SARAHCRAZE

A brief history of how Ashburton votes in Federal elections.

How Ashburton's mothers have worked for nearly a century to improve their children's educational environment.

A brief history of netball and its significance to girls in Ashburton.

It’s Book Week! Or, as I call it in my house, F#@king Book Week. I love books. I love them so much I wrote one. You don’t become a...

When I first started writing this local history blog, a major resource was a document I found called ‘Ashburton through the Ages’, by...

For the 2022 Federal Election, the parents of Ashburton Primary School (located in Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs) ran a Sausage Sizzle and...

If you’ve lived in Ashburton awhile, you’ll know there is no public or private high school in the suburb. The closest option is Ashwood...

"No one actually knows where Solway is” (Julie Wilkinson, Principal 2007) The idea for a school on the hill between Karnak Road and...

The 1920s heralded significant social changes in Melbourne. Before then, Victoria’s Protestant majority – represented by English settlers...

A couple of years ago, back when Ashburton Primary School used to have a School Fair, I walked through the small history display. In...

Having walked the streets of Ashburton for days and weeks now (or is it months - what is time anyway during these lockdown days?) it...

The other day I received an email from Boroondara Council seeking my thoughts on its proposed reconciliation process over the area’s...

A summary of the fight between residents and the State Government over the Markham Estate re-development.