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Monday, March 31, 2025

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Community

A man with a difference who is making a difference

THERE are those who are deservedly recognised for their contribution to the community, and then there are those who contribute in a way that seems to go unnoticed. Whilst Brody Flowers is a person that is easily noticed, a lot of his...

10 hours ago
News

Plans afoot for idle hotel

PLANS are afoot to return the heritage-listed Robinvale Hotel -- which has been lying idle since a fire gutted the inside of the building a decade ago -- to its former glory. Swan Hill Rural City Council has received a planning permit application...

19 hours ago
News

Time called on fire danger periods

FIRE authorities on both sides of the river have advised of the end timeframes to regional fire danger periods. First to go off blanket restrictions is New South Wales’ Lower Western Zone, with the Statutory Bush Fire Danger Period coming to an end...

19 hours ago
News

Cricket game about cracking key market

ON Tuesday afternoon, not far from the banks of the Murray River in Mildura, in the warm late afternoon setting sun, a game of cricket is taking place. There are all the things you’d expect in a high-stakes game; slogs and sledges; well placed shots...

19 hours ago
Community

Praise for Early Years Hub

THE upcoming Early Years Hub in Red Cliffs has featured as part of the first stop in a 10-week national community engagement roadshow throughout the Wimmera-Mallee region. The listening tour is lead by Partnerships for Local Action and Community...

20 hours ago
Peeps in the Past

Peeps into the Past: March 23 to 29: Skate park progress

PRESENTED by Mildura and District Historical Society and compiled by Mildura Rural City Council Libraries100 YEARS AGO: 1925WAGES: A question was asked at the Mildura Dried Fruits Association meeting last Saturday regarding the rates of wages that...

20 hours ago
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Arts & Entertainment

Clothing, cooking, and boating

NEW items are constantly being added to our collection at the library. The following titles, covering a range of subjects, may interest you. The Anti-Processed Air Fryer CookbookHeather ThomasFROM healthy breakfast options to delicious family...

20 hours ago
Politics

What are you budgeting for?

THE Albanese Government’s cruel approach to cost-of-living relief was on display in Canberra this week in an ugly and unexpected final sitting week. Mildura, Sunraysia and Mallee mortgage-holders who are $50,000...

29 Mar 2025
Politics

Election challengers face tough task

CHALLENGERS to the Coalition-held seats of Mallee and Farrer face one of the toughest tasks in federal politics ahead of the May 3 election. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ended months of speculation on Friday when he announced the...

29 Mar 2025
News

Cupper calls lights pricing a trail fail

DEPUTY Mayor of the Rural City of Mildura, Cr Ali Cupper has called out what she says is high pricing on tickets for the Trail of Lights at Lock Island. Located on the north side of Lock 11 in Mildura, the Trail of Lights is an expansive art...

29 Mar 2025
Business

New role sees airport CEO set to jet

CHIEF executive officer at Mildura Airport, Trevor Willcock, has announced he’ll be moving on from the role in June this year. First appointed to the top job in October 2019, Mr Willcock touched down in the role less than six months before the start...

29 Mar 2025
Community

Festival awash with colours

MEMBERS of the Sunraysia Indian Association are inviting anyone interested in a fun and colourful time to come along to a Holi festival at Nowingi Place tonight. Holi is a major Hindu event celebrated as the Festival of Colours, coinciding each year...

29 Mar 2025
Farming and Environment

Older sheep on offer at Ouyen

A SLIGHTLY smaller yarding at Ouyen this week saw 13,695 sheep – 4420 lambs and 9275 mutton – with the older sheep the darlings of the market. Ouyen Livestock Exchange manager Colin Mole said while trade lambs were firm to $5 dearer, with lighter...

29 Mar 2025
Farming and Environment

Farmers slam Federal Budget

WITH the threat of crippling US tariffs hanging over Australian agriculture, disappointment has been the reaction to this week’s Federal Budget among many regional agriculturalists. Victorian Farmers Federation president and Mallee farmer Brett...

29 Mar 2025
Farming and Environment

Flora, fauna get big cash boost

MORE than $5 million will be spent on projects across the Far West of New South Wales during the next three years with the aim of protecting threatened species and boosting climate resilience. The projects will be funded by the Australian Government...

29 Mar 2025
Police & Courts

Bid for tenth bail refused

A MILDURA man who was on nine counts of bail when he is alleged to have produced a machete before punching a man numerous times to the head has failed in a tenth bid for freedom. Twenty-eight-year-old Clinton Barrett had previously been refused bail...

28 Mar 2025
News

Good to grow at TAFE farm

THE continuing redevelopment of the SuniTAFE teaching farm at Irymple reached another major milestone on Wednesday, with the Victorian Minister for TAFE touring the facility and officially unveiling a plaque to mark the occasion. Works at the site on...

28 Mar 2025