Daily Matters
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Daily Matters: Buy a local drop as a gift to growers
IN the business world, placing too many eggs in one basket has always been a recipe for disaster. But it can so easily happen. Someone…
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Daily Matters: Taking on Victoria’s rates inequity
WHEN Ali Cupper was elected Member for Mildura, I wrote in this column that one of her priorities should be to highlight the dramatic rates…
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Daily Matters: Surgeon leaves gratitude and a lifetime of stories
SURGEON Kevin Chambers will be forever enshrined in Mildura’s memory. At some point, he will likely be immortalised in a formal sense, whether by having…
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Daily Matters: Border closures are a populist political tool
BY and large, Australians are a compliant lot. Most of us like to do the right thing, particularly by each other. Take our response to…
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Daily Matters: Rules stand in the way of community effort
THE social rooms at my old cricket club in the Latrobe Valley were built for a fraction of the cost they are worth. They were…
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Daily Matters: Regional Victoria chained to Melbourne’s fate
REGIONAL Victoria’s 14-day average of new coronavirus cases dropped to zero on Wednesday. It is the number that Mildura has been sitting on for many…
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Waiting for basketball bubble to burst
SOCIAL outlets are rare when you’ve got three little kids. But this year has hammered home just how much we value connectivity with those outside…
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Mildura catching up in marketing race
A BOLD campaign to market Mildura as a tourist destination is kicking goals. Anyone who has been watching the AFL finals will have noticed the…
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Is three-bin system working for Mildura families?
EVERY second Friday, our street is filled with overflowing general waste bins. Meanwhile, the new green organics bins are lucky to be half full. Our…
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Still a long paddle ahead
VICTORIANS, well some Victorians, are again allowed to dip their toes in the Murray River. What wonderful progress from our state premiers. What a wonderfully…
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Critical moment in our sporting history
NEXT year looms as the most critical in the history of local football and netball in this region. That’s not sensationalising the news, that’s what…
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Just what have we become?
AT the beginning of May, this column suggested if there were zero active coronavirus cases for another month in regions like Sunraysia, then the Victorian…
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