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1:00 AM | THE prevalence of crime in rural areas is often no less significant than it is in our cities and towns. It’s just crime of a different kind; cattle stealing and tractor theft replace the lo

Editorial - General

Pomp doesn’t lift behaviour

1:00 AM | AT a time when pomp and ceremony is being stripped back from institutions such as courts, Federal Parliament is taking a step in the opposite direction. Yesterday Parliament resumed with Speaker

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Add Aboriginal emblem to flag

07 Feb 12 | THERE has been a lot of hot air blowing about lately over racism. Like most Aussies, I think this is the best country in the world. But I am quite happy to let others believe the same of the

Letters to the Editor - General

Australia Day a national disgrace

07 Feb 12 | THE recent emergency removal of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott on Australia Day from their ceremonial site allegedly because of indigenous Australians posing threats to their lives, must surely represe

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Authority has to come clean

07 Feb 12 | WE are eight weeks into the 20-week Murray-Darling Basin Authority basin plan consultation process and we have only had one round of public meetings in very few places across the basin and as yet have

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All party, no responsibility

07 Feb 12 | NOBODY likes cleaning up after a party, but it has to be done and it’s particularly necessary when you have hired a ratepayer-funded venue. Albury Council ratepayers can rightly feel irked

Editorial - General

Driver at fault, not the police

07 Feb 12 | I READ with interest the letter from Jim Campbell (The Border Mail, January 30) regarding police chases. I was interested in how someone could have such a point of view. Forget the fact that

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Training vital for our needs

07 Feb 12 | IN the next few months, many Border public hospital patients will meet and be treated by some of the doctors who will spend a large part of this year in the region as part of their specialist training

Editorial - General

Take action on black spot now

06 Feb 12 | TRAVELLERS throughout Australia these days rely on having efficient mobile telephone services to provide them with a means of contact should an emergency situation arise, particularly in more remote l

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New offices taking shape

06 Feb 12 | PROGRESS on Albury’s new Tax Office building in Smollett Street has accelerated in recent weeks, following last year’s completion of the adjoining multi-deck council car park. Builder

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Salute one, salute all

04 Feb 12 | DETECTIVE Sgt Peter Revell this week marked 40 years in the Victorian police force, more than half of that at the head of Wodonga’s criminal investigation unit. His career as a detective ha

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A worthwhile investment

04 Feb 12 | THE $10.5 million redevelopment of the Albury Art Gallery promises to build on the cultural heart of the city, generating new tourism business and enhanced facilities to display visiting exhibiti

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We want rail work finished

03 Feb 12 | THE Australian Rail Track Corporation has moved to reassure Border passengers that work to improve the Albury to Melbourne rail line will not close the line to train services. It’s good new

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Give Daniel’s mum peace

03 Feb 12 | DONNA Thomas has lived a nightmare since her son Daniel disappeared from the home of his baby-sitter at Myrtleford in October 2003. More than four years after he went missing, his remains were fo

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Disgusting litter ruined lake visit

02 Feb 12 | ON Australia Day we returned from an evening at the lake and were very disappointed with the behaviour of our fellow Australians!

Letters to the Editor - General

Citizens - Our Rights?

02 Feb 12 | I WAS absolutely disgusted with the report in The Border Mail of January 21, 2012.

Letters to the Editor - General

Major attraction being neglected

02 Feb 12 | WE as volunteers do our utmost to promote tourism in this idyllic village of Yackandandah.

Letters to the Editor - General

Solicitor’s logic left me angry

02 Feb 12 | I AM writing about the article entitled “Bitter End” (The Border Mail, January 21).

Letters to the Editor - General

Flag must have our total respect

02 Feb 12 | WITH Australia Day over for another year, I ask: when did it become socially acceptable to use the national flag as a cape or shawl?

Letters to the Editor - General

Australia Day a success

02 Feb 12 | LAST week I was lucky enough to be in Les Stone Park to attend the Australia Day celebrations.

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