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Chick project turns Preps into eggheads
MILDURA West Primary Prep students came to a sweet surprise at school on Monday morning.Eggs they had been patiently looking after in an incubator for…
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Sex offender imprisoned: Paedophile handed eight years jail
A CONVICTED sex offender will serve a maximum of 13 years behind bars for preying on single mothers on dating websites with the sole intention…
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Local Libs want to run: Mildura branch seeks crack at Mallee seat
MILDURA’S Liberal Party branch is drawing up a list of potential candidates as it prepares to fight for the right to contest the federal seat…
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Inflation hits fund premiums
MILDURA Health Fund members will be hit with a 3.89 per cent rise in their premiums next year – a bigger increase than the national…
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Cupper enters Spring Street
ALI Cupper officially made history yesterday, being sworn in as the first female Member for Mildura.The 59th Victorian Parliament was opened yesterday with a special…
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LETTER: Ideologies lost out to real-world solutions
VOTER support for the Greens in the recent Victorian state election was significantly lower in most, if not all, country/rural areas than in larger urban…
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Peta Credlin on Liberals wishlist for Mallee
A RIGHT-WING Liberal Party figure has touted Wycheproof born Peta Credlin as a Liberal candidate for Mallee but the party’s local faithful aren’t sure it’s…
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School takes on council: VCAT fight looms over lots
IRYMPLE Primary School has challenged Mildura Council’s decision to approve a five-lot subdivision development, fearing it would create more traffic hazards around the school.The subdivision…
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Open field for election
FORMER Yarriambiack Shire mayor Ray Kingston wasn’t expecting to be among the national headlines when he announced his intention to run for the seat of…
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Writing with the flow
ADRIAN Wells calls wetlands the “unsung heroes of the river system”.But the Murray-Darling Basin has another team of unsung heroes – a group of mostly…
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Isle of extremes
SHOWERING with just a bucket of water, driving past city slums and eating delicious homemade Filipino cuisine are some of the memories four St Joseph’s…
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Twenty20 contest not just for kicks
BRAGGING rights are on the line at Irymple’s Henshilwood Oval tonight for the now annual cricketers v footballers showdown.The two sides will play a Twenty20…








