THE return of passenger rail to Mildura after a 27-year absence is the next major item on local MP Ali Cupper's "fix list" to help erase the "very dark era" of the Kennett government's cuts in north-west Victoria during the 1990s.

Passenger trains last ran to Mildura in 1993 – and Ms Cupper says "I will not be done with politics" until regular services are resumed in the region.

"Even if it on...