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Omeo Caravan Park floods

Omeo Caravan Park floods

Heavy rainfall overnight in Omeo has completely flooded the local caravan park.  The park was evacuated overnight as the floodwaters continued to rise. More than 110 millimetres of rain was received within 15 hours. Mud from the floodwaters entered cabins and lapped at the doorsteps of caravans after the Livingstone Creek, which runs through the park, overflowed. Park management has...
Fishes galore

Fishes galore

A record number of more than 410,000 estuary perch have been stocked into seven waterways across Victoria, including East Gippsland. The Gippsland Lakes has been stocked for the second year in a row with 140,000 fingerlings. At Lake Tyers, 25,000 estuary perch have been released, while 5000 each have been released into both the Bemm River and Snowy River. Estuary perch are a popular target for...
Regrowth intense following bushfires

Regrowth intense following bushfires

It’s two years since the Black Summer bushfires raged through the forests of East Gippsland. At Clifton Creek, about 20 kilometres north-east of Bairnsdale, the 40 hectare native forest property of the Hermans family was completely burnt when fire raced through in the final days of December 2019. Wiped out in the fire were an incalculable number of large mature trees. John Hermans says the...
Labor's bid for Gippsland

Labor's bid for Gippsland

Jannette Langley has put herself forward as the Australian Labor Party’s candidate for the Federal seat of Gippsland. Mrs Langley, who was raised in the Latrobe Valley, will be pitted against the current sitting member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, at the next Federal election, expected sometime this year, but yet to be announced. During a visit to Bairnsdale in December, Mrs Langley indicated...
Operation Esky underway

Operation Esky underway

A police operation is underway across East Gippsland’s caravan parks and campsites. Codenamed, 'Operation Esky’, it will see a highly visible police presence in the region’s major holiday destination hotspots. Traditionally, during the Christmas-New Year period, East Gippsland plays host to a significant number of visitors. The focus for police is to conduct high volume, high visibility police...
Memories of a nightmare

Memories of a nightmare

Beef producer, Chris Commins, remembers the horror of the Black Summer bushfires like they were yesterday. Mr Commins, who resides on farmland near Ensay, also has a landholding stocked with cattle at Wingan River, between Cann River and Genoa in Far East Gippsland. The bushfires which impacted Mallacoota two years ago also affected his Wingan River property about 30 minutes northwest of the...

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