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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

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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

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13 Feb 2020

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Too much tax?

COST-of-living continues to bite with Victorians forced to pay more for groceries, household bills and struggle under the pressure of Labor’s 60 new or increased taxes. Of these new taxes, 30 are levied on property, adding a staggering $373,000 to...

27 Mar 2025

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Not convinced

THERE was more compost at the Merbein Football Club community meeting about the proposed drug rehabilitation clinic than used out at the mushroom farm. The meeting otherwise described as “seeing to be seen doing something, but achieving nothing”...

16 Mar 2025

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Reward for effort

I WOULD like to congratulate the Mildura RSL on being awarded RSL Victoria Sub-Branch of the Year. What a fantastic achievement!This recognition is a true testament to the dedication, hard work, and community spirit that the Mildura RSL team...

16 Mar 2025

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Trail fail?

I’M all for fresh tourism ideas and the arts but concentric circles of Queensland fireflies around Lock Island. Three-million dollars tipped in by Department of Training, Mildura ratepayer contributions plus free labour already from 150 kind locals...

15 Mar 2025

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Praise for Base

HAVING recently been a patient at the Mildura Base Hospital, I wish to convey my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the entire staff involved in caring for me. I could not have wished for better theatre staff and nurses that gave me such warm...

15 Mar 2025

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ABC response to Webster complaint

REGARDING the article headlined Webster responds to office criticism (Sunraysia Daily, Friday, 21 February, Page 5), it should be noted that the ABC journalist did not “complain” about the use of a satellite office budget to display an...

09 Mar 2025

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Correcting the record

I AM writing to correct some of the outrageous and wild assertions made by our Federal Member Anne Webster in the in her letter in the Saturday edition of the Sunraysia Daily on 22 February titled Rate cut is a start. 1. Ms Webster stated that under...

08 Mar 2025

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Eyes to the skies

WHERE will you be next Saturday to hear the roar of engines rumbling through the air, a symphony of raw horsepower leaving you and every other spectator in awe of the precision behind every...

08 Mar 2025

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Over the plate

I WAS fortunate to recently attend the Sunraysia Softball Association Life Members & Sponsors Day, a celebration of the incredible achievements of this long standing sporting association and the dedication of the many individuals who work...

02 Mar 2025

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Water woes

YOU wouldn’t think fishermen in our southern oceans and farmers in northern Victoria and southern New South Wales would have much in common? But they do. Their livelihoods are all threatened by a Federal Environment and Water Minister, Tany...

01 Mar 2025

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What’s the deal?

FARRER’S Climate 200 candidate in the upcoming election, Michelle Milthorpe, needs to say whether she will support Liberal or Labor if there is a hung Parliament. The Albanese Government has been an unmitigated disaster for regional Australia, and...

01 Mar 2025

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Rate cut is a start

AFTER more than four-and-a-quarter years, Sunraysia families and small businesses at last received interest rate relief they have been looking for through Tuesday’s 0.25 per cent cash rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia. The four major...

23 Feb 2025

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Power of water

SOME politicians propose replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear reactors. Even pro-nuclear group Nuclear for Australia concedes nuclear reactors use at least 1.2 times more water than comparable coal fired power, and the proposed reactors...

22 Feb 2025

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Meaning behind the message

THE Honourable MP for Mildura Jade Benham writes to the Sunraysia Daily (Graffiti condemned, Saturday, February 15, page 20) about graffiti and accountability, Gaza, and anti-Semitism. Jade writes about disgusting behaviour, hateful rhetoric...

22 Feb 2025