In late 2017, John Elliott decided he wanted to head across Australia. There was only one problem, he didn’t know how. “After careful consideration, I decided that I would take a motorbike across the Nullabor,” John said. But John wanted to get off the beaten track as much as possible and the motorbike was surrounded by many obstacles, the biggest of which was his mother telling him that...

Michelle Majcherzak and her husband, Kristian, have had the leasehold of Cunningham Shore Motel for the past seven years and have never experienced anything like 2020. The bushfires affected all Lakes Entrance motels when the evacuation call came. But most thought, when they were contained, it would be back to business and a good Easter would go a long way to recovering. Between February and...

Development of the new visitor facilities and café at the Lakes Entrance Fishermen’s Limited (LEFL) site on Bullock Island is well advanced, with the planning application recently lodged with East Gippsland Shire Council. The project involves construction of an on-water café, colocation of the existing ‘Off the Wharf’ fresh fish sales outlet into the new building and an all abilities access...

One-hundred-and-sixty-seven Target stores across Australia are to either close or be rebranded as a Kmart store with Target Country, including its Lakes Entrance store, making up a large number of the closures. It was announced by Wesfarmers on Friday that although Lakes Entrance Target Country is one of those to close, it will be reopen as a Kmart store. This is to take effect in 2021....

The longawaited delivery of the first stage of the Bullock Island master plan will be possible with $6.5 million from the Federal Government and East Gippsland Shire Council. Lakes Entrance Action Development Association president, Bruce Hurley, said while works began last year to improve the road surface, the more money spent on the island would be great for locals and tourists alike,...