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Mallee miss, says Webster

MALLEE residents will struggle with the cost-of-living for longer under Labor’s fourth budget, potholes will grow larger in regional roads, and the regional health workforce crisis will persist, said MP Anne Webster after Tuesday night’s Federal...

17 hours ago

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Your chance to ask questions

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QUESTIONS will be put to the Mallee candidates at a Loddon Herald forum next month. One Nation’s Vaughan Williams and Greens’ Nicole Rowan have already accepted invitations to be part of the 2025 election forum on April 28. The forum will be...

17 hours ago

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When daily life changed - Five years since COVID Lockdown #1

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Only two people can gather outside unless they are members of a household, and there are only four reasons to leave home: for exercise, food and supplies, work and education, and to access medical care or provide caregiving - Lockdown rules MARCH...

17 hours ago

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Priority! Six crossings on upgrade list

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SIX Loddon railway crossings will be upgraded under a State and Federal Government program. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Minister Catherine King announced the $54 million program for 32 high-priority railway...

17 hours ago

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Asbestos tests at centre of historic store’s future

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THE fate of Inglewood’s historic Jennings store damaged by fire last August could be decided within days. Test samples for an asbestos audit were taken last Friday from the Brooke Street ruins and the rear section of 1866 building that survived...

29 Mar 2025

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Pressure on GMW to fix channel flows

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CALLS are growing for Goulburn Murray Water to fast-track capacity building work on the Waranga Western Channel. GMW last week said improvements around Bears Lagoon would not be part of its winter maintenance program. Greater capacity through Bears...

29 Mar 2025

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Five make committee pitch as voting opens

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LODDON Valley irrigators have started voting for representatives on Goulburn Murray Water’s new customer committee. Five candidates for the four spots were announced on Monday - Boort’s Tony Sawers, Todd Martin (Durham Ox), Matt Chalmers...

29 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Labor locks in support worker as candidate

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CASTLEMAINE disability support worker Greg Olsen will be Labor’s candidate to challenge sitting MP Anne Webster in the federal election tipped to be called within days. Last Friday’s announcement came as Family First said its contender for the...

29 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Sweetness of good gum life

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SWEET flowers, nectar and sap of the Loddon’s famous blue eucalypts had helped birds adapt to life in Australia. According to audio ecologist and author of Deep Listening in the Bush, Andrew Skeoch, the success of eucalypts adjusting the...

28 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald