Naracoorte, Monday, Aug 25

Hard Talk – Healthcare cost burden

Hard Talk – Healthcare cost burden

By Nasik Swami: Payroll tax on GPs, increasing costs for GP visits, and a complicated Medicare scheme—is our health system failing our communities and the most vulnerable? Are the increasing healthcare costs becoming a deterrent for people in our district to visit a GP/doctor and seek treatment when our public hospitals are already overcrowded? Who […] To access this post, you must purchase MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION, THE LAST ISSUE or ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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Skilled GPs delivering babies at Naracoorte

Skilled GPs delivering babies at Naracoorte

By Chris Oldfield: A highly skilled team of four specialist rural doctors with qualifications and experience in obstetrics are working together, continuing to deliver babies at the Naracoorte Hospital. They include Dr Kim Trueman, Dr Clare Garner, Dr David Mills and Dr Ron Wallingford. The good news for obstetrics was released in statements by the […] To access this post, you must purchase MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION, THE LAST ISSUE or ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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Structural failures

Structural failures

Council serves notice on the property for the Frances Hotel. By Nasik Swami: The Naracoorte Lucindale Council served a notice on the property for the Frances Hotel after their inspection found some structural failures that had the potential to cause the roof to collapse. Council chief executive officer, Trevor Smart, confirmed to The News that […] To access this post, you must purchase MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION, THE LAST ISSUE or ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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Splash, splash!

Splash, splash!

An ever-popular drawcard for locals and visitors alike, the iconic Naracoorte Swimming Lake will open to the public for the summer season on Monday 25 November, 2024. According to the council, staff have cleaned the floor of the lake, painted the walls and were on track to paint part of the lake floor and walkway/concourse […] To access this post, you must purchase MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION, THE LAST ISSUE or ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.

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Disunity and disarray

AFTER opening, closing, re-opening and altering the MacKillop and Mount Gambier preselection process, the SA Liberal Party is “in disarray” once again.“Dark forces” stand accused of snubbing three South East Liberal members who each paid $1500 to put their hands up as...

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Hard Talk: Push for renal services at Naracoorte

Hard Talk: Push for renal services at Naracoorte

Health burden too heavy: Community demands local dialysis unit. By Nasik Swami: Making more than a three-hour round trip to Mount Gambier Hospital and spending five hours on a dialysis chair each week is a tough routine for Ros Tregoweth. Living on a farm near Lucindale with her husband and children, Ms Tregoweth undergoes kidney […]

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Voters reward Pasin

Voters reward Pasin

By Chris Oldfield: THE member for Barker, Tony Pasin, is one of the few SA Liberals to have a seat in Canberra following last Saturday’s federal election. Mr Pasin campaigned throughout his 65,206sq km electorate by personally attending numerous local events and gatherings as well as via local newspapers and social media. The only other […]

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Structural failures

Call your councillor

By Chris Oldfield: CR Crash Downward has queried the impact of a 5 per cent rate rise on the district’s farmers already paying thousands of dollars each week to feed their livestock. Naracoorte Lucindale Council relies on the district’s farming families to fund around 60 per cent of its proposed $12.726m rate revenue. An average […]

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Southern Ports Tennis Association results – Round 7, 2nd December

Southern Ports Tennis Association results – Round 7, 2nd December

By Katelyn Baker
Beachport Breakthrough
Beachport have dealt Kingston their first loss of the season in Round 7 of the Southern Ports Tennis Association, 14 sets to 10 in a fierce afternoon of tennis. The home team blitzed away early in the piece, leaving top-team Kingston chasing sets across the afternoon.
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Labor’s lacklustre school support for South East

Labor’s lacklustre school support for South East

By Elise Baker, Liberal Party

The Opposition fears the Malinauskas Labor Government’s recent school funding announcement simply doesn’t go far enough to address significant infrastructure concerns at many South Australian public schools – particularly those in regional SA.

Shadow Minister for Education, Training and Skills, John Gardner, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional South Australia, Ben Hood, have been in direct contact with numerous schools in the South East that be been overlooked in Labor’s $14.3 million school upgrades announcement – including Glenburnie Primary School, Mulga Street Primary School and Mil-Lel Primary School, who are exposed to a range of unacceptable safety issues.

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Southern Ports Tennis Association Junior results: Round 7, 2nd December

Southern Ports Tennis Association Junior results: Round 7, 2nd December

By Kirsty Starling
Naracoorte Blue def Naracoorte Red 44-34 games
Naracoorte Blue won the day with 10 games ahead of Naracoorte Red, 44-34. Angus and Ashton had a close and highly contested game, with Angus taking the win 7-6.
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Lucindale Survivors survive and conquer Shitbox Rally

Lucindale Survivors survive and conquer Shitbox Rally

By Erin McWaters In November 2022, Shannon and Erin were handed the keys to the Autumn 2021 Shitbox Rally AU Falcon of local Lucindale Survivors Rohan Giles and Andrew Wilks, and began their fundraising campaign to get the face-lifted Sherlee the Shitbox off the Port Douglas start-line on October 13th 2023 for the Spring 2023 […]

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Naracoorte A grade table tennis report Spring Season

Naracoorte A grade table tennis report Spring Season

By Michael Waters
Sizzle maintained their top spot on the ladder with a 7-5 win against Volcanos in the last minor round match before the finals kick off next Monday night. It was a real team effort by the Sizzle players, with Steve Biggins, Tom Randall and fill in Peter Lawrie all winning 2 singles each.
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Gathering of Rural Women at the Caves

Gathering of Rural Women at the Caves

By Virginia Gale
Initialised by Kalangadoo Branch, they put the word out to a few close branches being Lochaber and Padthaway to join them at the Naracoorte Caves. About 15 could attend and we were treated very lovely by the staff and we were given perfect weather.
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Naracoorte A grade table tennis report Spring Season

Naracoorte B grade table tennis report Spring Season

By Zoe Williams and Sophie Matters
The first Tuesday night game was played by Medusa and the Pegasi, the first double lasted for five sets and was played by Stuart Martyn and Buck Buckner from Medusa and Peter Stuade and Helen Grady from the Pegasi. Scores for the game were 9-11, 11-5, 11-8, 14-16 and 11-7.
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The Hamilton and Alexandra College expands local footprint

The Hamilton and Alexandra College expands local footprint

By Alana Brown, The Hamilton and Alexandra College
The Hamilton and Alexandra College has purchased a 110-acre property at Mirranatwa in the Victoria Valley. This acquisition marks the first expansion of the school’s physical footprint since the purchase of the Myrniong Homestead in 1956, and realises a strategic aim of The Hamilton and Alexandra College to secure a foothold near the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park.
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Lower South East Bowls Association

Lower South East Bowls Association

Midweek Pennant results round 9: 29th November 2023
By Heather Richards
Division 1
Millicent Red 44/6 defeated Robe 40/2
Mt Gambier Blue 68/8 defeated Naracoorte 27/0
Mt Gambier Red 68/8 defeated Port MacDonnell Blue 30/0
Mt Gambier RSL Red 64/8 defeated Millicent Blue 34/0
Port MacDonnell Red 64/8 defeated Mt Gambier RSL Blue 35/0
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Labor’s lacklustre school support for South East

No staff

By Nasik Swami
The opening of a new daycare facility in Naracoorte has hit a speed bump. There are no qualified staff to man the facility ready to open at the old TAFE site in the township. The new daycare centre, with a capacity to accommodate up to 80 children, has been developed by Tony Dawson of Robe.
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Bridge@Bowls

Bridge@Bowls

By Bridging the Gap
It was wonderful having 28 ladies play 28 boards last week at the Naracoorte Bridge Club. Congratulations to NS winners Liz Ogilvie and Sue Hood with 60.62%, followed by Sandra Haynes and Sally Macdonald on 55.41%.
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Promises and performance

Promises and performance

Last year, on September 28, you had the opportunity to “meet the candidates” for the Naracoorte Lucindale Council Elections at the Town Hall. When nominations closed at noon on September 6, 2022, the council had received two nominations for the position of mayor and 16 nominations for the 10 councillor positions.
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