Tom O'callaghan
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Ex-Rebels bikie boss blocked from greyhound racing over organised crime risk (opens the original)
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Three police raids linked to Bendigo have been cited in a tribunal decision upholding a ban on a former outlaw bikie president entering the greyhound racing industry. Colin Websdale appealed Greyhound Racing Victoria's decision to block his dog training registration over concerns about organised crime infiltration. Mr Websdale has continued riding with the Rebels OCMG, added some significant patches to his vest, and maintained a position of standing, if not authority. The raids in 2008 and 2011
Demolition, digital dragons, and a $41m price tag: inside major museum overhaul (opens the original)
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A bamboo garden would be demolished to make way for a two-storey space under newly-unveiled $41 million plans for a beloved Bendigo museum. And project backers say there could be more than meets the eye on what appears to be a largely blank facade wrapping a prominent part of the proposed building. The Golden Dragon Museum has lodged plans for the multimillion-dollar revamp with the council as momentum builds for an overhaul, which would coincide with a name change to The Chinese Museum of Austr
'You do not intimidate me', woman said before party guest threatened to kill her (opens the original)
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A drunken party guest told a woman she would die hearing children's screams in a burning house, in a confrontation that has now led a magistrate to find him guilty of making a threat to kill. It came after the woman confronted him over his increasingly aggressive behaviour towards her and other guests at a New Year's Eve party in central Victoria on January 1, 2025. "You do not intimidate me," the woman told Melbourne man Reagan Bear, 39, shortly before he puffed up his chest and bumped into her
'Alarm bells': more former students, parents break silence on closed school's culture (opens the original)
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"Alarm bells" have been raised as former students and parents connected to a now-closed school share insights into its culture, a lawyer investigating historical sexual abuse allegations says. Molly Flowers, of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, told the Bendigo Advertiser she had been contacted by "approximately 10" former students and parents, after a callout for information on the culture of Golden Square Secondary College in the period spanning 1999 to 2001. [This] has raised some pretty significant
12 metres of road: what divides a toxic mine site from another fit for homes? (opens the original)
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One side of this busy Bendigo road is too blighted by mining's toxic legacy for homes to rise, amid a continuing search for building sites to counter a housing crisis. The other side is fine to build on with the right plan in place, geologists say. Golden Square's Chum Street has become the setting for a tale of two sides of a road, as the government launches public consultations on a push to rezone the old Southern Cross Austereo broadcast studios and surrounding land at 2-20 Chum Street. It is
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