Power prices

Your Say: Cliff Hignett, Naracoorte People who are complaining about power prices do not understand capitalism. Our power is supplied, transmitted and delivered by (mostly multinational) corporations – whose sole objective is to maximise profits for shareholders – they only provide power to customers as a means of making sure the suckers (you) keep sending them money. Recent talk of another power price rise refers to the government agreed ‘default price’- a sort of recommended retail price. If you have just ‘gone with the flow’ or accepted the first offer made to you, then, in all probability, your price is the ‘default’ and will rise around 7% in July. Power in SA is the highest price in Australia. When over 50% of our supply comes from cheap solar and wind, why are we paying so much? The reason is that most South Australians have not changed their supplier since ETSA […]

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Record turnout powers tournament success

The 60th Lucindale Easter Tennis Tournament was held over the Easter weekend in glorious sunshine.

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Tight tussle

Naracoorte Squash Club: Autumn pennant, Round 10

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KNTNA SCORES: ROUND 1

A Grade: Keith 49 (M Wachtel, P Pado) d Mundulla 37 (S Ashby, Z Grosser); Kingston 45 (E Orrock, T Nicolle) d Bordertown 40 (I Sneath, C Langley); Border Districts 51 (P Moyle-Read, R Pfitzner) d Naracoorte 41 (G Midwinter, G Collins).

A Reserves: Mundulla 48 (N Obst, A Mock) d Keith 44 (E Lamont, P Jones); Naracoorte 69 (B Sinclair, K Mott) d Border Districts 29 (A Proffit, M Kester).

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Big battles start off 2026 season

Mundulla had a slow start with Keith coming out and capitalising on their centre passes and turnovers.

Mundulla came out in the second quarter to try and win back as much of the ball as possible. However, Keith stayed strong and consistent.

Mundulla made changes at half time that made a big difference and they started the second half strongly.

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Clark and Todd take top honours

Another absorbing day of Bridge@Bowls took place last Thursday when 24 members battled it out in the pleasant surrounds of the Naracoorte Bowling Club.

Yet another brilliant effort from Jenny Clark, this time in partnership with Marjorie Todd, saw them take out first position in N/S with a solid 62%.

Marjorie has been in the placings for consecutive weeks, so that is most certainly a job well done. Second and third positions for N/S were filled by Jill Jacob/Jill Perkins and Christine McDonald/Helen Cox.

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Elaine wins Stableford round

Several Wednesdays of golf have slipped by with no reports being written, so here follows a summary of the results from the past four weeks.

A Stableford round was played on March 18. There were 19 ladies in the field competing for very generous prizes kindly donated by Wild Game Wine thank you to Mary and Guy for their ongoing support of the golf club.

Elaine Zerk was the winner with 39 points and Sandra Munn was the runner-up with 37 points.

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