State election 2026: what Daylesford and Hepburn Springs...

Victorians vote on Saturday 28 November. The enrolment deadline falls on Melbourne Cup Day, and several rules have changed since 2022. Here is what Daylesford and Hepburn Springs voters need to know. Daylesford and Hepburn Springs will help choose a new member of parliament at the Victorian state election on Saturday 28 November. Both towns are in the lower house district of Macedon and the upper house region of Northern Victoria. Macedon's sitting MP, Labor's Mary-Anne Thomas, announced in April that she will not contest the seat again. Macedon will have a new MP for the first time since 2014. The first deadline comes early. The electoral roll closes...

Daylesford Rotary Art Show Opening Night returns

The Daylesford Rotary Club is gearing up for the opening night of the Daylesford Rotary Art Show, with more than 450 works from local and regional artists set to go on display at the Daylesford Town Hall. The opening night, proudly sponsored by Blooms the Chemist, will be held on Thursday 29 October from 6pm. Guests will get the first look at this year's entries before the judge announces the winners on the night. Entry is free for participating artists and for visitors under 18. Tickets for adults are $30, giving guests the chance to browse the artwork over drinks and nibbles. The show has been drawing growing attention...

How Should Council Deal with Overdue Rates? Have...

A two-week online survey on Council's Revenue Collection and Financial Hardship Policy opened on Monday 5 October and closes on Monday 19 October. Council says it wants feedback on "payment plans, hardship applications and other ways we can help ratepayers manage their rates, while improving the collection of outstanding amounts". It also wants advice on how the rate collection process can be improved so that overdue rates are collected. Why now The review comes as Council's finances are under pressure. At its September meeting, Council heard that about 1,000 of the shire's roughly 8,000 residential ratepayers are behind on their rates, and only about 200 are on payment plans. In his Councillor...

A Concert Debut for a Chance Discovery

The Daylesford Community Brass Band’s ‘Light & Shade’ concert this Friday (October 2) will debut an instrument that was discovered during the renovations of...

Three New National Parks Officially opened

Three new national parks have been opened in Victoria’s central west, protecting the best of the bush and keeping it open for everyone to enjoy. The parks were formally proclaimed, giving them national park status: Wombat-Lerderderg National Park – spanning 44,000...

Get Fire Ready this October

Get Fire Ready this October: Fire season is coming—use this month to prepare your property. To find a local CFA Get Fire Ready event visit cfa.vic.gov.au/getfireready Know Your Risk: Every town, property and community is different—understand your local risk and...

Health Coaching – bridging the gap between knowing and doing

Our modern world can make living a healthy lifestyle, a real challenge. From the plethora of credible and not so credible information online to...

Five Weeks, 5,000 Signatures — Where Is Victoria’s Road Recovery Plan?

Despite repeated requests, no road recovery plan has been published. On 30 August, the Victorian Government announced an additional $352 million for road maintenance, saying the money would flow immediately and setting a target of increasing pothole repairs from 250,000 to...

Potholes, Promises and No Answers Part 2

Last week, I wrote in The Wombat Post about the deteriorating condition of our roads and a very simple question I had been putting repeatedly to the Victorian Government: Where is the road repair plan? Since then, the issue has taken...

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Five Weeks, 5,000 Signatures — Where Is Victoria’s Road Recovery Plan?

Despite repeated requests, no road recovery plan has been published. On 30 August, the Victorian Government announced an additional $352 million for road maintenance, saying the...

Three New National Parks Officially opened

Three new national parks have been opened in Victoria’s central west, protecting the best of the bush and keeping it open for everyone to...

Get Fire Ready this October

Get Fire Ready this October: Fire season is coming—use this month to prepare your property. To find a local CFA Get Fire Ready event...

Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Art Prize 2006

For more than 20 years, the Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Art Prize has been an important part of the annual Festa celebrations in Hepburn...

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Three New National Parks Officially opened

Three new national parks have been opened in Victoria’s central west, protecting the best of the bush and keeping it open for everyone to...

 

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Five Weeks, 5,000 Signatures — Where Is Victoria’s Road Recovery Plan?

Despite repeated requests, no road recovery plan has been published. On 30 August, the Victorian Government announced an additional $352 million for road maintenance, saying the...

Three New National Parks Officially opened

Three new national parks have been opened in Victoria’s central west, protecting the best of the bush and keeping it open for everyone to...

Get Fire Ready this October

Get Fire Ready this October: Fire season is coming—use this month to prepare your property. To find a local CFA Get Fire Ready event...

Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Art Prize 2006

For more than 20 years, the Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Art Prize has been an important part of the annual Festa celebrations in Hepburn...

Garden of Views: Honouring a Historic Sequoia Through Art and Community Craft

A project to bring sculpture and contemplation to the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens is proposed by the Garden's Friends. When the towering Sequoia at...

Daylesford Rotary Art show – Artist Profile Lynn Buddenbaum

Lynn Ann Buddenbaum paints from her studio on a beautiful, wooded 20-acre property in Daylesford. An artist throughout her life, Lynn studied Fine Arts...

More Horror Unleashed

Halloween is being marked at Daylesford’s Phoenix Cinema as a way to explore how filmmakers use fear, atmosphere and the supernatural to explore the...

Notes from Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre

Something for Everyone at Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre This Term There’s plenty happening at the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre this Term 4, with the October to December...

State election 2026: what Daylesford and Hepburn Springs voters need to know

Victorians vote on Saturday 28 November. The enrolment deadline falls on Melbourne Cup Day, and several rules have changed since 2022. Here is what...

Daylesford Rotary Art Show Opening Night returns

The Daylesford Rotary Club is gearing up for the opening night of the Daylesford Rotary Art Show, with more than 450 works from local...

A Concert Debut for a Chance Discovery

The Daylesford Community Brass Band’s ‘Light & Shade’ concert this Friday (October 2) will debut an instrument that was...

Zandrina Tacey Retrospective Art Exhibition at The Convent, Daylesford.

The Convent Gallery in Daylesford is proud to present the Zandrina Tacey Retrospective. A Celebration of Colour, Culture & an...

Daylesford Rotary Art Show Judge

Daylesford Rotary Art Show this year will be judged by Dr Karen Annett-Thomas. Dr Annett-Thomas is the Director...

Daylesford Art Show Profile – Pam Gleeson

Pam Gleeson is a highly regarded Australian artist whose creative practice has evolved through a distinguished career in both...

Swiss Italia Festa Landscape Prize

The Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Prize is back again this year! Celebrating the beauty and character of the Central Victorian...

Daylesford Art Show Artist Profile – Jude Bodiam

Entries close for the Daylesford Rotary Art Show on 4 October. Our artist profiled this week, Jude...

The art of Story

I have recently come to a realisation. I’m thinking that all art, at its core, is simply storytelling. Next time...

YAK YAK YAK

Radical Fields takes new work to Cementa26 with Regional Arts Fund support.  Three local artists are preparing to take a...

Daylesford Art Show Artist Profile – Andrew Littlejohn

Daylesford Art Show entries close 4 October. So get painting! The Daylesford Art Show runs from 29...

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Five Weeks, 5,000 Signatures — Where Is Victoria’s Road Recovery Plan?

Despite repeated requests, no road recovery plan has been published. On 30 August, the Victorian Government announced an additional $352 million...

Potholes, Promises and No Answers Part 2

Last week, I wrote in The Wombat Post about the deteriorating condition of our roads and a very simple...