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Posted by grant maynard from mildura in Community on 28/11/2008 at 01:48 PM
THE traditional face of world backpacker travel is changing, according to one Mildura hostel owner, and he says he’s moving with the times.
Peter Doody and his wife, Simone, have owned Riverboat Bungalow in Chaffey Avenue for the past four years, and in that time have welcomed many hundreds of people from around the world.
Now, he says, the market is starting to change, and more and more young professionals are joining the hordes of traditional backpackers – young, single and unemployed – heading to our shores.
In response to this, Peter has come up with a ‘replacement’ name - Working Hostels Mildura – which he says is a new approach to our ‘temporary international employee’ situation.
“When the itinerant worker died off quite a few years ago, their place was taken by backpackers fed in from the fast growing hostel market,” he said.
“Now even this market is starting to change, with more and more people with life and work …
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OUR thousand school students from 25 countries across the Globe will converge on Canberra this weekend for the 8th Pacific School Games – and among them will be champion Merbein swimmer Kate Robertson. Kate, 15, a Year 9 student at Merbein Secondary College, will …
HOT wheels will be in motion tomorrow night at Mildura’s Olympic Park speedway, when the Victorian Solo Speedway Championship will be contested.
The event will be conducted over 20 thrilling heats and the all important, four-rider final, to decide who will be the premier …
POLICE are pulling no punches in warning motorists what to expect if they ‘run the gauntlet’ of drink-driving in the lead-up to Christmas.
It’s virtually a ‘no mercy’ rule, and involves all available Sunraysia uniformed police from now until …
WITH another potentially busy summer fire season on the way, the Country Fire Authority has moved to strengthen its operational capacity in the region by appointing four new full-time fire-fighters to the Mildura station.
And the new faces, introduced on the front page of the …
THE Tristar Medical Group has announced it will move its headquarters from Warracknabeal to Mildura.
The move comes just over 12 months after Tristar opened a practice in Mildura, and will take place on December 15.
Tristar has taken the entire top floor of the building …
IN just over 48 hours Mildura residents will know who will represent them on the new Mildura Rural City Council for the coming four years.
Seventeen Sunraysia residents have put their hands up to help set the future direction of the municipality for the coming term.
MILDURA has been chosen as the base for freestyle motocross legend Seth Enslow’s quest to break the world record for a distance aerial jump on a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
The freestyle and distance jumping identity slipped quietly into Mildura this week, or as quietly …
BUMPER Big Mac sales at Mildura’s two McDonald’s outlets have gone a long way to helping seriously ill children and their families by raising much needed funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
For more than 15 years, McHappy Day has served as one of …
THERE is nothing more exciting than watching sporting newcomers at work, and for speedway 2008-09, all eyes will be on the next generation of Sedgmens to provide some of that excitement.
As a break from the Australian winter, Ryan, 18, and Justin Sedgmen, 16, went to …
WORLD-CLASS baseball is on its way to Sunraysia with the announcement that Mildura is to be part of the prestigious Claxton Shield Diamond Anniversary year.
Two games of the 40-game championship series will be played at Mildura’s Old Aero Oval baseball complex …
MILDURA had the sixth-highest number of weapons handed in to police under the recent State-wide firearms amnesty.
The 60 potentially-lethal weapons surrendered included six crossbows, two spear guns, a World War One flare pistol and a home-made antique percussion …
By GRANT MAYNARD*
THERE is probably no clearer demonstration of just what a difference water can make at present than Wentworth’s Thegoa Lagoon.
Life-giving water has been flowing into the lagoon from …
MILDURA gynaecologist Associate Professor Ian Pettigrew has been awarded the President’s Medal – the highest individual award that can be bestowed by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
The medal will be presented …
By GRANT MAYNARD
WENTWORTH’S popular river cruises aboard the ‘Kookaburra’ are no more.
The boat’s operators, Greg and Julia Evans, reluctantly announced this week that “due to …
IT is little wonder that ordinary, law–abiding, honest and hard–working people get frustrated. And angry.
The power bill comes in the mail. It’s way above what you expected. And not just a few dollars more – in some cases, double, treble …