will again light the night to raise awareness of leukemia.

Tyler Lowe, 37, struggled with ill health for two years without a diagnosis.

As the months turned to years and she continued to feel sick and tired, she said it came as a relief when she was finally told the frightening news she had leukemia.

The treatment wasn’t lots of fun and it required many trips to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter McCallum but Tyler said she was relieved that at last she knew.

Three years later Tyler said she’s now in remission and the treatments and visits to Melbourne have decreased.

Her friend and fellow organiser Ashlee Browell has also been affected by blood cancer, but in Ashlee’s case, she had to watch while her father died of the disease.

For both women, their experiences have motivated them to raise money for the Leukaemia Founda-

tion by holding a Light the Night event.

This will be Bendigo’s third annual event and so far Tyler and Ashlee and many other generous people have raised about $28,000.

This year’s event is on tonight at Lake Weeroona.

Fundraisers receive a coloured lantern to carry as darkness falls and celebrate what they’ve achieved.

The evening starts at 6pm with the walk from 7.15pm.

Lanterns are available to buy on the night.

Family friendly entertainment is available including a jumping castle, a barbecue, coffee van and face painting.

For further information or to register for this event go to www. lightthenight.org.au/event/bendigo

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Bendigo & Eaglehawk station upgrade consultation sessions We are upgrading Bendigo and Eaglehawk stations to improve facilities and make them more accessible for everyone.

You are invited to drop in sessions to take a look at the designs and provide your feedback: Bendigo Station (waiting area – Platform 1) Wednesday 11 October, 2017 Drop in any time between 4pm-8pm.

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Eaglehawk Station (waiting area) Thursday 12 October, 2017 Drop in any time between 5pm-7.30pm This $15.8 million project is being delivered by VicTrack on behalf of the Victorian Government.

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Seniors are gearing up for a celebration this week with Phoenix FM opening its doors for the Victorian Seniors Festival.

The open day will be held on Wednesday from 10am to 2pm.

Phoenix FM has a large representation of senior

volunteers and are hoping theday will be a celebration of their dedication to the station.

With some of the presenters well into their 80s every age group is represented at Phoenix, with the youngest presenter just nine years old.

Huntly/Epsom Lions Club will provide a free sausage sizzle on the day and you’ll even get the opportunity to take a snap with your favourite presenter.

There will also be an art exhibition featuring the work of some of the Phoenix FM members.

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Come see for yourself!

The people you see in these photographs are not just residents. They are much loved members of our Freedom family.

We consider it not just our job to care for them. It is our privilege and our passion. Love, decency, respect and kindness are the values we chose to live by to honour the dignity and beauty of the human being at the most vulnerable stage of life. Ultimately they are the values that make real freedom possible.

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Festival of the Moon

The Bendigo Chinese Association will host its Annual Harvest Moon Festival on Saturday.

The event will be held at the Dai Gum San Chinese precinct from 2pm.

Family activities start with a lantern making workshop at the Golden Dragon Museum followed by a Chinese dance workshop at 3pm.

A lantern parade featuring children who participate in the workshop will be held at 3.45pm.

The association encourages children who are unable to participate in the workshop to make a Chinese lantern at home before the event and arrive in time to participate in the parade.

The Flight of the Phoenix, a symbol of harmonious relationships will open the performance schedule at 4pm.

Performances of traditional Chinese dance and Lion Dance supported by the Karen Buddhist Dhamma Dhutta Foundation will run until 5pm.

At the conclusion, members of the public, particularly children will be provided with the opportunity to mix with the colourful Chinese lions up close.

Food and refreshments will be available throughout the event.

Event coordinator Doug Lougoon said for many cultures throughout the world, Harvest Moon Festival celebrates three fundamental concepts which are closely tied to one another.

“The gathering or reunion of family and friends coming together, the giving of thanks for a plentiful harvest and for harmonious relationships and the hope for longevity and prosperity; in essence a good future,” he said.

“The Harvest Moon Festival is a very important celebration for the

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“In China the festival marks when people return home to be with family and friends after the

end of harvest season. In Australia, the festival falls during early spring, so for the Chinese of Bendigo and Australia, it holds a special meaning, marking the end of winter.”

A week of top wine and food WINE lovers will be in their element from today, as Heritage Uncorked kicks off.

It’s a week-long celebration of fine wine and heritage.

For the first time, the Bendigo Winegrowers have prepared a week full of wine events to showcase the finest drops from the region.

Bendigo Heritage After Dark is a relaxed wine tasting and food sampling affair in the historic Fortuna Villa this evening.

Tickets include wine tastings, souvenir wine glass, food hamper box and live music.

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while sipping from more than 30 Bendigo region wines.

This is a casual and fun wine event to end your working week.

Free buses will be available from central Bendigo but you need to book your spot.

It runs from 6pm to 9pm and tickets are $70, which includes wine glass, all wine tastings, individual food hamper and live music.

Saturday is Bendigo Heritage Uncorked, a wine and food event with a difference. It’s a moving, yes moving – like walking – feast of the Bendigo region.

Your ticket is a special opportunity to taste the wines of the Bendigo region, matched with speciality

food prepared by local chefs while strolling between seven heritage buildings in central Bendigo.

It is an event with a relaxing pace, allowing you to stroll from one venue to the next when you’re ready to discover more Bendigo wines, local food and the historical buildings that make the city so recognisable.

It runs from 11am to 5pm and tickets are $120.

The Pop Up Wine Shop runs from Thursday, October 12 to Tuesday, October 17 at Dudley House, 60 View Street.

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LOCAL public hospitals and bush nursing centres will share in a special funding support package from the state government.

This year’s flu season has resulted in sustained pressure on Victoria’s health system with more than 14,000 flu cases reported across the state so far.

During winter there was a surge in people visiting emergency departments.

In August more than 3900 people visited emergency departments each day – the largest on record for the month.

The funding package will

support these hospitals to ensure a record number of patients can get the care they need from emergency departments faster, for the remainder of the year.

Member for Bendigo West Maree Edwards said hospitals across Victoria, including in Bendigo, have been feeling the pressure this flu season.

“This money will be key to supporting our local hospitals to keep delivering the quality care our patients need,” she said.

Hospitals in Bendigo, Castlemaine and Maldon will benefit from the funding.

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A special picnic of hope

NOT TO BE SNEEZED AT: Jacinta Allan and Maree Edwards. times will also enable paramedics to get back on the road sooner and save more lives.

People waiting for elective surgery will also benefit with more people than ever expected to receive surgery in 2017/18.

Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan said Victoria’s dedicated doctors, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers have done a remarkable job in the face of unprecedented demand.

REMEMBRANCE Parks Central Victoria knows first-hand that nothing touches the heart as deeply as the loss of a baby or child.

It is with this in mind that RPCV is holding a Picnic of Hope on Sunday, October 15 at Eaglehawk Remembrance Park.

This commemorates International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day 2017, a day to come together and remember the babies.

Bendigo Health, St John of God, the Gianna Centre and SANDS Victoria are partnering with RPCV to invite families to attend a family picnic day and service of reflection to acknowledge and honour their experience of miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of an infant.

RPCV chief executive Graham Fountain the day will provide an opportunity for family members to join together and acknowledge cherished young lives.

“With one in four parents experiencing the loss of their baby in Australia it is important to recognise and promote the ongoing support of parents and families,” he said.

“It is important to acknowledge the grief families experience and that RPCV are committed to remembering the lives of loved little ones in an enduring and truly beautiful way.”

The day will include a memorial service at 2pm, with time for reflection.

Anyone affected by the loss of a baby or infant is warmly invited to attend the picnic and memorial service.

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The new showcourt and associated facilities are due for completion early next year, an organisational restructure is still taking effect and the Wellington decision looming, meaning there is no shortage of challenges to work through.

But O’Neill is approaching them with an attitude of optimism, all while reinforcing the organisation’s commitment to the community.

He said the stadium will be announcing several major events in the next few months. Despite the big ticket items, the cornerstone of the stadium’s day-to-day operations remains its domestic competitions, which

are growing on record participation levels. “It’s about healthier living for the community, we know that domestic sport is quite strong and that growth in participation are good,� he said. “I think the basketball and volleyball users will be very excited about what we’ve got for them.�

He said he is looking forward to the stadium having a big impact. “The new executive team all have no longer than six months with the organisation, what we want to do from now on is amplify our community leadership and make a stand of what we can deliver,� Mr O’Neill said.

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Mr O’Neill said this week the stadium’s board was still weighing up its options in regards to both applications. “We’ve submitted our application by the timeline to go to VCAT, we’re working closely with our team in terms of what our next steps,� he said. “Ultimately we want to be able to redevelop the Wellington for the population of Epsom and White Hills and everything else will be considered.�

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AS the timber flooring was being installed in the new Bendigo Stadium this week, CEO Nathan O’Neill was hoping the foundation he and the organisation’s new executive team can lay is just as solid.

O’Neill was appointed CEO on Monday after spending more than six months in the acting role following the departure of Jason Wallace in March.

A Bendigo local, O’Neill comes from a background working for Coca Cola Amatil and Carlton and United Breweries in statebased roles before joining the stadium in August last year. “It’s a big step, we’re looking forward to what’s in front of us and we know the 4000-seat arena will provide some fantastic sport and entertainment events,� he said.

Key among his tasks in the job will be overseeing the completion of the $20 million redevelopment, and doubling down on the organisations commitment to its community.

That comes as the stadium weighs up its options in regards to the development of the Wellington Hotel and associated pokies, which have been blocked at various levels of government.

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City to host polio meet

POLIO survivors will gather in Bendigo to address the importance of mental health, as part of Polio Day 2017.

The event on October 21 will be held in Bendigo for the first time in more than 10 years and will be hosted by Polio Network Victoria and supported by the City of Greater Bendigo.

The day will provide those from the polio community the opportunity to learn strategies to assist with maintaining good mental health.

While the focus today is on the eradication of polio, there are many thousands of Victorians, now in their 50s, 60s, 70s and older experiencing the late effects of polio or post-polio syndrome; a set of unexpected new symptoms occurring some between 15 to 40 years after the initial infection.

Polio survivors are Australia’s largest physical disability group.

Between the 1930s and 1960s, about 70,000 Australians contracted polio with many severely paralysed.

Most people recovered with varying levels of disability, going on to lead active lives.

Many polio survivors often experienced difficult and distressing periods in their life, initially with long hospital stays within rehabilitation facilities.

The survivors felt isolation from both their families and the community due to fear associated with the disease.

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for survivors of polio to come together meet other polio survivors and gain a better understanding of the importance of maintaining good mental health and a positive attitude to these life changes as they occur.

“While every polio survivor has had different experiences, good mental health and general wellbeing are vital in remaining

active. We recognise that polio survivors are experiencing changes in their physical heath which in turn has a significant impact on mental wellbeing,” Ms Watson said.

“Polio Day will showcase the support available and provide important information to help polio survivors continue their life journey. It is also an opportunity

for family, friends and carers of polio survivors to better understand the condition and effect on mental health.”

Polio Day will be held on Saturday, October 21 from 10am until 3pm at the Bendigo Town Hall. Tickets are $35 and include lunch. Bookings essential.

To register, visit www.trybooking.com/QCCA

Take a timely trip to try a trishaw AGE will be no barrier in Bendigo this week, with the Cycling Without Age movement making its way to town.

Ole Kassow started the movement in 2012 after wanting to help the elderly get back on their bicycles.

Mr Kassow made it his mission to give less mobile and older people a safe cy-

cling experience using electrically assisted trishaws.

Initially Mr Kassow’s trishaws were only used when offering free bikes rides to local nursing home residents.

But after reaching out to civil society consultant from the City of Copenhagen, Dorthe Pedersen who was intrigued by the

idea the two bought the first five trishaws and launched Cycling Without Age. The movement has now spread to all corners of Denmark and operates in 33 countries around the world.

There will be six trishaws to try at the Good Loaf Cafe in Bendigo today at 10am.

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Time to detox your home THERE is free Detox Your Home service at the Eaglehawk Eco Centre next weekend.

This is to provide residents with an opportunity to safely dispose of common household chemicals without harming their health or the environment.

City of Greater Bendigo council’s Brooke Pearce said Detox Your Home was the safest way to dispose of unwanted pesticides, cleaning products and weed killer that may be stored around homes.

“Household chemicals can be dangerous and Detox your Home is a great opportunity to get rid of potentially dangerous and unwanted chemical products in a safe and environmentally friendly way,” Ms Pearce said.

“Household chemicals can harm your family and your pets, add extra fuel to a house fire, release toxic fumes and pollute the environment for future generations.

“The collected material will be treated and recycled or disposed of safely by a specialist team.”

Residents may drop off the following items – acids, alkalis, aerosol cans, anti-freeze, brake fluid, car body filler, car wax, ammonia-based cleaning products, cooking oil, coolant, detergents, disinfectants, drain cleaner, fertiliser, fire extinguishers, floor-care products, waxes, fuels such as petrol, diesel, kerosene and others, glues (water-based and solvents), herbicides/weed killers, insect spray/ pesticides, nail polish/remover, oven cleaner, paint stripper, thinner/turps, pool chemicals, rat poison, solvents, transmission fluid, and wood preservatives and finishes (oils/varnish).

“Residents should always avoid putting chemicals out with their regular rubbish collection where they could explode, ignite, leak or mix with other chemicals,” Ms Pearce said.

“They should also not pour them down the drain where they could pollute waterways and harm animals and vegetation.”

Less toxic items such as paint, household batteries, fluorescent light bulbs and tubes, and gas bottles can be disposed of all year round at the permanent drop-off site at the Eaglehawk Eco Centre, which is located on Upper California Gully Road, Eaglehawk.

The service is available from 10am to 12pm on Saturday, October 14.

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Mixed views on rollout

SUBMISSIONS to the joint standing committee on NBN talked of business growth and healthcare improvements in regional areas where broadband has delivered increased speeds and bandwidth.

But the committee also heard testimony from regional communities that had suffered a lack of internet and mobile coverage.

“On the business side of things (within) the area, there (are) hardly any businesses,” Robyn Downham, from the Spencer Progress Association on the central coast of NSW, said.

“What we are finding is the community is becoming an ageing population.”

The federal government com-

mittee was established to explore NBN’s activation rates, user demand, usage patterns and trends and it has made 23 recommendations including setting up a reference group to support the rollout of broadband in regional areas.

But a dissenting report written by the committee’s Liberal chairperson Sussan Ley points out minority Coalition committee members disagree with some of the majority committee recommendations and concluded chief executive Bill Morrow had “done a phenomenal job turning the company around”.

“The NBN is Australia’s largest and most complex infrastruc-

ture project,” Ms Ley’s report said.

“In a sense it will be the sinews of the Australian economy in the 21st century, especially for households and small business.

“Critical to this is how fast the network can be rolled out, and what prices householders and businesses pay for access to the network.”

The divide between members has led commentators to pronounce the report a waste of time, and unlikely to go anywhere given the minority members are in government.

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New nets a win for Bendigo’s cricketers LIKE any good opener, those who unveiled Bendigo Cricket Club’s new nets have impeccable timing.

That was the case when deputy mayor Rod Fyffe and Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards declared the new multipurpose facility at North Bendigo’s Atkins Street reserve open for business last week.

It ends years of isolation for the Goers, who until recent years played at the QEO but had no training facilities there.

They then moved to Atkins Street, but

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still had no nets and were training at Garden Gully Reserve in nearby Ironbark.

So when the new $320,000 nets were opened, it was no doubt a relief for not only players but club volunteers.

The new nets feature five lanes with retractable netting, so they can be used as an open space or individual nets.

It is one of two such facilities in Bendigo, with Bendigo United also making use of one at Harry Trott Oval.

“The new cricket nets will be open to the public

at all times, with the Bendigo Cricket Club having access to the storage lockers that house the retractable soft netting to set up the five lanes for cricket training,” Mr Fyffe said.

“When the soft netting is removed, the lanes open up to create a warm up space for football or casual futsal and soccer use.

“Multi-use facilities like this make great sense and allow for maximum use by the community all year round.”

The Bendigo District Cricket Association season begins on Saturday.

Do you have an interest in or experience working with Greater Bendigo’s built, Aboriginal or natural heritage?

The City of Greater Bendigo Heritage Advisory Committee provides strategic advice to Council on a range of heritage matters and is now seeking new members.

The Committee meets six times a year and the membership is for four years.

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MORE than 20 riders will cycle 400 kilometres this month through the Victorian goldfields region in an effort to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Australia.

The Muscular Dystrophy Australia’s Challenge MD Goldfields bike ride will be making at stop in Maldon on October 6.

The bike ride will run over four days, starting on October 5 stopping in Rowsley , Maldon then Heathcote to follow.

Muscular Dystrophy Australia’s Boris Struk said he is thrilled to have ChallengeMD returning for another year.

“At MDA we rely very much on our own fundraising initiatives such as ChallengeMD Goldfields to fund Muscular Dystrophy Australia’s programs, services and research for the Australian Muscular Dystrophy community and it’s extremely important for us to keep these initiatives going,” Mr Struk said.

The physical chal-

HEALTHY CALL: Why not try riding to work?

The work option “ON the bike today?” A stranger asked me as we lined up at the café counter to pay for our coffees, the pannier was a dead giveaway.

“I’ve been riding my bike to work,” she continued.

“I love it. It’s so easy, I don’t have to find a car park…and it’s such a good way to de-stress after work, process everything in your mind, let it all go.”

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

“You’re speaking to the converted,” my friend said to her.

But that’s the thing about riding a bike: you start doing it, and you wonder why more people don’t.

It’s not the first time I’ve seen such enthusiasm about riding to work. People tend to get evangelical when they discover the many good things about it.

A recent Guardian article went so far as to dub riding to work the “miracle pill” and potential saviour of Britain’s National Health System.

Like Brits, Australians are dying from lack of movement in alarming numbers.

Perhaps worse is the impact on quality of life, and on our health system.

The thing about cycling, the article explained, is that even a relatively modest regular ride can have near-miraculous health dividends. It didn’t mention that

it’s also a terrific mood booster.

Being inactive is easier than ever.

But building bike time into your week doesn’t have to mean drastic changes: making a few regular short trips by bike can turn your life around.

The key is finding opportunities to ride – like the trip to work.

Even once a week, even part way. Don’t feel guilty when you take the car. Instead, feel good about those trips when you don’t.

Other rideable options might include: the school run, to the shop for milk and bread; to a friend’s place.

You’d be surprised how little time it takes to ride a few kilometres. Spring is the perfect season to give it a go.

October is Bike Bendigo’s Bike Palooza – one long twowheeled celebration – with events happening right through the month.

“We’re celebrating cycling of all kinds from everyday riding,” president Jac Torres-Gomez said.

Bike Bendigo is working with various partners including the City of Greater Bendigo, whose free Ride2Work Day community breakfast in the Hargreaves Mall is from 7.30am, Wednesday, October 18.

Details at www.bikepalooza. com – Nicola Dunnicliff-Wells

lenge of a bike ride is significant to muscular dystrophy with one in 625 men, women and children affected by the devastating disorder.

Among those are Sarah Heard’s 19-year-old brother.

Mrs Heard participated in the ride last year and finds her motivation for the physical challenge from her brother.

“My little brother is now 19 and has duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle-destroying disorder that means he needs help even for things we take for granted like picking up the dropped remote control or sticking his middle finger up at his big sister,” Mrs Heard said.

“With a round journey of 600km for each hospital visit, the MDA has helped us greatly by employing a nurse coordinator at the children’s hospital to schedule his appointments together just an example of one of

FOR HER BROTHER: Sarah Heard. the many ways the MDA works hard to support the MD community.”

Cyclists will depart from North Melbourne

and ride a total elevation of 2400 metres.

For more information go to www.mycause. com.au

Rest is important after the event PERHAPS the most important topic of all is to understand the stress aerobic-based sport places on systems in your body and how they need to regenerate after a solid training program.

We will talk about what systems need to be rested and how to regenerate them and the most common length of rest required.

What do I do after the Bendigo Cycling Classic?

The human body is magic if you give it a chance The smartest thing to do if you are serious about building exercise into your life permanently is to have a rest week.

A lot of elite athletes and enthusiasts alike struggle with this concept as the endorphins and adrenalin of achieving your goal

are running at their peak after a goal event.

It will feel like you could do it all again tomorrow and rest is the last thing you need.

The reality is the amazing highs of endurance exercise need respect.

Without proper rest the beauty of the sport will sadly vanish into a distant memory and the body will slowly begin to let you down.

Endurance-based sports that are low impact allow a huge amount of work load to be placed on systems in the body that may not fail in other sports.

This is why we need to be careful with structured resting as overtraining is stealthy and you may not feel the onset of it.

Some of the common problems endurance cyclists who skip a rest week every six weeks are such issues as weakened immune

system, adrenal fatigue, electrolyte imbalance, poor stomach function, iron deficiency, low mental motivation, poor sleep, saddle sores, muscular and skeletal overuse injuries, and the list goes on.

Luckily the human body is an amazing self correcting machine.

All you have to do to avoid these nasty issues is take a rest week.

This will give the body time to repair and then regenerate. An added bonus of resting properly is that you will come back stronger and faster.

The body super-compensates after stress or training to any system in need. If you give it time repair it grows stronger.

Some great activities during the rest week to aid your body with recovery are reading, meditation, socialising or doing something for someone else.

The human body is magic if you give it a chance. Your next event will be coming up in no time with friends for many years to come if you rest properly.

Congratulations on improving your physical and mental wellbeing by getting on the bike.

Train smart. – Matt Wallace

You are invited to a Community Forum in Bendigo on Regional, Rural and Remote education.

The Forum is part of an independent review by Professor John Halsey of Flinders University who has been commissioned to examine the challenges faced by regional, rural and remote students and their learning outcomes.

He will report his findings back to the government by the end of the year

In Bendigo the forum is at The Capital Theatre in View Street on 10 October from 9-11am Further Details phone (03) 5441 4251 Light Refreshments Provided.

Authorised by Senator Bridget McKenzie of 279 Hargreaves St, Bendigo 3550

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Feed firm plans mill

THE site of stock feeds company Ridley’s new Bendigo mill has been released as the company eyes construction in 2018.

Ridley has plans for a new mill at Wellsford Industrial Estate in East Bendigo, which will be the largest in the company’s network of facilities.

The current Bendigo facility on Kennedy Street has reached capacity at 160,000 tonnes of feed, with the new site set to be

significantly larger. Ridley recently commissioned a mill at Lara, which will also be dwarfed by the proposed Bendigo mill.

The company says the new mill will serve committed demand from existing customers as well as a new 10-year contract signed with Hazeldene’s, Ridley’s largest customer.

“We are working hard to finalise the necessary planning approvals to support commencement of con-

struction in 2018,” managing director Tim Hart said.

“The Wellsford area is ideal due to its proximity to raw material suppliers, poultry and pig customers and the site’s existing connections to critical services.”

Mr Hart said the equipment used will focus on efficiency and low running costs, and the mill will have on-site storage capacity and warehouses for both raw materials and finished goods.

“The decision of Ridley to support and expand in central Victoria reinforces the importance of the animal production industry to Victoria,” Mr Hart said.

“The feedmill will provide significant local employment opportunities, not only during the period of construction but also for the mill operations and local supply chain including raw material from local primary producers.”

Can we help!

Site clean-up

on a mission: The Morley family.

Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

Family’s bid to end slavery From the quiet streets of Bendigo, to the bustling roads of Thailand, the Morley family are taking their important message abroad.

Jessica Morley, her husband Christopher and their four children will undergo a change of scenery next month as they pack up and move to Chiang Rai in Thailand to join the fight against human trafficking.

“As I speak to people about the realities and statistics of trafficking, it has surprised me that not a lot of information is known about this in-

justice,” Mrs Morley said.

On October 14 the Bendigo community will join the family in their fight to abolish slavery in the fourth annual Walk For Freedom.

The walk will be run by antihuman trafficking organisation A21 and aims to raise awareness about the millions of people working under slave conditions.

“The Walk for Freedom is a great opportunity to bring awareness to the people of Bendigo and central Victoria,” Mrs Morley said.

“Once people start to become aware of the global realities of trafficking they are then moved to be part of the solution.”

Participants will walk wearing black shirts and yellow bandanas across their mouths, to start the conversation that every victim has a voice.

“I have seen this city generously respond to the needs of not only their community, but the world around them,” Mrs Morley said.

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The two-person family

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By Grace Evans

A sudden revelation is what led Bendigo’s Kathy Waddington to self publish her first book, Parent and Child.

After months of collating ideas and having an introduction written, Ms Waddington found herself beginning the start of her very own single parenting guide.

Parent and Child offers advice to single parents on a range of topics like family dynamics, discipline and managing stress.

“I was desperate for literature on single parenting when I began and it helped me to decide on starting the book,” Ms Waddington said.

“It’s a guide book and it was written to empower parents and to help them build strength and courage to be the best parent they can be.”

Sharing her parenting experience was important after spending her young parenting years predominately alone, Ms Waddington now lives in Melbourne with her 15-year-old son.

Ms Waddington admits she is still learning things as a parent and there really is no such thing as a “perfect parent” which she advocates throughout her novel.

“Having something there to refer to during different stages of the child’s life is so important,” Ms Waddington said.

Having understood that all parenting styles and situations are different Ms Waddington values the opportunity to be able to express her opinion to a wider audience.

“I’ve tried to write it in a way that is my opinion and that you as a parent can take what you want from it,” she said.

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own experiences and the advice of others, Ms Waddington found throughout the writing of the novel she liked to reassure her readers that remaining positive is key to a healthy parenting lifestyle.

“You just need to trust your intuition and take on other peoples

advice but then alter it to best suit your own parenting style,” Ms Waddington said.

“I had ideas in my mind that I had always wanted to write about it was just about putting them all together.”

The book is geared towards

single parents of either gender, but she believes all parents would find the book helpful.

After already receiving positive feedback from readers on the book, Ms Waddington is hoping to start her next book in the near future.

Have fun at the market Spring has well and truly sprung so why not spend a few hours at a country market?

The Maldon Market: Hand Made, Home Grown is a monthly farmers and makers market which brings together the very best local producers, artisans and growers.

The market has a selection of plant nurseries to get your garden back into shape for the spring and summer months.

Market coordinator Chris Hain said the event is staging a buskers showcase.

“We’ll have lots of great young musical talent spread around the market to entertain you with their own material as well as lots of popular covers,” he said.

“We have lots on offer this month with the Buskers Showcase and most importantly some exciting new stalls as well as all of our regular favourites.”

There are new activities for children as well. They can play with musical instruments and circus equipment provided for free by Maldon Primary School students.

“We’re excited to be launching this new initiative as part of their Kids as Catalyst program from 11am until noon at the rotunda,” Mr Hain said.

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Promote wellbeing MENTAL Health Week is an annual national awareness event held every year in October. The week will run from Sunday, October 8 through to Saturday, October 14. The aim of the week is to promote good mental health and wellbeing, education, and reducing the stigma associated with mental illness.

This year, the Bendigo Mental Health Week Group will be holding a number of events.

The Mental Health week Art Exhibition will be held from Monday, 9 to Friday 13 Oct at YoBendigo, 45 Mundy Street.

The aim of the exhibition is to activate, educate and engage the community about mental health.

The exhibition is open to work that relates to the artist’s own, or a significant other’s mental health. Last year’s exhibition

featured around 30 pieces, including drawing, painting, sculpture and audio-visual work.

On Tuesday the play, Carpe Diem will be held at the Old Fire Station in View Street. Carpe Diem is a contemporary portrayal of every day Australian males dealing with issues of health, grief, loss and depression. It stresses the importance of professional care in times of crises, and highlights the importance of mate ship and looking out for each other. With the rising incidence of depression and suicide amongst Australian males, a project of this nature is relevant; encouraging open and honest conversation and increased awareness. Carpe Diem is a didactic comedy designed for work place and community audiences; delivering the mental

health messages in a way that is entertaining, immediate and highly relevant.

On Wednesday the Mental Health week Group will be holding “Good Mood and Food” to be held in the Library Gardens at lunchtime. There will be Tai Chi demonstrations and healthy food displays to name a few of the activities.

The Capital Theatre will also host the Comedy “Darkness and Light on the Wednesday evening.

The show was an outstanding success last year and is promising to be an entertaining venture into emotional healing and mental health issues offering humorous, but considerate bittersweet stories with plenty of laughs.

The Sunday carer’s event will be held at the Star Cinema

Mental Health Week Events Oct 9-13

Oct 9-14

Oct 10

Art Exhibition including video presentation

Yo. Bendigo (formerly The COG), 45 Mundy Street, Bendigo 9am-5pm. For more information contact Peter Nelson on 5454 7604 or Rohan Phillips on 5434 6478.

“The book I read again and again when I’m down” – display of information and self-help resources

Oct 10

Oct 11

Bendigo Library, 251-259 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo. During library hours. For more information go to www.ncgrl.vic. gov.au/exhibitionsanddisplays BBQ – BDAC. Daniel Bolger – Aboriginal mental health advocate

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Annual Forum “Like a rolling stone of mental health: destination towards recovery”

The Capital Theatre Banquet Room, View Street, Bendigo. 8.30am -3.30pm. For more information contact Professional Development admin on 5454 7612.

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Dr Debra Campbell, author and psychologist, in conversation with The Art of Healing magazine

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Dr Debra Campbell, author and psychologist, in conversation with The Art of Healing magazine

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Good Mood and Food

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Please see the calendar for all

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Dr Debra Campbell, author and psychologist, in conversation with The Art of Healing magazine

Castlemaine Library, 212 Barket Street, Castlemaine. 5-6pm. For bookings go to www.goldfieldslibraries.com Carers Movie Afternoon

Star Cinema, Peg Leg Road, Eaglehawk.

1-4pm. Respite/networking for carers.

For more information contact Faye Hayman: 5454 7612.

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Mental Health Week

Let’s recognise carers

BY Faye Hayman

Mental Health Week is a time that is celebrated every year to raise awareness of mental illness, and celebrate good mental health.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. A person who has a mental illness can also have good mental health. After all, even the fittest and healthiest person can have times when they are ill. Mental health is the same. People with mental illness have times when they are unwell and need support and care, but a lot of the time they are well and able to have quality life experiences.

Support and care are crucial to help people get through the difficult times, and to enhance the quality of the good times. Mental health services, doctors, psychiatrists and a range of other health professionals play a vital role in recovery; but just as important are the unpaid carers who provide love and meaning in a person’s life. The mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents, friends and neighbours who provide unpaid support and care are the unsung heroes who deserve our respect and thanks.

I often find that carers are great at looking after others, but sometimes need a little encouragement to give themselves the care and rest they deserve.

It’s important that they take time for themselves as this gives them a chance to rest, recharge and reenergise themselves so that they can

continue to provide loving support to others.

Carers may feel that is selfish to focus on their own needs when the person they love is unwell, but actually it tremendously important.

Carers are deserving of the same love and care they give to others, and by giving themselves that care they can ensure that they are physically and emotionally strong so that they can continue to care for the person they love.

Something as simple as an afternoon at the movies, enjoying a delicious afternoon tea and the company of other carers who understand both the challenges and the rewards of being a carer can make a difference. Bendigo Health is providing this for carers with a special carer’s afternoon at the Star Cinema. It’s a way for us to show our appreciation of everything they do.

If you are a carer of someone who has a mental illness please join us at the Star Cinema on Saturday 14th October at 1pm. We would love to see you there. Bookings are essential.

To register or for more information please call 5454 7612.

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A carer’s story

I’m a carer in my 60’s, and care for my husband who has severe depression and anxiety. We have been married for more than 20 years, and had no knowledge of mental illness being present, until what seemed to be totally out of the blue, he became extremely anxious and so depressed that he wanted to end his own life.

Then began the roller coaster ride to seek help.

We initially sought advice from our local GP, and tried out different medications to assist with his depression, but the situation began to escalate after a few months. We eventually hit crisis point when an attempted overdose resulted in an extended stay in a psychiatric unit. It’s now three years since first being diagnosed, and now after several trials of medication we feel we have found the right combination – not perfect but much improved.

Our life has changed so much – unable to plan ahead…

Being thrown into the role of carer brings different emotions – resentment, anger, dazed, unreal, lonely, helpless, drained, exhausted, panicky, sad, trapped, self-pity, traumatised.

Initially you don’t feel as though you are in the right headspace to cope with information about what support services are available, and almost denying that you even need help. We carers feel that we can cope and that it is a form of weakness to ask for help. What rot! I have found that it is so important to learn to ask for help, AND to look after yourself.

Help is out there but it can be overwhelming to navigate the system of support services. Talk to your GP, family, close friends, and counsellors. The latter can be organised either through your GP, a community health service, or look up carer support on the internet. The carer’s support group at Slater House in Castlemaine is incredibly supportive; and being able to discuss your situation with others assists you and encourages you that you are not alone.

Life is unpredictable, but more so when living with someone who struggles with severe depression and anxiety. Each day can be a

challenge and each situation can be different. You need to be able to read them like a book and work out how to handle the situation. E.g. when they are feeling low, are you able to kid them along, or do you console them? When they are feeling good do you encourage them or do you allow them to ‘just be’ in either situation? The problem is their mood can be affected by yours. If you are feeling low and sad, it can sometimes make them feel low and slip a deep depression. What direction will you guide them in them today?

You pretend that things will get better, like they were before, when the reality is more like the status quo. There have had to be unexpected changes in our lives due to financial strains, the selling of our house in a lovely area, and a change to our lifestyle.

I get tired of the uncertainty of not being able to plan, even for the immediate future. I don’t know what he will be like tomorrow, let alone next week, or even for that matter, later today. It feels like a game of pretence. Pretending that I am okay and coping. Pretending that he will get better and return to work. In reality I continue to require counselling and go to support groups to help me, and at the same time encourage and support him.

I need to appear to be in a positive mood, encouraging and supportive, whereas underneath I feel so sad for the person I have lost. And it is a loss. Although he is still there physically, he isn’t the same.

I have learnt, and am still learning, to accept the change and make the most of each day even if each day can be a challenge. At least the challenges aren’t as dramatic as in the earlier days of his illness when almost every day consisted of extreme lows.

We both miss the person of old. At times I have felt like walking away, but my love for him is still strong, and I want to be with him and support him.

And although this journey continues I have learnt to care for myself, be resilient and ask for help, whether it be for me or my husband. *Name withheld for reasons of confidentiality

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Peer support – Continuity of mental health care Mental Health Services at Bendigo Health now includes the Peer Support Program. Three Peer Support Workers have joined the mental health team.

Bringing insight and expertise gained through lived experience as consumers, they work in the inpatient units and in the community. This enables them to connect with people while they are inpatients, provide support as they leave hospital, and follow up with them as they embark on their recovery plans. Feedback so far has been positive: “[It’s been great] having someone to talk to about all the things in my life … [The worker] has talked about lots of things including ways to help my health like quitting smoking and sharing his journey - that’s been helpful” (Consumer).

“Peer support has helped me do things I use to do, like go back to church for food parcels rather than order pizza for every meal, which is better for my health, James has encouraged me to organise my unit as well as start focusing on my health … I think everyone should have a peer support worker, they care and listen and want to help you be better” (Consumer) The Peer Workers are members of the care teams

– patients, families, carers, and clinicians – and have an active role in care and recovery planning. Their contribution to this team and what they offer consumers is unique, and includes: • supporting people to develop their recovery goals; • modelling personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness; and • sharing ideas about ways to achieve recovery goals, drawing on personal experience and a range of coping, self-help and self-management techniques.

There are a number of arrangements in place to support and guide the introduction of Peer Support. An Implementation Group has been established, including the Peer Workers, and Bendigo Health is collaborating with Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the implementation process and in research to evaluate the Program. The mental health Consumer Participation Group receives regular progress reports, and the Peer Workers are part of a local peer hub where peer workers from a range of services can network and share ideas about the Program’s development.

Psychiatric Services Bendigo Health’s mission is to meet the health needs of our community.

This includes caring for people in the Loddon Campaspe Southern Mallee region facing mental health issues, their families and carers.

Bendigo Health Psychiatric Services For all enquiries or referrals please ring the Regional Triage Service on 1300 363 788

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Tips to stay connected

George had played billiards for years and was a bit sick of it. A friend suggested, “I think you should take up chess.”

If you feel disconnected from the world around you because of a change in your life or feel like it’s time to connect to other people, Golden City Support Services have got some tips to share.

You might find the spark to getting involved in something new from a friend. George took up his friend’s suggestion and is now a member of a chess club and plays in competitions.

“How we make connections in our lives is different for everyone,” says Golden City Support Services CEO, Ian McLean. “That’s what we found out from our recent research project; ‘Mapping Natural Supports’.

Everybody has different interests and people’s lives change and take different paths. We support people by inviting them to think about what

sort of life they want.”

Amanda wanted to be more involved in her child’s school by contributing her skills and expertise, so she applied to join the school council. “I thought it would be a good opportunity to meet other parents and help out.”

She asked around about the school council and spoke to the principal. “He thought the council would benefit from the skills I have – so I applied and I was successful!”

Offering your skills and expertise to groups and organisations in your community is a great way to connect to others.

“I knew the people at the community centre who were playing badminton, so we went together.”

Anthony had played tennis and badminton as a child and joined a club with friends.

Here are a few ideas to get you started in building connections: • Take up an invitation from a friend

• Search online for support or interest groups • Browse the library to see what’s available • Check the local newspaper • Talk to friends who have similar interests • Think about the skills you have and

make connections with organisations • Search for local events on Facebook or Eventbrite • If you have a support person in your life ask them to help you The NDIS is a new way to support you on your recovery journey and live a good life in the community.

At Golden City Support Services we deliver individualised services that are about having more friends, more opportunities and more control.

Find out more about Golden City Support Services visit, www.gcss. org.au or call 5434 2777

Connecting with carers “The more information carers have, the more empowered they are …. And they get to know others and to feel less isolated” (Fiona Smethurst, Carer Consultant)

Laughter the tonic for Mental Health Week 2017 “Darkness and Light is no downer.

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“Uplifting. See this show.” Glass Wings Fall down seven times, stand-up eight.

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Comedy gets real as some of Australia’s best stand-up comedians and story tellers share some very personal postcards from the edge in a show that will make you laugh and cry, but mostly laugh!

A combination of hilarious stand-up and stunning storytelling, Darkness and Light features stories about the light, and shade, of being human, as they engage the audience with tales of resilience and recovery in the face of adversity.

Bendigo Health and the Bendigo Mental Health Week Group are delighted to present the comedy event Darkness and

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of Australian young people suffer from anxiety, substance use disorders or other mental illness.

Light, hosted by Cath Styles. Cath has been instrumental in running this event and has recently received exceptional reviews with her shows at the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals.

Three comedian acts will grace the stage - Dilruk Jayasinha, Double Denim, and Greg Fleet.

Be quick to book your tickets to this one off show at the Capital Theatre on Wednesday 11th October at 8pm. The show promises to be an entertaining venture into emotional healing and mental health issues offering humorous, but considerate bittersweet stories with plenty of laughs.

Most of us have a mate or family member who has experienced mental illness.

With the right kind of help, people recover and lead healthy, productive and satisfying lives.

Carer Consultants play a vital role supporting families and carers of people using psychiatric services at Bendigo Health. As peer workers with lived experience as carers, their expertise has been invaluable to Family and Carer initiatives at Bendigo Health. Since starting six years ago, with one position focused on improving practice with carers and families and enhancing policy and education within the service, there are now two positions.

This means there is capacity to provide direct support to carers.

Over the last year, the roles have expanded to include having an active presence in the inpatient units and community teams. The Carer Consultants work alongside staff so that: • contact can be made with family and carers in the early stages of a person being admitted to Hospital (particularly when it’s their first experience of admission) as well as later, when family and carers can be referred by community teams; • a knowledgeable presence can promote awareness of the needs and experiences of families and carers; • everyone involved (consumers, family, carers, carer consultants, clinical and community staff) can work as a team to provide care and referrals to other supports and services.

These changes were made after feedback from families that communication between different roles in the service could be better, and that in the busy environment of the ward, it could be a challenge for family and carers to get the support and attention they needed.

According to Fiona Smethurst, Carer Consultant, this “peer to peer work” is “critical”. It involves going to the acute ward, finding out family and carers’ names, phoning them, offering support, meeting them in the community if they wish, or simply making a connection in case the carer chooses to seek support further down the track.

The role also involves advocating with doctors or lead clinicians and promoting family meetings. With Carer Consultants as part of the team, there can be a better awareness of the situation at home and of the needs of family and carers. This is of great benefit in planning for the person to leave hospital and be supported in the

community. Also, family and carers can be connected with others who share similar experiences, including having opportunity to come to information and education sessions.

According to Fiona, this peer to peer “personalised approach” is invaluable. It might not lead a family member or carer to ask for support straight away, but it plants a seed, and lets them know that support is possible. And the initial contact can be validating and supportive in itself.

“It often happens that a carer comes to a workshop, like mental health first aid, realises there are others in the same boat, makes contact to talk further, and then takes up a referral for support, such as counselling through Carers Victoria” (Fiona Smethurst, Carer Consultant).

At an organisational level, the Consultants continue to represent the voice of carers on Committees, including Senior Management, Quality and Risk, and the Cultural Diversity, and Family and Carer Support Engagement Committee, which is a body that brings together people who work closely with family and carers in the organisation. They also provide the Carers’ perspective in Graduate Nurse Education forums and education for Clinical Staff.

Bendigo Health continues to look for ways to improve carers’ experience and

“We are working to increase ways that family and carers can have greater influence … and ways that we can be more inclusive in how we work” (Cathy Spencer, Carer Consultant) strengthen collaboration. According to Cathy Spencer, Carer Consultant This includes boosting the participation of carers in patient, family and carer feedback surveys that happen when someone is discharged from our service.

Along with this, the Consultants will continue to promote inclusion of families when a person is admitted to Hospital or using our community based services, and to provide support and referral for carers from that point on.

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Bendigo Weekly – Friday, October 6, 2017 Contributions are not guaranteed to be included and may be edited for reasons of style or content. They will not be eligible for consideration if they contain defamatory material, or information of a personal nature which is not in the public domain. Name and address must be supplied. Letters should be no more than 250 words.

email: letters@bendigopublishing.com PO Box 324, Bendigo 3552

Sorry state of Australia THERE used to be a time when Australia was a bold, adventurous, visionary, forward looking country exploring new ideas. What happened?

Well along came Howard, and then Abbott, who took over the mantle of having his foot on Australia’s throat, attempting to erase the last gasp of common sense from any conversation, and we have been going backwards ever since.

At this present moment we are still being lectured by Howard, a former prime minister who was lost his own seat in an election, and Abbott who was booted out of the present collection of unrepresentative swill, with the opportunity of any sensible conversation of the topic in hand met with fear and prejudice.

This is not the Australia that most of us were brought up in, now being divided by backward thinking politicians who have no idea what the public want, because they only choose to treat them with any respect at election time.

Well, I believe those days are over. If anyone requires convincing just look at this present fiasco, where they cannot or will not make a decision unless it benefits themselves.

But the time is coming when they will have to justify this nonbinding non-compulsory waste of $122 million.

It is time we took our country back both from illegitimately elected people, who by this “oversight” have shown their incompetence and contempt for the system, and others who would like nothing else than see the country divided, pitting friends against friends, will never have to justify their actions while drawing hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money, so isn’t it time that these people were exposed as what they are, simply opportunists – overpaid ones as well.

Really, how thick are some Australians? Enough is enough.

Ken Price, Eaglehawk

Poor planning WELL done city planners or should I say “unplanners.” For a long, long time now the central business district of Bendigo, once recognised as Mitchell Street, Hargreaves Mall and side streets off of these two main areas, has been slowly dying.

Walk along both sides of Mitchell Street and Hargreaves Mall and you will notice the very large

number of empty shops.

By reducing the speed limit less and less potential customers will want to shop there.

The traders who will mostly benefit from a speed reduction in the CBD will be those in the outer suburbs, like Strathdale, Centro Lansell, Epsom shopping centre, Eaglehawk, Strath Village and the like.

Drivers will be too frustrated and in fear of speeding fines to want to drive in the CBD. Drivers transport shoppers to the CBD, if cars are discouraged, there will be no reason for additional safety for pedestrians, as they will not be there.

I would have expected that any town planner or councillor would have considered the continuing closure of businesses in the CBD before even considering this thoughtless suggestion.

A pedestrian crossing outside the front door of the Capital theatre is a great idea. The opportunity for shoppers to walk between all of the shopping areas in the CBD is a great idea.

However, what thought has been given to the amount of time it will take the average person to walk to an area, browse the shops and purchase items before the time runs out on the one-to-two-hour parking space they are occupying?

I believe the Bendigo planners and councillors need a serious education in business planning and infrastructure needs.

Brian Kemp Golden Square

None of his business IN his letter, “Certificate consequences”, Bendigo Weekly, September 28, Mr Ashby wonders about what information would be included on a birth certificate of a child adopted by a same-sex couple.

So why does he want to know?

If he really does want answers to these questions, he can try to find out in the following ways.

Firstly, he could seek out some same-sex couples who are already caring for children and ask them what is on each child’s birth certificate, and explain to the couples why he feels it is important that he should know.

He could explain that he is making this request in the interests of the child’s gender identity.

Secondly, he could contact Births, Deaths and Marriages and ask them for a list of all births recorded, and the information contained in those records, of children

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known to be in the care of same-sex parents.

He could also request this information be available to anyone, like himself, who feels the need to be privy to it, come the time when marriage equality is legal.

He could explain that these requests arise from his concern that as a result of same-sex parenting, there may some doubt as to what the child’s gender actually is.

However, Mr Ashby should not be at all surprised to be told by all parties that these instances are covered by strict privacy laws, and since they are none of his business in the first place, he is not entitled to have any of this information.

Such inquisitiveness has nothing to do with the marriage equality debate. Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten are under no obligation to express any opinions on this matter in this context either, for exactly the same reason.

Julie Hopper, Bendigo

Allow No voters to speak MARGOT Spalding wrote a letter to the editor titled “Time to believe”, Bendigo Weekly, September 22.

She uses the words, bigotry, discrimination and equality four times each. She is implying that if you don’t vote “yes” for same-sex marriage you are a bigot, a discriminator of equality.

Bigotry is a very old word and

has the aspect of disagreement to the current creed/laws.

Tanya Pilbersek, deputy leader of the Labor Party in 2015 stated, “We changed 85 laws at the time, removed every piece of legal discrimination against gay men, lesbian or same sex couples on the statute books”.

So Believe in Bendigo, equality has been dealt with.

In Canada after 12 years of SSM, the majority of LGBTQI have not bothered to get married. If it was about equality, don’t you think they would avail themselves of it?

If you are inclusive as you say, you will allow the No voters to talk about their concerns.

When shops in Bendigo have involved themselves with “It is okay to say No”, management have been approached and told to pull them down or be boycotted. This is before the law has been changed.

Tim Pryse, Bendigo

Thank you to library I would like to congratulate Vivien Newton and her staff at the Bendigo Library on creating such a wonderful tribute to my Great Aunt, the late Dorothy Steel.

Dorothy was educated at Wedderburn before transferring to Bendigo High School, where she completed her education.

She returned to Bendigo High as a teacher in 1943. In 1951 she

was promoted to Senior Mistress. In 1959 she became the first principal of the new Bendigo Girls Secondary School at Flora Hill.

She retired in 1965. At the time of her death in 1977 a memorial service, which was unique to Bendigo at the time, was held so her many friends could honour her.

Her family funeral service was held in Wedderburn. In 1981 a cabinet was presented to the Bendigo Library to honour her memory. This cabinet is housed in the Family History area of the library.

Vivien and her team have created their tribute in the cabinet; it contains many memories of her lifelong dedication to the youth of Bendigo.

Pat Wheelhouse, Golden Square

Cruel and irresponsible ONE evening recently a vehicle hit a kangaroo on the Bendigo-Pyramid Road. The driver continued on his way, leaving a severely injured animal in the middle of the road – a cruel and irresponsible action.

When an animal is injured on the road the police or a wildlife rescue organisation such as WRIN should be called to deal with it.

Leaving an injured animal to die a slow, painful death is neither moral nor legal and may be a risk to other road users.

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Never give up

IN an ever-changing world where standing still means you’re going backwards, no one can afford to ever take anything for granted.

One of the prices Bendigo has to pay for being a city admired by many other cities is that these same other cities want to be like Bendigo, or more specifically, to have some of what we have and do so well.

Consider our art gallery’s reputation as one of the leading galleries in regional Australia, in a city that punches well above its weight on all things culture.

Our ability to lure high profile, big ticket exhibitions of international standard has not gone unnoticed, and Bendigo has inspired other regional galleries to similarly up the ante in recent years.

While that’s a win for culture and for residents in other communities, it also means we may not stand out as much as we once did, and that we have to keep working to continually improve every single aspect of what we do as a city seek-

Editorial Comment ing to be regional Australia’s most liveable.

Ballarat’s current campaign for a 59-minute train service to Melbourne is another example where Bendigo can ill afford to be complacent.

That campaign enjoys strong support from the local business community and the City of Ballarat, and it’s not gone unnoticed.

Our service to Melbourne will never be as quick as Ballarat’s – that’s the price we pay for being over the Great Dividing Range and further from Melbourne, but Bendigo needs to be very wary of any advantage Ballarat might gain from improvements along its rail corridor.

Those improvements have the capacity to influence business decisions of companies looking to

establish or relocate, and one city’s gain can also be another’s loss.

Bendigo also wants and needs faster trains, within the infrastructure confines that exist.

We also want and need more trains and carriages.

It’s well known and accepted that more commuters arrive at Bendigo station each morning than leave our fair city, but once again, the commitment to continuous improvement can only be of benefit to commuters, our economy and the broader community.

There’s also healthy competition and rivalry among regional cities to lure industry and jobs, future government contracts or to replace other businesses that may have closed down or moved elsewhere.

Again, we need to be vigilant.

Take nothing for granted and continue to support local companies and local jobs, while at the same time looking for any external assistance or opportunity to be better, and to do better.

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By LISA CHESTERS Federal Member for Bendigo

ONE of the highlights of the Elmore Field Days is to meet with the real innovators of the agriculture industry and to learn firsthand how their products will help farmers and modernise farming methods.

Increasingly these new systems and products need fast reliable internet and telecommunications.

For many this is a problem and the federal government is entirely to blame.

At the Elmore Field Days, and almost daily in my office, local constituents including farmers raise the failures of the government’s NBN rollout and the importance of internet connectivity for their farm, business, house and regional communities.

One farmer who has access to fixed wireless NBN said that he was now able to monitor in real time fence and stock movements.

Having experienced big financial losses due to livestock theft, this technology is vital to catching these criminals.

Another farmer was able

to monitor soil moisture ensuring watering of pasture paddocks only occurred when absolutely needed and also prevented overwatering. However, others said that they were unable to adopt these types of technologies, or many of the technologies on display at the field days, because of a lack of connectivity.

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for the recommendations to be implemented to ensure the NBN rollout meets the needs of current and future internet users.

These recommendations are the first steps to fixing the NBN mess.

The committee had consulted with business, industry and residents over a 12 month period and identified systemic issues of faults,

There is a digital divide in our country and it’s time the government acted Sky Muster satellite service – forget it. If you’re too far from the node – forget it.

If you don’t have line of site to a fixed wireless tower there is a significant cost to install mini towers and relay equipment to ensure full coverage across your property.

The recent report compiled by the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network included 23 recommendations to improve the future course of the NBN and get the project back on track.

Labor MPs are calling

failed connections, reliability and chronic speed issues occurring across the network.

The committee has highlighted 23 recommendations to help improve customer service, technology improvements, handling of complaints and transparency.

These include the government directing and enabling NBNco to complete as much as possible of the remaining fixed line network using FTTC at a minimum (or FTTP), and require NBNco to produce a costed plan and timetable

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Another recommendation is the urgent need for new consumer and supplier rights which provide protections, wholesale service-levels and remedies for service failures and the introduction of a new business grade product specifically geared towards small business.

Also on the list is the introduction of a regional and remote reference group to support the rollout of the NBN in rural and remote Australia.

At the Elmore Field Days I had the chance to ask regional Australians if they feel the recommendations will help their cohort receive stronger infrastructure. The short answer was yes.

The government must at a minimum implement these recommendations which will deliver improved outcomes for regional and rural communities.

It is imperative rural and regional Australians are given the same technology as their city counterparts.

There is a digital divide in our country and it’s time the government acted and fixed this NBN mess.

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Steve finds himself in hot water, or more realistically cold

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T is often said that you do not miss something until it’s gone.

This certainly came true last weekend when the hot water ceased to flow.

We had a fault with the heating and after the plumber had been the heating was fine.

Trouble was, the hot water stopped working.

The first time I noticed this was mid-shower.

The sneaky system managed to run just enough to trick me into thinking all was well, and then cold. Cold water.

Some people swear by cold water showers, well not me.

I realised what had happened and turned off the water.

I started yelling for the long-suffering Mrs Kendall, but I could hear her on the phone, so no luck there. But after a while I hoped she could fix the problem, so I yelled again.

I yelled a variety of names, all of them polite, but she left me languishing, wet and bedraggled.

It was then I remembered we had another shower in the shed.

It was there for while things were being built, and what’s more it’s on a different system.

Mrs K was still yakking, but I finally made enough noise and she came to my aid.

She could barely stop herself from laughing, in fact she laughed a lot, but then went off to get a dressing gown for me to make my journey to the shed to finish off the shower.

I don’t know why she thought seeing me cold and wet was funny, but she did.

Now the shower in the shed had not been used for

a while, in fact I had almost forgotten it was there, but the spiders seemed happy with it, and quite a bit of dirt had accumulated, but I was far too cold to worry about such minor points.

I could hear Mrs K chuckling still, but still failed to see the joke.

Finally I was warm again and clean. A vast improvement.

The shed was cold so I half wrapped myself in the gown and towel, forced on some slippers and staggered back across the yard.

I must have looked a sight, because my feet were wet and the slippers did not slip on at all, so I was half walking half

tripping.

I climbed the back steps without fixing the slippers and almost (note almost) took a tumble. It was a close thing, and I think I would have done some damage to myself and the steps.

Thankfully Mrs K did not see the stumble, so at least the laughing had calmed a bit.

It may be a first-world problem, but I really will be happy when the plumber manages to fix the hot water.

In the meantime I will work out how to turn off the heat next time Mrs K steps in.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

- Steve Kendall Twitter@stevekendall1

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OCAL Uniting Churches will host a great outback barbecue on Sunday, October 15 to raise funds for Frontier Services and help those in outback Australia doing it tough.

There are significant mental health issues and people struggling with social isolation who need a hand.

Eaglehawk/Long Gully/Marong Uniting Churches are supporting Frontier Services to provide practical and pastoral care as they have done for the past 100 years.

Friends, family and community members are invited to meet at the Marong Uniting Church for the barbecue which will raise money and encourage others to show their outback Aussie spirit.

There will be barbecue lunch and lots of fun with kangaroo races and a gumboot toss. It’s a noon start, High St, Marong, $5 per person. For more details call 0407 844 95.

AUSSIE SPIRIT: Kangaroo races will be part of the fun.

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ARRY Oldmeadow will speak on the life and experience of the Lakota visionary and healer Black Elk (18631950) at an event on Monday.

This will be in the context of the history, cosmology and spiritual life of the American plains Indians and the metaphysics of nature.

It will also include the more general significance of indigenous traditions and the fate of nomadic peoples, including the indigenous people of Australia.

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Reliving the agony of her parallel experience, Ellen steps in, channelling her professional research skills and intuition into the most important investigative story of her highprofile career.

Suspicion ricochets back and forth between Lycke’s estranged parents, emotionally distant stepmother and cocky tennis coach, Petter, a young man whose sexually threatening behaviour unnerves Ellen when he agrees to be interviewed.

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HEN eight-year-old Lycke Höök vanishes from a neighbourhood tennis complex in Stockholm, Sweden, it’s not only members of the little girl’s immediate family who are traumatised.

For TV news crime reporter Ellen Tamm, Lycke’s unexplained disappearance unleashes still-ragged recollections of a terrifyingly similar upheaval in her own childhood two decades earlier.

Delivered to her regular Friday afternoon coaching session by her father’s new wife, Chloé, unaware that the lesson has been cancelled, Lycke is left standing alone outside the courts.

It’s a cold, wet late-May evening.

By the time mother Helena arrives two hours later to collect her daughter, Lycke is gone.

Initially, Stockholm’s police are reluctant to accept the situation as anything more than a disgruntled child having run away from an unhappy existence juggled between two combative households.

Time that could be spent searching is frittered away, with few officers assigned to the case and even fewer

Featuring much-loved favourite activities and many new additions, Santa’s Magical Kingdom will once again capture the hearts of kids and their families as they join Santa, Mrs Claus and Rudolph in sharing the magical Christmas spirit.

Daybreak is at 22 Lawson Street, Spring Gully and the event is on Monday from 7pm until 9pm. Cost $25, members $20.

Register your interest on 0429 175 176 or email daybreak@bendigo. net.au

Under the Big Top at Caulfield Racecourse from 18th November to 23rd December This Year Santa’s Magical Kingdom will feature: • A giant Pirate Ship with Captain Cook, Tinkerbell and Peter Pan on board.

Embark for fun craft activities in a land of make believe.

• A new Candy Academy where kids can decorate and then nibble at their Gingerbread Men. • Snowland this year will be visited by the Snow Fairy who will scatter her magical fairy dust on all the kids who visit her Santas Magical Kingdom delivers a Christmas wonderland full of activites that will capture the imagination of children and parents everywhere.

Be amazed as you see the magic of Christmas come to life!

Dates: 18 November to 23 December, 2017 Where: Big Top at Caulfield Racecourse, Station St, Caulfield East Tickets: Family and single tickets from Santa’s Magical Kingdom booking office: call 1300 307 740 or see www.ticketmaster.com.au www.santasmagicalkingdom.com.au Send entries to: Santa’s Magical Kingdom Competition c/- Bendigo Weekly P.O Box 324 Bendigo Vic 3552. Entries close 20/10/17 Name _____________________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________________ Phone Number_______________________________________________________

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Comics and Cosplay I

T will be comics and toys galore with the Bendigo Record, Comic and Toy Fair at the Bendigo Exhibition Centre on Sunday, October 15.

You can expect to see the usual collector’s market, scattered with around 100 tables filled with collectables.

There will also be a cosplay contest which will raise funds for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation, and organiser Peter Pascoe will be auctioning off four artworks for the same cause.

The fan zones will be making a comeback with several Star Trek and Star Wars fan groups that will feature alongside a game zone for all ages. There will also be guest speakers for the first time at the fair.

Come dressed in your favourite cosplay for the chance to win some prizes.

HREE years of song writing, rehearsing and heavy gigging reaches a landmark for Kerr’s Cur next week with the release of their eponymous debut album.

Kerr’s Cur showcases the broadranging influences of the Bendigobased indie garage band’s front man, Mr D. It’s his take on various aspects of modern life – warts and all.

The three-piece launch their album at the Golden Vine next Friday, October 13.

It’s the first gig in a nine-date tour that also takes in Ballarat, Geelong, and various inner city Melbourne venues.

“All the songs are pretty selfindulging really,” he said.

“They’re written about how I feel, or are a projection of myself in an imagined situation.”

Kerr’s Cur features 12 original tracks. Curiously perhaps, it’s a vinyl-only release – albeit accompanied by a digital download voucher. It’s interesting to again be thinking about albums in terms of sides.

The album is self-produced, and was mixed by Alex Bennett at Sound Recordings in Barkers Creek.

Opening track What Went Wrong? kick starts proceedings with a pounding, almost rockabilly beat.

“It’s about the human condition,” Mr D said.

“Society has had massive technological advances in recent years, but humans haven’t necessarily evolved at the same pace.”

End of Days, from their first EP, has been remodelled for

KERR’S CUR the album, as has the haunting, disturbing Edinburgh Place; Mr. D’s vocals reaching previously unscaled heights.

Slow Love is a recent-ish composition.

“In February we were rehearsing before a big Bendigo gig. I showed the song to Mr E (drums) and Mr S (bass). Within an hour it was done. What you hear on the album is what we recorded that afternoon.”

I Fell Down has a distinctly postpunk feel – reminiscent in parts of Joy Division.

The song writer is tight-lipped about its origins though.

“I’m not going there,” he said, ending that line of enquiry.

The album closes with Du Kannst Singen – a track they rarely play live.

Like Slow Love it’s a song that Mr D presented to his bandmates

just an hour before they recorded it.

“In one take,” he stresses.

Kerr’s Cur manages to very closely match the band’s energetic, back-to-basics, live and often raw garagey sound.

It’s an album that can be danced to, or if the lyrics are more carefully scrutinised, one that should be listened to in a dark room.

Mr D has been playing in bands since his mid-teens. Something about Kerr’s Cur though, has clicked.

“There’s a kinship with these guys that I haven’t had in 30 years in other bands,” he says of bassist Mr S and drummer Mr E. Kerr’s Cur play at the Golden Vine on Friday, October 13. Support comes from Midweek Blues and Jess Skye. Doors at 8pm, admission is $5.

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EXT Sunday, October 15 – also at the Golden Vine – one of Bendigo’s favourite musical sons plays a fundraiser to help fund his trip to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis early next year.

Bill Barber recently won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s Solo/Duo category award for 2017. He goes on to represent MBAS in the US in January.

The event will help fund the young bluesman’s trip.

And he has pulled together a stellar line-up to entice punters.

Joining Barber for the afternoon are John McNamara, Highway 79, Alister Turrill, Jarrod Shaw, Dave Diprose and others.

Doors at noon on Sunday, October 15. Admission is $15.

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Lockwood Ward Councillor Tour Mayor Cr Margaret O’Rourke and Lockwood Ward Councillors will visit Mandurang South, Lockwood South and Ravenswood as part of the Lockwood Ward Tour on Thursday October 12.

It will be a listening tour, with Councillors and senior staff stopping in three locations to meet with residents. They will also inspect works currently underway in the ward.

Residents are welcome to attend one of the following opportunities: 9.30am - 10.30am Mandurang South Hall, Hannans Road, Mandurang South 12noon - 1.30pm Lockwood South Hall, 784 Calder Alternate Hwy, Lockwood 3.30pm - 4.30pm Belvoir Park Golf Course, Ravenswood

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FINE VOICE: The Jubilate Choir.

Choir at the church A

S part of Bendigo Seniors Week, which starts on Sunday, the Jubilate Choir will perform.

They will be part of the Seniors Celebrate Afternoon on Thursday from 1.30pm at the Bendigo Baptist Church in Junortoun.

The Melbourne choir of about 60 members started in 1975 and has performed in most states throughout Australia and has also travelled overseas to countries such as Hol-

land, USA, Canada, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.

Committee member Frank Kinsman said we are very fortunate to welcome them to Bendigo.

“They seldom have the time to perform at regional centres,” he said The afternoon will include Community Hymn Singing led by Stephen Higgs and accompanied by the seven-piece Hymns Alive Band.

Competitions will give everyone the opportunity

to win some interesting prizes.

The afternoon will conclude with afternoon tea.

There is no charge, but donations will be appreciated to help defray costs.

Facilities are senior friendly with no steps to hinder wheelchairs and walkers, and people can be dropped off under cover at the door.

The programme has been organised by Bendigo Combined Churches.

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HEN I began this series about Herbert Keck, our readers will recollect that mention was made of how he had approached the Bendigo council in 1890 in respect of depositing the city’s night soil on his land.

A number of times in the past months mention has been made of a Bendigo City Council contractor Martino Ferrari, popularly called Martin.

Ferrari’s name immediately evokes the imagination as to the name’s Italian origins, in fact the name is also found reasonably frequently in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

Almost immediately following the publicised discovery of gold in Victoria many hopeful immigrants made their way to the colony, including men from the northern Italian province of Sondrio and others from Ticino.

By the 1870s the Bendigo area had a sizeable population of Italian speaking people, from both Italy and Switzerland.

Among these hopeful men was Martino (Martin) Ferrari. Ferrari came from Tirano, Lombardy, Sondrio, Italy where he was born in 1845.

The vast majority of people living in those mountainous areas were poverty stricken, which was one of the motivations to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

Many of the people from the region in question made their way to either a German or English port in order to secure a passage on a ship bound for Port Phillip.

In the case of Martino Ferrari, he secured a passage on the sail and steam paddle ship the Florence

CARTER: Martin Ferrari.

Nightingale, docking in Melbourne on April 4, 1865.

Entry into many countries for immigrants during that period did not require a passport, and as long as the person passed health checks they were accepted.

In the case of Italy, after unification in 1859, a passport was legally required.

Passports were issued by the Comuni di Tirano.

However in the mountainous north officialdom was very thin on the ground and many did not comply with the kingdom’s requirements.

As so great a number of people left that region, it became known in the English speaking world as the “Ireland of Lombardy”.

Young men who did not wish to be drafted left the area, if one was 18 years of age you could not leave when applying for a passport, as there was a requirement of two years compulsory military service.

Had Martino Ferrari completed his military service before deciding to leave Tirano; this question is at this stage unable to be answered?

Half of the young men, from the Lombardy region who immigrated

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With halloween just weeks away now is the perfect time to get on down to Fantacia Fancy Dress hire’s massive closing down sale, with hundreds of costumes and party lines at never to be repeated prices.

Why hire when you can buy for the same price?

After more than 13 years of supplying Bendigo with a range of costumes and associated novelties, the time has come for irene Riordan to move on, so all stock must go. there are still racks and bins of stock to go, so there is bound to be a costume,

mask or wig for any occasion.

“Super hero costumes have always been popular, especially since i’ve been letting them go for the regular hire price,” a busy irene said.

“A lot of stock is well under cost price with many items at half price.”

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 6,7,8 Laanecoorie Gold Bash: Three days of action packed detecting activities. Displays, stalls and equipment.

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Gold panning and metal detecting for kids. Detector training for novices through to the seasoned prospectors. Gold buyers on-site.

All proceeds to: Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation. Laanecoorie Lakeside Park, 58 Brownsbills Road, Laanecoorie. Details: 5435 7303.

Saturday, October 7 LQ Outdoor market: 10am to 2pm.

More than 30 stalls, face painting, music, barbecue, jumping castle, plus much more. 108 Lowndes Street, Kennington. Live music.

Gala Sash Ball: Spring Gully Hall, 8pm to late. Music by Family Rhythm dance band. Good program, prizes and raffle, hot and cold supper. Evening wear optional. Sashes to be awarded to a lady and a gent.

had made their way to Australia.

Upon his arrival in Melbourne Martino’s movements are unknown but it could be assumed that he had first made his way to Daylesford where there were a significant number of Italian speakers at that time both Italian and Ticino Swiss.

It is possible that there were even relatives in the area, however he went across to the Maryborough goldfield and there met Liverpool born Ann Jane Hitchcock whom he courted. Ann Jane and Martino were married at Chinaman’s Flat on November 19, 1869.

The young Ferrari family moved to Bendigo soon after the mining boom of the early 1870s and he established himself as a carter.

Many of the Italian speakers in the Bendigo area at that time had become wood cutters and charcoal manufacturers, the majority were still as poor as they were when they were living in their home countries.

Both wood and charcoal were required by the mining companies. Obviously to be a carter Ferrari had elevated himself financially as he had to have horses, carts and land on which to graze his animals, which then was off Neale Street.

Being a good manager Ferrari gradually increased his numbers of horses and carts and then secured contracts, one of which was collecting the pans of night soil for the City of Bendigo.

Ferrari used to drink at the Durham Ox Hotel on the corner of Sommerville and Townsend streets.

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Also celebrating 59 years of dancing at Spring Gully Hall. Entry $12.50.

Details: 5444 2953.

Garage Sale: The perfect opportunity to have a pre-Christmas/spring clean-out. A list of participating addresses will be available at 8am, on the morning of the sale, from the Lions Club rooms, for a $2 donation.

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Wednesday, October 11 Huntly Historical Society: Find your long-lost relatives from around Huntly and district. $1 for the first 15 minutes and $5 an hour thereafter. 10am-3pm. Details: 0428 429 646.

Sunday, October 8 Beekeeping Field Day: presented by the Bendigo Branch VAA at Harcourt Leisure Centre, 63 Bingham’s Road, Harcourt. 9.30am -3pm.

Promoting beekeeping skills within the industry. Demonstrations of bee husbandry, breakfast and lunch available. Details: 0477 489 889.

Thursday, October 12 Old Time Dance: Eaglehawk Senior Citizens Hall, Darling Street.

Eaglehawk. 8pm-11pm. Entry $5.

Details: 5442 1815.

Tuesday, October 10 Twilight Croquet: Eaglehawk Croquet Club each Tuesday and Thursday, 6pm. $8. Equipment and tuition supplied. Please wear flat-

Trading Table: Strath Village Shopping complex. Cakes, slices, jams and handicraft will be on sale.

Fundraiser for the St John of God Hospital Auxiliary.

Hymns Alive: Seniors Celebrate 1.30pm-3.30pm with community hymn singing. Afternoon tea. Bendigo Baptist Church, McIvor Road, Junortoun.

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Search for BDCA’s top dog

By JOEL PETERSON

GOLDEN Square is shaping as the season’s big improver as the 2017/18 Bendigo District Cricket Association season gets under way tomorrow.

The league is taking on a number of new initiatives this season, adding a fourth XI competition and playing seven home and away matches at the QEO throughout the campaign.

The Bulldogs have a new coach in club legend Robert Bakes and confirmed the worst kept secret in local cricket when they secured the signature of Bendigo United star Ben Gunn.

In what is an already significant year for Square, being their centenary season, the Dogs are making a strong push to be a leading contender.

They take on White Hills in the opening round, the Demons coming off a year in which they finished second last in a glut of sides outside the five.

They’ll have no shortage of challengers at the top, notably traditional powers Eaglehawk and Strathdale Maristians.

Eaglehawk has retained the majority of last season’s premiershipwinning list and again looks the side to beat.

Shaun Knott return to an already formidable bowling lineup and is no doubt already giving opposition batsmen nightmares.

They face Sandhurst to start the year, the Dragons having boosted their depth after an end-of-season flameout in 2016/17.

Taylor Beard steps up to coach, with Moama young gun Todd Murphy and Castlemaine junior Darby Semmens joining the fold at Weeroona Oval.

Ben DeAraugo takes the reins at Strathdale Maristians as its new captain, following Linton Jacobs deciding to step down from the role after a remarkable run of success.

The Suns will mainly turn their attention to younger players this season, with teenagers Daniel Clohsey, Sean O’Farrell and James Vlaeminck likely to be handed a bigger first grade role.

The Suns take on Kangaroo Flat to start the season, which also looked to improve its depth after a breakout campaign that saw it make the finals before being routed by Bendigo United.

Powerful middle order hitter Tyler Hinds has headed to Sandhurst and Mitch Collins will miss the start of the season, but the Roos have

ALL SMILES: It could be a season of celebration for Square. brought in the experienced Wayne Stubbings to join son and wicketkeeper Nathan at Dower Park.

Joining him is all-rounder Jamie Dass, who comes across from the UK. Bendigo United begins its first season in a long while without Heath Behrens when it meets Strathfieldsaye at Tannery Lane.

Behrens retired after last season’s

TWICE AS NICE: Riley Hayton controls the ball.

Hawks chase title double EAGLEHAWK’S dreams of a title double in the Bendigo Amateur Soccer League are still very much alive after a thrilling extra time win over Shepparton United saw them advance to the grand final.

Having already claimed the competition’s championship trophy, the Hawks are hoping to add a win in the league’s knockout competition.

They will come up against a Shepparton South side that finished the championship season in red-hot form and has continued that through to the knockout stage.

The BASL season contin-

ued its competitive yet fiery ways last weekend, with tensions raised several times at Truscott Reserve as players and even spectators clashed.

It is not the first time it has occurred this year, with a clash between spectators at a match in Shepparton also drawing attention.

While it has made for an even competition, there is little doubt the admission of the Goulburn Valley-based clubs has caused a few headaches for league administrators.

Last weekend’s game, from an on-field spectacle, was as good as any, needing extra

time to be decided.

But two red cards and four further cautions marred an otherwise impressive spectacle.

Riley Hayton and Greg Thomas were again the standouts for the Hawks, Hayton scoring in the 101st minute before Thomas put it beyond doubt half way through the second period of stoppage time to seal a 3-1 win.

When they met in the competition’s semi finals stage, South defeated the Hawks 3-1 to advance to the grand final.

The match will be played at Epsom Huntly Reserve from 3pm Sunday.

grand final defeat following a glittering career that saw him rewrite most of the league record books, while Gunn also departs the top order.

Spinner Nick Crawford also goes out of the side, while Corey Daniels comes in and the Redbacks could yet land another handy pickup.

The challenge will be replacing the copious runs of their former master blasters in Gunn and Beh-

Ready for a start REIGNING Emu Valley Cricket Association premier Golden Gully kicks off its flag defence against Sedgwick in Saturday’s opening round of one-day matches.

The clash will renew a rivalry that extends to last year, where Gully defeated Sedgwick twice in two weeks at the tail end of the season – including in the semi final – before winning its maiden flag.

The rivalry has some added fire this season, with reigning EVCA cricketer of the year Greg Thomas joining the Rams as coach after playing with the Cobras last season.

Thomas is one of a host of ins to a Rams lineup that was already chock full of talent, making them an imposing side for the 2017/18 campaign.

The Emus are not fielding a division one team this season, with the competition reverting to eight teams.

The Cobras should again be a strong contender despite the loss of Thomas, but have no shortage of sides hunting their posi-

HITTING OFF: Mandurang will again be strong this season.

tion atop the competition.

Traditional power United has retooled for another campaign and will yet again be among the contenders.

The Tigers kick their season off against West Bendigo, which is hoping to improve on a horror campaign last season.

A grand finalist last year, Mandurang begins its campaign to go one better at home against Maiden Gully.

With a premiership winning division two side, the Rangas are again posi-

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For the Jets it could be another long year, with no recruits coming in the door to date.

The club is very much invested in youth with Bauden Rinaldi, Jed Rodda, Mitch Cheesman and Matt Gallagher to get a good look in first grade alongside experienced players such as Greg Lyon and Ben Devanny.

In the round’s other match, Bendigo will look to build on several seasons of promising plenty but delivering little when it faces Huntly North Epsom.

The Goers have lost star allrounder Nathan Fitzpatrick but recruited former Premier Cricket player Kyle Humphrys to replace him.

Will Collicoat, Kieran Burns, Mitch bench and Ben Joske also join a Goers side that has plenty of talent with the bat but less convincing with the ball.

Former Tasmanian junior Russell de Groot was the big signature floating around toward the end of last year, and was snapped up by the Power.

New coach Paul Miller joins him at Huntly, which is looking to move up the ladder after finishing seventh last season.

tioned well to make a run at the title.

Maiden Gully will hope its youthful contingent can improve and further support the likes of Rob Brown, Shane Rabbitt and Greg Burns.

In round one’s other match, Marong hosts Spring Gully at Malone Park. The Panthers are coming off a disappointing season winning only three games, while Alex Sutton is back at the helm of Spring Gully.

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Contenders aplenty

By JOEL PETERSON

THE new-look Women’s National Basketball League will present new challenges for both players and coaches when it kicks off this weekend.

Despite teams playing three fewer games this season, the far more condensed nature of the campaign means player management and scouting will be all the more important.

Of the 12-week season, Bendigo will play eight doubleheaders including four Thursday night games, each coming before a match on the Saturday of the same week.

That means less time to scout opposition, placing a greater emphasis on not only the ability to identify tactics early in the piece but to communicate that to players in a shorter time period.

“I think it might cause as many headaches for coaches as players,” Spirit captain Kelsey Griffin said this week.

“You’ve got less time to prepare in terms of a scout and player management will be so much more important.”

Managing those injury niggles and fatigue for players will also be a key consideration for coaches and fitness staff.

The league’s three-month schedule has means at influx of big-name talent, both home grown and from abroad.

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Small ball Spirit have big season hopes

One noticeable trend across the league is the sheer size of some of the recruits, with every side bar Bendigo boasting a powerful inside presence.

“It’s a cliche, but the season is so even. It really could be anyone’s season,” Griffin said.

The big ticket is Australian Opals star Liz Cambage coming back to the free-spending Melbourne Boomers to play alongside Jenna O’Hea, guard Brittany Smart and Louella Tomlinson.

After several disappointing seasons, Melbourne has signalled its intention to go big in 2017/18, but will have plenty of competition in jostling for position at the top.

Adelaide was the only side that finished below Melbourne last year and has improved enormously, adding Abby Bishop, Nat Novosel, Lauren Nicholson, Aimie Clydesdale and Ruth Hamblin to support some promising young talent and star Laura Hodges.

Townsville will again be among the teams to beat, with Laurin Mincy and Sydney Wiese joining an experienced core of long-time Fire players.

Suzy Batkovic is back, as is Cayla George, and Kelly Wilson and Micaela Cocks add experience at the guard spots for a Fire roster that has enviable depth.

Last year’s championship winning Sydney Uni Flames may

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DRIVEN: Sydney’s Asia Taylor is making a WNBL return. have lost the competition’s best player in Leilani Mitchell, but Katie-Rae Ebzery is a more than handy replacement.

Jennifer Hamson and Asia Taylor return as imports, Tahlia Tupaea returns after an injuryinterrupted 2016/17 and young star Lara McSpadden has been promoted to the Flames’ ranks.

Perth has again splashed the cash, signing Kayla Standish and recruit Alison Schwagmeyer along with Alice Kunek to flank scoring sensation Sami Whitcomb.

Defence may again be the unravelling of Perth, which will no doubt look to push an uptempo pace.

Dandenong lured Tess Lavey

away from the Lynx to join Sara Blicavs, while Tayla Roberts has also joined the Rangers to reunite a former championship trio with Bendigo.

Larissa Anderson has plenty of weapons at her disposal, with Spanish star Laia Palau providing the Rangers with a point guard to run the offence while Kayla Pederson has made a return.

Canberra looks to be the odd side out after losing Marianna Tolo.

The Capitals have decent depth and have signed young talent such as Ezi Magbeyor and Lauren Scherf, but star trio Rachel Jarry, Jordan Hooper and Mistie Bass may not stack up against the rest of the competition.

But the key to a good side is making the most of your personnel and that’s what the Spirit will have to do.

“A lot of people have us pencilled in for seventh or eighth and that’s their opinion, but what people forget about is that this is a group with a lot of collective knowledge that already has chemistry,” he said.

“We’re only introducing a few new faces and not turning over much of the team. So we think we’re well placed.

“With the league being as even as it looks to be those intangibles become more important and we think that will be a strength of our group.”

And with, on paper at least, a gap in talent to make up to other sides, Pritchard can at least rely on one thing from his group that every coach wants.

“I know the effort and intensity will be there. There’s no question of that,” he said.

Captain Kelsey Griffin agrees.

“I think that is one thing that we know we are going to have, is that focus and that effort,” she said.

And the season goal?

“We’ll hope to push for a finals spot and take it from there,” Pritchard said.

“We need to start well, so we’re hoping for a good performance against Canberra away from home and then come back to Bendigo with at least one win next week.”

Bendigo plays Canberra in the nation’s capital tonight from 7.30pm before facing Melbourne next Friday.

Bendigo’s first home game follows that match against the Boomers on Saturday, October 14 at 3pm against Perth.

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FAST START: Spirit captain Kelsey Griffin (centre) and imports Rachel Banham (left) and Betnijah Laney.

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HEADING into a Women’s National Basketball League season that has a distinctly different feel about it, no side exemplifies different quite like the Bendigo Spirit.

Not necessarily in terms of offseason roster changes, but both the oncourt structures of Bendigo are set to vary greatly from what any other team does.

Bendigo starts its campaign tonight in Canberra against the Capitals, starting a stretch of five games in 14 days.

Most pundits are throwing Canberra and Bendigo together as the teams most likely to miss the playoffs, a mistake in the eyes of the Spirit.

With the league going bigger than ever – some teams having two or more traditional centres on their roster – Bendigo is bucking the trend and going small ball.

They’ll leverage their athleticism and versatility against every other team’s sheer size, hoping to run their opposition off the floor and stretch defences out in a motion offence

that should provide shooting at every position.

This of course comes with challenges, especially on the defensive end.

“The challenge for us is how we defend. I think we have shown that our offence is going okay and I’m confident we’ll be able to score,” coach Simon Pritchard said.

How we defend... is the challenge “At the same time we will pose challenges for them in defending us. Our versatility and shooting will cause trouble.”

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But third-year coach Simon Pritchard is confident that any advantage opposition sides may have over Bendigo’s defence will be mitigated by an amped-up Spirit offence.

“We’ve got the shooting, Betnijah is a better shooter than people give her credit for. I think we’ll give teams some trouble with our ability to score,” Pritchard said.

The team’s depth will be tested, as will its ability to back up from games, but Pritchard said he thinks the rigours and demands of the condensed season play into Bendigo’s hands.

“We’ve planned for it to be that way and we think we’ll handle it well, we have the athletes who can manage that,” he said.

That’s not to say that Bendigo heads into the season as cone of the more fancied sides.

If anything, they are probably at the opposite end of the scale – there’s a reason they’re the only side taking this approach and not recruiting big.

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