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Changes to waste services over Easter

Due to the Good Friday public holiday, Friday 3 April bin collections will occur on Saturday 4 April. The Castlemaine and Maldon transfer stations will be closed on Friday 3 April 2026.

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Mechanics Lane events 2024 - 2025

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Club Unity

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Street Latin Dance Summer Salsa

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Sound Journey for the Soul

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Gecko

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Seal Prince and the Roof Rats

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apelgate

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Acknowledgement of Country

Mount Alexander Shire Council acknowledges that the Traditional Custodians of this land, the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung peoples, proudly survive. We acknowledge their continued practise of custom and their close cultural, spiritual, physical, social, historical and economic relationship with the land and waters that make up their Country, which includes Mount Alexander Shire. 

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27 Lyttleton Street
Castlemaine, Victoria 3450
Djaara Country 
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T (03) 5471 1700
E info@mountalexander.vic.gov.au

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