Emile Pavlich
Mildura, VIC
Emile Pavlich is a news reporter based in Mildura. Since graduating from university in 2021 he has worked in commercial and community radio. Please reach out to him via email. He files for audio, online, and video.
Latest by Emile Pavlich
TikTok star raking in millions of views by focussing on country football history and defunct ovals
Andy Munro has garnered a social media following of millions off the back of his reels documenting abandoned country footy grounds in Victoria and South Australia.
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Students need 'all points of view' not 'shouting and yelling' about Murray-Darling Basin, author says
Adrian Wells aims to ignite a passion for the environment and break down stereotypes that city people might have about farming communities.
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7yo uses life-saving lessons given by paramedics to help his dad
When Nick Wilson "couldn't breathe properly" leaving a games arcade, he knew he was in trouble. Little did he know his son Harry would become a "hero".
Up to 100mm of rain predicted for parts of Victoria as SES warns of potential for flash flooding
A large rain band is leading to rainfall across much of Victoria, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning there is more to come overnight into Monday.
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While presents were being opened on Christmas Day, this town's residents fought off floodwaters
Flooding is becoming an all-too-familiar sight in Kerang, and climate reports are forecasting an extreme risk to the northern Victorian town by 2050.
Veteran paramedic says the days of 'hoping for the best' are gone as advances in technology save more lives
When Dale Richards became a paramedic, women weren't allowed to join the service and treating patients often just meant they "threw people onto beds and took them to hospital". He reflects on 43 years as a paramedic.
Hundreds of trees die on Victorian floodplain as governments clash over water policy
Victoria's floodplain restoration projects have stalled after the state and federal governments reached a stalemate over the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Electricians' union says safety breaches on EnergyConnect transmission line construction 'like a dodgy reno'
The Electrical Trades Union says a visit to the Buronga substation construction site from November 27 to 29 revealed "water leaking from conduits containing electrical cables" and "toilets without toilet paper, soap, or hand sanitiser".
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Council blames 'one-in-fifty-year' flash flooding as Swan Hill streets are inundated with water
The Swan Hill council says 80 to 90 millimetres of rain fell on the north west Victorian town in seven hours, as it reassures residents that its drainage system did not malfunction.
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Greyhound deaths prompt calls to end millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for racing industry
A new report obtained exclusively by the ABC calls on the Victorian government to cease spending taxpayer dollars on greyhound racing.
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8,000 residents and the only pub's a burnt-out ruin. And the locals are sick of the sight of it
Once an impressive and stylish regional Victorian venue, fire destroyed Robinvale's only hotel in 2015 and it has sat derelict in the centre of town since. It's high time that changed, say residents.
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First Nations take legal action over 'inadequate' Murray-Darling water plan consultation
The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group launches a legal challenge against the NSW and federal governments, alleging consultation on the state's Fractured Rock Water Resource Plan was not properly conducted.
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Daisy faces hours of travel for cancer treatment. Why, her family asks, is help so far away?
With the Royal Children's Hospital her only option, the seven-year-old leukaemia patient from Mildura has made half a dozen long-haul trips to Melbourne this year.
Mum reduced to tears after seeing horse break leg in 'freak' rodeo incident
A rodeo horse was euthanased at an event in north-west Victoria after an incident organisers say would have been upsetting for spectators.
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Hip hop veteran gives grassroots artists belief to launch music dreams
As an Indigenous storyteller and hip hop artist, Phil "Philly" Murray believes the artform can give voice to those unable to express their views in a conventional way.
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How this agricultural heartland could become an asset for multicultural communities across Australia
A two-year pilot program gives African refugee women essential business skills to market cultural crops in regional Victoria and New South Wales.
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The dingo 'unprotection order' loved by farmers, despised by ecologists has been extended
Wild-dog controllers will continue to trap and bait animals despite calls by First Nations groups and scientists for greater protection.
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Cocaine, heroin and a $60k Commodore seized, nine charged after raids in Victoria
The arrests follow a six-month investigation into an alleged organised crime syndicate in Mildura.
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Totem species not wild dogs, says First Nations man seeking change to dingo management
Stuart Harradine says dingoes, or wilkerr as they are known in Weirgaia language, are a spiritual relation to his community and need to be looked at as more than a pest.
It's no breeze to deliver a daily weather report for the Mallee, but this volunteer's been doing it for 10 years
Clem Blake has been compiling weather reports for Victoria's Mallee residents for a decade, winning an award and accruing 8,000 followers online, but it was last October's flooding that he remembers most clearly.
These solar energy modules generate enough heat to melt metal. It's hoped they can help solve renewable storage issues
Renewable energy company RayGen has officially opened its $27 million solar and thermal power plant project, in north-west Victoria.
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Victoria has gone rogue on the new Murray-Darling Basin Plan and farmers are overjoyed. Here's why
Victorian irrigators are happy the state has opted out of the federal government's new basin plan, but are worried about what water buybacks in other states will do to farming in Australia.
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Rare mouse sighting thrills ecologists as species spreads into wildlife sanctuary
A mouse once presumed extinct in New South Wales has been tracked down in the west of the state, much to the surprise of ecologists.
Sophie moved from Kew to Moe in search of a meaningful job and she hasn't looked back
The Regional Australia Institute has found plenty of metropolitan workers could be persuaded to take a job in the regions as cost-of-living pressures bite, something Sophie Brunton has already done.
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Chris thought the NDIS would be just 'another fizzer'. But for him, it turned out to be a 'game-changer'
Until the National Disability Insurance Scheme arrived in Mildura in 2019, Chris Riordan couldn't even live in the house he owned. Now it has the assistive technology to support him.
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