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Troubling glimpse of the future

Regarding your front page story “Small water relief”. Are we getting a glimpse of the future with the Federal Government issuing 100 Gl of water at a set price, with which to grow stock feed? In a situation where there is not...

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Drought drives water management

This is what several people were calling for on Q&

Rodney Woods
Opinion

A job well done

Through your paper could I congratulate Phillip Glyde from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Jody Swirepik, and the visionaries who set up the MDBA, on their success in achieving their goals. With severe...

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Water is no longer just water

For those who watched last week’s Q&A on ABC TV, there can be no doubt that water is no longer just water. It’s not only for human use, or for caring for our environment, not for producing food and fibre — it has become...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Ill-conceived thought bubble

Victorian Shadow Water Minister Steph Ryan has called for the expansion of Buffalo Dam and a pipeline connecting to Lake Nillahcootie on the Broken River. The Nationals propose to use the Broken and Goulburn rivers to bypass the Barmah Choke and...

Country News
Opinion

Dams needed to capture rain

By Victorian Shadow Water Minister Steph Ryan Big Buffalo has been dreamt about for years but no one has ever found the political will to build it. In the past the conversation has always been about expanding irrigation and it was always quickly...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Water management disaster

Federal Water Minister David Littleproud, like his mates at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, is extremely reluctant to admit anything is wrong with their disastrous water management. In their mind...

Country News
Opinion

Nearing the end of a long pricing journey

By Charmaine Quick, Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Goulburn-Murray Water is just days away from lodging our next Pricing Submission — a project that has involved input from thousands of our customers through working groups, drop-in...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Letter to the editor: ADF comments are off the mark

When I read comment on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan from Australian Dairy Farmers president Terry Richardson my initial reaction was extreme anger, followed by disappointment. It is difficult to comprehend how the leader of a national organisation...

Country News
Opinion

Effigy floats

The effigy of Federal Water Minister David Littleproud, created for a water rally in Tocumwal in September, has a long life. He was dumped over the Tocumwal Bridge and into the Murray River and has been travelling downstream since then. He was...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Nearing the end of a long pricing journey

By Charmaine Quick, Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Goulburn-Murray Water is just days away from lodging our next Pricing Submission — a project that has involved input from thousands of our customers through working groups, drop-in...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Mokoan reform has hurt water entitlements

Your readers, and indeed many Broken River diverters, may not be aware of the injustice that has been perpetrated on them. In a letter from (Victorian Water Minister Lisa Neville’s) office we have been told that we can expect zero allocation...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Wheels have fallen off MIL strategy

Not so long ago, we had a reorganisation of the Murray Irrigation board and its relationship to the five landholder associations that represent all the landholders and the owners of the water entitlements in the Murray Irrigation area. This...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

A call to action

Everyone you speak to has a ‘simple’ solution to the water issues in our area.

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Water madness

Water madness — everybody be warned

Country News
Opinion

Phil Minns from Corop is not happy with decision makers

Your front page story (Flood, as crops die, October 1) confirms that the lunatics really are running the asylum, with the irony being that the flood waters have gone over the Edgars’ fence line.

Rodney Woods
Opinion

Ley says she is advocating for farmers

By Sussan Ley, Federal Member for Farrer and Federal Environment Minister.

Country News
Opinion

New leaders at G-MW

(By G-MW managing director Charmaine Quick)

Geoff Adams

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Silo art: What you need to know

Across the flat and sprawling landscape of the Goulburn Valley and Southern Riverina, among stretches of highway and towering trees, there are few things as constant as grain silos. As Wimmera Mallee communities continue to complete their Silo Art...

Alana Christensen
News

Chicken shed destroyed by fire in Euroa

Almost 20,000 chickens have died after a Euroa poultry farm shed burst into flames early this morning. Firefighters were called to the scene on Drysdale Rd at about 5.45am to find the shed fully engulfed in flames. CFA Units from Shepparton, Euro...

Ashlea Witoslawski
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Kotta shed fire destroys hundreds of hay bales

FIREFIGHTERS are battling an volatile hayshed fire 25km from Echuca. CFA crews from Kotta, Bamawm Extension and Lockington were called to the blaze at a property on the corner of Johnson Rd and Lowrie Rd in Kotta about 9.40am. Bamawm Extension...

Ivy Jensen
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Gillieston abattoir gets EPA approval

The EPA has given works approval for the operation of a new abattoir on the Lancaster-Mooroopna Rd at Gillieston. The facility, to be developed by Meatworks Australia on a former dairy farm site, would process up to 3000 head of sheep per day. Some...

Geoff Adams