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September 10, 2021

Free sustainability upgrades for homes and businesses

AUSTRALIAN Energy Upgrades are helping locals access free efficient upgrades and installation to their homes and businesses. The Geelong-based energy specialists supply hot water heat...

September 10, 2021

Victoria records 334 COVID-19 cases, one death

VICTORIA has recorded three-hundred-and-thirty-four new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and one death, as lockdown lifts for most of the state's regions. Today, COVID-19 commander Jeroen...

September 9, 2021

Victoria backs jabs call for COVID-hit areas

THE Victorian Government has backed calls to pour more vaccines into Melbourne's north and west, where the bulk of new COVID-19 cases are detected. Of...

September 9, 2021

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September 9, 2021

Hind opens up on exposure site drama

NICK Hind has spoken publicly for the first time since attending a COVID exposure site that kept him out of Essendon’s elimination final against...

September 9, 2021

Unseeded American bundles Barty out of US Open

WORLD number one Ash Barty has fallen in her quest for back-to-back grand slams, losing to American Shelby Rogers in the third round of...

September 9, 2021

Dogs win could come at injury cost

SATURDAY night’s Semi Final between the Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs exceeded every possible expectation, with Luke Beveridge’s men the eventual victors by a...

September 7, 2021

Victoria records 246 new COVID-19 cases

A SEVENTEEN-year-old on a ventilator is among the one hundred and ten Victorians in hospital with coronavirus. The state has recorded 246 new COVID-19 cases, including...

September 7, 2021

Guy returns as leader of Victorian Libs

MATTHEW Guy is again the leader of the Victorian Liberals, after toppling Michael O'Brien in a leadership coup. MPs voted 20 to 11 for a...

September 6, 2021

Cash for renters as state records 246 cases

Victorians struggling to pay rent because of multiple coronavirus lockdowns will be eligible for a one-off fifteen-hundred-dollar grant. The State Government announced the grant on...

September 6, 2021

Pyrenees Art Exhibition rescheduled

DUE to COVID restrictions in place in June, the organising committee of the fifteenth Annual Community Bank Beaufort Pyrenees Art Exhibition were obliged to...

September 5, 2021

Despite local exposure site regional lockdowns could ease soon

VICTORIA has one-hundred and eighty-three new cases of COVID-19 as the state announces additional support for vulnerable community members impacted by lockdowns, and points...

September 5, 2021

We can do more on social housing

-OPINION PIECE

BY MICHAELA SETTLE, MEMBER FOR BUNINYONG   AT the age of 47, I was unemployed, newly separated with two young children in tow,...

September 5, 2021

Meet the 2021 WestVic Academy of Sport athlete awardees

Archie Caldow: Athletics Archie has been a WestVic Member for the past two years. The beginning of 2021 was busy for him as he progressed...

September 5, 2021

Creatives offered free career jumpstart

FREE career support is being offered to artists and creatives thanks to a collaboration between eight councils in regional Victoria. Creative Ballarat is among those...

September 4, 2021

Govts announce $2.3b in Vic business aid

VICTORIAN businesses struggling amid extended COVID lockdowns will share in more than two-point-three billion dollars of Government support as the state records one hundred and...

September 4, 2021

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September 3, 2021

Vic man in his 60s dies with COVID-19

A MAN in his sixties has become the latest death from Victoria's Delta coronavirus outbreak, Premier Daniel Andrews says. It brings the fatality toll from the...

September 2, 2021

Time between Vic AZ COVID vaccines halved

THE interval between doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been halved from twelve to six weeks in Victoria, as the state records one-hundred-and-seventy-six...

September 2, 2021

Optus Stadium could host Grand Final

PERTH’S Optus Stadium will host the 2021 AFL Grand Final if the MCG is unable to. AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has announced that Western Australia...

September 2, 2021

What Essendon needs for 2022 and beyond

WITH Essendon’s season in the books, club great Tim Watson has given his thoughts on what they need to improve on in 2022. The Bombers...

September 2, 2021

Bulldogs back after thumping Bombers

SEN host Garry Lyon says the Western Bulldogs are back in the “hunt” after their convincing forty-nine-point thumping of Essendon on Sunday. Leaving the Bombers...

September 2, 2021

Cat’s complaints and the trade that could cost them

WHILE the Cats were smashed by Port Adelaide in last Friday night’s qualifying final, continuing their recent poor record in the first week of...

September 1, 2021

Regional lockdown could lift next week, playgrounds back

REGIONAL Victoria could leave lockdown next week, aside from Greater Shepparton, with significant restrictions still in place. The controversial ban on playgrounds will be lifted,...