2eb2ade018439a8c45da08f7ed0d3c30

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

News Sport Classifieds Digital Edition

politics
Property News

Housing for healthcare workers

REGIONAL communities across New South Wales are set to receive a significant boost thanks to the Key Health Worker Accommodation program. Designed to attract more paramedics to regional areas, the Minns Labor Government is investing $10 million in...

25 Feb 2025
politics

NSW Premier Minns now ‘opposes’ buybacks

MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton has welcomed the NSW Premier’s agreement to “actively oppose” federal water buybacks. The Independent MP said the Federal Government was taking more than 450 gigalitres of “desperately needed water from rural...

25 Feb 2025
politics

MP driving age change

A PETITION calling on the Victorian Government to reduce the minimum probationary drivers licence age has been launched and sponsored by Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad. Reducing the age from 18 to 17 would make Victoria in line with every...

21 Feb 2025
politics

Rate cut welcome, but long way to go

AFTER more than four-and-a-quarter years, Mallee families and small businesses at last received interest rate relief they have been looking for through Tuesday’s 0.25 per cent cash rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia. The four major banks...

21 Feb 2025
News

Government strategy for levees

THE Victorian Government has responded to the final report of the inquiry into the October 2022 floods, with confirmation of a review of the Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy which will examine issues around rural levee management. The...

21 Feb 2025
politics

Politician at the pub

FEDERAL Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster is set to make an appearance in Swan Hill tonight. A “politician at the pub” talk will be held in the Commercial Hotel at 5.30pm where residents can express their concerns in a one-on-one table talk with...

18 Feb 2025
Most popular
Community

Major reform sought for regional family programs

MALLEE Family Care has called for the Federal Government to reform family and children’s programs, to better serve regional communities. In its submission to the Department of Social Services’ review of Family and Children (FaC) programs, MFC called...

16 Feb 2025
politics

Call for affordable regional travel

REGIONAL people should be provided subsidised travel options, says Farrer independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe. It comes as the Federal Governments announced it would consider acquiring Rex Airlines to ensure the continuity of regional air...

15 Feb 2025
politics

Housing funds ‘pork-barrel’ claim

MEMBER for Mallee Anne Webster has accused the Federal Government of pork barreling housing funds into Labor-held electorates. The Australian National Audit Office confirmed it would consider investigating the government’s Housing Support Program as...

15 Feb 2025
politics

Equal and opposite reaction

I WRITE to you this week from Canberra in a week which most of us expect to be the final sitting fortnight before the election. On Tuesday Prime Minister Albanese had his scheduled chat with U.S. President Donald Trump and pretended he’d made...

14 Feb 2025
politics

Getting voice heard at national level

MURRAY River Council will be represented at the 2025 National General Assembly of the Australian Local Government Association in Canberra in June. The council last week approved the attendance of acting chief executive Sarah Ryan, Mayor John Harvie...

11 Feb 2025
politics

Energy security concern

AS I read Will Reid’s front page story in Tuesday’s The Guardian about the power going out on Monday in Nyah and Sea Lake, I got an AusNet social media message about ‘managing demand on the network’ by avoiding using non-essential large...

07 Feb 2025
News

Mayor questions rate cap timing

SWAN Hill Council Mayor Stuart King has criticised the timing and handling of two Victorian Government policy announcements on the eve of Christmas. The government announced local council rate increases would again be capped at the forecast Consumer...

31 Jan 2025
News

Parent concern over bus plan

TRANSPORTING children on a bus on days of extreme fire danger “defies logic”, according to a Manangatang parent. The State Government has been urged to review Manangatang P-12 College’s fire management plan, which requires the college to bus all...

31 Jan 2025
News

MP pushes for P-plater age reduction

MEMBER for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad has renewed calls for Victoria’s probationary driving age to be lowered to 17. The Nationals MP said it would bring it in line with other states and reduce disadvantage for young people in rural areas. Ms...

25 Jan 2025
News

MP makes council visit

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh was given his own meeting with Swan Hill Rural City Council this week ahead of its official first meeting of the year. Mr Walsh had been invited to attend the ‘pre-meeting’ to meet the new council, and to give...

24 Jan 2025
Opinion

Opinion: Flying flag for national day

I JOINED Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton on Wednesday for his visit to the Mallee electorate at my invitation to support the Halls Gap community struck twice in a year by bushfires. I have been impressed with Peter’s...

17 Jan 2025