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[email protected] birchipblc@ Est. 1875 bigpond.com Published Tuesdays and Fridays PRICE (inc. G.S.T.) $2 PP331336/0000 1 Friday, June 18, 2021 For the Shire of Buloke, and the districts of Birchip, Charlton, Donald, St. Arnaud, Watchem and Wycheproof Buloke Connections with Queen’s Birthday Honours Within the Buloke Shire, and beyond, Monday’s Queen’s Birthday Honours announcement has held special interest, particularly in the Birchip, Wycheproof and Donald areas. Among those honoured More details can be found She graduated with a were Peta Credlin (AO), at www.gg.gov.au/queens- Bachelor of Laws from the Joan Glen (OAM), and birthday-2021-honours-list or University of Melbourne Denis Flett (PSM). search by name at www.hon- with a concentration in con- Both Peta Credlin and ours. gov.au/honours/search. stitutional law, politics and Joan Glen were born in history in 1998. After gradu- Wycheproof, while Denis’s ation, she was admitted as a birthplace is Donald. Now a Peta Credlin barrister and solicitor in Vic- In 1971, Peta Credlin, the resident of Birchip, Joan is a toria, and applied for a job as • Peta Credlin, AO member of Wycheproof’s eldest of four, was born in a political staffer with Lib- Storey family, noted for its Wycheproof to Len and eral Senator Kay Patterson in love of music, while Peta has Brenda. Beginning school at 1999, however, continued on become one of television’s St Michael’s School in a part time basis with her most popular presenters, Wycheproof, she proved an studies to complete a gradu- hosting the widely-viewed impressive student, and in ate diploma in legal practice program, “Credlin”, on the 1985 the family moved to St.