Analysis & Comment

OPINION – ALI CUPPER THE Victorian Government’s Advancing Paramedic Roles Implementation Pilot (APRIP) is changing the game for primary health care in Ouyen and we’re…

THE traffic was only crawling when an old bloke stepped out in front of Mildura Mayor Liam Wood’s car to cross Eighth Street. “If someone…

OPINION – ANNE WEBSTER IT is easy in current global circumstances to become despondent, but in times as concerning as these, it is valuable to…

OPINION – JASON SHIELDS IT was an opportunity not to be missed. Only Mildura missed it. Costs and tight timeframes forced Mildura Council this week…

OPINION: ANNE WEBSTER THE Russian invasion in the past few days reminds us that democracy is fragile. These are worrying events. The mistake we could make…

OPINION – ALI CUPPER LAST week I wrote to all 61 state and federal regional MPs in Victoria to request their backing for RateGate, our…

OPINION – ANNE WEBSTER I SAID in my maiden parliamentary speech that no one’s health should be determined by their postcode. But it continues to…

OPINION – ALI CUPPER I WOULD love the Commonwealth Games to come to regional Victoria in 2026 and I’ll be doing everything I can to…

OPINION – ANNE WEBSTER IT’S been another big week in Federal Parliament. In what’s been one of the more colourful weeks, I think by and…

OPINION – ALI CUPPER THIS week two significant issues highlighted the importance of co-operation between our State and Federal governments. On Monday, Mildura Council announced…

ONE of the key aims of the Murray Basin Rail project was to remove up to 20,000 trucks from Victorian roads. But the botched project,…

By Helen Healy THE recent debacle surrounding Grace Tame’s refusal to smile in a photo shoot with Prime Minister Scott Morrison raises the need for…