Garden Hints & Tips
Choose native plants for containers
The warmer days bring the opportunity to spruce up your garden, and to give a little TLC to tired looking pot plants and hanging baskets.
Victoria Arnel
Garden Hints & Tips
Jobs, jobs and jobs!
Without a doubt the wetter season has been good for the garden, but combined with the ending of the year, it has meant that there is a long list of jobs to do in the garden and too little time to do them.
Waranga Dreaming
48. Two legal systems
The previous story talked about a gathering of Kulin Nation people near Melbourne to administer justice in a murder case. In 1844, the new settlement of Melbourne was less than 10 years old. At the time, present-day Victoria was part of the colony of New South Wales (the Port
Waranga Dreaming
42. Making a stone axe
The most important Aboriginal tools in pre-colonisation times were stone axes. Recent stories have talked about the use of greenstone in producing the axe heads. Locally, the stone was quarried on the Mt Camel range. Quarried axe-heads were then chipped on one side to make a sharp edge.
Waranga Dreaming
12. Summer on the river
Logically, you would expect that Aboriginal people would have retreated to the vicinity of the Campaspe and Goulburn Rivers during the summer. Access to a reliable supply of water and food resources would have been vital. This was the conclusion reached by Harry Parris when he was thinking about seasonal
Colbinabbin
New owners for the Colbinabbin Hotel
The Colbinabbin Hotel which sits in the hub of the town has been sold!
News
Waranga News Editor awarded Order of Australia Medal
Our own Dr Mary Jo Fortuna of Rushworth has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the latest Queen’s Birthday honours list.