Sunraysia Daily

Funds for Carwarp Hall work

THE importance of small communities having a gathering place has been highlighted by Mildura Rural City Council’s decision to support of the restoration of Carwarp Hall. The hall, under the management of the Carwarp Mechanics Institute Reserve...

5 hours ago

News

Suicide raises ex-prisoner housing concerns

A CORONER has raised concerns about housing options for newly released prisoners following the death of a Mildura man by suicide just days after being released from prison. The Coroners Court of Victoria heard the 38-year-old had served a sentence of...

6 hours ago

News

Rev up bike skills

A FREE motorcycle safety and skills forum will be held this Friday, followed by an optional skills training day on Saturday. The forum will include presentations by Honda Australia Rider Training, or HART, as well as Victoria Police, Rural Ambulance...

6 hours ago

Community

Helping make the world work

LA Trobe University’s Mildura campus’ students and staff marked World Social Work Day with a tree planting project that’s aiming to represent different groups including older adults, youth, First Nations peoples, those with disabilities, and from...

30 Mar 2025

Politics

Farrer challenger puts education on agenda

AN independent candidate for the Federal seat of Farrer at May’s national poll is seeking to make education a big issue in the electorate ahead of the vote. Last week, Michelle Milthorpe came out with a critical assessment of the Federal Government’s...

01 Apr 2025

News

Budget ignores regions, says MFC

THIS year’s Federal Budget gave families and children in rural and regional communities little to celebrate, according to Mallee Family Care.“The need for a more comprehensive approach to reducing rural and regional disadvantage has been ignored,“...

01 Apr 2025

Video

Videos

Video footage shows run away truck at Buronga service station

Video footage from closed circuit television cameras shows the runaway B triple truck at a Buronga service station on the morning of Thursday, 20 February

21 Feb 2025

Videos

Unit fire on Walnut Ave

Firefighter put out a unit fire on Walnut Avenue on the evening of Tuesday, January 14

15 Jan 2025

News

Fire guts 11th Street house

AUTHORITIES have responded to a building fire on Eleventh Street in Mildura just before 9am this morning. At least seven Fire Rescue Victoria units, supported by CFA members tacked the blaze that’s believed to have started in a shed at the rear of...

01 Oct 2024

Riverfront added to ‘priority’ list

COMPLETION of the Mildura riverfront redevelopment has been added to a priority list for advocacy ahead of the May federal election. Mildura councillors were this week poised to endorse five projects as their Federal Government advocacy priority list...

01 Apr 2025

News

CFA marks 80 years

THE Country Fire Authority will mark 80 years of protecting and serving Victorians this week. The CFA was created following the findings of the 1939 Black Friday fires, bringing together volunteer brigades established as far back as the 1850s under...

01 Apr 2025

Community

102 years young for Verna

WHEN Verna Farnsworth took her first breaths much of the world was recovering from the Great War and Spanish flu, while the roaring 20s were just getting started. Now, celebrating her 102 birthday, she’s looked back on parts of her amazing life. Born...

01 Apr 2025

News

Bond for street brawler

A DISPUTE between warring neighbours has spilled into a street brawl during which kitchen knives and a machete were produced, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard the feuding residents became involved in a minor dispute in the...

01 Apr 2025

Sport

Bowls

Jim Bunney Day success

THE Jim Bunney Day at Mildura Bowls club was a success with 64 players enjoying two games follow by afternoon tea. Teams from Irymple, Euston, Red Cliffs, Coomealla, Workers, Wentworth and Ouyen joined those at Mildura. Gary Smallman gave a speech...

5 hours ago

Motorsport

Waters a class above

JOSH Waters’ domination of the 2025 Australian Superbike Championship continued at Sydney Motorsport Park, with the reigning champion again a class above on his McMartin Racing Ducati. It was a classic playbook from the 38-year-old from Mildura in...

6 hours ago

Golf

Whitehouse wins at Merbein

ASH Whitehouse has started the Murray Darling Golf Association Open season with victory in the Merbein Open. Rounds of 72 and 71 saw the decorated golfer claim back-to-back titles at “Royal Merbein” and give him an early jump in the recently...

01 Apr 2025

Motorsport

Champions crowned for fourth time

SPEEDWAY sidecar team Mark Plaisted and Ben Pitt are now four-time Oceania Speedway Championship winners. A perfect night for the duo on Saturday night saw them win every one of their five heats at Adelaide’s Gillman Speedway, before riding home in...

01 Apr 2025

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Opinion

Politics

What are you budgeting for?

THE Albanese Government’s cruel approach to cost-of-living relief was on display in Canberra this week in an ugly and unexpected final sitting week. Mildura, Sunraysia and Mallee mortgage-holders who are $50,000...

29 Mar 2025

Letters

Manage risk together

AS summer fades and autumn begins, we take a moment to reflect on the challenges of extreme heat, bushfires and storms over the past months have tested communities across the state, reinforcing the importance of preparedness, swift response and...

27 Mar 2025

Letters

Sub par deal

Finally someone (Adam Bandt) has the nerve to say what a lot of clear thinking members of the public are thinking. AUKUS is not a deterrent but a vehicle for a megalomaniac to take on China. Irrespective of the cost and in this case the delivery time...

27 Mar 2025