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Statewide circuit breaker measures.
Premier’s statement-February 12th- I won’t waste words: today hurts. Victorians know, better than anyone, just how deeply. But as we’ve seen – here in Australia and…
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Young citizen looks beyond own fence
BALRANALD Shire Council’s young citizen of the year awardee raised more than $3500 for a bushfire-affected area last year. Lani Wilkinson, 15, received her award…
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Making a big impact
BARRISTER and Palawa woman Jacki Turfrey’s entire career has been “a jigsaw puzzle”, but as acting CEO of Mallee District Aboriginal Services (MDAS), she says…
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Roo quota jumps for human consumption
IN a Victorian first, kangaroos culled in the state will be made available for human consumption. Minister for Agriculture Mary-Anne Thomas recently announced the increased…
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Save the Darling
A POP-UP protest will be held at Riverside Park next Friday to show support for the Darling River. Swan Hill environmentalist Nicole McKay said the…
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Wheels in motion for skate park
NYAH West will soon have its own skate park, with work starting to prepare the Monash Avenue site. Five components of the former Swan Hill…
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An ‘all-consuming issue’
VFF horticulture president Nathan Free says it will take a suite of initiatives to get seasonal workers onto farms under current COVID lockdowns. With international…
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Injecting life into trees
COUNCIL workers launched a rescue mission of a strange kind in Swan Hill this week, injecting more than a dozen fully grown trees with bug-killing…
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Silence again at Easter
QUAMBATOOK will again fall silent at Easter after the Australian Tractor Pull Championships were cancelled for the second consecutive year. Organisers said with rules and…
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New life down under
FOUR people have pledged to live by the Australian values of freedom, respect, fairness and equality as they became citizens recently. Yasmin Baig, Thi Hoang…








