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Coalition pledge $8.7M for rural health school

SHADOW Assistant Minister for Regional Health and local Mallee MP, Anne Webster, has pledged $8.7 million to develop medical training facilities and teaching equipment in the region if the Coalition win Government on May 3. The funding would support...

5 hours ago
Politics

Senate candidate reflects on criminal past

A BALLARAT lawyer who spent at least 20 months in prison for drug and white-collar-related offending is running for the Senate in May’s Federal Election. Jordan Dittloff, 38, was in Mildura on Friday and Saturday, 13 months after being endorsed as...

15 Apr 2025
Politics

Candidate seeks to shake up the status quo

A FARMER, arborist and part-time Santa has put his hand up for the seat of Mallee, nominating as a Libertarian candidate at next month’s Federal Election. Jeff Barry, 59, became increasingly interested in politics in 2015 when then...

15 Apr 2025
Letters

More to consider for sustainable future

THE discussion around decarbonising the economy is gaining momentum, with the LNP exploring nuclear power stations and Labor focusing on offshore wind and green hydrogen. However, there is a noticeable gap in these discussions that needs to be...

13 Apr 2025
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13 Feb 2020
Politics

Local Nats, Libs back future funds pledge

THE current members for the Federal electorates of Mallee and Farrar have thrown their support behind the Opposition Coalition’s $20 billion future fund proposal. Called the Regional Australia Future Fund, the nationwide pre-election commitment would...

12 Apr 2025
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Nats against tax

REGIONAL Victorians are under siege as the Allan Labor Government continues to gouge those who live outside Melbourne with more new taxes, making regional Victorians pay the price for Labor’s failure to manage money. As a Bendigo based MP, Premier...

12 Apr 2025
Letters

So... apparently there’s an election going on?

IT’S probably a fair bet that, as Federal Election voters, at a minimum we’re taken for granted, or at worst we just don’t count. While other places in Australia have seen millions of dollars showered upon them in specific and targeted pre-election...

12 Apr 2025
Letters

‘Damage’ for Australia’s agriculture

WHAT will it take for our city based, ideologically driven politicians to wake up and understand the damage they are inflicting on Australian agriculture?One would think if a leading Australian agriculture investor wants ‘out’ from the industry...

12 Apr 2025
Politics

Seventeen on the ballot across Mallee and Farrer

EIGHT candidates will be contesting the seat of Mallee at this year’s Federal Election, and the ballot order has been determined. Drawing the top of the ticket is Greens candidate Nicole Rowan, ahead of incumbent Nationals MP Anne Webster in second...

12 Apr 2025
Politics

Farrer race officially on

WHILE the starter’s gun on next month’s Federal vote has been unofficially firing for awhile, and the nationwide trigger pulled officially almost two weeks’ ago, the race in the seat of Farrer got more real during the weekend. Michelle Milthorpe...

09 Apr 2025
Politics

Webster backs Aus-wide roads pledge

MORE than a week after the Federal Election was called for Saturday, May 3, we have our first local pledge, sort of. Member for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster has backed a nationwide commitment from the Collation of $600 million for rural roads. But there’s...

08 Apr 2025
Politics

Greens name Fed Farrer candidate

ANOTHER name has been added to the list of hopefuls in the running for the Federal seat of Farrar with the Greens announcing that party’s candidate. Albury-based mental health and all abilities advocate Richard Hendrie was named to the spot on the...

06 Apr 2025
Politics

Farrer challenger puts education on agenda

AN independent candidate for the Federal seat of Farrer at May’s national poll is seeking to make education a big issue in the electorate ahead of the vote. Last week, Michelle Milthorpe came out with a critical assessment of the Federal Government’s...

01 Apr 2025
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Budget ignores regions, says MFC

THIS year’s Federal Budget gave families and children in rural and regional communities little to celebrate, according to Mallee Family Care.“The need for a more comprehensive approach to reducing rural and regional disadvantage has been ignored,“...

01 Apr 2025
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