NEW INSIDE
Delivered to an estimated 60,000 readers in print and online weekly
What’s on Guide PAGE 15
/SheppartonAdviser SCAN THE QR CODE AND SIGN UP NOW!
www.sheppadviser.com.au/subscribe
A DESSERT TO DIE FOR What’s cook’n PAGE 6
TEN YEARS OF SUPPORTING STUDENTS
PAGE 12
No 1:1651
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST ABORIGINAL-LED UNIVERSITY
A NEW NAME FOR TALLIS CELLAR DOORS PAGE 3
PAGE 20
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023
www.sheppadviser.com.au | ADVERTISING HOTLINE: 5832 8900
Transport industry faces tax hike By Deanne Jeffers A PROPOSED increase in the National Heavy Vehicle Tax may add to inflation and pass on higher prices to consumers while threatening the primary industries in the Goulburn Valley. Last financial year, heavy vehicle charges increased 2.75 percent. The National Transport Commission (NTC) has released options for the next three years that includes 10 percent annual rises, which would amount to $2.6B in what Federal Member for Nicholls Sam Birrell says is a “$2.6 billion tax on trucks.” Continued Page 11
Summer s ale UP TO
50
DON’T MEET US BY ACCIDENT... After a deadly start to the year that has already claimed 12 lives on local roads, emergency service workers and community leaders assembled to launch Operation Travel Safe and to ask road users to take more care to keep themselves and others safe. Photo: Deanne Jeffers
% OFF ‘Carnage and chaos’
ALL CLOTHING
7988 GV Hwy Kialla - Next to Shepp Toyota 5823 5694 | www.wyndhamdecor.com.au
Plea to reduce rising road trauma By Deanne Jeffers EMERGENCY service workers are pleading with drivers to take more care behind the wheel after a deadly start to 2023 in the Goulburn Valley. 27 lives were lost on local roads last year, with 12 deaths to occur so far in 2023.
It is usually a serious accident that brings Victoria Police, paramedics, firefighters, State Emergency Service and search and rescue members, and community leaders together, but last week they assembled at Driver Education Centre of Australia (DECA) to share their anguish over rising road trauma and to plead with Continued Page 8 drivers to be safe.