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Allan Murphy

Allan is a senior journalist at Sunraysia Daily. Email [email protected] to get in touch.

Repeat drug trafficker jailed

AN ice dealer has been jailed for nine months after a magistrate said there would be community outrage if repeat traffickers did not receive significant terms of imprisonment. Forty-three-year-old Vietnamese national Ha Nguyen this week pleaded...

3 hours ago

Police & Courts

Ram driver ‘lucky’ no one died

A MAN who planned to pay his respects to deceased family members was lucky not to have killed anyone when he repeatedly drove at patrons sitting outside the Murrayville pub, a court has been told. Fifty-four-year-old Gerard Anthony Boseley had driven...

16 hours ago

Community

Lanes named in honour of women

SUNRAYSIA’S first fully qualified kindergarten teacher and Red Cliffs’ earliest maternal and baby health sister have been recognised with the naming of laneways in their honour. Special dispensation was sought, and approved, to earmark the naming of...

17 hours ago

News

Funding needed to fix housing ‘crisis’

THE region’s current housing crisis is unlikely to ease anytime soon with Mildura Rural City Council acknowledging it does not have the capacity to fund critical infrastructure projects that would enable continued housing development across...

02 May 2025

Police & Courts

Man ‘embarrassed’ after naked romp in traffic

A MILDURA man is “embarrassed and remorseful” after roaming naked in Mildura’s busiest thoroughfare while motorists made their way to work, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court heard police located 44-year-old Simon Pretty about 7am...

02 May 2025

Farming and Environment

Getting tough on land clearing

THE New South Wales Government’s proposed crackdown on illegal tree and vegetation clearing has been welcomed by the state’s peak body for local government as a major win for councils, communities and the environment. Local Government NSW...

01 May 2025

Police & Courts

Killer driver released on new charges

CARDROSS killer driver Thomas Graham Towle has avoided more time behind bars for driving unlicensed while high on drugs despite police arguing that a term of imprisonment was warranted. Towle, 53, was this week given a 12-month community corrections...

30 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Man fined after ‘looking for trouble’

A MILDURA man who claims to have mistaken a police vehicle for a taxi after a drunken night out before repeatedly refusing police requests to move on was looking for trouble and found it, a court has been told. The Mildura Magistrates’ Court was told...

29 Apr 2025

News

Game changing transport strategy has wheels

MILDURA Council has endorsed a “game changing” strategy that aims to guide the city’s growth and development to 2050 and beyond. The Mildura Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy looks at how the transport network can better serve current and...

29 Apr 2025

Community

First Anzac service for Werrimull

WERRIMULL commemorated Anzac Day in style with a large crowd attending the town’s first ever Dawn Service followed by a march from the Werrimull Hotel to the memorial on the outskirts of town. The events were organised by the Millewa Advisory Group...

29 Apr 2025

Police & Courts

Bail denied for woman found hiding under blanket

A MILDURA woman was released on bail barely a week before police uncovered further offending including the accused being in possession of multiple bankcards, Medicare cards and a Sportsbet card in the names of other people, a court has...

28 Apr 2025

Education

Student enters fiscal federalism debate

ROBINVALE College student Elizabeth Chirchiglia was one of 119 senior student delegates who debated the topic “Revisiting Sections 51ii and 90 to Reimagine Australia’s Fiscal Federalism” at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The debate was part of...

28 Apr 2025