Editorial

Learning from the past

THOSE in attendance at last week’s Renmark Irrigation Trust (RIT) annual general meeting – as detailed in today’s edition of The Murray Pioneer – were provided a thorough run down of the organisation’s activities and achievements...

Staff Contributors

12 Dec 2024

Editorial

The pain of production

BASED on the three-week stretch of Christmas pageants that has begun in the Riverland – beginning last Friday with Waikerie and continuing over the next two in Renmark and Barmera – we’re drawing toward the end of 2024. Some might have fond...

Staff Contributors

04 Dec 2024

Editorial

Renmark’s next chapter?

WITHOUT a doubt, a large part of a Riverland town’s identity is intrinsically linked to its riverfront area. Renmark typifies this sentiment. Take a stroll along Murray Avenue on any given day and you’ll see large numbers of locals and tourists...

Staff Contributors

27 Nov 2024

Editorial

Concrete end to town’s dark chapter

The discovery – or reveal, if you have spoken to Mike Fuller over the past decade – of a hefty concrete slab at the bottom of Chambers Creek is an appropriately ignominious exclamation mark on a dark chapter in Barmera’s history. The regulator...

Staff Contributors

20 Nov 2024

Editorial

Two forward, one back?

The saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ might lend itself to an idea of convenience, but in practice rarely has any benefits for anyone. Concerns surrounding the operation of Gerard council – detailed inside this week’s edition of The Murray...

Staff Contributors

13 Nov 2024

Editorial

Election to nowhere

“NIXON was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him.” It’s amazing how those words, written in the 1970s by Dr Hunter S Thompson, are also so reflective of a current American presidential candidate, and...

Staff Contributors

06 Nov 2024

Editorial

Our precious resource

At both a state and federal government level, it appears as though water is quickly becoming one of the more politicised topics as the battleplans for elections start to take shape. Inside today’s edition we see two aspects to the debate from...

Staff Contributors

30 Oct 2024

Editorial

A giant culinary leap

IT is often said that the kitchen is the heart of a home, and that hotels are at the heart of regional communities. Both of these sentiments have been typified by Hotel Renmark, which as detailed in today’s edition of the Pioneer, last week...

Staff Contributors

30 Oct 2024

Editorial

Accountability for Loxton library?

JUST wanting to know what was the original cost of the Loxton library and how much is it costing now, with how many blowouts in the budget? Plus, who is accountable for these costs and who is paying for them, as in my view the library is used...

Staff Contributors

23 Oct 2024

Editorial

Going once, twice… sold

THE news confirming the Salena Estate winery had been sold – somewhat ironically to a Chinese buyer – is the latest headline in an ongoing story many across the Riverland have kept a keen eye on. It is also a saga that has been somewhat...

Staff Contributors

23 Oct 2024

Editorial

Water under the bridge?

PATIENCE is needed in a lot of areas of life, and at the moment it seems vitally important in construction projects. The recent announcement the State Government had agreed to fully fund the necessary repairs at Lyrup Road, as detailed inside...

Staff Contributors

16 Oct 2024

Editorial

Can I interest you?

IN the last 12 months we saw federal and state government discourse surrounding the idea of new water buybacks from the Riverland grow in definitiveness, finally culminating in the opening of the new tender that is detailed within today’s edition...

Staff Contributors

09 Oct 2024

Editorial

Under pressure

AS national Mental Health Month, October provides the opportunity to highlight the impacts challenging circumstances can have on local wellbeing, and it’s hard to think of circumstances more challenging than what we see across the Riverland...

Staff Contributors

09 Oct 2024

Editorial

The wine-ding road

BEING involved the Riverland wine industry must at the moment feel like being in the middle of a movie full of constant twist and turns. Such masterpieces as The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, or even Seven, fail to produce the ups and downs, and...

Staff Contributors

02 Oct 2024

Editorial

It’s cold outside

MOTHER nature can be cruel at times. Very cruel indeed. Unfortunately, no better illustration of this sentiment exists than the frost event that last week hit so many areas of the Riverland, and the destruction that was left in its wake. Even more...

Staff Contributors

25 Sep 2024