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September 16, 2020

Farmers border campaign bears fruit

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) With pandemic restrictions hitting farmers hard, farming groups have lobbied State Governments across Australia with innovative ideas to alleviate...

September 15, 2020

Senator ploughs through spin

By Helen Tatchell Paul Keating once said, “this is the recession we had to have”, last week it was the ‘meeting the community had to...

September 14, 2020

Medal for valour

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) A WWII veteran has become the latest Moorabool resident to be awarded with the Commemorative Medallion introduced in July,...

September 11, 2020

Crafty kids protect platypus

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) You might not have even known it, but platypus live in Moorabool’s waterways – a fact that Bacchus Marsh’s...

September 11, 2020

Home sweet home

An identification chip has helped reunite a missing feline with the owner, after eight years on the run. The fluffy ginger neutered male cat went...

September 10, 2020

Toxic soil ‘safe’

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) In a decision that could lead to legal action and a local school leaving town, the Environment Protection Authority...

September 10, 2020

Get it ‘India’

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) We’ve all heard the saying “we’re all in this together” during the COVID-19 pandemic, but local restaurant owner Peter...

September 9, 2020

Whiskey Riot named Victorian Greyhound of the Year

By Gerard Guthrie Rowsley greyhound trainer Anthony Azzopardi has achieved just about everything greyhound racing has to offer since moving to Victoria in 2016, and...

September 9, 2020

COVID restricts cultivation

By Lachlan Ellis (3rd Yr Deakin Uni) Moorabool farmers say it’s hard to find workers for harvesting at the best of times, but the COVID-19 pandemic...

September 7, 2020

Community purpose and focus

By Helen Tatchell He has been a policeman for the past 15-years, the last eight as a Sergeant, and now he is the newly appointed...

September 7, 2020

A sign of the times

By Caitlin Bewley (3rd Yr Swinburne Uni) Ballan businesses have adopted a woman’s idea to aid communication for the hearing-impaired during the pandemic. Auslan teacher and mother...

September 4, 2020

Hospitals in the home, “really works”

By Caitlin Bewley (3rd Yr Swinburne Uni) Djerriwarrh Health Services (DjHS) is providing housebound support for patients that test positive to COVID-19. Hospitals in the Home (HITH)...