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Outrage as honour trees felled THE avenue of honour trees at the old East Bendigo primary school site have been cut down in a move labelled “pure spite” by neighbour Gemma Starr. – Story Page 5
HEALTH WIN
By PETER KENNEDY
THE consortium overseeing Bendigo’s biggest ever construction project has launched a new research project which could help re-shape the way hospitals are designed and create safer and more positive environments. Exemplar Health consortium chief executive Michele Morrison launched the research project, to be conducted by RMIT in partnership with Exemplar and Bendigo Health, at the $630 million Bendigo Hospital site on Wednesday. The project is expected to have
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global ramifications for the design and implementation of future hospital projects, with the results to be used to guide broader design principles and the integration of old and new buildings on medical campuses the world over. Spanning a three-year period, evaluating both old and new hospital designs, the study will be based on the hospital’s psychiatric services unit and will examine the experiences of
its patients, staff and visitors. Ms Morrison said the project would produce new knowledge into the impact of hospital design. “This study is important – because it focuses on investigating the relationship between users of a physical environment and their ‘lived experience’ of those particular spaces – and the Exemplar Health consortium is proud to support this research,” she said.
She said it was widely recognised that well-designed physical settings play an important role in making hospitals less risky and stressful, promoting more healing for patients, and providing better places for staff to work – which flows on to increasing effectiveness in delivering care. “Evidence-based healthcare design has grown rapidly in recent years, and as we plan our move into the new state-of-the-art Bendigo Hos-
pital early in 2017, we are presented with a unique opportunity right now, to assess the ‘lived experience’ of the psychiatry precinct design, both before and after the move to the new facility,” Ms Morrison said. Ms Morrison said studies of this kind were rare, and its results would be used to help guide future hospital design both here and around the world. Exemplar Health has provided $120,000 for the Design for Wellbeing Research Project, to be undertaken in two stages and completed in 2018.
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Customers the focus AFTER eight years in real estate Gavin Butler has opened up a business in his own right. The former hospital chief executive and accountant is now trading as Gavin Butler Real Estate with the aim of giving a personal service. “Despite being in management, I have always been passionate about real estate and the property market,” he said. “I enjoy working with and meeting interesting people.” Mr Butler has some very clear views on the industry he loves. “The most important thing is to offer customer service,” he said. “I get back to people in a timely manner and keep them informed of what I plan to do to sell their home.” Mr Butler said the Bendigo market had stabilised over the past couple of years, but more buyers are here now. “We’ll see steady growth, not leaps and bounds.” He said Bendigo is growing because of its popularity as a central city. “People are moving here from all over the place, it’s affordable and is close to Melbourne as well as the Murray River... and despite the cold run we’ve had, the climate is good.’’ Mr Butler can be contacted on 0427 887 766.
ONE of the largest prime commercial sites in the busy Bendigo central business district has come onto the market for the first time in 40 years. Agents Tweed Sutherland First National has the property at 365-379 Hargreaves Street, which includes 2600 square metres of floor area on approximately 3648 square metres of land. The property is set on five titles – one a freestanding 437 square metre lot, currently used as car parking for tenants of the major holding. The main property encompasses four titles with frontage to both Queen and Hargreaves Streets. TSFN commercial agent Tom Harrop said the property offered enormous opportunity for smart buyers, given the potential of the airspace above (STCA). “There wouldn’t have been a property offered like this for a long time,” he said. He said the City of Greater Bendigo was encouraging inner city living and there could be opportunities down the track for further development of the site for apartments. Mr Harrop cited the diversity of tenants, the property’s location and its size as being among its key assets.
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Paramedic students learn a broader role
IN a first for Australia, paramedical students will receive clinical training with patients in Bendigo equipping them with skills to treat people with chronic illness when they are called out, and suggest follow up treatment rather than transport them to care if it is not needed. Dennis O’Connor, a Bendigo Primary Care Centre GP and senior lecturer at La Trobe and Monash universities, said more and more people were calling an ambulance for treatment of acute conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. He said it was a broadening
role paramedics were taking on, one that would ultimately relieve pressure on emergency departments because triage could be carried out at the patient’s home.
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and allied health professionals. “This is a new experience for these students as traditionally paramedicine students have not had exposure to primary care outside of their field
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Extended care paramedicine is being studied by fourthyear paramedical students at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University and 40 of these students will spend two days in rotation over six weeks at Bendigo Primary Care observing the care of patients by the centre’s GPs
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work,” said BPCC chief executive Glen Careedy. “And it is the first and only collaboration of this type in Australia.” Fourth year student Sam Owen said a lot of patients that paramedics were seeing were acutely unwell and treat-
ing them meant listening and evaluating their longer medical history, a skill they could observe in clinical practice at the Bendigo centre. Centre clinical director Ray Moore agrees, adding that by observing primary patient care “health professionals get a broader context of the person they have in front of them”. BPCC also trains undergraduate GPs, nursing students and overseas scholarship students. There is a good chance there will be a student in the doctor’s room when a patient visits the centre, and Dr O’Connor is mindful of their generosity in sharing their story.
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Upgrade for Epsom school THE drawings that education minister James Merlino showed students at Epsom Primary School this week were not like the ones that hang on school walls but they have a futuristic theme. Mr Merlino gave students a look at the drawings of what their school will look like by the end of next year, after a $5.7 million upgrade. As well as drawings, there was a virtual walk through of the biggest of two new buildings, which will contain a library, open plan classrooms, staff and administrations rooms and common spaces. Mr Merlino also announced the state government wanted to buy land adjacent to expand the size of the school. The school is preparing to tender for a builder and the project is on track to open by the end of 2017. Epsom Primary School has experienced a sharp rise in student numbers as residential development has made Epsom one of the fastest growing areas in greater Bendigo. The school sits between two larger primary schools, at White Hills and Huntly. Mr Merlino also visited Spring Gully Primary School while he was in Bendigo, and announced he had appointed local architectural firm e+ architecture to draw up plans for its future needs. Member for Bendigo East Jacinta Allan announced funding for the work in May. “We are investing more than $22m to upgrade Bendigo schools to ensure all local families have access to a great local school,” Ms Allan said this week. “Epsom and Spring Gully primary schools have fantastic staff and students and we are making sure they have state of the art facilities to match.”
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GIVEN that the Bendigo Art Gallery has a well established reputation for hosting world class fashion exhibitions, it’s more than appropriate that Toni Maticevski should use our gallery to stage the first solo exhibition of his work. - Story Page 18 Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
THE nearly-complete apartment complex at 111 Mitchell Street has found a tenant for its ground-floor hospitality space in former Dispensary Enoteca owner Tim Baxter. Mr Baxter will open a cafe in the space facing Mollison Street catering to apartment owners and the public, but he is yet to name the business. He sold and finished up at the Dispensary on July 30, but is believed to have been helping the new owners settle in to the Chancery Lane bar and diner.
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Research to study design 3From Page 1 Bendigo Health psychiatric services executive director, Associate Professor Philip Tune said the research outcomes would have far-reaching and positive effects. “From a Bendigo Health perspective, this research project is a very welcome and timely study,” he said. “In our existing facility, our psychiatric inpatient units spread across three campus sites, however the new hospital will enable us to co-locate, streamlining communications and making consultations far easier for both patients and staff.” The new 80-bed psychiatry precinct will include the purpose-designed parentinfant unit, which enables a parent, who has a significant mental illness, to stay in the hospital with their baby. The project is being undertaken by distinguished Professor Sarah Pink; Professor Laurene Vaughan and RMIT research fellow, Dr Shanti Sumartojo. Professor Pink said collaboration between the academic and the private sector and how it could help transform research into design advances for healthcare facilities would be important to the project.
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THE seeming inability of City of Greater Bendigo councillors to act respectfully has forced a brain drain from executive offices at Lyttleton Terrace, according to former councillor Wayne Gregson who this week announced his nomination for another four-year stint. Mr Gregson served as a councillor from 2004 to 2008 and was, until recently, electoral officer for Member for Northern Victoria Damian Drum which made him ineligible to serve in local government. But he said he was motivated to try for the October 22 election in the Whipstick ward by the nomination of Bendigo businesswoman Margaret O’Rourke, and because he was disappointed by some of his fellow nominees. “Having a look at some of the people who are putting their hand up, I think some of them would not be good for council,” he told the Bendigo Weekly, adding that the role of councillors was to build on the work that had already been done. Mr Gregson said the behaviour of some existing councillors bordered on “verbal bullying” and had caused the departure of some council executives who, whenever they had to be replaced, cost
ratepayers more money. Kennington resident and speech pathologist Susie Hawke also put her hand up this week as a contender in the Eppalock ward. Ms Hawke said the focus of her campaign was to raise the profile of children and families in the municipality. “Local government is more than the old triple R (of) roads, rates and rubbish,” Ms Hawke said. “It’s also more than information technology, housing and small business. “I agree these are all issues local councils need to support and advance, but I would like to make children and families a high priority. “The City of Greater Bendigo has a Municipal Early Years Plan with six priority themes. “I would like to keep the council accountable to following through on all of these priority areas as a child’s start in life determines future outcomes including health, wellbeing, educational achievement and employment opportunities.” IT businessman Vaughan Williams has been campaigning for election in the Lockwood ward on the back of transparency and accountability. “We need a proper register of what work is being done,” he said, referring to
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how council could improve transparency. Mr Williams said the register should include the project, the percentage of work that is complete and the budget. Mr Williams, who has worked for the Brisbane City Council as well as private sector multinationals, said he had submitted a response to this year’s budget, particularly about “the major decrease in funds for road, bridges, footpaths and drainage”. His comparisons are over four years of budget projections. Better management of finances would allow the council to operate over the next four years without a rate rise. “There is considerable capacity within council over the next four years to effectively cap rates at a zero per cent rate rise or at most current CPI,” he said. “Excessive top level bureaucracy and staffing resources and the need to better manage finances (are) impediments to council future financial viability.” But there were prospects for creating jobs if big businesses could be convinced to move their headquarters here. Bendigo has the enticement in the form of low rents and room to build. 4editorial Page 15
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Axed trees cause a row hear heavy machinery on Tuesday morning when she was getting her son ready for school. She called media outlets to document the clearing. Yesterday, with the trees representing the avenue gone, Ms Starr lamented the block would be a desert in summer and called for the trees to be replanted. “These people are just pure evil, this was done out of spite.” The Bendigo Weekly’s call to the developer was not returned but the City of Greater Bendigo council said the landowner was within their rights to remove the trees and did not require a permit to do so. “There are no planning controls on the Avenue of Honour trees in East Bendigo,” council director planning and development Prue Mansfield said.
YESTERDAY was day three of clearing on the old East Bendigo School site on Strickland Road where developers have caused neighbourhood outrage by felling trees on land they are unable to develop without changes to their subdivision proposal. On Tuesday, developer KPD Group starting to chainsaw what was left of a row of trees planted in an avenue of honour as part of an early 20th century directive from the Education Department after the first World War. Gemma Starr, who lives opposite the land and has fought development plans for two years, winning the latest round in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, said she was shocked to
“This is because the trees are not native to Victoria, and were planted in that location (not grown naturally).” The trees felled were sugar gums, an ironbark and a yellow gum. There were no planning con-
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recommendation of an independent panel in 2015. A later application to nominate the avenue was declined by Heritage Victoria, but Ms Starr argues the site as a whole should have been considered, not the building and trees separately.
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trols over the trees because the avenue was not included in a heritage overlay that applied to the school house, a council omission more than two years ago. The council did not include the trees in a statement of significance to recognise the avenue, despite the
The VCAT decision handed down just over a week ago refused KPD’s application for a permit to subdivide the site. Ms Mansfield said the decision was based on design and potential impact on the streetscape. But tribunal senior member
Margaret Baird included in her decision: “the layout does not adequately respect the cultural values on the subject land“. Ms Starr said that included the avenue of trees. She has also failed to gain the support of Bendigo’s Returned and Services League, but the league has the nameplates that once adorned the trees. To further complicate the issue, the Victorian branch of the RSL has recognised the significance of the avenue. But Ms Starr was questioning yesterday: “Why would they clear the site when they can’t develop it anyway, why not just leave it as it is? KPD can amend their proposal and resubmit it. It would then be subject to further public consultation.
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wet feet: Residents have cast doubts over the flooding data. their properties to be flooded and cast doubt on the modelling data. The cases of 42 of the 48 objectors will be addressed by the panel in late October. The NCCMA were able to adjust mapping to accommodate six properties. At Wednesday night’s meeting, councillor James Williams said the technology used to map the overlay was new but was flexible and could model different scenarios. He said it was entirely possible that a number of the objectors had never seen their land flooded but as Bendigo grew and surfaces changed, so did the flow and direction of water.
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Food in the hub Australian food and fibre producers and industry experts from around the world met in Bendigo this week for the first Australian Community Food Hubs Conference and Local Food Economies Tour. The conference explored how the methods of leading international food hubs can be adapted and applied to improve food economies in Australia. Member for Bendigo West, Maree Edwards, represented the state government at the gathering to listen to experts and contribute to discussions about how we
can further improve Victoria’s food production and promotion. In the Bendigo council area alone, there are around 800 registered food businesses and 570 businesses registered to sell at stalls and markets. “Food hubs make a lot of sense and they are happening more right around the world,” Ms Edwards said. The City of Greater Bendigo council’s Steven Abbott said it was fitting that Bendigo should host the first conference. “Bendigo has a thriving and diverse local food
industry, active food relief agencies as well as education and training providers which are all key elements of a successful food hub,” he said. “Food hubs aim to create greater value for local producers, improve affordable access to healthy food for residents and empower communities to support the local food sector. “The conference was a perfect opportunity to hear from experts in this field and to refine and develop the council’s plans for a successful food hub and growing local food sector.”
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Bins roll out amid protests
THE 700 tonnes of waste amassed from organic waste collected from 2800 households during council’s trial service will grow to 12,000 tonnes a year once the permanent service gets up and running next month. In the lead up, as it delivers the green bins, the City of Greater Bendigo council has faced protests from residents who object to the way the roll out has been managed. Tony Hewett has set up a facebook page opposing the organics service because it is being forced on ratepayers. He is threatening to deliver bins from supporters of the Say No to the Organic
Bin Bendigo facebook page to the council’s front door. The council had made it difficult to gain an exemption and Mr Hewett said he had not applied for one. He said he lived alone and worked two
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supporters to return the bins. More than 2000 residents have applied for an exemption, according to the council. It includes those who already manage their organic waste at home, through worm
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jobs and therefore had no organic waste. The facebook page is captioned: “Rate payers of Bendigo should be given a choice with the organic bin not be dictated to, the power of people comes in numbers, have a voice, make a stand.” He said he would soon suggest a date to
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farms, chickens and compost heaps. But almost 40,000 households will participate in the service and that will keep 12,000 tonnes of waste out of landfill, according to mayor Rod Fyffe. “Organic waste is the biggest cause of dangerous methane and other greenhouse
gases so not sending it to landfill in the first place is really beneficial,” he said. “12,000 tonne would completely fill over 13 Olympic sized swimming pools so it’s a lot of waste to save from the landfill. “This will be a great result for the environment, our landfill and our community.” The first organic waste collection will take place the week beginning Monday, September 5 and residents should start putting waste in their new organics bin prior to this and put their bin out for collection even if it is not full. Organic bins will be collected fortnightly on the opposite week to your recycling bin.
Inflows highlight water fall RECENT rainfall improving water storages shows that low inflows, not outflows, were the root cause of the recent dwindling water levels at Lake Eppalock. Storage levels at Lake Eppalock have risen from close to 20 per cent in early July to 35.3 per cent at the time of going to print, according to Goulburn Murray Water. Coliban Water’s storages are also on the rise, with rainfall midweek pushing levels to over 79 per cent full, compared to 63 per cent at the same time last year.
In the entire calendar year in 2015, only about 9000 megalitres flowed into Lake Eppalock. Already this year the lake has recorded 35,000mL worth of inflows, and storage levels have risen accordingly. At this time last year Eppalock was at 44 per cent of the total 304,650mL capacity. Coliban’s Malmsbury, Upper Coliban and Lauriston storages recorded at least 200 mL of inflows for each of the past 10 days, even with seven days with no rain. The North Central Catch-
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A ROYAL Commission into banking would be a waste of time, according to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director Mike Hirst. As Mr Hirst released the regional bank’s full year profit of $439.3 million this week, he said he agreed with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that banks should explain when they failed to pass on all of a cut in official cash interest rates.
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A number of community members participated in the process, either by being interviewed or making a written submission. The information session will be an opportunity for them and others to learn about how the organisation implemented the review, including achievements regarding expenditure, savings, efficiencies and improvements to services, processes and decision making.
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Your business has to change Mr Hirst said Bendigo and Adelaide Bank had explained adequately why it had passed on only 10 basis points of the 25 basis points by which the Reserve Bank of Australia had cut official interest rates the week before. “If you can’t pass on the 25 basis points, you need to explain why,” he said. “I couldn’t agree more. “It is basically because we can’t reprice our deposits any lower than they are.” More than 80 per cent of the money Bendigo and Ad-
elaide Bank lends in mortgages and to businesses comes from deposits from retail customers. That compares to about 60 per cent for the big four banks. Its heavy reliance on deposits means Bendigo and Adelaide Bank does not get as much cost benefit when the RBA cuts the rate at which it lends money. Mr Hirst said the bank had concentrated on managing costs in the past year, and lending growth had accelerated in the second half of the financial year. He said cost management would remain a focus this year, and the bank would benefit from a restructure that had moved it to enhance its digitised interaction with customers. That had led to some re-
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Story on the tram a winner FOUR hundred children and their grown-ups have been excitedly hopping aboard a special tram to enjoy a storytime with a difference. This ride into the world of imagination has been led by tram conductor and story teller extraordinaire Narelle Stone. Children will be taken on a ride through Bendigo to the Central Deborah Gold Mine and share a word journey as they listen to amazing stories along the way. The message “Talk, laugh, read and play with your child every day” is at the heart of this project. Those involved believe that every child in Bendigo is entitled to rich, nurturing language opportunities and that children’s language development is everyone’s business. Communities for Children, in consultation with over 15 local organisations, recently launched an Early Years Literacy and Language Development Strategy. The strategy aims to build community awareness and commitment to the important social, economic and health benefits of supporting children’s early language and literacy development.
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so much in his life.” Journalist, Alex Clark, writing in the Guardian has also examined the dark side of the writers festival. One writer sent me a slew of ‘humiliations’... There are the basics: the chairs who haven’t read your book; the ineptly planned double bill with a writer whose subject barely overlaps with your own; the convoluted, lengthy journeys at the end of which you find yourself marooned in a hotel miles away from the action... the realisation that you’re actually running at a loss because you’ve succumbed to a comforting bowl of pasta and a bottle of wine. And then – and, yes, it does happen – there are the awkward audiences. My informant recalled a group of ‘mutinous old ladies’, one of whom read out a huge charge sheet of crimes, to the point where I had to stop her, saying ‘I do know what’s in the book, what with having written it.’ In Australian Author Sydney writer Louis Nowra has 11 tips on things you should know before attending a writers festival. These tips include don’t punch reviewers at your first festival, never be a moderator, choose the right panel and avoid poets. While the number of festivals around the country is always growing we believe the Bendigo Writers festival is a perfect size. Not too big as say, the Melbourne Writers Festival, and not too small as say, Woy Woy. David Astle will be part of Brave Enough” the opening event. For further information go to the website: bendigowritersfestival.com.
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Whipstick Ward Meeting Monday August 15 City of Greater Bendigo Whipstick Ward Councillors invite all interested members of the community to attend the Whipstick Ward meeting. Meet with your ward Councillors to discuss local opportunities and raise any issues. Agenda • City Fire Prevention officer Sue Moses • RENEW Project The meeting will take place:7pm - 8.30pm Monday August 15 North Bendigo Pavilion Atkins Street, North Bendigo Everyone is encouraged and very welcome to attend. Cr Peter Cox Ph: 5434 6189 E: p.cox@bendigocouncillors.org.au Cr Lisa Ruffell Ph: 5434 6206 E: l.ruffell@bendigocouncillors.org.au
AUGUST 18, 1966: It was dusk and raining when 108 men from D Company 6RAR set out on what they thought would be a routine patrol through the rubber tree plantation of Long Tan. In the background the men could hear the amplified voice of Little Patti singing at a concert at Nui Dat, less than four kilometres away. Some must have wondered, surely, how any harm could come to them while listening to Little Patti. Secretary of the Vietnam Veteran’s Association, Bendigo Sub Branch, Graham Flanders says there was very little intelligence at that time to let the men know they were walking into an attack of somewhere between 1500 and 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. It’s estimated the members of D Company were outnumbered 20 to 1. During the terrible night 17 men died and 24 were injured. Years later, in 2009 on Radio Australia Today Patricia Amphlett said: “We could see
the jungle where the battle was well and truly taking place... (I thought) this is going to be a sad night, and indeed it was... I could see thousands and thousands of orange lights, which of course was the gunfire, and I’ll never forget it.” D Company successfully held off the assault before backup arrived from Nui Dat, finally forcing the Viet Cong to withdraw. It wasn’t until they realised the enormous odds against them, that they appreciated the significance of their victory. This year the Vietnam Veterans Association will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. Originally known as Long Tan Day, Vietnam Veterans Day is commemorated on August 18, every year. Mr Flanders said the Battle of Long Tan was originally used as a focus for the Vietnam War to attract attention to the ongoing plight of many veterans. “It’s taken a lot of effort by many people for the vets to be recognised,” he said. “We latched onto the Battle of Long Tan as a major battle we could hang our hats on.”
While not the only battle of the Vietnam War, Long Tan proved a major local setback for the Viet Cong, preventing a strategic move against Nui Dat. Many of the men who fought at Long Tan have not as yet received official recognition for their gallantry. Lieutenant Colonel Smith has been agitating for his men for the past 50 years. Former army chief David Morrison refused to recommend a range of gallantry awards for 13 Australian Army members who had fought at Long Tan. It is believed new awards will be announced this year. Mr Flanders said the nature of the Vietnam War was intrinsically different to that of World War I and World War II. “Jungle warfare in Vietnam raised your levels of anxiety. You never knew who was your enemy and where your enemy was,” Mr Flanders said. “What the Vietnam veterans brought to the fore on their return to Australia were issues like the use of Agent Orange in battle and the ongoing impact of post traumatic stress disorder.”
Battle by the book ON the 50th anniversary of the battle, military historian David Cameron brings us the book The Battle of Long Tan in commemoration of the men who fought in the rubber plantation of Long Tan – and those who did not come home. Drawing on unpublished firsthand accounts from Australian servicemen, as well as their American and Vietnamese counterparts, Cameron brings to life the events of this battle as it unfolded – minute by minute, hour by hour – and reveals the deeds of heroism and mateship now part of Australia’s Vietnam War story. While patrolling five kilometres east of Nui Dat, Delta Company of 6RAR, originally numbering just 105 Australians and three New Zealanders, collided with Viet Cong forces numbering around 2500 troops in the plantation, ahead of a planned Vietnamese ambush. The enemy were surprised by their sudden appearance and attacked in force, using mortar, machine gun and small-arms fire. Completely surrounded, and short on ammunition, what was first thought by the Australians to be a significant defeat quickly turned out to be a major victory. Morning light revealed a shattered woodland, trees bleeding latex – and hundreds of dead enemy soldiers who had fallen as part of numerous human-wave assaults against the small Anzac force. Cameron’s account puts Australia’s involvement – and the Battle of Long Tan – in context, while confronting head-on a number of historical issues. The Bendigo Vietnam Veterans Day Commemorative Service will start this year on Thursday, August 18. It will begin at 10.30am at the Soldiers Memorial Hall, Pall Mall, with a pre-assembly and light entertainment.
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‘Let’s Talk’ Lockwood South Tuesday August 16 City of Greater Bendigo Lockwood Ward Councillors invite all interested members of the community to attend the Let’s talk Lockwood South meeting. This forum will also provide an opportunity to meet with your ward Councillors to discuss local opportunities and raise any issues. Agenda • City Fire Prevention officer Sue Moses • Happy Jacks store The meeting will take place: 7pm – 8.30pm Tuesday August 16 Lockwood South Hall Calder Alternative Highway, Lockwood South Everyone is encouraged and very welcome to attend. Cr Elise Chapman Ph: 5434 6193 E: e.chapman@bendigocouncillors.org.au Cr Rod Fyffe Ph: 0419 874 015 E: r.fyffe@bendigocouncillors.org.au Cr Barry Lyons Ph: 5434 6215 E: b.lyons@bendigocouncillors.org.au
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One voice, one vision The treatment of children detained at the Don Dale centre in the Northern Territory revealed by the ABC’s Four Corners program has shocked Australians. One of the features of this scandal is the NT government’s secrecy about the child justice system. Refugee and asylum seeker children, who have committed no offence, are also kept in detention in conditions hidden from us by the federal government. How much do your readers know about Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, including children? If they would like to know more, they shoud consider attending the conference “One Voice, One Vision” to be held at St Andrews Hall, Myers Street, Bendigo on September 3 and 4. The conference has been organised by Rural Australians for Refugees, Bendigo and includes speakers Julian Burnside QC AO, Pamela Curr ASRC advocate, Hani Abdile refugee/poet and award winning journalists Ben Doherty (The Guardian), Nick Olle (The Project) and Anthony Radford (Radford Media). Come for both days or one or more half days. More details can be found at www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org.au/ event/bendigo-national-rar-conference/ Pat Horan, Sebastian
Is this how we live? The letter in the Bendigo Weekly, August 5 “Tread carefully” by Stuart Symes is totally correct. Also, on page 5 comments by Prue Mansfield that my planning petition was too early, misses the point. I was not appealing a council planning decision, it is a petition aimed at influencing the process and making council aware that a lot of people will not be happy if council pushes ahead with its shortsighted “Compact City” plan in this area. The normal amount of residences/households allowed to be built under our current state planning allowed on 39-51 Lansell Street East Bendigo (lot 2 ps 434810S) is currently 65 or less houses. Our current councillors have voted on the amendment asking the state government if they can raise that figure to 100 or 105 without even having a look at the prop-
erty or discussing it with residents. If they did, they would see that it is one of the higher points looking over Bendigo and would be better suited for standard houses instead of squeezing them in like sardines, not to mention traffic access at the site. Once again council is bowing to the need of developers; a greater yield – more money for them and more rates for council. Never mind the need of residents. Prue Mansfield said the development would be a demonstration site. This is prime land. The council has already demonstrated how they get things wrong (eg) the mall, car parking, rates and traffic. As Ms Mansfield said, Lansell Street will take another 150 cars coming and going – with the lawn bowls, swimming pool and VicRoads all operating it’s already overloaded – and then try turning right onto Strickland Road out of Lansell Street. This is not only happening in Lansell Street. Eaglehawk is set to get 300 one and two bedroom houses built around the railway station. Ms Mansfield and council officers have no right to reject our petition. There are protocols that apply to receipt of petitions and then there is Council’s Community Engagement Policy, neither of which are being followed. Malcolm Pethybridge, Whipstick Ward Candidate
CCC worth every cent That City of Greater Bendigo councillor Barry Lyons has been found by an independent arbiter to have breached the Councillor Code of Conduct by not adequately demonstrating respect for a fellow councillor, Cr Helen Leach, reflects poorly on Cr Lyons. Particularly as Cr Lyons, an ex mayor and long serving councillor was vocal in endorsing the introduction of the internal CCC, and the resultant benefits it would bring. It is ironic Cr Lyons was the first councillor to be found in breach of the CCC, on multiple occasions. But there are further incredible, to me at least, parts to this unsavoury matter. Cr Lyons has been reported as saying, he “did not believe the dispute was worth the cost of the arbiter”. That is a ridiculous statement. Methinks, sour grapes. Any procedure resulting in a person’s complaint of alleged wrongdoing, that is later proved, is
worth virtually whatever the cost. For the complainant receives justice, and the perpetrator is exposed. The reported costs of $5197.50 are but a drop in the ocean to the amounts of money Bendigo council regularly spends on, often to ratepayers, dubious projects. Colin Carrington, Eppalock Ward Candidate
Question for candidates Presumably candidates for the forthcoming council elections have an understanding of how council functions and the councillor role. However, they need to be aware, because of the inaction of the majority of current councillors, council officers assume the governance role when preparing the draft plan and budget. The officers, after consulting selected interest groups, proceed to draft their own plan and budget without any significant input from councillors or the broader community. The problem is aggravated by the officers briefing councillors and determining positions on issues in closed forum meetings, with no opportunity for ratepayer input, scrutiny, or alternative ideas. When the plan and budget gets to a public council meeting for a decision residents hear a charade of councillor speeches with no real debate.
This is all inaccurately passed off as the “community’s” effort. The officers then execute their own plan, with our money. Given this reality, it is apparent to me and others, changing councillors changes little, as evidenced by the last four elections. Unelected, almost unaccountable officers have called the tune, and the majority of councillors nodded to the beat. We need new councillors with courage and ideas. Old compliant councillors offer little hope for improvement. Voters would be interested to know what improvement ideas budding councillors have to correct this flawed model of local government. Ratepayers need to have a greater say in how their money is spent. I challenge candidates to publish ideas about how they will ensure everyday residents get involved, and their ideas professionally considered. Michael McKenzie, Bendigo
Avenue of honour Reading a number of articles printed in local media surrounding the Avenue of Honour located in Strickland Road where it was stated by a council director on 23/7/15 that there was insufficient evidence at the time of the approval to consider the legitimacy of the Avenue
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of Honour. Then on 24/8/15 it was reported that it is was known that the Avenue of Honour was planted in 1920, but was under threat by a proposed seven-lot industrial estate. Five trees remain from the 23 planted, which each had a plaque of enlisted men from the local area. The plaques have since been removed, either when the trees died or when the school closed. One would have to question if this director did any research into the matter prior to approving this subdivision or was it just another rubber stamp exercise since VCAT senior member Margaret Baird was less than impressed with the council’s handling of this case in a number of areas as reported on 2/8/16. Now with the trees being removed on 9/8/16 with what appears to be the director’s approval and against the lawful decision made by VCAT, one can only hope that the full force of the law is bought down on all those responsible for this disgraceful breach. This appears to be another case of the council trying to run rough shod over a ratepayer. Congratulations must go to Gemma Starr for her tenacity in this case showing that the council is not always right. Robert K Smallpage, Huntly
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Countdown looms THERE are 10 weeks to go before the next group of City of Greater Bendigo councillors are elected, and it seems certain voters will have a record field of candidates from which to choose who they want to represent them through until 2020. The Weekly estimates as many as 25 candidates have already indicated their intentions to stand, with others still expected to put their hand up and step forward in time to be included. The willingness and the desire to participate in the electoral process as a candidate is something we should all be grateful for. The fact that people are willing to sacrifice their time and effort to contribute towards making our community a better one is commendable. Granted, councillors are paid for their contribution, but the remuneration falls a long way short of delivering value for money when
compared to the input required of those individuals so as to be an effective councillor. Despite what many would have residents believe, Bendigo has been well served by its councils in the 20 years since Megan Weston was installed as the City’s first mayor. The past two decades have not been without some mistakes – we all make them, and there’s no doubt council would do some things differently if it had the time over, but none of us do. Ask anyone outside of Bendigo in regional Victoria, and they’ll tell you our city is perceived as the one to watch, and the one that gets it right more often than not. Bendigo has always been its own harshest critic, such are the standards we set ourselves. Over the next 10 weeks, the opportunity is there for those that disagree with what our council has done in recent times, or over the
past two decades, to put their hand up and signal their willingness to have a go themselves. Some of these people already have – and that’s a good thing. No doubt others are still mulling over their options. The power to determine who forms the next group of nine councillors rests with the residents of this city, and we should all be thankful that there is a field of diverse talents and abilities already stepping forward, and some outstanding talents among them. It’s our hope that the next group of councillors can work together for the common benefit of Bendigo like every council should, but that the bickering and instances of poor behaviour that are not acceptable to either council itself or the community, are left in the past. We should all learn from our mistakes, and we should do our best not to repeat them.
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It’s time for a heart to heart By JAMIE DUNCAN
BY the time you read this, I will have reached a major milestone in my life – and I can’t say with any certainty that I’ll get past it. The odds are in my favour, of course, and wellmeaning friends have told me that multiple cardiac bypass surgery is “routine” these days. But such drastic medical intervention, while commonplace in the modern world, is never routine and, as such, I’ve made some preparations ahead of my operation. I have just finished writing a letter to each of my five children in the event things don’t go well at The Alfred. Nothing too syrupy, you understand. I’ve written a few lines about the things about them all that I love the most. I have ensured, as they say in the classics, that my affairs are in order. Will, superannuation and the rest.
By the time you read this, I will also have ensured that my dear wife knows just how much I have loved and cherished her in the 13 years since she wandered into my life. I’m not expecting to die this week. I have a 49 out of 50 chance of surviving the operation, if one takes the glass half-full approach to such sobering stats.
When I keeled over at my first cardiac rehab session at the Bendigo Hospital on June 29, I was rushed down to The Alfred and rocketed to Category one on the hit parade for a bypass. The grim certainty of it is a frightening relief. Last weekend, probably against medical advice, we had a short getaway on the coast. Two days in a holiday
I have a 49 out of 50 chance of surviving the operation But, as with liposuction, tonsillectomies and other more routine “procedures”, there are no guarantees, and I decided not to leave such important things unsaid and undone. You last heard from me in the Weekly on June 17, 10 days after my maiden heart attack. Back then, I was expecting a six to 12-month wait for a possible bypass.
house with a wood heater, no TV and only a ‘60s-vintage radiogram and a pile of board games to entertain us. We had a ball. My reign as the family Trivial Pursuit champion endures. I’ve spent a lot of time with my wife and the kids recently. The enforced time at home has been a pleasure, even if being unable to work is driving me to distrac-
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tion, because I’ve been in the company of the people I love. I’ll turn 44 on Monday. If I’m lucky, I’ll be off the ventilator, out of intensive care and on the ward, building up some strength for the journey home. I’m too young to contemplate the possibility of dying, as remote as that prospect may be even in my situation. Last time I wrote, I urged all men to go with their gut and seek medical advice if they weren’t feeling well or even if they were not feeling right. I have another message. I’ve had time to imagine what might happen to me, and to prepare for the worst. Not everyone has that luxury. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Tell them why you love them and, if social convention and/or bar room etiquette allows, maybe hug them too. - Jamie Duncan is a Bendigo-based journalist.
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RAPID change in technology and the increasing impact of climate change will define the future of Bendigo. Zero carbon is much more than addressing climate change, it is about creating a stronger, more diverse and efficient economy for our region. The Bendigo Sustainability Group’s primary aim is to create a supportive culture for understanding, inspiration and positive action, which will grow a sustainable future for the Bendigo community. Renewable Energy BENDIGO is a net importer of electricity. Based on average electricity bills, Bendigo spends at least $80 million powering homes and almost all of that money leaves Bendigo. In fact most of the profit leaves the country. Regional renewable energy can be regionally owned, operated and managed, creating local jobs and economic opportunity. Our organisation has also done a considerable amount of work in developing a plan (Carbon Countdown) for Bendigo to be powered by 100 per cent renewable energy by 2035, using a combination of wind and solar farms and an increase in rooftop solar systems. In 2015 BSG undertook a successful crowd-funding program that raised more than $25,000, that enabled us to install community solar on the Bendigo library. The funds generated will stay in our community. In 2016 BSG was again involved in crowd funding for the solar on the Discovery Centre and in the next couple of months we will install
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just been installed the CBD, but there will be a need for more points in the near future. We are encouraging the council to purchase electric cars for their fleet, as well as, at the same time, build solar charging carports to recharge the cars. We are establishing a community sharing 100 per cent electric car system in Bendigo. In a recent presentation by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, he stated that by 2018 Telsa car owners could rent their vehicle out while it is not being used, using a smart Uber-type app. Looking in the near future the BSG is keen to see the introduction of mini and large electric buses in Bendigo powered by a local solar farm. Sustainability BSG has been actively involved assisting the council sustainability unit to develop the 20-year plan. We coordinated and have assisted with some of the community review sessions. One area that we are pushing for is heat mapping across our city. This information can be laid on top of an existing city smart map. We have been talking to Sustainability Victoria about using smart drones, so that we can identify places that could possibly be serious hot spots in the future, and work towards developing solutions. Food SOME of our members are passionate about grow local. In fact one member has successfully built a personal smart aquaponic/hydroponic food system in his backyard as working proof of concept. Bendigo is an ideal location for
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Notes from a grumpy shopper 1. Supermarkets: To those hard workers at the checkout. I appreciate your courtesy but please do not ask me how I am as I have been indulging in an existential crisis for many years now. Please do not have self-serving type checkouts. For starters I can’t work out how to use them and more importantly you are doing the checkout people out of a job. To other shoppers: If you stand in front of me in the queue don’t you dare go running off for a forgotten item. If you do I’ll throw a packet of frozen fish fingers at you. (Maybe I’d better make that lentil hamburgers.) Please check the balance on your credit card before shopping. I can’t stand watching you pretend that the card was working this morning. 2. Hairdressers: Please do not ask me what I am doing on the weekend. I am usually watching weeds grow in my garden and if I am going out I can’t be bothered telling you about it. Just let me drink my wine, sulk about my wrinkles in the brightly lit mirror and dwell on my existential crisis in peace. Please do not say “beautiful” to every request I make such as “I’d like a mullet please.” Response, “Beautiful.”
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If you get some good, worthwhile delicious gossip please pass it on to me. 3. To big-chain department stores: Please employ staff on the floor. I hate wandering around in a daze, lost and bewildered, without any direction or advice. Customers actually like to be helped and may even buy more of your items if they are given decent service. Amazing, I know, but it’s true. 4. To taxi drivers, especially in Melbourne: Please don’t ask me how to get
to my destination. That’s half the reason I’ve caught your cab in the first place, I don’t know where I’m going. It’s your job to find the address, not mine. 5. To shop assistants in busy shops: If you are faced with a crowd of people do not automatically serve the smart young things first, because one day I could be in that crowd and I will jump the counter. - Dianne Dempsey Twitter@dianne_dempsey
Caring for our past FROM delicately-wrought lace to rough hard-working cloth, remnants from the past have the power to stir imagination and link us through the stories they evoke. Historian and rural change researcher Liza Dale-Hallett talks with Bendigo Historical Society’s Kerry Conway and textile conservator Marion Parker about how best to preserve, display and explore the clothes and fabrics of our history. The Bendigo Historical Society will display a small
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AVE B Pop outlines Iffy Pop’s raison d’etre. “We only play songs that we love.” “We wanted to play songs you wouldn’t normally play on guitars and songs seldom heard in Aussie pubs,” he said. Iffy Pop do indeed deliver a stellar, diverse selection of songs not normally heard on the pub circuit. Central Victoria’s leading AngloCeltic-Aussie covers band re-work Kraftwerk’s The Model, pump out a kind of rousing I Will Survive and reinterpret Cosby Sweater by the Hilltop Hoods among others within a lengthy set list. They genre-hop widely and with ease, reinterpreting the Small Faces, Elton John, Oasis, Prince and more, covering 50-odd years of pop, disco, rap, glam, indie and folk along the way. “We have a set list for every type of event.” Formed in 2011, the Bendigobased five piece have been getting audiences up onto the dancefloor in pubs, at charity events, parties and privates functions ever since. Originally a three-piece comprising Dave H Pop, Dave B Pop (both guitar and sharing vocal duties) and Tony Pop on bass they expanded in 2014 with the addition of Ian Pop
(trumpet and vocals) and drummer Andrew Pop. Curious band name. Homage of sorts to a certain James Osterberg. “We can thank facebook’s spell check facility for the name,” Dave B Pop said. “Soon after forming, I put out a call out to friends to see Iggy Pop and Leftfield at a festival in the UK. The name proved to be a perfect fit.” Next week on Saturday, August 20 Iffy Pop play at The Old Church On The Hill as part of the 2016 Op Shop Ball fundraiser event for the Bendigo Sustainability Group. “We’re delighted to be playing at the ball, it’s going to be awesome fun. We’ve only got one planet and we need to reduce, reuse and recycle wherever we can. The band firmly believes in this ethos. We’ve been reusing songs since 2011.” It looks like being a fun night. Guests are encouraged to wear recycled or “upcycled” outfits, frocks, vests etc as they dance along to Iffy Pop’s recycled tunes. The food, presumably, won’t be of the recycled variety. The 2016 Op Shop Ball starts at 6.30pm on Saturday, August, 20 at The Old Church On The Hill. – Simon Wooldridge Twitter: @spwooldridge
IVEN that the Bendigo Art Gallery has a well established reputation for hosting world class fashion exhibitions, it’s more than appropriate that Toni Maticevski should use our gallery to stage the first solo exhibition of his work. Gallery curator Leanne Fitzgibbon said the gallery has had a working relationship with Mr Maticevski for several years. “We always said one day we would love to focus on just his work and we are thrilled that he has agreed to the exhibition. Toni has been very generous and gave us unlimited access,” she said. Ms Fitzgibbon has been working with Maticevski for the past 18 months, travelling down to his Melbourne studio on a regular basis where they have gradually sifted through Maticevski’s collection and refined the direction of the exhibition. “He was so much fun to work with, he’s delightful,” she said. Fitzgibbon said that Maticevski was a driven man who was up at five in the morning and worked through to 10 at night.
STUNNING: Allie Wilson views the works with Leanne Fitzgibbon. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
“He’s a busy man but he’s calm and restrained. He also has a sense of humour.” And it’s probably some of these same qualities which are evident in Maticevski’s stunning creations. A combination of glamour, structure, feminism, humour, edginess and extraordinary creative flair, Maticevski’s dresses have established him as an international designer. “Toni Maticevski has managed to morph, adapt and defy the boundaries of
fashion, crossing the line that divides fashion design with fine art. For anyone who has ever dreamed of wearing a masterpiece, this is a must-see exhibition,” gallery director Karen Quinlan said. The exhibition includes Maticevski’s visual diaries, and sketch and design books; “scandal” gowns, “envy” skirts, the famous “doona” dresses, harnesses and other selected commissioned jewellery, plus garments made
from neoprene, PVC, power mesh and the softest of silks. Room after room of the gallery features 63 mindblowing ensembles. The total impact is stunning, resulting in one of the most dramatic exhibitions the gallery has hosted. Maticevski: Dark Wonderland: August 13 - November 20. Tuesday - Sunday. This is a ticketed exhibition. Bendigoartgallery.com.au – Dianne Dempsey
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awards to classical singer Megan Kane Griffin, guitarist Abby Sloss, flautist Tara Glozier, and vocalist Jess Chalmers who closed the show with a rendition of Katie Noonan’s Love’s My Song for You. Megan wowed the audience with her performance of Die Forelle by Franz Schubert to take out this year’s audience choice award. BSSC music coordinator Matt Pankhurst said he couldn’t have been prouder of his students. “I congratulate Deanna, Megan and all the other award winners, and every student who stepped on the stage last week and gave such extraordinary performances.” – Allie Wilson
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imagination. Cornejo said Tango Fire encompasses and defines all that is Argentine Tango; dancing which sizzles with sensuality, accompanied by the unforgettable music and song of the great Tango masters, including Piazzolla, Pugliese and Gardel. “As one of the world’s most
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oseph Anderson Panton had seen the drawings which prisoner William Stanford had made in a notebook shown to him in the office of the Pentridge Prison governor. Panton was immediately struck by the quality of the drawings from someone with absolutely no artistic training. Panton had requested to see the stone carving which he had been told that Stanford had produced. Having seen William Stanford’s work in the outer yard of the prison along with the governor, Panton argued for this budding sculptor to be given every encouragement. Panton had seen the merit in Stanford’s work and he wished to arrange that he would receive some tuition at the gaol. The now Police Magistrate, Panton had a lot of contact with the leading artists of Melbourne at that time. He had been at the forefront of the formation of the Victorian Academy of the Arts along with others such as Thomas Clark, landscape
artist Louis Buvelot and Hubert de Castella, a friend with whom he had studied art in Paris in 1858. Because of Panton’s contacts within the government administrative circle this had enabled him to have a Crown Land Grant secured with the assistance of others at East Melbourne for a building for this artists’ organisation. The organisation was to grow from the Victorian Society of Fine Arts that was established in 1856. A name change was to occur when it combined with another group The Victorian Academy of the Arts then went to form the Victorian Artists’ Society. Many of the avantgarde artists of the period who were part of the artistic scene in Melbourne were to become active members of the society. Members of the Victorian Artists’ Society and its associates included: Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, Walter Withers, Max Meldrum, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, John Mather, C Douglas Richardson, William Frater, Jane
Sutherland, Dorothy Baker, Rupert Bunny, John Longstaff, John Mather and Ethel Phillips Fox. In 1888 Panton became president of the Victorian Artists’ Society. The initial building of the society was a large handsome studio built of bluestone. In the studio was where artists could produce their work and also exhibit same. As mentioned previously, Panton himself was an accomplished amateur artist. His daughter, Alice, was a promising portrait artist, her father helped encourage in nurturing her talent. Through Panton’s artist’s contacts he managed to persuade several of the then up and coming sculptors to go to the Pentridge Prison and give some tuition to inmate William Stanford. By now Stanford had been allocated an area where he could work the bluestone and with expert guidance and the supply of some more specialised tools he began to create more ambitious sculptural works. William Stanford had plenty of time for his sculp-
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Joseph Panton: Portrait by his daughter Alice. Image: State Library of Victoria
tural work, this became his main prison activity. Since the time that he had been encouraged to pursue his own work he became a changed man in the system. No longer was he a problem for the warders nor was there any necessity to pilfer items from the prison so that he could do his sculpting. As Stanford’s work developed so too did his ambitions, gradually as his confidence in bluestone became more pronounced,
so too did the scale of future work that he envisaged. He began to sculpt birds and imaginary creatures, some of these were based on those of Greek and Roman mythology. The prison authorities were to be taken aback when William Stanford revealed a most ambitious work that he intended to undertake. In this project he had been encouraged by his outside tutors, including the sculptor Charles Summers.
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Tips for increasing your catch GOULBURN Lure’s founder and avid fisherman Graham Saunders shared his secrets with Bendigo Legion Angling Club members last week at the club’s August meeting. Graham has spent a lifetime fishing the rivers around his home town of Shepparton while perfecting his range of Codger and Currawon lures. Colour selection is always of interest to anglers as some colours repeatedly out fish others depending on water clarity and seasonal factors. According to Graham I’ve mistakenly spent years going automatically for darker colour lures for dirty water conditions – while I may have increased my hook-up rate by trolling or casting more subdued fluro colours and keeping the purples and blacks for clearer waters. But as Graham informed members: “Your favourite coloured lure is the one you caught your last fish on.” Most avid lure fishermen now use braided or fused line instead of the traditional nylon. However a flurocarbon or nylon leader can inhibit your lure reaching its desired depth due to its increased diameter. That is repeatedly hitting the bottom or bouncing through the structure. Shorten it or do away with it together was Graham’s
Get hooked CATCH OF A LIFETIME: Peter Nicolson with his 125cm black jewfish from the Perron Islands. advice – you might lose the occasional fish due to not having a nylon trace but your lure will spend more time in the strike zone, theoretically increasing your catch rate. Talking of increasing catch rates, local angler Peter Nicolson has been putting in the kilometres recently, for plenty of success.
A return trip to Nelson last month on the Glenelg River in south-west Victoria, had Peter landing six legal mulloway and good numbers of estuary perch up to 38 centimetres, on soft plastics. He originally intended to bait fish for a couple of days but after chatting to a local angler headed to Taylors Strait
fishing 150 millimetre plastics along the bottom where he landed more than a dozen mulloway. However, the highlight of his recent angling exploits was to the Peron Islands in the Northern Territory in April with a 125cm black jewfish on 4.6 kilogram line. – Nick Atyeo
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PROUDLY presented by The Flyfisher and hosted by the Bendio and District Fly Fishing Club, Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival, the world’s most extensive fishing film festival, hits theatres on the Australian and New Zealand leg of its 2016 worldwide tour. In its 11th year, Rise is celebrating a decade of bringing the best fishing entertainment to cinemas around the world. Audiences can look forward to stunning footage from Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and the USA presented in high definition on the big screen. It’s the biggest kick-off to the fishing season there is. Rise will screen as a limited release in 30 towns and cities across Australia and NZ, including Bendigo for one night only on Wednesday, August 24 at 7 pm at the Star Cinema, Eaglehawk. Adults $20 Children $15. Go to www.gin-clear.com/filmfest/ to secure your tickets. Limited tickets will also be available at the door. Check out the preview of the Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival on the Bendigo and District Fly Fishers FaceBook page. Trout season opens in a little over three weeks and with recent rainfalls filling up our dams and rivers it’s shaping up to be a great season. Making it the perfect time to give fly fishing a try. If you’re interested in learning more about fly fishing check out the Bendigo and District Fly Fishing Club website www.bdffc.weebly.com or find us on FaceBook. – Steve Charles
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Reporting to the Chief Executive, the General Manager – Plant Operations will play the lead role in managing all aspects of food processing and manufacturing at the Hazeldene’s Lockwood Plant site. The incumbent will be an excellent communicator with a solid operations background, experience in managing a large scale and diverse food manufacturing operation, underpinned by well developed core management skills.
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No place like home By JOEL PETERSON
THE Bendigo Spirit has been handed a dream start to the Women’s National Basketball League season, with the club’s first three games at home. In a first for the club, Bendigo plays Adelaide, Dandenong and Sydney in consecutive weeks from Saturday, October 8 to start the 2016/17 campaign. Never before has the Spirit played its first three games at home, and the team hasn’t opened a WNBL season at home since the 2010/11 season. In four of the last five seasons Bendigo has travelled to
Queensland in its opening round, and this year heads north to play the Fire in round four. Bendigo’s traditional preChristmas home game has been replaced with a bye in round 12, giving Spirit players three weeks off over the Christmas/New Year period. The Spirit play Sydney Uni, Townsville and Canberra four times, and the league’s other four teams three times each. In another change for the WNBL the existing finals series has been replaced by two three-game semi final series from February 25, with first playing fourth and second playing third as a direct play-
RUBY EXCELS AT TITLES KANGAROO Flat netballer Ruby Barkmeyer’s breakout 2016 has continued after she won a bronze medal last week at the School Sport Australia 15-andunder championships representing Victoria. The Roos’ A-grade goalshooter was also named in the Australian merit team and was the Victorian recipient of the Amy Safe Award. The award is presented to the player who displayed exemplary on court behaviour, outstanding contribution to their team and competent execution of skills. Barkmeyer’s Kangaroo Flat faces Sandhurst in a top-of-the-table A-grade clash on Saturday at Dower Park in round 16 of the BFNL season.
in to the grand final series. Bendigo will also host several marquee fixtures including an Australia Day weekend home game against Melbourne. “We will once again host a home game over the January Australia Day long weekend which coincides with the Bendigo Basketball Association junior classic tournament which will cap off three big days of basketball action in regional Victoria,” Spirit general manager Adam Tarr said. Bendigo has five Saturday night home games, three Friday night contests and four Sunday afternoon clashes at Bendigo Stadium.
The league is looking as strong as ever, with Olympians Marianna Tolo, Tessa Lavey, Natalie Burton and Laura Hodges all lining up for WNBL clubs, as well as twotime WNBA champion Monica Wright and 200cm centre Jennifer Hamson as featured imports. The WNBL season tips off when Sydney hosts Perth on Friday, October 7. STRONG START: Gabe Richards and the Spirit will host Adelaide to kick off their WNBL campaign.
Lady Braves’ fighting spirit shines through A PLAYOFF berth awaits a resilient Bendigo Lady Braves outfit after two crucial wins last weekend all but sealed their finals destiny heading into this weekend’s final round of SEABL competition. The Lady Braves face Albury Wodonga in Albury this weekend, needing only a win against the 3-18 Lady Bandits on Saturday night to seal a finals finish. Bendigo can finish third if it wins and Brisbane loses to Frankston, but can still miss the
finals if it loses and Ballarat scores wins against both Geelong and Canberra. After a decisive 16-point win over Hobart last Friday, SEABL player of the week Keely Froling and Chante Black led the way in a crucial win over Brisbane on Sunday. Making the triumph more impressive was the fact that Lady Braves star Kelly Wilson missed the game through injury as Bendigo’s defence held Brisbane to 62 points
on 31 per cent shooting. Froling enjoyed a monstrous weekend after enduring a tough recent stretch, amassing 31 points and 14 rebounds against Hobart before backing up with another double-double of 20 points and 10 boards against Brisbane. The Bendigo bench also had perhaps its best performance of the season led by sparkplug Tahnee Cannan, and is providing the Lady Braves with some needed backup scoring to that of Froling, Wilson
and Black. The Bendigo Braves also scored an important win over Brisbane last Sunday, stretching their streak to 12 wins in a row heading into a game against a Bandits outfit that needs a win to assure itself of playoff action. The Braves will host Brisbane in the first week of the SEABL playoffs, while the Lady Braves will travel to either Nunawading or Dandenong if they do indeed make the postseason.
WARHAWKS FIGHT ON THE Bendigo Warhawks lacrosse club hosts Footscray in round 13 of the Lacrosse Victoria season at maiden Gully on Saturday. The Warhawks are eighth on the division three table with three wins and 10 losses, while Footscray sits third at 9-3. Bendigo has lost its last five games, including a 3-16 loss to Footscray five rounds ago, but should put in a strong performance on home turf. Saturday’s match gets under way at 2.30pm.
FINALS ON THE LINE NEWSTEAD will host August’s WorkSafe AFL Victoria Country game of the month on Sunday when the Roos host Trentham in the penultimate round of the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League season. The match is a crucial one for both senior football sides, who fill the last two spots in the top eight with two games to play, one game clear of Dunolly in ninth. When they met in round two, Newstead erased a four-goal third quarter deficit to win by 15 points. North Melbourne 300-gamer Drew Petrie, Australian Diamonds and Melbourne Vixens legend Sharelle McMahon, current Vixen Tegan Caldwell and AFL and country football legend Peter Knights will all be in attendance. The senior football clash begins at 2.35pm.
ON SHOW: Girton Grammar hosted the event launch. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
Gymnastics championships return to town BENDIGO will vault into being the epicentre of Australian gymnastics next month when the city hosts the National Clubs Carnival and Aerobics Championships. Across three venues – Bendigo Stadium, Ulumbarra Theatre and Flora Hill Stadium – nearly 1500 competitors from across the country will roll, tumble and jump into town for 10 days of competition.
It is the second consecutive year that Bendigo has hosted the event, as it will do again in 2017. “Being able to have a lot of our gym sports at the same place such as Bendigo Stadium is great and gives people to see what gymnastics is all about,” Gymnastics Australia’s Michelle Morris said. “With Ulumbarra Theatre, it provides a great backdrop for our Australian Championships and
allows the AeroSchools to be up there as well.” Girton Grammar School hosted the event’s launch on Wednesday with students participating in workshops run by Palmers Gym, which is renowned for producing champion tumblers among a host of disciplines. It is not simply the traditional events on show though, with the National Aerobics Championships providing a different
spin on the sport for all ages and experience levels. “Having the event in September allows us to get as many people to Bendigo as we can to compete in the event,” Morris said. “We can get people to see what gymnastics is all about, get them to join a club and the benefits that the sport and events like this provide the community.” The championships will run from September 16-25.
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BFNL makes coach call By JOEL PETERSON
WITH more than nine months to prepare for the Bendigo Football Netball League’s 2017 interleague game, Brett Fitzpatrick believes the BFNL side can finally get back to the top echelon of the AFL Victoria rankings. Fitzpatrick had less than a month to formulate a squad before this year’s interleague clash, as well as a team and support staff, and delivered a win as Bendigo convincingly beat Gippsland at Warragul’s Western Park. For the second year running, the BFNL board undertook a review of the program, resulting in the former Sandhurst and Castlemaine coach’s reappointment this week. “This year’s team came together quite well in the end and the result was obviously quite pleasing,” he said. “The appointment being so early allows us plenty of time to plan, though we don’t know what the squad will look like or who we are playing yet.
BACK AT THE HELM: Brett Fitzpatrick will coach Bendigo in 2017. “It will involve selecting the support staff around the program and putting together a plan for how the program will be organised.” BFNL board chair Carol McKinstry said a main focus of the board’s review into interleague was to confirm a coach early in the process, adding the league hopes to have under-18 football return to its interleague program next year. Leagues only receive
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funding from AFL Victoria for senior football, and have to cover the cost of netball and under-18 football themselves. “We were very pleased with the outcome of this year and as a board when we were reviewing the operations and planning for next year it wasn’t too hard to offer Brett the role again for next year,” she said. “It’s really important that we have that opportunity for
our under-18 footballers and give them something to aspire to,” she said. “We will be working very hard to ensure we have an under-18 game, and also that our game next year is a home game.” Bendigo has travelled to play interleague in three of the last four years, and has not faced its likely opponent in Ballarat at home in any of their past three matchups. The 2016 BFNL season has three weeks left until finals, with round 16 to be held on Saturday. McKinstry said the league has begun its planning for the finals and expects teams from eight or nine clubs to feature in September. Currently Castlemaine is the only side without a top five team in any grade of football or netball, but the Magpies’ reserves footballers are just a game outside the top five. Meanwhile, the Magpies will be looking for a new senior coach next year after the club announced that Shane Robertson would step down at the end of the 2016 season.
TOUGH: Aarryn Craig collides with Huntly’s Stacy Fiske. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
From Page 32 Ladder leaders Leitchville Gunbower would be a clear premiership favourite in most leagues, Huntly spent plenty of time atop the table through the year, Colbinabbin is also hitting its straps and even Elmore is more than capable on its day. “It’s really been the strength of our league, you can look at any round and generally it’s pretty even, I think the finals will reflect that,” Bennett said. “We know Huntly weren’t at their best at the weekend and you can only play against who the other team puts out on the park. “Our guys know it will be a vastly different opposition this week, that they will want to respond and we have got no doubt they will, but we just have to worry about getting our side of things right and hopefully the rest will take care of itself.” Saturday’s A-grade netball clash at Toolleen sees North tackle second placed Colbinabbin. Sunday’s elimination final will be held at Leitchville, where Colbinabbin plays Elmore in senior football and Huntly plays Leitchville in A-grade netball.
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Finals fever IF there is a buzz around town this week it probably isn’t because people are excited about getting their new bins, but it could be because footy finals are upon us. It seems like the season started just weeks ago, but already four teams in the Heathcote District Football League have packed their bags for season 2016 leaving five challengers aiming for premiership glory. Over the next three weeks the Loddon Valley, North Central, Bendigo Junior, Maryborough Castlemaine District and Bendigo leagues will also enter the most crucial time of year, with at least one grand final every weekend in September. Of course it isn’t just footy – the Bendigo Braves and Lady Braves are both prepping for the postseason, the Bendigo Amateur Soccer League regular season has three weeks left and hockey, junior netball and a raft of other sports are readying for finals. It is one of the best times of year, not only for the atmosphere that finals create, but the weather warms up. Even in Kyneton, apparently. During finals you look around the grounds at footy or soccer on an overcast day and see someone in shorts and aren’t compelled to think either “what on earth is wrong with them?” or “they must be a PE teacher”. What’s more, most local leagues and clubs are set for gripping finals series. The Bendigo Football League flag race has three clear frontrunners in Sandhurst, Golden Square and Strathfieldsaye. The fire burns brightest at Sandhurst. After losing the last two deciders the Dragons are playing sparkling football having disposed of both Square and the Storm in the past fortnight. Square seems to find an extra gear on the QEO in September and despite a host of injuries to the Storm, you can never count out a champion side. The A-grade netball competition should provide similar excitement, with Sandhurst, Kangaroo Flat, Golden Square, Maryborough and Gisborne set to comprise what appears an extremely even top five. In the HDFL, North Bendigo and Leitchville Gunbower are emerging again as the two most likely sides. The Dogs are the reigning premiers and they have regained their mojo at just the right time. If you thought that was impressive, Leitchville has won its last 14 after a 0-2 start to the season and looks poised to avenge last year’s grand final defeat. Bridgewater is a standout in the Loddon Valley’s senior football but Mitiamo and Newbridge lead the way in a stellar A-grade netball season, that will come down to the wire. Further afield, Wycheproof Narraport has been a dominant force in the North Central league and Royal Park, Navarre, Natte Bealiba and Carisbrook can all stake a claim to the MCDFNL flag. With all this, plus the Braves hosting SEABL finals at Bendigo Stadium, some top junior action in September and the BASL providing some high quality entertainment, there is no shortage of sporting entertainment for punters. If the gardening or washing the car of a weekend doesn’t appeal, skip lunch, go for a drive to a local game, grab a hot dog or a salad roll at the canteen and support the local leagues and clubs around the region. Chances are it will be more than worth the price of admission. Joel Peterson Twitter: @joelbpeterson
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