Politics & Council

Decade-long wait ends as levee rises

WORK has started on the Boort levee bank, almost a decade after the Loddon Shire flood mitigation project was funded. A roadblock to completion of $500,000 levee has been negotiations with the Bendigo-based Dja Dja Wurrung Aboriginal Corporation...

23 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

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TAKE OUR EXCLUSIVE POLL - New emergency service levy

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TAKE OUR EXCLUSIVE POLL: Loddon Shire has predicted an extra 24 per cent on rate notices if the State Government imposes the new emergency services levy with farmers the hardest hit. Council will have to collect the levy and hand it over to the...

23 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

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UNDER FIRE PREMIER PUSHES ON

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EXCLUSIVE LODDON HERALD READER POLL https://take. supersurvey. com/poll5460853x8cCc406C-162 By CHRIS EARL PREMIER Jacinta Allan has vowed to negotiate with Parliament’s crossbench to back the Government’s new emergency services tax that will push...

23 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

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Shire pleads fairness

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FARMERS face an average increase of 158 per cent in the new emergency services levy the State Government will force Loddon Shire to collect from July 1. Shire CEO Lincoln Fitzgerald told Victorian Farmers’ Federation Wedderburn branch members on...

23 hours ago

By Loddon Herald

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TAKE OUR EXCLUSIVE POLL - New emergency service levy

TAKE OUR EXCLUSIVE POLL - New emergency service levy

Eighth candidate trumpets close of nominations

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LAST minute Trumpets of Patriots party candidate Adam Veritch has entered the Mallee fray for the May 3 fedferal election. Mr Veitch, of Bendigo and the ToP predecessor United Australia Partty’s Bendigo candidate in 2019, is among seven other...

11 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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‘Regular talks’ continue on mine tunnel proposal

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NEGOTIATIONS with the State Government by Catalyst Metals for approval to construct an exploration tunnel at its Four Eagles project continue. The company first flagged plans more than two years ago. A spokesman said last week: “We are continuing...

08 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Pollie’s time planning

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IF BOORT District School students thought school timetables were demanding, a glimpse of the schedule of members in State Parliament has sent them home thinking their lives aren’t too bad after all. Students from Years 9, 10 and 12 studying...

07 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Councils take water pitch to Canberra

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NATIONAL support will be enlisted to have communities at the heart of Murray Darling Basin plan delivery and future water reform. The push will be one of six motions put to the National General Assembly of Local Government in June by the Murray...

06 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Federal funding would give pools ‘another 50 years’

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AGEING swimming pools with a replacement price of at least $12 million each has councils across Victoria assessing the future of community facilities built in country towns amid the hype of the 1956 Olympics. Loddon’s five pools are all more than...

05 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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RED HOT ANGER

Politics & Council

Collect your own tax, councillors tell Govt YOUR tax, you collect it! Angry Loddon councillors have blasted the State Government’s new emergency services levy. Weeks from the tax’s introduction, councillors on Tuesday said the Government was...

02 Apr 2025

By Loddon Herald

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Study funds will assess town growth potential

Politics & Council

GROWTH without water and sewerage could be part of Loddon Shire’s future plans for Newbridge. Councillors on Tuesday voted to start a land use planning process to find the most appropriate way to grow the town. They also allocated $300,000 from...

31 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

Politics & Council

Your chance to ask questions

Politics & Council

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...

30 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald

Politics & Council

Mallee miss, says Webster

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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...

30 Mar 2025

By Loddon Herald