John Thistleton

Sandringham

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Behind Laggan Pantry’s meticulous preparation

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

Executive chef Evan Marler switches off refrigerators after the last customer leaves his fine-dining restaurant on most Sunday afternoons. A decade after creating the 20-seat Laggan Pantry northeast of Goulburn with his partner and front-of-house maestro Sally Emerton, they have a no-waste policy. Much of their produce is picked as needed from their raised vegetable gardens next to the restaurant, rather than sitting in cold storage.
Remembering a quiet country boy who joined global highfliers

1 week ago | region.com.au | John Thistleton

Goulburn High School’s class of 1976 are remembering their classmate Norman Frazer for his gentle ways and inspirational achievements. Norman died early on Friday morning in Melbourne after a five-year battle with melanoma. An aeronautical engineer with British Aerospace, he worked up until three weeks before his death, aged 66.
Remembering a quiet country boy who joined global highfliers

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

Goulburn High School’s class of 1976 are remembering their classmate Norman Frazer for his gentle ways and inspirational achievements. Norman died early on Friday morning in Melbourne after a five-year battle with melanoma. An aeronautical engineer with British Aerospace, he worked up until three weeks before his death, aged 66.
Boomerang Bags back as Farmers Market shuns pervasive plastic

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

Goulburn Farmers Market organisers and community action group The Goulburn Group are combining their efforts to get the community, Goulburn Mulwaree Council and retailers to reduce plastic, which takes 1000 years to break down in landfill.
Michael chipped away at region’s premier stone projects

2 weeks ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

Having toiled for 18 months on a crowning sandstone bell tower above St Saviour’s Cathedral in Goulburn, stonemason Michael Beville was in a hurry to return to the Southern Highlands. By 1986 when a team of skilled stonemasons joined overseer Brian Bowen and setter-out draughtsman Ted Higgins, both seconded from England for the ambitious bicentennial project, Michael was keen to return to his business, fearing rivals might move in on his clients.
Goulburn doing NSW's heavy lifting on providing for social housing

2 weeks ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

Goulburn is doing more than its fair share in addressing the social housing crisis in Australia, according to residents and council members. Goulburn Mulwaree Council has rejected a proposal by the NSW Government to swap two parcels of land to enable a $10 million development for 20 social and affordable homes in the suburb of Crestwood.
John Brogden: From the deepest valley, hope finds the highest mountain

3 weeks ago | psnews.com.au | John Thistleton

CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses suicide and self-harm. In Goulburn promoting his book Profiles in Hope, John Brogden is three-quarters the way through his talk to a spellbound audience when he comes to that pivotal moment that ended his promising political career. “I decided at that point, 6:15 on the Tuesday night in September, almost 20 years ago this year, not only the only thing for me to do, but somewhat bizarrely the best thing for me to do, was to take my own life,” he said.
Scope of Goulburn Post Office remediation work still unknown

3 weeks ago | aboutregional.com.au | John Thistleton

More than two months after closing the Goulburn Post Office in the heritage city’s main street and citing lead contamination, Australia Post is yet to invite tenderers for remediation work.
Davydick’s legacy endures for three generations in Goulburn

3 weeks ago | region.com.au | John Thistleton

Almost 40 years after two farmers formed a business partnership that became a household name in Goulburn and district’s rural community, their sons and grandsons are back working together. In 1986 David Bell and Dick McDonald got together over a bottle of Scotch whiskey to talk about off-farm income, and invented the Davydick Suspension Sheep Weigher. Winning best invention at the Orange Field Days and coming third at the National Field Days, the innovation was followed by several others.
‘Back off or I’ll kill him’: Life inside Goulburn Jail

3 weeks ago | region.com.au | John Thistleton

In an industry fraught with crime and despair, Ken Buck led elite emergency and response units at Goulburn Jail, which held the country’s worst criminals. One Sunday morning in August 1993 his boss suggested Ken buy a newspaper and lottery ticket – because he would read in the paper that overnight a plot to kill prison guards was uncovered. Eleven inmates, some serving sentences over the Anita Cobby and Janine Balding pack rapes and murders, had planned to cut the throats of guards and escape.