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Clear roadmap needed for licence tests

Labor has quietly announced a return to licence testing in regional Victoria but failed to provide important details on how the thousands of Victorians waiting to get their licences will actually be able to do so. In a further kick in the guts to...

Golf

Sunraysia district golf results

MILDURA GOLF at Mildura is on the way back to “normal” operations, subject to the requirements for social distancing and wearing of masks. The greens have been cored and the course is in excellent condition. It is necessary that all players...

Knowing how to help people with dementia

THE number of Australians living with dementia is close to half a million – a number that is set to double in the next 25 years – with an estimated 1.6 million involved in their care. In the electorates of Farrer and Mallee there are an...

Motorsport

Podium for Andre

KELLY Racing put up a strong performance at the Repco Super Sprint at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia at the weekend. After coming close to a podium finish in Saturday’s race, the team was able to go one step further on Sunday and...

Time for SA to open up to Sunraysia

NOW that Sunraysia has finally been accepted as a safe area with no transmissions by the State Government, we now need someone to tell this to the SA Government and push for this area to be a safe zone for entry into SA for care and essentials...

Motorsport

Waters’ solid weekend at The Bend

WITH finishes of eighth and fifth in Sunday’s two races at The Bend SuperSprint, Monster Energy Ford Mustang’s Cameron Waters completed a solid weekend, retaining third in the Supercars drivers’ championship. In addition to his fifth-place...

Cartoons

Broelman’s cartoons: September 19

Today’s cartoons from Broelman.

Families can’t afford to pay more

In reply to Ron Perry, I would like to ask Mr Perry if he believes it is acceptable to ask the ratepayers of Mildura, who are suffering badly from the Andrews Government’s unfair COVID restrictions, to pay more rates so council can spend more...

Privatisation hurt regional communities

Congratulations to Ali Cupper MP, Independent for Mildura, her team and all who worked tirelessly over the decades to have our hospital returned to the public service. On the subject of privatisation we in this area and along our rail line are still...

Sport

NSW clubs’ fun in sun

COOMEALLA and Wentworth fought out the second of their six-game competition last Saturday. In glorious sunshine it was great to see 32 bowlers on the greens enjoying themselves with some quality bowls being played by both clubs. Rod Taylor’s team...