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7 hours ago

Vietnam Veterans Museum makes pitch for $40 million

MEMBERS of the board of the National Vietnam Veterans Museum have met with the Minister for Defence Personnel and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Matt Keogh, in Canberra to make a pitch for a further $40 million in funding to build their new museum...

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16 hours ago

Patients will be told where to go in major hospital shake-up

LOCAL hospitals are bracing themselves for an announcement, likely to come early in the New Year, of the biggest shake up to hospital management and operations in history. The decision is set to prove crucial for the flow of public patients from...

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29 Nov 2024

Southern Cross Station ‘pushing’ alcohol, junk food and sugary drinks, they say

CANCER Council Victoria is calling for urgent government action to limit marketing by harmful industries at Southern Cross Station. The call is backed by research, released this week, showing 44% of ads inside the busy railway station used by more...

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Local Business and Tourism

28 Nov 2024

And they’re off… at the Woolamai Racecourse this Saturday

MELBOURNE’S outer eastern suburbs are creeping ever closer to Bass Coast and South Gippsland, and the residents there have discovered our best attractions in their droves. Which is why the hospitality marquees, umbrellas, tables ands pavilions at...

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Local Business and Tourism

28 Nov 2024

Coast agencies combine for beach safety campaign

LAST summer was one of the most disastrous on record for beach drownings in Bass Coast but the responsible local agencies, Phillip Island Nature Parks and Bass Coast Shire Council are already out on the front foot this season promoting beach safety...

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15 years jail for illicit tobacco sellers

THE selling of illicit tobacco just got a whole lot more hazardous in Victoria with the passage of an updated and improved Tobacco Amendment Bill 2024. Under the tougher provisions of the bill passed by State Parliament on Wednesday, November 27...

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Local child rapist gets 25 years

A 54-year-old local delivery driver, who sexually abused the two young sons of his de facto spouse, over a period of up to 12 years, between 1999 to 2011, has been handed a total effective sentence of 25 years in jail after being found guilty of...

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The boutique ship cruises in with space to spare

THE world is their oyster aboard the Silversea luxury cruise ship, the Silver Nova, which steamed into Western Port on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. One of the smaller ships to visit the bay over the September to February cruising season, at a gross...

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Police

Rubbish thieves make mess at Wonthaggi tip overnight

THE crime rate must be getting bad in Bass Coast if a bizarre incident overnight on Monday night this week is anything to go by. Police have been called to the Wonthaggi Transfer Waste and Recycling Centre, at 180 Cameron Street, Wonthaggi, after...

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26 Nov 2024

‘We can win it… we have to,” says new Nationals’ leader Danny O’Brien MP

THE present government in Victoria is sending the state broke, at a rate of knots, and there must be a change of government at the next election, on November 28, 2026, according to the new Leader of the Parliamentary National Party in Victori...

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26 Nov 2024

Local MP Danny O’Brien is the new Nationals’ leader

THE Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien, has been elected unopposed as Leader of The Victorian Nationals after Peter Walsh recently advised the party room he would step down. Member for Lowan, Emma Kealy, will continue as Deputy Leader...

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26 Nov 2024

We can win this, says Monash independent Deb Leonard

MONASH independent Deb Leonard told a packed room of teal t-shirted supporters at Newhaven on Sunday that recent polling indicated she could win the seat at the next Federal election, as little as 15 weeks away. Ms Leonard, who secured almost 11 per...

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