CENTRELINK staff met with about 30 of the 200 retrenched Lihir Gold workers this morning to discuss future job and entitlement options.Centrelink's Jim Everard addressed the meeting, outlining ...

Victorian Goldfields Railway. Education tourism is all very well but it never occurred to me that it would mean I'd have to spend more than two hours 85 metres underground. We're at Central Deborah ...

Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl. But that’s not all she was. Not by a long stretch. Lola Montez was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1818, and christened Maria Eliza Delores Rosanna Gilbert. She ...

1854: Goldminers stage a rebellion at Ballarat. The colonial government announced in early 1851 that gold had been discovered in Australia, near Bathurst, New South Wales, and later that year also in ...

Review: New Gold Mountain, directed by Corrie Chen. The beautifully shot and evenly paced New Gold Mountain, the new series from SBS, is an 1850s-era murder mystery set in the Ballarat goldfields ...