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Phoebe Doyle

Welfare agency backs overhaul of system

A MALLEE social services agency has backed the NSW Government’s call to redesign the family preservation system across the state. Drawing on experience as a provider of the program in some of the most remote communities in the state, staff at Mallee...

19 Jun 2024

Farming and Environment

Water wars over elections

MEMBERS of the Victorian Farmers Federation have voiced their concerns about a decision by Lower Murray Water to remove elections for advisory committee positions. Farmer representatives on the LMW Customer Service Advisory Committee will no longer...

20 May 2024

News

Inquiry needs your attention, shoppers

CONSUMERS are being asked to give insight into how they shop and what they experience as part of the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission’s supermarkets inquiry. In January, the Federal Government announced it would direct the ACCC to...

10 Mar 2024

Farming and Environment

NSW spruiks water-saving plans

THE NSW Government on Thursday released the NSW Alternatives to Buybacks Plan, hoping to minimise the impact of voluntary water buybacks on Murray-Darling Basin communities. While supporting the delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan...

28 Feb 2024

Politics

Too many issues on treaty: Walsh

NATIONALS leader Peter Walsh believes the Victorian Opposition has “finally” caught the attention of “those that need it” after announcing it had dropped its support for a treaty with First Nations People. Mr Walsh, who made...

02 Feb 2024

Politics

MPs slam tax cut move

“These changes potentially leave less than 12 per cent of all Australians paying over 50 per cent of the national income tax bill,” the Nationals MP told the Gannawarra Times

29 Jan 2024

News

United effort to control fierce fire

A FIRE that burned around 15,000 acres of land 150km north of Balranald has been described as one of the fiercest seen in the area in the last 40 years. Believed to have been started by the lightning strike, the...

16 Jan 2024

News

Farmers step up Goschen mine fight

LALBERT farmers are continuing their fight to stop the proposed Goschen rare-earth and mineral-sands project, worried about what the mining project will mean for the future of their farms. The group of farmers, called Mine Free Mallee...

16 Jan 2024

Community

Don’s 50 years of dedication

DON Irvine is a name synonymous in Leitchville with the word “community”. Known around town as “the raffle master”, Mr Irvine has been selling raffle tickets at the Leitchville Hotel’s Friday night and major raffles for the past 50 years...

12 Jan 2024

Community

Firies to the rescue

“THE weatherman doesn’t know Christmas Day from any other day when he sends the rain down.”That was Kerang Fire Brigade Captain Ramon Steel’s philosophical view of the downpour that prompted his team to...

08 Jan 2024

News

More time needed: MP

MEMBER for Mallee Anne Webster has called on the Victorian Government to extend the deadline for people to have their say on the proposed Goschen rare earth and mineral sand project after concerns were raised by local farmers. Following a meeting...

08 Jan 2024

News

Teens have voices heard

Phoebe Doylepdoyle@theguardian. com. auAS teenagers living in rural Victoria, it can sometimes be hard to have your story heard. But Kerang’s Lauren Cordingley and Birchip’s Eliott Bidstrup have been lucky enough to have their unique stories told...

22 Dec 2023