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Articles by Mick Bourke
Planning for Traf’s 150th anniversary has begun
Planning for Trafalgar’s sesquicentenary (150th) anniversary celebrations in 2028 have begun with the formation of an organising committee.
Council inaction on proposed Trafalgar RV Park
Baw Baw Shire Council appears not to have advanced the implementation of Trafalgar’s proposed free recreation vehicle (RV) park at the recreation precinct to any great degree despite having the proposal since 15 September 2025. Interim chief executive officer John Bennie advised the proposal’s author, Mick Bourke OAM the following day (16 September 2025) as follows: “I acknowledge receipt of your proposal and congratulate you at the outset on the quality of the submission.
Maintenance to railway station
Maintenance work on Trafalgar Railway Station’s building was completed early last month. The works were delivered by Direct Property Building Services on behalf of VicTrack. They included replacing guttering, weatherboards, plaster, and window frames, as well as painting and other minor works. “VicTrack is carrying out repair works to the Trafalgar Station building, which will continue to be leased by the Baw Baw Arts Alliance as a community and arts space,” said a VicTrack spokesperson.
Cultural Burning: a primer
As Australia experiences an early start to the 2023/24 fire season, much of the current media coverage understandably focuses on fighting fires. But there is a deeper, longer public conversation about how we manage the land. In this context, fuel reduction/ hazard reduction burning, ecological burning and Cultural burning are often considered as ways of reducing fire risk.
Changing Fire Imaginaries: Walking together to reap the ethical and practical benefits of cultural burning – Arena
Photo by James Collett. Photo taken during the 2019-20 bushfires. Two documents vividly characterise the predicament facing Australian society in relation to the current state of the environment and possible responses to it. The State of the Environment Report (SOE) starkly presents the parlous state of ecological health across the whole of the continent.
Read, Share and Shape the News
Poll: Will you do more of your Christmas shopping online this year? THERE ARE 59 shopping days until Christmas. Most retailers across the country will be closed until 1 December, losing out on some vital festive shopping business. Many are depending on customers shifting to online sales during that time. So we want to know: Will you do more of your Christmas shopping online this year?
Poll: Will you do more of your Christmas shopping online this year?
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Poll: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
We’re less than a week off from the scariest night of the year. Share Tweet Email Image: Shutterstock/Derick Hudson WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year. Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Opinion: Memories of my first Dublin City Marathon on the day the 2020 race was meant to happen
I MADE A first-ever attempt at the marathon in the inaugural Dublin City event in 1980 and it resulted in my 15 minutes of fame. No, I didn’t win it, not even close, but a brief encounter during the race caused it. While going up the main road of the Phoenix Park, shortly after the start, a car pulled over and drove alongside us.
New Directors for Emergency Management Victoria
On behalf of Chief Officer Euan Ferguson and the Executive Leadership Team I would like to share with you the names of the newly appointed Emergency Management Victoria (EMV) Directors. These appointments complete Emergency Management Victoria's Executive Team and were announced on Friday by EMV Chief Executive Neil Robertson and Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley.
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