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Sharing rays of sunshine For the past four years, SueLee Seng Tak May has celebrated her birthday at the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival. Sue-Lee turned 40 on Friday, but with no festival to enjoy this year she decided to take the celebration home to Sunbury and delivered daffodils to cheer the residents and staff of Japara Goonawarra Aged Care. "They still have many active cases of COVID and were so thankful for the Macedon Ranges' signature beauties in these challenging times!" she said. Sue-Lee's friends and colleagues at the Social Foundry in Kyneton, Paul Dettmann and Heather De Mack, picked the daffodils for her from fields in Barfold and Woodend. Photo: Josh Rodgers
WORLD HERITAGE BID Eve Lamb
Castlemaine and surrounds are in plum position to benefit from a momentous bid to see the wider Central Victorian Goldfields attain World Heritage listing. In a key document highlighting why the site is significant and should be given UNESCO World Heritage listing, a UK World Heritage expert has described the Central Victorian Goldfields as the best-surviving example from the 19th century gold rush. Mount Alexander, Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shire Councils have partnered in a campaign with 10 other councils across the Goldfields region to inscribe significant gold rush-era sites on the World Heritage list. Barry Gamble, author of the successful Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage inscription,
has developed a Statement of Outstanding Universal Value to help progress the bid. In it he calls the Central Victorian Goldfields "the most extensive, coherent and best-surviving landscape anywhere, that illustrates the global gold rush phenomenon of the second half of the 19th century". Newly named co-patrons for the World Heritage Listing bid, former Victorian state premiers John Brumby AO and Denis Napthine AO, joined Mr Gamble and the 13 central Victorian Councils across the Goldfields in a virtual meeting last Thursday to discuss a pathway for making the bid succeed. "Victorian leaders have known since the 1980s that this bid has merit," Mr Brumby said. "The region's heritage is unquestionably among the best in the world and tells an important and wonderful story
about the world and its social and economic development. "We also know that World Heritage listing, as well as the journey to achieve it, can achieve strong regional and community development, supporting tourism COVID-19 recovery and jobs - a second gold rush for the region, which couldn't come at a more needed time," Mr Brumby said. Mount Alexander Shire's manager of economy and culture, David Leathem, also chairs Bendigo Regional Tourism. He told the Midland Express that gaining the World Heritage designation stood to significantly boost the entire region's profile "to one of national and international significance". "To get that designation could be five years or more away," Mr Leathem said. Continued page 9.
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