Porcupine Village expected to reopen

Porcupine Village could open before Christmas, the manager of the historic site has announced. Bendigo Advertiser | July 14, 2025

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00:00Welcome to Porcupine Village. This is the Porcupine Inn. It's the smallest

00:04freestanding license hotel in Australia and it's licensed for five people. We're

00:09upstairs in the Porcupine Inn and this serves as the brothel. We're not

00:12licensing the brothel. So now that we've got our planning permit signed off we've

00:20got a lot of conditions to meet but it'll take us a few months to tick them

00:23all off and then we'll be happy to throw the gates open to visitors. So this is

00:28typical of the miners camps of the day in the gold rush. They have their little

00:31fires for cooking them and fairly basic sleeping quarters.