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Analysis & Comment
Analysis & Comment

Maximising the potential of all Victorian children

WE urge the Victorian Government to take immediate action in adopting the critical recommendations outlined in the Let us learn report. Despite the clear and compelling case presented through...

11 Jan 2025
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13 Feb 2020
Analysis & Comment

Leadership, youth and diversity

Cr Helen HealyMayorMildura Rural City CouncilAS we embark on our new term as councillors, I want to talk about leadership, what it means in the Local Government setting, and what you, the community we serve, can expect from us in the coming four...

07 Dec 2024
Analysis & Comment

Ridley: It’s not easy being green

DURING the past few weeks I have been speaking with a work colleague about his teenage son and how he had been enjoying his first season with the umpiring fraternity. His son is currently playing with the juniors at the Mildura Football...

01 Jul 2024
Analysis & Comment

Wenty must be GOAT

WHERE do the current Wentworth A Graders rank among the best ever Sunraysia netball teams?It’s the great debate that was sparked by Australian men’s netball squad member Jake Hederics in last Saturday’s Sunraysia Daily, where he said: “There...

22 Jun 2024
Analysis & Comment

Round of chances missed

JUST past the halfway mark of the season a few opportunities to separate from the pack were missed over the weekend, in particular by Mildura and Merbein. Coming into this time of the year, few would have been brave enough to have Imperials...

18 Jun 2024
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Analysis & Comment

Two sides to breach story

VOLUNTEERS are the lifeblood of local football and netball clubs all across the country. This is why I completely understand the sentiment of Irymple’s disappointment last week with the ruling handed down by AFL Victoria from the audit of the...

20 May 2024
Analysis & Comment

Australia can make use of its strengths in solar and wind resources, as well as critical minerals, to create new industries

RIGHT now, there’s a global race underway. The goal: bring back manufacturing and energy jobs as the energy transition speeds up. In 2022, America launched its mammoth Inflation Reduction Act...

22 Apr 2024
Analysis & Comment

MP’s comments crossed the line

ANALYSIS: Pressuring election officials isn’t the kind of thing you’d expect from an Australian politician.

04 Nov 2023
Analysis & Comment

Alan Joyce, this is your Mildura legacy

ANALYSIS; More expensive flights, less reliable service and substantially more cancellations. These were Alan Joyce’s gifts to Mildura

09 Sep 2023
Analysis & Comment

Benham’s cheap flights claim is hot air

ANALYSIS: An election commitment for capped-price flights between Mildura and Melbourne has been delivered “in a round-about way”, according to the Member for Mildura.

01 Mar 2023
Football

AFL legends line up for Dreamtime debut

OPINION: BEN RIDLEY - It has been a massive couple of weeks behind the scenes for the upcoming Dreamtime at the P. 

10 Feb 2023
Opinion

Prevent violence with us

Opinion: The Walk Against Family Violence should be an opportunity to recognise the impact on all victims and survivors of domestic and family violence – especially children and young people.

19 Nov 2022
Analysis & Comment

Everyone wins - now eyes back on the finals

THE last two weeks have been huge with regards to the decisions the SFNL board have had to make. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed.

22 Aug 2022
News

Grass is literally greener at the MSP

COMMENT: Jason Shields - Let me get this right: The Sunraysia Football Netball League board has chosen the dilapidated City Oval precinct over Mildura’s new sporting precinct to host this year’s Grand Final?

17 Jun 2022
News

Lib leader sees Mildura as a key hub city

THE man who wants to be the next premier of Victoria says he wants it to be “a state of cities, not a city state”, and that the city of Mildura should be an important part of that.

15 Apr 2022
Analysis & Comment

NSW must enforce water meter rule

The NSW Select Committee on Floodplain Harvesting released its findings this week, and the realities are hard to ignore. Floodplain harvesting causes significant economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts on downstream communities, like...

17 Dec 2021