Letters
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LETTER: Federal backing just the first step for MFR
The $10 million funding announcement this week by the Federal Government is a significant step towards realising our vision for the Mildura South Regional Sporting…
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LETTER: Labor not in power for local sporting clubs
Daniel Andrews just doesn’t get community sport and the work that countless volunteers put into supporting their clubs.Why else would he be offering loans, with…
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LETTER: Lobby state politicians for better outcomes
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) is serious about ensuring our political leaders are responding to the needs of our farmers, and their rural and regional communities.Farmers…
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LETTER: Banning of live export life-saving for animals
The decision by the Federal Department of Agriculture to suspend the licence of EMS Rural Exports, preventing the shipping of 45,000 sheep into the deadly…
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LETTER: A rescue the whole world will remember
What a wonderful outcome for the marvellous volunteers who helped save the boys soccer team from a cave in Thailand. In particular, credit goes to those…
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LETTER: The cost of government’s robot debt collection
I RECENTLY had the displeasure of a Department of Human Services “robo debt” assessment call. They are seeking detailed information about every single payslip I…
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LETTER: Mildura better for Italian influence
FULL marks to Mildura Mayor Mark Eckel regarding our city’s multiculturalism, which I endorse 100 per cent.I do recall in the 1990s writing a letter…
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LETTER: Sport loses when ethics overtaken
Professional sport has become a distorted form of physical activity controlled by the power elite and shaped by the needs of corporate logic.As part of…
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LETTER: Misinformation no help in rates debate
IT seems Ian Hastings (Sunraysia Daily, July 9) now admits he got the rate rise wrong but then tries to justify his ignorance with a…
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LETTER: Women role models empower generations
THIS week is NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) week across Australia. Following this year’s theme of “because of her, we can” I want…
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LETTER: Mildura re-imagined without a train line
Looking to the future for Mildura it seems a bit silly to have a noisy freight train running all the way from Yelta through Merbein,…
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LETTER: A piece of fruit a day goes a long way here
WIt is well and truly that time of year again; where our car windscreens have a layer of ice in the mornings and our noses…
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