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Mildura playground strategy survey
MILDURA residents are urged to share their thoughts on the development of playgrounds across the municipality. Mildura Rural City Council is working on a strategy…
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Free child care to end
Free child care will end on July 12 and early educators will stop receiving JobKeeper payments the following week. The coronavirus financial support will be…
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Art prizes on offer to promote breast cancer screening
ABORIGINAL and Torres Strait Islander women from across the Mallee are invited to contribute artwork toward a project reinforcing the importance of breast cancer screening.…
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Mildura doctor receives Queen’s Birthday honour
MILDURA doctor Gerald Murphy has been recognised for his service to medicine in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list. Moving to Sunraysia 30 years ago,…
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Mildura’s winter chill arrives, but sunshine sticking around
MILDURA shivered through two consecutive mornings where the temperature fell below zero last week, signalling winter has well and truly begun. On Friday, a minimum…
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Study calls for Murray-Darling Basin rules transparency
A UNIVERSITY of New South Wales (UNSW) study has called for better transparency around the “idiosyncratic” water management rules governing water allocation in the Murray-Darling…
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Mildura houseboat owner goes with the flow
ERNIE Pelda always wanted to return to a life on the water. Having lived on a houseboat on the Murray River a few years ago,…
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Wentworth Shire eco-warrior collects 294,000 bottles and cans
AN eighty-one-year-old eco-warrior who raised more than $25,000 for his local skate park and other community programs in the Wentworth Shire by collecting bottles and…
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Mildura a highlight in influencer traveller’s world itinerary
AT the start of this year, Daniel Herszberg was on track to become the youngest Australian to visit every country in the world. However, with…
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Mildura motorsport precinct committee yet to be formed
A SUBCOMMITTEE intended to progress the Mildura Motorsport and Community Precinct has yet to be formed eight months after it was announced. Nor has an…
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Weilong Wines comes up with vintage effort in tough times
SUNRAYSIA’S wine industry is hoping not to suffer a coronavirus hangover due to falling consumption during the pandemic. In March, ABARES predicted Australian wine exports…
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Mildura Black Lives Matter protest a call for justice
THE death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last month has driven indigenous and non-indigenous residents to speak up about racial inequality…













