Bridging the education gap in regional communities
COMMENT
By PROFESSOR DUNCAN BENTLEY
REGIONAL and outer-metropolitan Victoria faces one of the greatest skills shortages in history. It is stunting growth. The solutions...
Story of Moe missing persons case retold
By KATRINA BRANDON
QUEENSLAND author Nicole Morris is releasing her book Vanished on June 7 to help raise awareness for missing people and the...
House price settle across the state
THE Victorian property market is showing signs of stabilisation this quarter.
The Metropolitan Melbourne median house price recorded a marginal drop of 1 per cent...
Win for state teachers and students
VICTORIAN students, teachers and school communities will be well served by a new state parliament inquiry into education.
Member for Eastern Victoria Region and Assistant...
Yallourn upgrade
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
YALLOURN power station Unit 1 has received a new pulverised fuel mill after two years of assessment and engineering work following the...
Teak the dental dog
By ZOE ASKEW
TWELVE-month-old Kelpie Teak is training to become the region's first public dental surgery therapy dog.
Amrita Bradley, Windsong Farm Providore hobby farmer, dental...
Logging on the chopping block
BY LIAM DURKINNATIVE timber logging in Victoria looks set to cease at the end of the year. The Express understands the state government has...
Drones to find endangered species
By PHILIP HOPKINS
VICFORESTS has started using drones at night to detect endangered fauna to comply with new orders from the Victorian Supreme Court that...
GP incentives to bulk bill
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
DOCTORS will have three times as many reasons to bulk-bill families with young children, pensioners and concession cardholders under the new Federal...
People-led mental health care
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
THE community gathered last Friday, May 12 to celebrate the official opening of Lifeline Gippsland’s newest Wellbeing and Support Centre.
To be...
Works on Loy Yang generator
By PHILIP HOPKINS
AGL has begun a $92 million refurbishment of the Unit 1 generator at its 2200-megawatt Loy Yang A power station as part...
Lowanna’s Teacher of the Year finalist
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
LOWANNA College teacher Judith Stewart has been announced as a Teacher of the Year finalist for the 2023 ResourceSmart Schools Awards.
Lowanna...
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Deja vu for Morwell East, denied by North Gippsland
FOOTBALL/NETBALL
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
IN Morwell East Football-Netball Club’s latest attempt to join North Gippsland Football-Netball League from Mid Gippsland FNL, the Hawks have again failed...
