Kids protest against fast-food giant after McDonald’s buys Castlemaine land for $4.6m
About 100 children and parents with homemade signs gathered at the site of a proposed McDonald’s in historic…
McDonald’s confirms plan for restaurant in historic Castlemaine
Residents of the Victorian town of Castlemaine say a plan by McDonald’s to enter the community would diminish…
Communities harness the people power of co-ops to stave off privatisation
On a corner block in a Victorian country town, an historic building erected 150 years ago has just…
‘Australia: A History’: How the gold rush brought together convicts, colonists and migrants as a brilliant nation was formed
For those arriving from the stratified societies of Britain and Europe, the gold diggings were extraordinary. A “boisterous…