• Bendigo Hospital Emergency Department.

    Nursed by his dad, Bill, 15 month old Lachlan looks up trustingly as Dr Zhoa attends a minor head injury in Bendigo Hospital Emergency Department.
  • ANZAC Day, 2005.

    ANZAC Day. WW2 Veteran Herb Dixon being hugged by his daughter seemed to tell the story of the day: grateful families, and a grateful nation.
  • Tenants v Drug Dealers

    In a public housing estate dominated by drug dealers some of the residents, in an effort to clean the place up and protect their children, ran collection patrols to pick up the disused syringes.
  • Julie and Norma

    Julie and her mum, Norma. Julie struggled for months to find accommodation for her Norma who suffers from Alzheimer's.
  • Accident Black Spot

    Another fatal accident on a notoriously bad stretch of road in central Victoria.
  • Ned and his family

    Ned and his young family were living in a caravan while waiting for public housing.
  • Les and Smokey

    Pensioner Lesley Forge with his best mate, Smokey.
  • ANZAC Day, 2015

    WW2 Veterans Cec Shilling and Jack Clarke catch up after the ANZAC Day service in Kangaroo Flat, Victoria
  • Baptism

    Karen Mahoney gets baptised by Elder Ralph Paola at the 2008 Jehova’s Witnnesses convention in Bendigo
  • Bats over Bendigo

    Bats started arriving in Bendigo in early 2010 drawn by unseasonal humidity
  • Bendigo’s Karen Monks

    Buddhist monk Venerable Moonienda shares a joke with some of the novices.
  • Black Saturday, Redesdale

    CFA crews take on a multi front grass fire approaching Redesdale township towards midnight on Black Saturday
  • Fuel Burnoff, Bendigo

    Fire crews attend to a fuel reductio burn near Bendigo in 2010.
  • Naval Cadets

    Navel cadets from HMAS Bendigo share a joke after an official flag raising ceremony
  • Elmore Field Days, 2014

  • Golfing Partners

    Meg Wayth 96, retiring after 50 years membership of Mt Alexander Golf Club, enjoys a quiet moment during afternoon teawith club president John Carter
  • Heathcote Playground

  • Bushfire at Maiden Gully, 2014

    CFA crews mop up after a deliberately lit grassfire at Maiden Gully
  • Remembrance

    Sgt Darren McDine and son Hamish 3 during the 2010 ANZAC day service
  • Cake Judging, Bendigo Show

  • The Ballroom Dancers

    Mary and Gerald , ballroom dancing partners for 50 years
  • Zed and Amanda

    Amanda and 13 year old Zed waiting in the vet’s waiting room, Castlemaine
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Brendan McCarthy is a Victorian-based photographer specialising in news, sports and portraiture.

m: 0402 077 137 e: photographer@brendanmccarthy.com.au

Main photo © Bendigo Advertiser. All photos by Brendan McCarthy.