Opinion

Workforce needs top agriculture agenda

A new National Agricultural Labour Advisory Committee has been tasked with providing the Liberal and Nationals Government with advice on how to secure a sustainable agricultural workforce for the future. Australian agriculture has its best years...

8 hours ago

letters

Lindsay, please check out the data

Reply to Lindsay Leake (December 11): Lindsay, the BOM data shows 2010 MDB annual rainfall was 808mm (La Nina + negative IOD) and 1956 rainfall was 786mm. But by 2010 the catchment was very dry with the preceding nine years under average rainfall...

8 hours ago

letters

Inspectors prowl around top venues

We in Mildura have access to a great library, a great Waves Pool, great indoor and outdoor swimming pool, great sauna and spa bath, and great Information Centre for residents and tourists alike. To top it off is a great cafeteria to relax and enjoy...

8 hours ago

Cartoons

Broelman’s cartoon: December 12

Today’s cartoon from Broelman.

8 hours ago

letters

Ditching basin plan would make life worse

WHILE the National Irrigators Council (NIC) understands the hardship driving the anger of irrigators who protested in Canberra last week, the problems would be made worse by ditching, rather than fixing, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The strong...

11 Dec 2019

letters

Flood systems easy to recognise

NEVILLE Gardner (Sunraysia Daily, December 6), stated: “But we know that we’ve just had record rainfall in the Murray-Darling Basin in 2010 (even higher than 1956)”. Then how does he explain that in 1956 the inflows into the Murray were...

11 Dec 2019

Snouts in the trough

Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien proved by recent answers to questions on radio 3AW about Victorian politicians’ recent 12 per cent pay rise that all pollies have their snouts in the trough. He and his party could easily have set an example and...

11 Dec 2019

Cartoons

Broelman’s cartoon: December 11

Today’s cartoon from Broelman.

11 Dec 2019

letters

Basin plan is better than no plan

Scrapping the Murray-Darling Basin Plan could damage cultural values along Australia’s greatest river system and marginalise vulnerable communities. Campaigns led by irrigators and the NSW National Party to derail the basin plan do not represent...

10 Dec 2019

letters

Corporate irrigators should take the cut

BARNABY Joyce and the National Party have unleashed an assault on the Murray River, the environment and South Australia. It would be a terrible step to tear up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and cut water to the environment throughout the basin. The...

10 Dec 2019

Cartoons

Broelman’s cartoon: December 10

Today’s cartoon from Broelman.

10 Dec 2019

letters

We need to ensure there are no buybacks

OVER the past 12 months, the fish kills of Menindee have been politicised and subject to significant media attention. In this time we have witnessed local pastoralists and irrigators use the fish kills to highlight mismanagement of the...

09 Dec 2019

Cartoons

Broelman’s cartoon: December 9

Today’s cartoon from Broelman.

09 Dec 2019

letters

Violence figures need more explanation

THE news that family-domestic violence rates are again higher than the state average needs further explanation. The figures suggest that males are to blame for the increase. When you factor out the catastrophic domestic violence figures from the...

09 Dec 2019

letters

Huge opportunities if science is accepted

READERS of Letters to the Editor might believe that Neville Gardner and I never agree on much, however this is not always true, and on one of his views we have some common ground. The late Tim Fischer argued for dams on the headwaters of the Tweed...

09 Dec 2019

Daily Matters

AFL Victoria is testing the faith

IF trust and respect are the cornerstone of a relationship, it’s little wonder AFL Victoria and country footy leagues around the state don’t seem to holding hands right now. Just last week, AFL Victoria blindsided the Sunraysia Football Netball...

07 Dec 2019