Lloyd Polkinghorne, The Koondrook and Barham Bridge Newspaper

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Managing levees for flood protection

Shaun Morgan, of North Central Catchment Management Authority addressed a large crowd who gathered in Kerang June, 6 to listen and voice their concerns. NCCMA is spearheading a critical initiative to address levee systems in response to recent flooding events.

VNI West loses social license

Despite our vast natural resources, Australia now has some of the highest electricity prices in the world and the road to “renewables” seems bumpier than ever. The Gannawarra Shire Council meeting last week, saw a motion to oppose the VNI West electricity transmission project planned to pass through the municipality, approved. (April fools image)

Irrigated farms, the missing environmental and fodder link

More than 17 years after the Federal Government commenced water buybacks, without a single environmental impact study, a local Victorian dairy farm highlighted the ideal refuge they have with a family of Brolgas visiting this week.

Hero to whipping boy, Labor’s latest tax grab push volunteers to tears

In the early hours of Friday May 16, Labor and members of the Animal Justice Party, The Greens and Legalise Cannabis Party, colluded with the Allan Labor Government to pass their latest tax, the Emergency Services and ‘Volunteers’ Fund ... The Nationals Member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has labelled the new Emergency Services Levy as a land tax by stealth – targeting the farming community in particular – and as “socialism gone mad in Victoria”.

Murrabit Rumbles, rattles and chuggs to the tune of the National Motoring Day

God looked down upon the small country town of Murrabit and decreed that the seventh day shall be filled with polished chrome, flat top pistons, and lumpy cam ... car clubs from Deniliquin, Echuca, Swan Hill, and Kerang gathered for the National Motoring Day at the iconic Murrabit Market site.

Covid shot coercion risked global heart health

A new 42-page report published in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Research & Innovation has garnered information and data from 341 peer-reviewed studies that paint an alarming picture of Myocarditis risks post mRNA shots, and also raising questions of why regulators remain silent on the issue.