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.

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

News

TNV numbers up, says MRCC

REPRESENTATIVES of Mildura Rural City Council are seeking to set the record straight after a national media outlet labeled the Tropical North Victoria tourism campaign a “huge flop”.A report from the ABC on Tuesday used data provided by Murray...

21 Jun 2025

Football

Top of the table clash at Quandong

RED Cliffs never-say-die spirit came to the fore last weekend when they fought back from a five-goal deficit to crush Ouyen United by 44 points at Blackburn Park. But they are going to need all that and a fair...

21 Jun 2025

Football

Eagles likely to keep up Merbein misery

THIS Saturday might not be the greatest of days to try and break the season duck for winless Merbein. First of all they have to travel a fair way across the state to play, Secondly, when they...

21 Jun 2025

News

New app puts park info on tap

A NEW smartphone and tablet tablet app focused solely on Wyperfeld National Park is being touted as a possible first for Victoria. Created and published by volunteer group Friends of Wyperfeld National Park, the app aims to offer a wide range of...

19 Jun 2025

Business

BOATS7 sails away to SA

A MUCH-loved old ute has found new a new life after it was given away by the owners of a Mildura boat retailer to a former AFL player turned car restorer. The story of how the team at Sunraysia Marine came to hand over the keys for free to their 1991...

19 Jun 2025

Farming and Environment

Farmers call for action on wild dogs

A PEAK farming sector body is calling for better action on wild dogs from the Victorian State Government as the region’s drought gets worse. Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president Peter Star said there were fears mooted changes to...

18 Jun 2025

Community

Getting chilly with it!

While it was about 16 degrees when fundraisers started sliding into the ice water at the Mildura Sporting Precinct on Saturday, the feels like temp was 11 and conditions in the pool even colder. The Mildura Big Freeze was held before South Mildur...

17 Jun 2025