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Lucky to have rail service

READING the update on the Swan Hill train service, Swan Hill is lucky to have a train service, not like the people of Mildura. All they have is a rough bus service to Bendigo. As a disabled senior, I can tell it’s rough by the bad spine pain I get...

09 Sep 2024
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Mining benefits to favour Mallee

THE Mallee can seize the opportunity mining brings Regional Victoria is more important than ever to Victoria’s future. With the state in a dire financial situation, Victoria needs new regional industries which hold much promise. Just as farming...

08 Sep 2024
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Treading water on doctor shortage

THE issue of the shortage of doctors in Swan Hill and surrounding towns continues. It feels a bit like Brigerton: everyone promenades and circles round the issue, around and around.

07 Sep 2024
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All care, no responsibility for shared land

All care, no responsibility for shared landI WOULD appreciate it if you could please publish this in the Friday September 6 edition of The Guardian. I refer to the Friday August 30 edition of The Guardian regarding the “Plant waste left to burn”...

06 Sep 2024
Opinion

Church notes

THE Grain Shed youth ministry meets tonight, from 7pm-9pm. All secondary students are welcome. Join us at church on Sunday at 10am. Mainly music interactive program returns on Monday at 10am. Craft ladies meet at Thursday, 10am. There is...

16 Jun 2023
Opinion

Powerlink fails Mallee

IT’S an adage that the ends justify the means – but is that always the case?In recent months, I have been vocal in my support for farmers and communities impacted by the Victoria-New South Wales Interconnector West (VNI West) project – a 500kv...

04 Jun 2023
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Church Notes

LAST week at our Biggest Morning Tea, we heard from Helen Dorning, our locum’s wife, about her double cancer journey. Helen focused on her survivor journey, her positive attitude shining through. Helen has participated in five international...

02 Jun 2023
Moulamein Notes

Swans win thriller

Our seniors just got home on Saturday. The Murrabit crowd were going mad. We were well up at half time but the home team came back and were up at 3 quarter time. The last quarter was a slog and we ended up one point up when the siren went as Amos...

01 Jun 2023
Opinion

Growers need migration support

MIGRATION is valued highly by farmers and business people alike in the Sunraysia and Swan Hill regions – indeed without it, the critical workforce issues we experience would be dire. This week, as deputy chair of the...

30 Apr 2023
Opinion

They’ve got a hide at these farmers’ markets

TO save the people involved any embarrassment, the only thing I’ll say is this market was in one of those sister city places along a big river, where they don’t know if they are Arthur or Martha, coming or going. And all that confusion was...

29 Apr 2023
Opinion

Anglican parish welcomes locum minister

LAST Sunday we welcomed Rev Wayne Dorning and his wife Helen to our parish. Rev Wayne will be our locum for 10 weeks, and Rev Denis has returned to part-time work. Wednesday communion services have resumed at 10am. All are welcome to worship...

28 Apr 2023
Opinion

Explain power shift

I’ve been contacted by many landholders throughout Mallee concerned with the fast-tracking of the Victoria-New South Wales Interconnector West project. The Victorian Labor Government has issued an order under the National Electricity (Victoria) Act...

07 Apr 2023
Opinion

Skilled migration a key issue

THIS week I attended the Thomson Reuters Skilled Migration Conference in Sydney. It was a good opportunity to be able to discuss a key issue for the Swan Hill and Robinvale districts, as well as hear from a number of migration...

31 Mar 2023
Opinion

Church notes

AS the first school term comes to an end and daylight saving finishes on Sunday, let the focus change day-to-day things and reflect on Jesus and what he did for us. Easter is our reminder. John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave...

31 Mar 2023
Opinion

If we have sold the farm, who in hell bought it?

ALL those newspaper headlines and interviews on the wireless have really been getting to me. If I only believed half of what I had read or heard, I would be expecting the hosts of Midian to be setting up camp on the farms next...

25 Mar 2023
Opinion

Roads an urgent budget issue

THE electorate of Mallee is a vast area and relies heavily on its road network. Having seen the effects of flooding and other wet weather, it is critically important our roads are maintained in order to safeguard road users...

24 Mar 2023
Opinion

Church Notes

Anglican ANOTHER successful boot sale last week, with lots of furniture and larger items sold from the shed behind Anglicare, as well as all the goods in the hall. Local honey, plants and a barbecue were enjoyed out the front of the hall. Our Sunday...

24 Mar 2023