Bendigo

  • Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

    Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

    Arriving in Australia in 1957, aged 25 and a proud ‘Ten Pound Pom’, Ron Alexander never looked back. The carpenter…

  • World foodie fame

    World foodie fame

    Bendigo has become the first Australian city to be designated a UNESCO City of Gastronomy and the wider region stands…

  • Kyneton’s Lost Trades Fair move to Bendigo confirmed

    Kyneton’s Lost Trades Fair move to Bendigo confirmed

    Kyneton will no longer host the popular Lost Trades Fair as organisers sign up for the next three years in…

  • Bittersweet result

    Bittersweet result

    It was a bittersweet result for returning Labor MPs Lisa Chesters and Rob Mitchell as they celebrated comfortable wins in…

  • Question over candidate

    Early voting in the nation’s federal election opened yesterday with seven candidates contesting the federal lower house seat of Bendigo…

  • 400 reasons to celebrate

    400 reasons to celebrate

    Ask learner drivers Lily McMahon and Tilly Donkin what they’ve got out of doing a unique intensive local learner driver…

  • On the write track

    On the write track

    Preparing for this month’s Bendigo Writers Festival, Barkers Creek-based festival founder Rosemary Sorensen has cause to celebrate. After working on…