User Profile

Alistair Finlay

Editor of the Sunraysia Daily. Likes my dog, bikes, water, sunshine, trucks, reading, ice hockey and yoga. Established the Broken Hill Times, as well as Ballarat Times, Bendigo Times, and Golden Plains Times, and saved the McIvor Times. Tours of duty at the Latrobe Valley Express, The Advocate in North-West Tasmania, and the Westlock News in Alberta, Canada.

Football

Premiers play host to contenders

Imperials v Irymple Brian Weightman Oval, 2.30pm IMPERIALS’ push for the double chance will be decided this Saturday when they host second-placed Irymple. An Imps’ victory would see them move up to third at the expense of idle Robinvale Euston...

4 hours ago

Football

Tigers win is all that’s wanted

Red Cliffs v Merbein. RED Cliffs should seal fifth on the ladder with a victory over bottom side Merbein. Last week, the Tigers emerged from a late season wobble to down South Mildura in a twilight clash at the Precinct to stay...

4 hours ago

Football

Wenty’s fate out of their hands, mostly

Wentworth v South Mildura. WENTWORTH are in the unenviable position of knowing their finals fate may be decided before they even hit George Gordon Oval for Saturdays twilight clash. A victory by Red Cliffs over lowly Merbein at...

4 hours ago

Football

Final game a tale of two very different 2025s

Ouyen United v Mildura. TOP side Mildura, coming off two losses in a row, will be keen to recover some of their mojo before their finals campaign begins – and there’s probably few better teams to get that back...

4 hours ago

Squash

Mildura Squash winter pennant - round 10 results

Division OneRed Line Ninjas 2-8-165 d Racquet Renegades 1-4-142Sean Darcy 0-2-66 lost to Adam Stephens 1-3-70, Clinton Edwards 1-3-54 d Cliff Pistorius 0-1-38, Emily Herrmann 1-3-45 d Leon Pederson 0-0-34The Squash Squad 2-7-156 d Racquet Rebels...

12 Aug 2025

Galleries

Skate is great and fake ice is nice!

Young people, and those young at heart, have been hitting the simulated ice in Langtree Mall at the Skate Mildura rink recently. The fun continues until this Sunday, July 20, with sessions times, more information and tickets available via the...

14 Jul 2025

Letters

Wheels in motion

REGIONAL Victoria is a cornerstone of the state’s economy, and Mildura stands out as a region with significant freight activity driven by its strong agricultural base. From citrus and grapes to almonds and wine, the Sunraysia Region plays a vital...

13 Jul 2025

Letters

Nothing new, apparently

THE headline Shonky employers on notice (Sunraysia Daily, Saturday, June 28, Page 1) is misleading. Misleading in the way that it suggests that ripping off employees and the Australian community in the horticultural industry is a new phenomenon, or...

09 Jul 2025

News

Give them the chop

THANK you Geoffrey Krake for your letter regarding the fruit trees in our nature strips (Sunraysia Daily, Saturday, July 5, Page 22, Fed up with fruit trees).These are also in Anunziata Court, Mildura. The dropped fruit is a danger causing slipping/...

08 Jul 2025

News

City nets award for women’s sport

A PROGRAM run by Mildura Rural City Council officers has won a state award. From 2022 to this year, municipal staff ran the Victorian Government-backed Gendering in a New Era In Mildura Sports program, which has gone on to earn a gong at the 2025...

26 Jun 2025

Politics

MP pushes for office return

NORTHERN Victoria upper house MP and member of Animal Justice Party, Georgie Purcell, has thrown her support behind calls for the return of independence and suitable funding for the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation, or OWSR. First established...

22 Jun 2025

News

Pair begin to Build the Base

TWO prominent Mildura residents have started a public push calling on the Victorian State Government to build a new Mildura Base Public HospitalGoing by the name Build the Base and branding itself a “community campaign”, the effort is being...

21 Jun 2025