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Alliance outlines election needs

LODDON Mallee Disability Alliance have outlined an election platform calling on all political parties to deliver long-term commitments to the all abilities community. A spokesperson for the alliance said that regional and rural Australians with...

29 Apr 2025
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Rating quandary ‘difficult’

RESIDENTS, businesses and irrigated farmers will pay more while dryland farmers will have rates cut under a move that divided councillors during a spirited debate at this week’s monthly meeting of council. While acknowledging that any...

26 Apr 2025
Politics

Voters turn out for pre-poll

MORE than 4100 Mallee voters could not wait to cast their vote for the Federal election, and made their decision on day one of early voting. A total of 4162 voters in the Mallee showed up to one of the eight available early voting centres and had...

25 Apr 2025
Politics

Candidate takes a break

A CANDIDATE running in the seat of Farrer at the May 3 national poll has announced she’s “stepping back” from her campaign. Michelle Milthorpe is stating as an independent in the Federal seat that covers most of southern New South Wales, but on...

23 Apr 2025
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13 Feb 2020
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Farrer Labor candidate speaks flights on flights, healthcare

A RETIRED cyber security expert has put his name forward to contest the seat of Farrer for Labor. Tocumwal-based Glen Hyde made his first visit to Wentworth, Dareton and Balranald this week to pitch his party’s election talking points. He said the two...

23 Apr 2025
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Nationals expect sliding doors election

NATIONAL Party faithful gathered at Member for Mallee Anne Webster’s campaign launch on Monday in Mildura. The crowd of more than 100 people listened to speeches from the incumbent MP, as well as Nationals leader David Littleproud, Member for Mildur...

19 Apr 2025
Politics

Candidate hopes Mallee is open-minded to change

A FREIGHT company manager based in Bendigo is having his third tilt at Federal politics, this time contesting the seat of Mallee. Trumpet of Patriots candidate Adam Veitch contested the seat of Bendigo in 2007 as an independent, and again in 2019 as...

20 Apr 2025
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Coalition pledge $8.7M for rural health school

SHADOW Assistant Minister for Regional Health and local Mallee MP, Anne Webster, has pledged $8.7 million to develop medical training facilities and teaching equipment in the region if the Coalition win Government on May 3. The funding would support...

18 Apr 2025
Politics

Senate candidate reflects on criminal past

A BALLARAT lawyer who spent at least 20 months in prison for drug and white-collar-related offending is running for the Senate in May’s Federal Election. Jordan Dittloff, 38, was in Mildura on Friday and Saturday, 13 months after being endorsed as...

15 Apr 2025
Politics

Candidate seeks to shake up the status quo

A FARMER, arborist and part-time Santa has put his hand up for the seat of Mallee, nominating as a Libertarian candidate at next month’s Federal Election. Jeff Barry, 59, became increasingly interested in politics in 2015 when then...

15 Apr 2025
Letters

More to consider for sustainable future

THE discussion around decarbonising the economy is gaining momentum, with the LNP exploring nuclear power stations and Labor focusing on offshore wind and green hydrogen. However, there is a noticeable gap in these discussions that needs to be...

13 Apr 2025
Politics

Local Nats, Libs back future funds pledge

THE current members for the Federal electorates of Mallee and Farrar have thrown their support behind the Opposition Coalition’s $20 billion future fund proposal. Called the Regional Australia Future Fund, the nationwide pre-election commitment would...

12 Apr 2025
Letters

Nats against tax

REGIONAL Victorians are under siege as the Allan Labor Government continues to gouge those who live outside Melbourne with more new taxes, making regional Victorians pay the price for Labor’s failure to manage money. As a Bendigo based MP, Premier...

12 Apr 2025
Letters

So... apparently there’s an election going on?

IT’S probably a fair bet that, as Federal Election voters, at a minimum we’re taken for granted, or at worst we just don’t count. While other places in Australia have seen millions of dollars showered upon them in specific and targeted pre-election...

12 Apr 2025
Letters

‘Damage’ for Australia’s agriculture

WHAT will it take for our city based, ideologically driven politicians to wake up and understand the damage they are inflicting on Australian agriculture?One would think if a leading Australian agriculture investor wants ‘out’ from the industry...

12 Apr 2025
Politics

Seventeen on the ballot across Mallee and Farrer

EIGHT candidates will be contesting the seat of Mallee at this year’s Federal Election, and the ballot order has been determined. Drawing the top of the ticket is Greens candidate Nicole Rowan, ahead of incumbent Nationals MP Anne Webster in second...

12 Apr 2025