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Non-bank sets up $1m flood relief fund By Annie Kane 07 April 2021 A non-bank lender has established a $1-million Flood Disaster Relief Fund to assist its customers affected by the NSW and Queensland floods.  La Trobe Financial has announced that eligible customers whose home has been impacted by the floods in the eastern states will be able to access $2,000 grants for the purpose of clothing, food and temporary accommodation.   The fund a...

Rone (Tyrone Wright, above) got to know his home town on a skateboard - the street sport of the street artist. He's returned with an exhibition of his huge, ethereal, stop-you-in-your-tracks paintings and installations at the Geelong Gallery. There's also an explanation of the three faces he painted on the cement silos above nearby Fyansford. The silos have since been demolished, but that's the fate of some street art. Rone in Geelong runs until May 16. See geelonggallery.org.au THE ONE CAFE For coffee and service of the kind urban Victorians have come to expect, make your way to Poco Cafe Ex...

The Andrews Labor Government is reminding all Victorians to stay safe when getting away to the water this Easter long weekend. New data has revealed that...

Murray Darling drying dramatically but water reforms not flowing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The Murray Darling Basin faces a dramatically drier future, with data indicating inflows to some major rivers will halve by 2060, as experts warn authorities are failing to keep pace with climate change. Reports released over the past two months by state governments and the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) found the expected sharp decline in water flows would damage the environment, threaten large irrigation ...

Advertisement With overseas plans out of the picture for most part – if not all – of 2021, you might be like most of us, a reportedly growing majority channeling our passion for travelling domestically. ‘Loving Country’ is an invitation for this quest to be more than box-ticking, bucket-listing experience. For a Greek living Down Under the authors’ names are familiar. Bruce Pascoe, for having famously debunked the ‘hunter-gatherer’ myth for Indigenous Australians. In his seminal book ‘Dark Emu’ Bruce Pascoe presents evidence, often from diaries of early explorers, of pre-co...