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The incredible work of the Robinvale College Student Representative Council (SRC) was recognised last Thursday night when they took out the top prize for the VicSRC Student Voice Group Action Award. Celebrating best practice in student voice, leadership and student-led action in Victoria, the Robinvale SRC won the award for ...

Nominations are now open for the 2018 Australia Day Local Government Awards. Swan Hill Rural City Council is encouraging residents to nominate local community members and groups for their contributions to community and their achievements. Nominate someone online now! Nominations will close at 5pm on Friday, 23 November for all ...

The focus was firmly on our region’s youth services yesterday when they were both set up for a bright future and recognized for great work already done. Swan Hill Rural City Council was announced as one of five councils across the state to share in $2.5 million funding from the ...

Do you sing in the shower, but yearn to take to the stage? Maybe you like sing-alongs with your kids? Or maybe you’re an experienced performer? Regardless of your singing prowess, you are being asked to lend your voice to a pop-up community choir in Swan Hill this September. In ...

The Swan Hill region is culturally strong and artistically ambitious. That is the vision set out in the Swan Hill Rural City Council draft Creative Strategy, which was released for public input today. Mayor Les McPhee said ideas from the community and from Council’s cultural services team were used to ...

July was a huge month for the L2P Program, with a new pilot program starting in Robinvale. Thanks to an initiative from the Robinvale College Clontarf Foundation, learner drivers in Robinvale will now have access to the program one day a fortnight. L2P Program Officer Ross Palmer said he was ...

Should the Swan Hill Outdoor Pool be relocated to the Swan Hill Leisure Centre? Does our region needs a public water play park? Do we need to expand or upgrade our current aquatic facilities? Council has engaged SGL Consulting to develop a 10 year Aquatics Strategic Plan for our region ...

Do you like to stay up to date with news and information from Council? To have a say on decisions that affect your local community? To know what’s happening around our region? You can help improve the way Swan Hill Rural City Council communicates and how you can get involved ...

Calling independent artists and arts companies. We want you to collaborate with rural young people as part of this year’s Fairfax Youth Initiative. Fairfax connects rural communities with professional artists through onsite residencies. Artists work in schools alongside rural and regional young people to equip them with skills to develop ...