Companies in East Gippsland who rely on a fleet of diesel trucks to keep their businesses moving remain hopeful that they won’t run out of AdBlue, a required fuel additive, which reduces pollutants. AdBlue is currently in short supply after China moved to curb exports of urea, a compound used to manufacture the product. Dyers Distribution, based in Bairnsdale, has 200 trucks on the road, of...

An East Gippsland buck runner has confirmed the shooting of wild brumbies in the High Country, by Victorian government agencies, commenced at least two to three months ago. Lewis Benedetti has previously caught and retrained wild horses and then sold them on to be rehomed. Mr Benedetti has now stopped catching the brumbies because "the numbers are quite thin because they’ve been shooting them"....

Several trusted sources have confirmed that Victorian Government agencies last week begun culling brumbies in the Alpine National Park at Cowombat Flat in the High Country. The Bairnsdale Advertiser has been told ten vehicles drove into a closed area of the park via Limestone Road last Wednesday to begin the cull. Information on the Parks Victoria website indicates various track closures in the...

Fire may have razed the region almost two years ago, but in the ashes it left communities have found the strength to rally together. On Sunday, the Sarsfield Community Association ran a Bushfire Resilience Expo that aimed to ensure locals were learning to live with fire. Sarsfield Community Association president, Simon Hof, said about 450 people attended the Sarsfield Recreation Reserve, with...

Tina Jennion first arrived in Australia from Germany in 2001. She fell in love with the country and then fell in love with an Australian man, who later became her husband after she returned to the land down under in 2006. Ms Jennion has been happily teaching in East Gippsland for the past 10 years, the last four of those years at a local primary school. However, she is now unemployed after...