'It's becoming yuppie-fied': Gold rush town debates its modern art

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'It's becoming yuppie-fied': Gold rush town debates its modern art
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What started as an exciting community art project has divided the small Central Victorian gold rush town of Dunolly.

"You can look anywhere around the country and around Europe, where lots of modern additions to historic streets have added value," Mr Harvey said."This concept that the shire keeps saying Dunolly needs to reinvent itself, no, Dunolly is actually doing too bad," Mr Tully said.

"Other places in the shire, Maryborough is getting a little bit depressed at the moment, but Dunolly doesn't do too badly." Wayne McKail from the Central Goldfields ratepayers association said he was disappointed with how the council had handled the issue.

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