Mick Bourke News Today

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC, TOM HAYES, KATRINA BRANDON and LIAM DURKIN   “We are one, but we are many And from […]

By LIAM DURKIN THE local Trafalgar community newspaper Traf News has been resurrected. After a brief hiatus this year, the […]

Australia’s landscape was sculpted by the knowing use of fire over tens of thousands of years. But much has changed, including, most ominously, the climate.

By LIAM DURKIN THE Trafalgar Holden Museum will be extended to house a new collection of cars. The collection will […]

COMMUNITY By LIAM DURKIN YEARS of lobbying paid off when Baw Baw Shire council officially endorsed the naming of ‘Turra […]

Normal text size Very large text size A cool, gentle, creeping fire came to the bushland that surrounds the Tang Tang and Thunder swamps in central Victoria, north of Bendigo, in 2019. It burnt gently through grasslands and connected up with other fires lit on the forest floor to create a mosaic effect. This fire was lit by Dja Dja Wurrung people, including employees of Forest Fire Management Victoria, and their non-Aboriginal colleagues. It was the first cultural burn in the area in 170 years....

A 97 year old bachelor farmer who attended the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival for 72 years has passed away without finding his soul mate. Mick Bourke from County Tipperary began attending the festival in 1946 when he was 23 years old and never missed a year until his health began to fade a few years ago. His death caused by pneumonia was announced last week. “Mick was well known and loved by many in Lisdoonvarna and messages of sympathy have been pouring in all week to us, via social medi...

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A 97-year- old bachelor farmer who attended the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival for 72 years has passed away without finding his soul mate.