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Tim McGlone

Tim McGlone is a Melbourne based writer. He writes about sport, food, travel and agriculture

November 2022

  • The hill facing the Swiss Mountain Hotel, Blampied.

    The rural network, Victoria
    ‘Everyone’s against it’: the powerlines dispute in one of Victoria’s most marginal electorates

    Proposed transmission lines to help meet renewable targets are slated to run through Ripon, held by just 15 votes in 2018

October 2022

  • Gold balloons celebrating 30

    I’m turning 30 in a shabby share house in Fitzroy. And I’m fine with that

    Tim McGlone
    Millennials are blessed with options our parents didn’t have. Why focus just on housing?

July 2022

  • Dustin Martin has been linked with a move away from Richmond to a Sydney AFL club next year.

    Dustin Martin has vindicated the gamble of following Richmond. He owes us nothing more

    Tim McGlone
    A potential move to Sydney will be neither unexpected nor totally devastating for Tigers fans

June 2022

  • The Real Hot Bitches, the official cheer squad of the Megahertz

    Rockdogs suffer mega hurts as music industry’s Reclink Community Cup returns to Melbourne

    There was big hair, short shorts and no shortage of sore bodies at the popular music industry football fundraiser

May 2022

  • A homemade sign saying "Dan stick your lines down below" next to an image of a tower is stuck to a white fence in farmland in Blampied, Victoria

    The rural network, Victoria
    Powerlines and potatoes: the renewable energy transmission project causing angst in central Victoria

    In the central highlands north-west of Melbourne, farmers are fighting plans to install 85-metre towers through their properties

November 2021

  • Farm workers at work in a field

    Australian farmers await overseas workforce as locals are too ‘spoilt for choice’

    Long-awaited agricultural visa could provide much needed labour, but some experts fear potential for worker exploitation

April 2021

  • grape picking Australia

    Seasonal work on Australia’s farms: ‘No one wants to do this sort of work’

    For two months I’ve been picking grapes in Western Australia, and was paid the minimum wage. Not everyone was as lucky
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