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Endangered birds’ new home

A group of highly endangered eastern bristlebirds have made their home in Wilsons Promontory after a delicate overnight relocation program was carried out last...

RAAF ‘Golf Ball’ coming to an end after 34 years

Obviously quite a few locals read the media alert issued recently to advise that there would be some loud noise from flypasts by two...

Live soundtrack sails to The Wedge

Filmgoers and music-lovers alike will be spellbound when the Grigoryan Brothers land Portside later this month. The song-writing brothers will be present for the screening...

Forest bureaucracy ‘politicised’

The Andrews Government's treatment of the native forest industry shows why the Ombudsman's investigation of the politicisation of the public service is so necessary,...

Workways boost for 3000 young jobseekers

Workways Australia, a not-for-profit employment services provider, has won a federal contract to help 3000 jobseekers in Gippsland and Latrobe Valley find work. The successful...

Shows urged to boost security against FMD

The state's peak farming body is urging agricultural societies to beef-up their biosecurity plans ahead of the oncoming show season, in a bid to...
National Missing Persons Week

National Missing Persons Week 2022

July 31 to August 7 marks Australia’s annual National Missing Persons Week. The week was established after 20-year-old Anthony ‘Tony’ Jones from Western Australia disappeared...

Yarram’s new electronic medical records system

YARRAM and District Health Service (YDHS) will implement a new Primary Care electronic medical record system, which it says will streamline administration and improve...

Taskforce provides assurance on 2022 election

THE Board of the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce (the Taskforce) has provided formal advice to the Australian Electoral Commissioner, Tom Rogers, following return of...

EPA Victoria fines East Gippsland Water over wastewater

EPA Victoria has fined East Gippsland Water more than $9000 over a discharge of more than 30 million litres of wastewater into Macleod Morass...

Barrier Breakers Folds

A GENERAL meeting of members of Gippsland mental health advocacy group, Barrier Breakers Inc. (Monday, July 19) voted to place the not-for-profit agency into...
Barrier Breakers founder Derek Amos.

Barrier Breakers founder speaks

Gippsland mental health not-for-profit Barrier Breakers went into liquidation recently, after the organisation could not pay back more than $100,000 in debt. Barrier Breakers board...

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GVC temporarily closing for much needed repairs

THE Gippsland Vehicle Collection (GVC) in Maffra will be temporarily closing at the end of January to replace its asbestos roof. It will reopen...