For decades,Fay Carter campaigned for social justice for Aboriginal people. Her work was grounded by her experience living with her grandmother and 19 other children in a shack beside the Goulburn River.
Home buyers are finding better bang for their buck by looking to popular towns within commuting distance of the capital.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged further support for victims of Victoria’s damaging floods as the clean-up continues and some communities remain under threat.
Fourteen months ago,166 Bowen Street in Echuca was submerged by floodwaters. Now,the regional council has granted a planning permit to build 16 townhouses on the flood-prone site.
The planning battle in Echuca has pitted residents and the local water authority against the council and a developer,who say 16 townhouses could be built on a block of land that flooded last year.
The tourism sector had high hopes for the summer after years of COVID-related closures,but operators are concerned business will be decimated by water damage and road closures.
I have reported on floods before,but none of it prepared me for this moment,standing in the wreckage of my own home.
Caravans and modular homes will be used to create a temporary village at Elmore for displaced flood victims,as some Echuca residents lose their fight to keep the rising river at bay.
Residents still fighting to save properties on the ‘wet side’ of Echuca say authorities abandoned them after building a makeshift levee that protected most of the town but left them bearing the full brunt of the Murray.
Victoria is on track for its wettest October on record,with widespread rainfall forecast to continue across the flooded state over the weekend.
The Loddon River has peaked at Kerang but the town will be isolated for days,while Echuca is expecting the Murray River to hit the “highest level in a lifetime”