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Australia Day in Sunraysia: Their future counts
THAT young mothers are still subjected to vile abuse from complete strangers while pushing their children in prams on Mildura streets is just one of…
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Theft distresses cemetery volunteers
THE theft of a buggy from the Merbein Cemetery for the second time in just a few years has left managers of the site feeling frustrated and…
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Australia Day in Sunraysia: Reaching out home and abroad
THE Mildura community is in safe hands if our current crop of young leaders, including 2019 Young Citizen of the Year, Tanika Thorne, are anything…
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Australia Day in Sunraysia: Celebrating community
SUNRAYSIA’S smaller towns showed that it’s not always a case of “bigger is better” when it comes to true Aussie spirit. The Robinvale and Merbein…
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History’s new home
MERBEIN District Historical Society have been granted more than $121,000 to help refurbish their new home in a move expected to benefit local history buffs…
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Australia Day in Sunraysia: Aussie spirit alive in Wenty
THE annual Wentworth Shire Australia Day celebrations attracted more than 250 people to the Buronga Wetlands on Saturday morning. Wentworth Shire Mayor Melisa Hederics said…
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Ouyen Lake project takes people’s prize
THE largest Mallee community project to date has been officially recognised with a Community Event/Project of the Year gong at the weekend’s Australia Day celebrations…
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian flies in and out on hush-hush visit to Wentworth and lower Darling River
NSW PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian made a whirlwind, unannounced visit to Wentworth on Friday afternoon, less than four weeks after hundreds of thousands of native fish…
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Sunraysia Farmers Market: Fresh fruit, veg and lots of delights to grab interest
MILDER weather greeted hordes of people at last weekend’s Sunraysia Farmers Market on the Mildura riverfront following a week of extreme heat. The market is…
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Visa battle not working for vet industry
FEDERAL Government changes to visa requirements has restricted the veterinary industry’s ability to sponsor overseas graduate vets to fill vacancies in Australia. Lincoln Institute director…
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Murray Darling crisis: We’d be worse without cotton, water economist says
ONE of the key figures behind the establishment of Australia’s water trading system says governments, not the market, must be responsible for protecting the health…
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Fans to sit court side at Australian Open
AFTER years of watching the tennis on TV, Sunraysia’s Elaine Williams and Julie Briggs are about to attend the Australian Open for the first time…













