Bendigo

Renowned feminist photographer Ponch Hawkes undertook the Bendigo residency in autumn 2023 at the La Trobe Art Institute.  

1 June 2024. In an article in Garland Magazine, Jacqueline Millner reveals what artist residencies can tell us about the lived culture of drought. The full ...

  James James diary, 12 November 1902. (Diary courtesy of East Loddon Historical Society) Transcript: Terrible dust storm all day in the evening it got ...

Story: This plot shows rainfall variability in each season in Bendigo during the Federation Drought (1895–1903). The rainfall amounts have had the average for each ...

Bendigo Independent, 12 March 1901, p. 2   Story: This extract from the Bendigo Independent illustrates failing water supply in Bendigo in the later years of ...

Nature often goes to extremes, And after years of blighting droughts, As flood descends and lightning gleams Midst thunder’s roars, as though our thoughts Were ...