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Bendigo council up-beat about federal funds bid for Kangaroo Flat Aquatic ...

The Bendigo council says a visit to Canberra yesterday has given it encouragement as it prepares to bid for federal funding for the city's new indoor swimming pool. The council is hoping to secure a grant of nearly $5 million to help pay for the $30 ... >> view original

Bendigo defence manufacturer Thales still awaiting Hawkei vehicle contract ...

The Defence Minister says progress is being made as authorities decide whether to source a new range of Army vehicles from Bendigo. An announcement is due this year about whether the Thales Australia-built Hawkei vehicle has won a Defence tender ... >> view original

Fortuna Villa hosts public tours as doors open on historic Bendigo mansion ...

Bendigo's historic Fortuna Villa is hosting its first public tours this weekend since going into private ownership. Paul Banks bought the mansion from the Defence Department in 2013 for a little over $2 million and has since subdivided the land. He ... >> view original

Garden honours fallen students

Students and staff at Catholic College Bendigo planted a World War I memorial garden at the La Valla campus in Junortoun on Friday. The design included a hedge of rosemary, symbolising remembrance. Humanities teacher Sandra Hyde said the planting ... >> view original

Bendigo meeting transferred

Racing Victoria (RV), after consultation with the Bendigo Jockey Club, has made the decision to allow the track sufficient time to recover before the next scheduled meeting on Sunday August 16. Bendigo held a transferred meeting yesterday as part of ... >> view original

Commercial ties may fuel unnecessary osteoporosis treatment

With rates of heroin addiction stubbornly high, there is still debate about how best to treat those hooked on the drug. Learning · CPD article · Learning article · ONtrack - Pharmacy revision for preregistration trainees · FastTrack - revision for ... >> view original

Book extract: Real life in emergency

IT'S the smell that you can never really get out of your head. It's the brutal insult to the human body and the trauma to the human psyche, for the patients, the family and the staff. The combination of all these factors makes this horrible. It's a ... >> view original

WA mine worker attacked by swarm of bees

A worker needed a fortnight to recover after he was repeatedly stung by a swarm of bees while dismantling an old mine in Western Australia. According to a report filed by the Department of Mines and Petroleum this week, the worker was acting as a ... >> view original

Doctors charged over 31 attempted murders

GERMAN prosecutors have charged two former senior physicians with 31 cases of attempted murder as part of a long-running transplant scandal at a hospital in the eastern part of the country. THE charges against the two senior physicians, who have not ... >> view original

Heartbreaking story of chimpanzees who desperately need funding - or face ...

AFTER years of being experimented on, these chimpanzees rely fully on humans to feed and care for them. By Levi Winchester Levi Winchester. PUBLISHED: 00:00, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:49, Fri, Jul 24, 2015. A volunteer visits the chimpanzees ... >> view original