IN the middle of her treatment for aggressive stage three cancer, Portland woman Destiny Anderson-Harvey has felt the community get behind her fight. On Saturday, around 100 people travelled on motorcycles and in classic cars from Hamilton to Portland, as part of the ‘Ride for Destiny’ fundraiser rally. Around $11,000 was raised through registrations, donations, […]
THE number of Indigenous owned assets and commercial enterprises in Gunditjmara Country continues to grow, with the community last week celebrating a permanent home for the Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation’s Budj Bim Rangers program. The rangers had been operating out of the former car dealership on the Henty Highway in Portland as tenants of the building […]
YOUNG Portland fisherman Lewis Hameka this week received a special (and to some unnerving) memento of his first mako shark – its jaw, complete with rows of razor-sharp teeth. Lewis was 15 at the time when he caught the 125kg shark back in January, taking around two hours to bring it in on 15kg line. […]
A PORTLAND woman is working to make the NDIS easier to navigate, after years of drowning in paperwork, and having to explain her own neurodiverse children’s circumstances over and over to specialists. Kristine Godfrey is an engineer at the smelter by day, but has spent the last year and a half creating on an online […]
RECENTLY elected Victorian upper house member Jacinta Ermacora visited Portland on Monday, to celebrate the significant cut in fares with local bus users. Since the start of the month, the most a full fare passenger can spend to travel anywhere in the state in a day is $9.20, or $4.60 for a concession, and less […]
