#bendigo — Public Fediverse posts
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@John @SockDiva I was dreaming about Bendigo / Ballarat last night too. They were combined into a single town. 🤷♀️
I had moved there and found out about a wonderful Art University and I wanted to enrol. I had hoped it was in walking distance. But a man told me it was "24 miles away!" I sighed and said I'd catch the bus then. And he just laughed and laughed.*No idea what any of it meant 😁
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@DrStip @jojoeffe if you, like me, are a sucker for kidsilk/cracksilk haze, Bendigo Woollen Mills have created a ripoff, and it looks damn fine. I may just have to go on a free trip to bendi for yarn and japanese ramen at the delicious Harpoon - http://www.harpoonsocialclub.com
https://bendigowoollenmills.com.au/products/lilt
I'm on a westknits bender at the moment, so it may be a sweater/dress of weirdness with multiple yarns/colors, like so:
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/etacarina/enchanted-mesa -
“… this pattern points to feedback loop- coverage that provokes outrage, then showcases that outrage as apparent evidence of widespread concern.”
https://www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-media-pile-on-randa-abdel-fattah/
#censorship #Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #media -
Wikipedia says there are a couple of theories why the Australian town of Bendigo is so named.
Allow me to add something extra to that.
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If you're a knitter, please do feel free to stalk/befriend me on ravelry.com under the same name of gusseting. Locals of #melbourne are you gonna go to #sheepshow in #bendigo ?
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CW: Santana Bendigo mine fast-track / Shane Jones is a wanker
The Minister of Environmental Destruction Shane Jones doesn't like critics. After several prominent Otago people opposed Santana's fast track to Hades, Jones offered to debate Ian Taylor in public.
The gauntlet was thrown and Taylor agreed. The debate was scheduled for April 8th at Taylor's studios and would be streamed by the ODT and Stuff.
Today Jones pulled out of the deal, saying he would not take part in any debate ‘"controlled by the Otago media".
Since when has Stuff been an Otago media company?
Santana plans a cyanide-leach gold operation storing arsenic-bearing tailings in a dam located in a seismically active region at the headwaters of major water systems.
It's a project which would never be approved under 'normal' conditions and Jones has realised that he'll lose any public debate with Taylor. So the blowhard Minister is running away.
This reminds me of the time Shane Jones got caught charging hotel porn to his ministerial expenses. The guy's been an utter wanker for decades.
Taylor says the debate will go ahead anyway using a cardboard cut-out of Jones.
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"… the unbearable truth of the destruction of Gaza and Gazan lives must be repressed at all costs."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/louise-adler-sets-the-record-straight-on-adelaide-writers-week/
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Will the International Women's Day event suffer the same fate?
I couldn't access the Australian's article, but here's Sky "News", frothing at the mouth:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/sends-wrong-message-australian-jewish-association-ceo-calls-for-bendigo-iwd-event-organisers-to-rescind-grace-tames-invitation/news-story/b5dc750d3271f7b4e843be4e37a08c5f
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival -
Minns seems to be a neurotic as Malinauskas. It looks like either he or the writers festival board have learned from history.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/randa-abdel-fattah-author-to-attend-newcastle-writers-festival/106312828
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival -
Censoring discussion of censorship. Would that be irony?
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival -
#MossadMinns is at it again:
"… the ABC understands Dr Abdel-Fattah is due to speak at the festival, and that the Minns government has been in discussions with board members about that appearance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/nsw-government-newcastle-writers-festival-randa-abdel-fattah/106310270#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival
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@VoxOfGod
That will depend on how ham-fisted they are.#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel #SydneyBiennale
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@Old_IT_geek
The ones that aren't approved will disappear as if they never existed.
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel #SydneyBiennale -
I did not vote to be monitored by Zionists.
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/sydney-biennale-s-olive-branch-amid-anti-zionist-claims-20260203-p5nz44#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel
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Here's a twist in the Santana story I didn't see coming. The ODT headline reads:
"Santana chairman ‘clearly a cooker’
They're not wrong. Peter Cook (no relation) is a first class climate denier who believes CO2 is ‘‘the gas of life’’. Yep. That bad. There's more in the story.
Prof James Renwick demolishes Cook's arguments. Special brownie points to Green MP Scott Willis for providing that memorable headline and solid quotes.
‘‘If any company wants to be taken seriously, they’ve got to get rid of the conspiracy theorists and the people who are unable to talk sensibly and respectfully with the community.
‘‘If they employ people like this, they show that they have no care and no respect for the community.’
Amen.
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While Shane Jones and his mates are keen to ignore public opinion and fast-track the worst possible mining projects, not everyone is on board with large scale environmental destruction.
Australian company Santana expects the Luxon coalition to ignore environmentalists. They've only been paying lip service to consultation and had requested a fast-track decision be made within just 30 days.
"Not so fast!" say DOC, the ORC, the CODC and the local rūnaka who have all submitted to the fast-track panel convenor, panning the fast-track proposal.
The good guys have joined the conversation.
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Sasha Grishin described it as "an iconic image for the Australian gold rushes". "Diggers on way to Bendigo" was a frequent subject of S T Gill's picturing gold diggers on the road. Sometimes thought to show leaving #Melbourne for the goldfields. But it most likely represents diggers moving on from one diggings (Forest Creek, near #Castlemaine) to better prospects at another (#Bendigo). #historyAU #colonialArtAU
My new article on #S_T_Gill pictures (7) on this subject from 1852 to 1872: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Diggers_on_way.htm
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Sasha Grishin described it as "an iconic image for the Australian gold rushes". "Diggers on way to Bendigo" was a frequent subject of S T Gill's picturing gold diggers on the road. Sometimes thought to show leaving #Melbourne for the goldfields. But it most likely represents diggers moving on from one diggings (Forest Creek, near #Castlemaine) to better prospects at another (#Bendigo). #historyAU #colonialArtAU
My new article on #S_T_Gill pictures (7) on this subject from 1852 to 1872: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Diggers_on_way.htm
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Sasha Grishin described it as "an iconic image for the Australian gold rushes". "Diggers on way to Bendigo" was a frequent subject of S T Gill's picturing gold diggers on the road. Sometimes thought to show leaving #Melbourne for the goldfields. But it most likely represents diggers moving on from one diggings (Forest Creek, near #Castlemaine) to better prospects at another (#Bendigo). #historyAU #colonialArtAU
My new article on #S_T_Gill pictures (7) on this subject from 1852 to 1872: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Diggers_on_way.htm
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Sasha Grishin described it as "an iconic image for the Australian gold rushes". "Diggers on way to Bendigo" was a frequent subject of S T Gill's picturing gold diggers on the road. Sometimes thought to show leaving #Melbourne for the goldfields. But it most likely represents diggers moving on from one diggings (Forest Creek, near #Castlemaine) to better prospects at another (#Bendigo). #historyAU #colonialArtAU
My new article on #S_T_Gill pictures (7) on this subject from 1852 to 1872: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Subject_Diggers_on_way.htm
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There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:
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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:
* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.
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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.
Forever.
#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ
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There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:
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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:
* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.
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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.
Forever.
#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ
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There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:
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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:
* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.
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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.
Forever.
#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ
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There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:
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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:
* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.
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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.
Forever.
#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ
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There's more criticism of Santana's contentious gold mining project at Bendigo. Ian Taylor has joined the fray with an open letter to Chris Bishop questioning the necessity of using fast-track legislation on such a risky project. He says:
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Bendigo is a cyanide-leach gold operation that is:
* producing arsenic-bearing tailings
* stored behind a dam
* located in a seismically active region
* at the headwaters of major water systems.Taken together, these factors do not appear well suited to assessment under the compressed timeframes of the Fast-Track process.
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While I don't always agree with Taylor, he's right in this instance. I admire the people who are standing up and trying to stop this project damaging and polluting the Central Otago landscape forever.
Forever.
#Santana #Bendigo #Fast-Track #IanTaylor #NZ
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A farmer in Harcourt is grieving the loss of 11 of her llamas.
Rita Soares is the shepherd of 25 alpacas and now just two llamas on her rural property, Campo Verde Alpacas and Llamas, 35 kilometres south of #Bendigo.
Rita said that although she was still grateful to have a home, she would have sacrificed her house to save her llamas.
"We had 11 male llamas and two female llamas ... all 11 males have passed away," she said.
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Damage to Bendigo Railway Line revealed http://dlvr.it/TQGFYs #BreakingNews #RailNews #VLine #Bendigo
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Saturday 10 January – Ongoing V/ine Service Changes Due to Bushfires http://dlvr.it/TQG5Vq #BreakingNews #RailNews #VLine #Bendigo
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Festive free travel chaos mass disruptions failed trains and rolling stock shortages http://dlvr.it/TQF2s0 #RailNews #TrainOperations #VLine #Bendigo
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Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?
Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.
And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?
#historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo
My new article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1852_at_the_Victorian_Diggings.htm
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Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?
Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.
And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?
#historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo
My new article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1852_at_the_Victorian_Diggings.htm
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Bryce Ross kept the artist's name secret. Who was it sketching the gold diggings and looking to publish in #Melbourne or elsewhere?
Ross was an institution on the Victorian diggings in 1852. He reported weekly for the Melbourne Herald and his "Mems from the Mount [Alexander]" were reprinted in colonial newspapers. His office was at what is now Chewton near #Castlemaine. Ross was one of thousands of #SouthAustralia'ns on the diggings.
And why can't we find the artist's original field sketches?
#historyAU #TroveAU #1850s #S_T_Gill #Bendigo
My new article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_1852_at_the_Victorian_Diggings.htm
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On Monday Santana Minerals’ Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project was accepted for the Fast Track process. Apart from scarring the landscape, Santana's mining activity will release toxic elements into the environment including arsenic & lead. The mine will consume up to 9.5 million litres of water per day.
To stymie criticism, and taking advantage of the stupidly short time frame of National's fast-track process, Santana did a 10,000 page document dump at the last moment, overloading objectors.
And if that's not bad enough, Santana now wants to exclude residents, expert locals and community groups such as Sustainable Tarras from having any say in the process.
The Luxon government may only last for three years, but the damage they're doing to our environment will last for generations.
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Last night we ate at the #HouseOfKhong. That was a confusing meal! The #SingaporeNoodles had no curry flavour at all, instead they seemed to be in a #ChowMein sauce. 🤔
Tonight we ate at the #MexicanKitchen. Oh my. My #Colorado took me back 40+ years to #MexicanMicks in #ByronBay. Excellent meal.
It’s our last night in #Bendigo. A short but fantastic break.
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Last night we ate at the #HouseOfKhong. That was a confusing meal! The #SingaporeNoodles had no curry flavour at all, instead they seemed to be in a #ChowMein sauce. 🤔
Tonight we ate at the #MexicanKitchen. Oh my. My #Colorado took me back 40+ years to #MexicanMicks in #ByronBay. Excellent meal.
It’s our last night in #Bendigo. A short but fantastic break.
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Last night we ate at the #HouseOfKhong. That was a confusing meal! The #SingaporeNoodles had no curry flavour at all, instead they seemed to be in a #ChowMein sauce. 🤔
Tonight we ate at the #MexicanKitchen. Oh my. My #Colorado took me back 40+ years to #MexicanMicks in #ByronBay. Excellent meal.
It’s our last night in #Bendigo. A short but fantastic break.
