Analysis & Comment

HERE we go again. Once more we share the feeling of dread that accompanies a lockdown. This is Victoria’s sixth lockdown since the beginning of…

THE Victorian Government celebrated “donut day” only to predictably eat humble pie the next. After Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton again forgot his real role…

I THINK it is time we had a conversation. The pandemic has exposed a driving force in society and governments, and it is about risk.…

WE’VE all become a bit too well acquainted with the number 14 over the past year and a half. Our hotel quarantine and home isolation…

WE welcome the recent government announcement to compensate clubs for irrecoverable costs greater than $2000 associated with the cancellation or postponement of sporting events. I…

Opinion By Paul Matheson, SFNL President We welcome the government announcement to compensate clubs for irrecoverable costs greater than $2000 associated with the cancellation or…

MILDURA has this week faced its greatest challenge since the beginning of the pandemic. With four cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the community…

WHAT a week, hey? Since early Sunday morning, when we all learned of a positive Delta case in Mildura, our days have been filled with…

IT was an honour and a whole lot of fun to visit Murrayville this week to officially celebrate the news of the State Government’s $500,000…

IT would be easy to think we had left our sanity behind in 2019. It is difficult to imagine when Australia, as a whole, has…

THIS week is NAIDOC Week. Every year, NAIDOC Week has a theme and this year’s is Heal Country. It encourages us to consider the impact…

THE inhumanity of state border restrictions continues to be experienced by countless stories of individuals and families who are traumatised by bureaucratic decisions. Children who…