Events that shaped Sunraysia

Remembering Mildura’s first woman mayor -August 31, 1972

CR Kaye Gambetta was elected the first woman Mayor of Mildura. She donned the heavy mayoral robes and chains at Mildura City Council’s annual statutory meeting held in the council chambers. Sitting in the crowded...

14 Aug 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Mildura casino application - estimated build cost of $3 million in 1979

A FIRM application has been made to the Victorian and New South Wales Governments for the go-ahead to establish a casino and convention centre in Sunraysia. The proposed complex would be built beside the Murray River at an...

27 Sep 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Sunraysia answers the recruitment call

AMPLE evidence, if such evidence were needed, of the fervent desire of the people of Sunraysia to serve their country and the British Empire was provided at the Mildura Town Hall when the largest crowd ever...

12 Nov 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Mungo Man - Welcome back to Country

THE 42,000-year-old bones of Mungo Man, the oldest human remains found in Australia, completed their journey back to Willandra Lakes, 110km north east of Mildura, after 43 years in...

16 Oct 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Brothel plan causes lively Council debate

THE first Mildura Rural City council meeting for the year could go down as the most contentious, with lively debate preceding the approval of a plan to establish a brothel in Mildura. As anticipated, the...

06 Oct 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Tarred and Feathered in Mildura in 1921

CONTINUOUS personal and professional attacks by Mildura and Merbein Sun newspaper operator Grant Hervey against the prominent C. J. De Garis of Sunraysia Daily finally finally caught up with the man that De Garis exposed as a criminal and...

17 Sep 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Bridge decision, Cabinet says no to Deakin Avenue bridge.

MILDURA’S new bridge over the Murray River will not be at the end of Deakin Avenue. Victorian State Cabinet decided that the government approved the siting of the new bridge near the existing one. The Minister for Transport said the...

08 Sep 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

The day Riverboat Gem sunk in the Murray

SEVENTY-six-year-old River Murray paddle steamer Gem sank in about 15 feet of water after striking a snag six miles below Cal Lal, NSW, on Saturday. A passenger, who was found deceased in his cabin soon...

01 Sep 2020

Community celebrates

Toxic Waste Dump - The fight that united the Sunraysia community

THE community’s united front against a proposed toxic waste dump at Nowingi has prevailed. A dejected looking Deputy Premier John Thwaites and Planning Minister Justin Madden made the announcement that no dump...

28 Aug 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

Women allowed into Workers bar - April 1, 1980

THERE were cheers and some jeers as women for the first time in 85 years moved into one of the last male domains in Mildura -- the longest bar in the world at Mildura Working Man’s Club. Associate members were given permission to...

07 Aug 2020

Events that shaped Sunraysia

How Mildura celebrated the end of WWII - August 15, 1945

SUNRAYSIA Daily produced a “special victory issue” to record the end of World War II. The publication, headlined “PEACE IN THE PACIFIC”, announced the unconditional surrender of Japan after almost six years of battle...

14 Aug 2020