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  • Donate to support residents in need

    Donate to support residents in need

    Midland Express

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    Increasing cost-of-living pressures has seen a surge in demand for local foodbank services.

  • Disability champion honoured

    Disability champion honoured

    Midland Express

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    A Macedon Ranges SES volunteer and disability advocate has been inducted into the 2023 Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her efforts.

  • Laptop drive for Hoi An

    Laptop drive for Hoi An

    Midland Express

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    Old, discarded laptops and electronics from the Macedon Ranges are changing lives of everyday people from Hoi An, Vietnam.

  • Mud pie on the menu

    Mud pie on the menu

    Midland Express

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    Mud pie is sure to be on the menu for the budding chefs making use of newly crafted RAD Dad mud kitchens across the Macedon Ranges.

  • Hear about housing initiatives

    Hear about housing initiatives

    Midland Express

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    Residents can hear updates on a range of projects and initiatives under way that address the region’s housing crisis at a free community forum being held in Castlemaine at the end of the month.

  • Zonta says no to violence

    Zonta says no to violence

    Midland Express

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    Did you know the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence originated from a petition circulated during the 1991 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights?

  • The Compost Conversation – Nutrient cycling: everyone’s doing it!

    The Compost Conversation – Nutrient cycling: everyone’s doing it!

    Midland Express

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    For the past couple of weeks we have celebrated the impressive skills of the bacteria and fungi in our compost piles. We have looked at how they each work away at decomposing their specific, and quite different, dietary preferences, incorporating the nutrients they access into their microscopic bodies. So how do our plants get access…

  • Men’s shed going well

    Men’s shed going well

    Midland Express

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    There were plenty of positives to emerge from the annual meeting of Romsey Men’s Shed last month.

  • Students take lead on mental health

    Students take lead on mental health

    Midland Express

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    Kyneton High School student fundraising efforts will boost men’s mental health in the region though local charity HALT. A student-led community Family Fun Day at the Kyneton Rangers Soccer Club last year with men’s mental health in focus raised $4000. Year 11 students, Ava Coleman, Jen Girvan, Leathan Coates, Gabe Weller, Caitlyn Merrall and Oliver…

  • You’ll never guess who lives down the road

    You’ll never guess who lives down the road

    Jade Jungwirth

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    “I grew up in the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and if I die in the Dja Dja Wurrung Goldfields of Victoria, they’ll be nice little bookends”

  • The Compost Conversation – Fungi, the quiet party guest

    The Compost Conversation – Fungi, the quiet party guest

    Midland Express

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    By Mikaela Beckley Neither a plant nor an animal, fungi are unique, often misunderstood, and essential to making a good compost.  Often the first thing that comes to mind when we think of fungi is mushrooms, but in fact these are just fungi’s fruiting bodies. The actual fungi live under the ground growing in a…

  • Together for tea and empathy

    Together for tea and empathy

    Midland Express

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    Tamil refugee Neil Para is a man with firsthand knowledge of the anguish experienced by refugees and asylum-seekers trapped in a bureaucratic limbo.