LODDON Mayor Dan Straub has been elected chairman of the Murray River Group of Councils.
Loddon and Gannawarra, Swan Hill, Mildura, Moira and Campaspe Shires are the member councils.
Cr Straub takes the chair by rotation from Gannawarra’s Ross Stanton.
The group is continuing its advocacy against the Federal Government’s current water buybacks across the Murray Darling Basin.