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Duck hunting season extended, more kills

THE 2025 duck hunting season will be almost a month longer than last year, and shooters will be allowed to kill and bag more ducks. The Victorian Government on Friday announced arrangements for this year’s season, which will open on March 19 and...

18 Feb 2025
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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
Community

Call for children focus in Budget

MALLEE Family Care has called on the Federal Government to place children and families at the heart of its 2025-26 Budget to “reduce the long-term and harmful impacts of the cost-of-living crisis”.In its pre-budget submission, MFC highlighted the...

12 Feb 2025
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Council’s levee maintenance burden

GANNAWARRA Shire chief executive Geoff Rollinson previously raised concern about the financial impact of its levee network. “The Kerang township levee, which was indicated before about the island of Kerang, is a 17km ring levee effectively that...

12 Feb 2025
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United push for more funding

MURRAY River Council will collaborate with other regional councils to advocate for increased local government funding, calling for a minimum allocation of 1 per cent of Commonwealth taxation revenue. The council resolved at last week’s ordinary...

12 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
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Floodplain management under review

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...

11 Feb 2025
Politics

Pill testing fears for MP

LEGALISING pill testing in Victoria is tough to swallow for Member for Northern Victoria Gaelle Broad. The Nationals MP said pill testing at music festivals would endanger the lives of young people and send “completely the wrong message about drug...

20 Dec 2024
Politics

Call to halt Treaty talks

VICTORIAN Premier Jacinta Allan should immediately cease negotiations on a Treaty with the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, according to Member for Northern Victoria Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell. The One Nation upper house MP said the planned Treaty was...

18 Dec 2024
Politics

Walsh steps down

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh will remain in Parliament until the next election, despite stepping down as leader of the Victorian Nationals on Monday night after a decade. Gippsland South MP Danny O’Brien was elected unopposed as the new...

03 Dec 2024
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Rebrand a wrong turn: Walsh

THE decision to rebrand Regional Roads Victoria won’t impact the delivery of “high standards of work”, according to the State Government. RRV was established in 2018 as a dedicated country roads division of VicRoads. A government spokesperson said...

31 Oct 2024
News

Walsh acts on state border confusion

STATE borders shouldn’t be limitations, according to Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh. Mr Walsh recently held talks with Victorian cross-border commissioner Brett Davis to rationalise issues that have been “paralysing” operations...

30 Oct 2024
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Boots on ground in Farrer for Milthorpe

COOTAMUNDRA-raised mother of three Michelle Milthorpe says she’s “hit the ground running” with her campaign to win the federal seat of Farrer. Running as an Independent, Ms Milthorpe said her initial tour of the electorate had already...

29 Oct 2024
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Regional roads ‘failure’ condemned

MEMBER for Northern Victoria Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell has called out the Victorian Government’s “failure” to properly maintain regional Victorian roads. Mrs Tyrrell told Parliament on Tuesday under the government, Victoria had some of the “worst road...

29 Oct 2024
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Hold out, Walsh tells landowners

MEMBER for Murray Plains Peter Walsh warns landowners not to rush into signing any agreements with Transmission Company Victoria for its VNI West renewable transmission line corridor. Mr Walsh said the path VNI West would take through northern...

17 Oct 2024
News

Gannawarra Council candidates have their say

LAST week we heard from seven candidates vying for one of seven positions on Gannawarra Shire Council in the local elections. This week we hear from a further three – Robert Jarman, Noel Collins and Keith Link. Anthony Troy didn’t respond, but...

15 Oct 2024
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​​​​​​​Opposition announces energy policy

THE Opposition says it will “make a stand to put locals first in the transition to renewables”. Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh said “for too long, locals haven’t had a voice” amid the renewables push from the State Government and...

14 Oct 2024