LOCAL toastie tzar Tim Bone will be sharing his secret to baked beans with a modern twist as part of this year’s Heritage Harvest Weekend. Hosted by Sovereign Hill, the festival will celebrate seasonal food with masterclasses from renowned chefs, local producers, and retailers. Tim Bone, owner of Tim’s Toasties, will be running a masterclass … [Read more…]
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Tall Ferns player Mary Goulding is in a critical condition following a car crash. Photo / Tall Ferns Friends of Mary Goulding have said she is the “kindest human ever” and paid tribute to her as an “incredible athlete” after the Tall Ferns star was critically hurt in a Canterbury car crash. The Tall Ferns … [Read more…]
Mr Pesutto was booed and heckled after dozens of rank-and-file Liberal members walked out as he rose to give a speech at the party’s state council in Bendigo on Saturday. The staged walk-out was prompted by the expulsion of renegade MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary team last week after she threatened Mr Pesutto with … [Read more…]
Former Liberal Party federal director Tony Eggleton, a key figure in the party over four decades, has died at the age of 91. Eggleton served as press secretary to prime ministers Robert Menzies and Harold Holt in the 1960s before being thrust into the national spotlight upon the disappearance of Holt at Cheviot Beach in … [Read more…]
Carlton Football Club president Luke Sayers will from this day forward be known as “a Rochy boy”, after revealing at the annual Melbourne supporters’ luncheon on Friday that he had spent seven of the first nine years of his life in the town. His father, Graham, was principal of the high school during his formative … [Read more…]
Before that planning can continue, however, more feedback is being sought from the community — with only eight days remaining before the survey period ends. The community engagement period, involving an online survey, discussion guide and two pop-up sessions, will close on May 31 and then a draft Place-Based Plan will be developed in conjunction … [Read more…]
St Kilda spearhead Max King celebrates one of his four goals in his return. Photo: AFL MEDIA PORT ADELAIDE 11.14 (80) defeated MELBOURNE 11.10 (76)One of the most entertaining contests of the season included one of its best individual performances as Zak Butters tallied 41 disposals, nine clearances and two goals in his side’s narrow … [Read more…]
The acknowledgement had come after Aitken had been vice-captain of the club’s premiership-winning Under-19 team of 1972 (its only Under-19 premiership in history) and a string of high-quality reserve-grade performances at the start of the 1973 season. Mr Kennedy, as Aitken referred to him while speaking on stage at the Melbourne supporters’ luncheon on Friday, … [Read more…]
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Deep underneath Melbourne’s streets run networks of tunnels, some of which were built more than a century ago, with the purpose of carrying steam or telegrams.Now, some are conduits for data, power and water, while the use of others, owned by Telstra, is a secret. Access to … [Read more…]
He distilled the problems plaguing the Victorian Liberals into three categories: “Brand Liberal”, organisational structures, and an ageing voter and membership demographic. Mirabella said that after the state election last year he had calculated the Liberals would have won five more seats if 200 people had switched their vote, and there were another five in … [Read more…]