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Child safety takes centre stage in Maffra

This story was published in the Gippsland Times on August 23, 2022. PUPILS, teachers and parents in Maffra have been taught valuable lessons about personal safety,...

Blue-green algae in farm water supplies

RECENT flooding combined with warmer weather has produced favourable conditions for blue-green algae to thrive in farm water supplies and standing flood water. Senior Veterinary...

Nats very nice, winners in Gippy East, South, Morwell

Stefan Bradley GIPPSLAND voters delivered a larger Nationals team for the region in Saturday’s state election, with Morwell joining Gippsland East and Gippsland South as...

COPD demands government action

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects around 1 in 13 Australians over the age of 40 and is the number 1 cause of avoidable...

Rabobank: Latest CPI shows annual food price inflation reach 9 per cent

Rabobank commentary: Latest CPI shows annual food price inflation reaches nine per cent The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the Australian Bureau of...

Gippsland Women’s Health condemns Medibank data breach

GIPPSLAND Women's Health (GWH) has condemned the 'weaponisation' of personal healthcare data targeting those who have had abortions. In response to the latest Medibank data...

State election winners and losers

Stefan Bradley WINNER - Labor: Premier Daniel Andrews and the Labor team must be feeling a strong sense of vindication. Despite Victoria's unique experience with COVID...

Calls for Rosedale pump track

Rosedale residents are left feeling unheard and misunderstood, after consultations with Wellington Shire Council for a pump track and skatepark upgrade got off to...

Election: No major surprises ultimately

IT was a surprisingly straightforward election. Just a few hours in, we knew that Labor had won a majority once again. No miracle win for...

Brewer a long way from home

Gardiner Foundation Tertiary Scholarship recipient, Lauren Brewer, never thought life would lead her to her current workplace, a remote mine site in the Gibson...

Drink driver impounded on Stratford-Maffra Rd: Police Beat 22.11

ON Sunday, November 13 at 10.30am, Heyfield and Maffra Police were conducting a Road Breath Testing Site on Stratford-Maffra Rd, when a 62-year-old male...

Riding to find a cure on Vic Discovery Tour

Hundreds of people from across the country assembled at Traralgon’s Harold Preston Reserve early on the morning of Thursday, November 17, for the start...

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Eight farms pass effluent test

Environment Protection Authority inspections of 43 dairy farms across three Gippsland municipalities, including Wellington Shire, have found just eight of them passed the test...