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Oui got married

Euroa’s Richard Hayes just tied the knot with Frenchwoman Clemence Carayol in her homeland

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01 Nov 2023

Politics and Government

Haines’ welcomes funding retention, critical of other measures

INDEPENDENT Indi federal MP Helen Haines has welcomed this week’s federal budget’s retention of previously announced funding for important local projects she had advocated for. This included the $80 million in federal funding promised to the Albury...

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02 Nov 2022

Politics and Government

Fair go for all

NORTHERN Victorian MP Tania Maxwell has ramped up her community campaign to add female–specific ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers to Victoria’s schedule of firefighter presumptive rights. The Derryn Hinch Justice Party MP said firefighters...

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14 Sep 2022

Politics and Government

Campaigns fire up

CANDIDATES – start your campaigns. It seemed appropriate that Prime Minister Scott Morrison chose the day of the Melbourne Grand Prix to visit the governor–general and request a May 21 federal election. Like the grand prix, we have been through...

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13 Apr 2022