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Letters To The Editor: March 20, 2025

The Koondrook & Barham Bridge welcomes any member of the public or organisation to respond to articles or current affairs in the “Letters to the Editor” section: The Koondrook & Barham Bridge is your voice! Just remember that all...

Bridge Contributors

20 Mar 2025

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Politics Drives Basin Demise

Australia’s largest water reform project, the Murray Darling Basin Plan, appears to be joining a growing list of abject failures driven by politicians and bureaucrats who have little to no wisdom, ethics or skin in the game. Unless of course, that...

Lloyd Polkinghorne

20 Mar 2025

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Car 33 Revs up for Variety Bash with Benjeroop Night!

Four lads, a GQ Patrol and over 3,500km await car 33 in this year’s Variety Bash! Variety, the Children’s Charity will celebrate its 50th year of operations in Australia in 2025, and over that time has distributed over $200m in grants to support...

Lloyd Polkinghorne

20 Mar 2025

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Flock to Wakool this Saturday

Fleeces will fly in a flurry of action at the Wakool Recreation Reserve this weekend for the Annual Wakool Sheep Races! The 25-race meet will have over $2,000 in prize money up for grabs, along with live music, great food and a well-stocked baa!...

Lloyd Polkinghorne

20 Mar 2025

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Murrabit Cod Challenge

The Murrabit Football & Netball Club held their annual Murrabit Cod Challenge fishing event over the weekend of the 14th-16th of March. Like previous years, entries were capped at 300 adult tickets. This year they were joined by 56 keen juniors...

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20 Mar 2025

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The Barham Public Bulletin

Introducing: The Barham Public Bulletin The Koondrook & Barham Bridge is pleased to introduce our readers to this long-awaited regular feature from the Year 6 students at Barham Public School. Starting today, this selected group of students will...

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20 Mar 2025

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Vintage Rally motors into Koondrook

“What are these things?” and “Where did they come from” was the call around town on Thursday as residents saw the strangest of motorcars. In fact it was the 2025 RACV One and Two Cylinder Rally that took over the streets of Koondrook and...

Kendall Jennings

20 Mar 2025

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Grants Guru Here Next Week

The interactive workshops, presented by ‘The Grants Guy’, Keith Whelan, will be held locally next week as part of the Grants Guy Road Show and Gannawarra Sporting Club Dinner held at Koondrook. Community groups, not-for-profits, and individuals...

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20 Mar 2025

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WAKOOL SHOW SOCIETY PAVILION RESULTS FOR 2025

Section F; Needlework; Cushion any medium; 1st Anne Hamilton Article of Knitting; 1st Ruth Arthur Large Quilt; 1st Anne Hamilton, 2nd Anne Hamilton, 3rd Anne Hamilton Handmade Soft Toy; 1st Anne Hamilton, 2nd Anne Hamilton Article of Machine Sewing...

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20 Mar 2025

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Expressions of Interest open for Moulamein Master Plan Community Steering Committee

Murray River Council is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from Moulamein residents to join the Moulamein Master Plan Community Steering Committee. The committee will support Council’s development of a Master Plan and Community Action Plan to...

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20 Mar 2025

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CALL IT FOR WHAT IT IS - COUNTRY PRESS AUSTRALIA SLAMS TEAL WEBSITES

Australia’s largest association of independent newspapers has supported calls for the Australian Electoral Commission to review a number of online publications allegedly funded by Climate 200 supporters. While we await the AEC’s findings on this...

Bridge Contributors

20 Mar 2025

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Moulamein Notebook- March 20, 2025

Rice Harvest Starts. Our local rice harvest officially started this week with a few of the early birds firing their headers up. With the weather the way it is, the harvest will get very busy, very quickly I think. Shane Warne Health Machine. Our...

China Gibson

20 Mar 2025

Opinion

Barham Anglican Parish News - March 20, 2025

“A hardworking beaver colony in the Brdy protected landscape area in the Czech Republic has done what bureaucratic red tape could not – complete a vital dam project in record time, free of charge. The industrious rodents built several dams...

Ruth Arthur

20 Mar 2025

Opinion

Wakool News

Good morning and hello for another week, all of you glorious characters reading this today from our one-in-a-million town, Wakool. Get your party boots out folks, it’s sheep races week. One of the biggest events our little town has on the calendar...

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20 Mar 2025

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The Vinyl Countdown - March 20, 2025

Hello. It’s Jim from MUSIC HQ in Kerang doing the write up this week. If you’re a regular reader, you will know that Ali Bohn always reviews an old compilation album and an artist album. RIPPER ’77 – Various Artists My compilation album is...

Ali Bohn

20 Mar 2025

Opinion

Under The Bridge - ep. 442

“What are you talking about?” Dr Reid asked, as if he had not heard Marielle’s statement. Marielle was reluctant to repeat herself, but the word was out there now. “Ian is not Hazel’s father. So now you know the truth, and you are the only...

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20 Mar 2025

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Cohuna Cards

14 Players had an enjoyable night playing cards. We kept the game going and we ended up very early. So winter coming on, just keep the games moving. Betty McLoughlan had good hands all night and won the ladies with a good score of 3960. Doug Billman...

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20 Mar 2025

Opinion

God, I don’t want to Die!

Bruce Stewart Recently my wife and I were driving up the 880 kilometre long Hume Freeway stretching between Melbourne and Sydney, reminding me again of how many hundreds of trucks use this freeway daily – many of them being B Double trucks with up...

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20 Mar 2025

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Cohuna Aged Care Facility Progressing Well

Last Wednesday Cohuna hosted Minister for Health Infrastructure Melissa Horne as she visited the site of the new $41.1 million aged care facility, currently under construction, to inspect the progress on the new facility. The new Public Sector...

Noel Fisher

20 Mar 2025