Echuca
Perspective
Indigenous
Aunty Fay Carter learned life’s truths from her Nanny in a tin hut
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.
- by Tony Wright
Latest
Tree-change dreams: How far does a Melbourne budget stretch in regional Victoria?
Home buyers are finding better bang for their buck by looking to popular towns within commuting distance of the capital.
- by Tom Carey
Updated
Victoria floods
PM pledges aid as Shepparton remains on alert for floodwaters
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.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Caroline Schelle
Permit for $4.7m townhouse project likely to flood neighbours comes under scrutiny
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.
- by Bianca Hall
Last year, this block was under water. Now a developer wants to build homes on it
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.
- by Bianca Hall
In regional Victoria, summer tourism hopes washed away with the floods
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.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Opinion
Floods
I have spent the year covering floods. Then the water came to my own door
I have reported on floods before, but none of it prepared me for this moment, standing in the wreckage of my own home.
- by Angus Thomson
Updated
Extreme weather
Fight to save street on wrong side of Echuca’s levee ends as sandbag wall collapses
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.
- by Patrick Hatch and Benjamin Preiss
Updated
Extreme weather
When the levee breaks a town in two, it’s not all hands to the pump
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.
- by Patrick Hatch and Benjamin Preiss
Updated
Extreme weather
Echuca’s makeshift levee holds against highest flood levels in over a century
Victoria is on track for its wettest October on record, with widespread rainfall forecast to continue across the flooded state over the weekend.
- by Patrick Hatch and Marta Pascual Juanola
‘Highest level in a lifetime’: Echuca braces for Murray peak as Loddon River settles at Kerang
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”
- by Caroline Schelle
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