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Budget to face councillor scrutiny

MILDURA Rural City Council is expected to adopt its 2025-26 draft budget when councillors meeting on Monday night with an average rate increase of the maximum 3 per cent under the Victorian Government’s Fair Go Rates System. The budget would result...

28 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
Health

Public or private: Cupper goes Benham on hospital management

FORMER Mildura state MP and candidate at next year’s election Ali Cupper has accused sitting member Jade Benham of “double-speak” over future management of the Mildura Base Public Hospital. The move comes after Ms Benham made public comments about...

13 Jun 2025
Politics

Government gathers drought support

THE Federal Government has promised an extra $2 million to boost the Rural Financial Counselling Service in the face of the drought across southern Australia. However, Member for Mildura Anne Webster is demanding Canberra revive...

08 Jun 2025
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13 Feb 2020
Letters

Nationals keen to scrap taxes

THE emergency services tax isn’t gone - it’s just a one-year stay of execution for farmers. The reality is every Victorian homeowner, business and renter will pay a 100 per cent increase to cover this new tax. Labor has slapped hard working...

07 Jun 2025
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MP questions water register rollout

THE New South Wales Government is aiming to create a water register by October, Parliament has been told. Yet Member for Murray Helen Dalton said since laws were passed in October last year nothing more has has happened on the issue.“In October last...

03 Jun 2025
Politics

Hospital pictures show what could have been

ARTIST impressions of a new but never built Mildura Base Hospital have drawn the ire of a local former state MP. The drawings, created by architectural firm HSPC - who specialise in hospital and healthcare work - were commissioned by the Victorian...

31 May 2025
Farming and Environment

Drought support extended statewide: Premier to lead task force

THE Victorian Government has announced its drought support package has been extended to farmers across the state. Revealed on Friday, the package was previously restricted to municipalities mainly in the south west of the state. At the same time...

31 May 2025
Politics

Webster makes shadow ministry, defends Libs Nats split

MEMBER for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster, has received elevated shadow ministerial position following the brief breakup, and subsequent reformation, of the Federal Coalition. The announcement of her new role came on the same day Opposition Leader and...

28 May 2025
News

VEC report ‘did not reflect public anger’

A VICTORIAN Electoral Commission on the conduct of last year’s Mildura Rural City Council election failed to reflect community confusion and anger surrounding the new ward structure, councillors have been told. The report, mandatory under the Local...

26 May 2025
Politics

‘No danger’ of Victorian Coalition split

MEMBER for Mildura Jade Benham has played down any speculation that the Victorian Nationals and Victorian Liberals would end their Coalition. After the Federal parties parted ways on Tuesday moments before the Victorian Budget was handed down, Ms...

25 May 2025
Politics

All about giving back

Anne WebsterFederal Member for MalleeLAST weekend I was honoured to officially open the Mildura Field Days at the start of National Volunteers Week and I encouraged Sunraysia residents to volunteer in their communities. I commended the efforts of...

24 May 2025
News

Budget fails to excite MP, mayor and regional Vic body

THE 2025/26 Victorian Budget’s contributions for regional Victoria and the Mildura electorate have been described as “modest” and “underwhelming” by some, and “a concern” by others. On Tuesday, Treasurer and Member for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes...

25 May 2025
News

Boundary issues led election complaints

THE Victorian Electoral Commission received 17 written complaints relating to last year’s Mildura Rural City Council election. According to a VEC election report, seven complaints related to electoral boundaries under the newly restructured ward...

21 May 2025
Politics

Liberal leadership says divorce disappointing

THE freshly minted Federal Parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party has responded to today’s split with their junior partner of the Coalition by calling it “disappointing”.In a joint statement issued just after 3.30pm, recently elected...

22 May 2025
Politics

Nats split from Libs in a ‘principled’ divorce

THE political marriage of the National and Liberal parties, known as the Coalition, is over at the federal level. The split was announced by the grouping’s junior partner leader David Littleproud. Recently re-elected National Party Member for Mallee...

24 May 2025