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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.

  • Tony Wright

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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.

  • Tom Carey
The Big 4 Caravan park in Seymour is seen underwater.

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.

  • Lachlan Abbott and Caroline Schelle
Developer Denham Design has been given the greenlight to build 16 townhouses at 166 Bowen Street, Echuca (rear), which was flooded late last year.

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.

  • Bianca Hall
Developer Denham Design wants to build 16 townhouses at 166 Bowen Street, Echuca (rear), which was flooded late last year.

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.

  • Bianca Hall
The flooding at Nagambie Lakes holiday park.

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.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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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.

  • Angus Thomson
East Echuca residents Kim Hay and Robyn McCluskey console each other after battling rising floodwater for days.

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.

  • Patrick Hatch and Benjamin Preiss
Kim Hay and her son Trent Wilson had to put up a new wall of sandbags after a breach in the early hours of the morning.

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.

  • Patrick Hatch and Benjamin Preiss
A kangaroo jumps Echuca’s makeshift levee that held up on Sunday night despite heavy rain.

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. 

  • Patrick Hatch and Marta Pascual Juanola

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