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Tinker, tailor, and a heritage pharmacy in NSW
Hockey’s Accommodation at the old Chemist shop, Millthorpe.
Located between Orange and Blayney about 3.5 hours north-west of Sydney, the tiny National Trust-classified town of Millthorpe has quaint down to a “t”. From the 1870s railway station to the 1877 Commercial Hotel and the 1882 flour mill, Millthorpe is a step back in time.
For those keen on a fully immersive heritage experience, there’s Hockey’s Accommodation at The Old Chemist, founded by F.W. Hockey in the early 20th century. This elegant three-room dwelling is a stone’s throw from the town centre and has been thoughtfully fitted out, including with an old pharmacy cabinet full of prehistoric potions, lotions and trinkets. There’s also a framed order form dated April 1918, promising “prescriptions accurately dispensed” and “teeth carefully extracted”. (Just don’t dream of the dentist’s chair, like I did.)
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When Cindy Bohan and Trevor Salvado set out on their weekend bushwalk in Bright, Victoria, they didn’t expect to go missing.
Their story, however, is not uncommon.
Though some people lost in the bush may get found and others not at all, hiking is the second most common cause of death in a national park after drowning.
“We were following the markers and then they disappeared,” Cindy told
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The base at Mt Buller
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“If you bushwalk, you can often be a couple of meters apart from one another, but in this situation, I used to have to say to Trevor, ‘Hey, stop. I can t see you.’”
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In early 2019, Neville Walsh, a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, was sifting through clippings, seed pods and blurry botanical photos sent by mail from a plant enthusiast at Cobungra, in the Victorian high country, when he spotted a few âgenuinely rare speciesâ.
He decided to visit the property, owned by octogenarians Anne and Jim UâRen, and found himself scrambling down a steep gully to the banks of a silvered creek where he noticed a curious wattle. âI thought, âBloody hell, whatâs this?ââ he recalls.
Tim Entwisle and Neville Walsh at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Â
Taungurung Aboriginal corporation s Victorian land agreement in doubt after court ruling
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The 2018 Taungurung agreement covers land spanning central and Alpine districts of Victoria.
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A Victorian Aboriginal corporation is fighting to salvage its $34 million settlement with the government, after the Federal Court found significant legal errors occurred during the registration of the land deal which underpins it.
Key points:
Objectors claim the agreement interferes with their sovereign rights as separate Aboriginal nations
The Taungurung Land and Waters Council says it welcomes further scrutiny of the agreement
The finding has highlighted long-running tensions over the Taungurung people s 20,210-square-kilometre Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), which stretches across the central Victorian towns of Kilmore, Seymour and Alexandra, and up to Euroa and the Ovens Valley tourist town of Bright.