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Crowds swarm the Bendigo Swap Meet

One of the premiere events for Australian car lovers, the Bendigo Swap Meet is a yearly pilgrimage for thousands of people looking for old parts and old friends.

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Dai Gum San opens like a flower in Bendigo

After years of planning and months of construction, the historic Dai Gum San development has been officially opened.

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Talent exposed at Monster Meeting Song Award

The first step to democracy in Victoria was an event called the Forest Creek Monster meeting. This event is now captured in song.

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A monster turnout for the monster meeting

When it comes to democracy in Australia, many believe it began when 14,000 miners took to a hill in Chewton to oppose taxes in the 1851. Today their message still rings out loud on that very same hill.

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Bendigo buildings steal the spot light

The Bendigo Post Office Gallery is hosting 'Pride of Place: the first 60 years of building in Bendigo and surrounds' showing images of structures built between 1854 and 1914.

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Bendigo trams now and then

Forty years ago, the last Bendigo tram made its final journey. Gail Tavener photographed the tram from her workplace in 1972 and again in 2012 for ABC Open's Now and Then.

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Former Aussie rock band Redgum supports rural primary school

The stage set, bugs soaring past the lights and people are waiting on a cold night to see John Schumann and Hugh McDonald performing a fund raiser for Piangil primary, about 30 kilometres from Swan Hill.

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Red River Rebellion re-enactment

Camp Hill Primary School students help remember the Red Ribbon Rebellion

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The bearded bushrangers and the Castlemaine artist who became them

For four years Castlemaine artist and teacher Clayton Tremlett sculpted his facial hair to take on the guise of 12 bushrangers.

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Reclaiming the past to distil eucalyptus oil in Wedderburn

One man and team of volunteers turn eucalyptus leaves into oil using methods of the 1800s in an area once famous for its oil production.

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Muslim Australians found to suffer the 'most disturbing' experiences in...

A four-year study into faith communities has found Muslims experience acts of violence on an individual basis like no other religious adherents.

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