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Daneka Hill

North Queenslander Daneka has experience as a reporter in regional communities, previously working in the Pilbara as an all-rounder journalist before coming to the Riv in 2019. Feel free to contact her at: daneka.hill@riverineherald.com.au

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News

Double trouble and trouble doubled: four sets of identical twins start prep at St Mary’s Primary School

No you’re not seeing double – or even quadruple. Four sets of identical twins have started prep at the exact same school. Luckily St Mary’s Primary School has four prep classes, just enough to fit one set of twins per class. Prep...

Daneka Hill

21 Feb 2020

News

Government hands land to Yorta Yorta

A RESTRICTIVE mortgage placed on an Indigenous corporation’s land nearly 30 years ago has finally been lifted. The first mortgage on the Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation’s head office in Barmah was installed by the government in...

Daneka Hill

19 Feb 2020

Lifestyle

A non-stop Echuca life

IT’S THE usual story, two country kids fleeing to the cities straight out of high school to live the brighter and better life found in the big smoke. Just when it seemed their whole lives would be spent living it up and working to the edge of...

Daneka Hill

14 Feb 2020

News

Public distrust in charities leads to a unique bushfire donation drive

AS support for bushfire-effected animals starts to wind down, two Echuca ladies are just gearing up. Sister’s Trish Harris and Karen Verrall are on a mission to help – and the animal lovers have cottoned onto a uniquely convenient way to...

Daneka Hill

14 Feb 2020

News

How an Echuca family connection helped Germany’s “koala lady” in the bushfire appeal

AN Echuca family has turned their German relative into an unwitting European sensation. It began when Gertje Forlong reached out to ask how she could help with the bushfire recovery. Little did she know her relative’s suggestion would turn her...

Daneka Hill

13 Feb 2020

News

Passion drives Cohuna people to keep it alive

YOU don’t hear this every day of the week: ‘‘the Bee Gees actually milked my cows, there’s not many people can say that’’. Except in Cohuna. Sixty years ago Geoff Thompson ran a dairy, performed as a drummer and organised some of the...

Daneka Hill

13 Feb 2020