Vol. 19 No. 20
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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PUFF AND POWER: Members of Horsham’s Holy Trinity Lutheran School’s Holy Trinity Racing are among students busy preparing for this week’s annual RACV Energy Breakthrough Challenge at Maryborough. Liam Nuske, driving, is pictured with, from left, Isabella Nuske, Jason Reichelt and Sophie Pipkorn. Wimmera school teams are joining competitors from across the state to take on the challenge of producing and racing human-powered or energy-efficient vehicles. Donald, St Arnaud, Warracknabeal and other Horsham schools are also involved in the challenge. Picture: KELLY LAIRD
Priorities push E
BY DEAN LAWSON
arly childhood programs, telecommunications, tourism, infrastructure and agricultural science will be at the heart of a Wimmera-Southern Mallee development submission to the State Government at the end of this month.
A team busy collating and assessing ideas forged and issues raised at a regional assembly in Horsham last month has isolated the five general categories as priorities in need of government attention and funding.
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of recognising and putting some coin against them. That will be the acid test – the government is placing value on an engagement partnership but for this to work, they will have to pick up on these projects.” The Wimmera Southern Mallee Regional Partnership, one of nine across the state, is made up of Northern Grampians, Horsham, Yarriambiack, Hindmarsh and West Wimmera municipalities and their councils. Mr Jochinke said the Wimmera and southern Mallee partnership was organising ‘Dive Deep’ sessions in Horsham in early December, where
think-tank involving about 150 guests including community, industry and political leaders. “The idea was to try to identify, firstly if there was already a project in place to meet a priority and how we might improve on that, or if there wasn’t one, what we needed to do to make it happen,” he said. “The key in establishing these priorities is to get them to cabinet and in front of the relevant ministers before the next budgetary round. “It’s going to be one thing to have all these ideas, but we also have to get the State Government to a point
The submission to the government is the next stage of Regional Development Victoria’s statewide Regional Partnerships program, designed to give regional communities greater say in Victoria’s decision-making process. Wimmera Southern Mallee Regional Partnership chairman David Jochinke and deputy Emma Vogel will present priority details to the government during a regional cabinet sitting at Benalla. Mr Jochinke said three meetings involving partnership members and invited guests had ‘pulled apart’ issues and ideas generated by a high-level
10 invited contributors would explore each of the priority areas. “The sessions will be about fleshing out the concepts and establishing how we can make them fit in the Wimmera and southern Mallee,” he said. “We want to be able to work up projects to a level where we can succinctly outline short, mid and longterm objectives.” Mr Jochinke stressed any concepts that might have ‘slipped through the cracks’ during the assessment process could be raised again at next year’s assembly in the middle of 2017. Continued page 3
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