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A rundown of council’s draft budget 2025/26
Wellington Shire Council’s draft budget for the next financial year outlines the cost of rolling out green bins, determining which municipal roads will get...
Submissions presented to council on Draft Budget
WELLINGTON Shire Council held a special unscheduled meeting last Thursday to receive and consider any submissions from ratepayers, verbal or written, relating to the...
Budget Briefs
Taxes for big earners
In response to debt accumulated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a so-called "COVID Debt Levy" will be introduced, paid...
Budget no good for roads: Bull
GIPPSLAND East MP Tim Bull has said the government's budget was disappointing and puts country Victorians "at risk" and expressed his disappointment at road...
Behind the scenes of the Budget lockup
Stefan Bradley
REPORTERS gathered in a room at 55 Collins Place, Melbourne last Tuesday morning (May 23) for the annual budget lockup.
Treasurer Tim Pallas’ many...
First Peoples’ Assembly welcomes Treaty investment
THE First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria last week welcomed the $138 million investment in the Treaty process over four years in the State Budget,...
Animal Justice Party responds to budget
Stefan Bradley
The Victorian Animal Justice Party (AJP) has reacted positively to Budget measures, including animal programs and the early shutdown of the native forestry...
Heath blasts State Budget
Stefan Bradley
LIBERAL MP Renee Heath, who represents the Eastern Victoria region, has blasted this week's State Budget, saying the Labor MPs should front up...
Maffra Hospital upgrade on the books
Stefan Bradley and Tom Parry
IN a win for local aged care, the State Budget 2023-24 confirmed an election promise by the state government to...
More funding needed to protect marine life
THE federal government is setting up the framework for better environmental protection, but it's not enough, according to the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
The Australian...
2023/24 State Budget
Treasurer Tim Pallas handed down the 2023/24 Victorian budget on Tuesday, May 23.
The Gippsland Times is currently trawling through the budget papers and government statements...
BREAKING: State’s timber logging to end
NATIVE timber logging in Victoria looks set to cease at the end of the year.
The Gippsland Times understands the state government has brought forward...
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Gormandale gathers for Anzac service
Gormandale’s community honoured the service and sacrifice of the ANZACs and our veterans with a commemorative service at the cenotaph on the Main Rd,...
