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If you’ve lived in Ashburton awhile, you’ll know there is no public or private high school in the suburb. The closest option is Ashwood...

Recently, I’ve begun doing some research for the Ashburton Willows Cricket Club. My role in the research is more on the “Ashburton” side...

"No one actually knows where Solway is” (Julie Wilkinson, Principal 2007) The idea for a school on the hill between Karnak Road and...

The 1920s heralded significant social changes in Melbourne. Before then, Victoria’s Protestant majority – represented by English settlers...

I don’t really like Christmas that much. Maybe it’s because I have a December birthday, or because my mother loved it and it reminds me...

I could tell you that I first read Treasure Island as a kid and it sparked a lifelong passion for the world of pirates and their place in...

A couple of years ago, back when Ashburton Primary School used to have a School Fair, I walked through the small history display. In...

Every suburb has its dark underbelly. Ashburton is no exception. On 17 December 1965, Melbourne’s Sun newspaper ran a front page story on...

Transcript of presentation to the Ashburton Community Centre at the AGM on 20 October 2021 Link to more photos (public Facebook page)...

In short: There’s lots of reading practice How to autonomously devise a routine to complete daily tasks Negotiation and time management...

It’s 1964 and Jim Leftley is 16 years old. He and his folk band, Dim Sim and Jim, are waiting to audition for Teen Time on the Ballarat...

Having walked the streets of Ashburton for days and weeks now (or is it months - what is time anyway during these lockdown days?) it...

If you know anything about your street and it’s not here I’m very open to suggestions and updates. Also, if I have forgotten your street,...

The Burwood Skyline Drive-in, the first drive-in in Australia.

The other day I received an email from Boroondara Council seeking my thoughts on its proposed reconciliation process over the area’s...

In this last post of the series on Ashy Redbacks, I examine the history of women's football and girls in the club.

It’s disconcerting reading your own name on a gravestone. There’s an eerie flash of recognition and then a strange kind of unsettling...

In Part I: I took a few thousand words to say the illegal sale of alcohol saved the Ashy Redbacks from financial ruin... Before we...

Part I (1971- 1992) Before we begin: a disclaimer. I remain eternally grateful that my kids are not interested in playing Australian...

Consider a saunter along the Gardiner’s Creek trail to the Winton Road Food Forest.