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Eildon News

Paintwork Declares The Ego Has Landed

Wednesday January 12, 2000
On the second-last day of 1999, John McCabe completed a ``mean machine" trifecta. By day, the 29-year-old truck driver rides an imposing Kenworth rig. At night, he cruises around town in a red HJ ute. And, on holiday, he powers across Lake Eildon in his new baby, a 1993 Hallett Executive sp

Get Down, To Core Of The Earth

Saturday January 1, 2000
LAKE EILDON It might not be the most chic of Victoria's millennium celebrations, but the 10,000 people who escaped the city for serene bushland overlooking Lake Eildon in the state's north aimed to party longest. Yesterday, hundreds of cars weaved through rolling hills along dusty roads to jo

New Millennium

Saturday January 1, 2000
Most Victorians stood still for a few moments to mark the new millennium, but others saw the night as a chance to move - literally. Thousands gyrated in the bush beyond Lake Eildon at a week-long dance party. Others found a less frenetic way to move through the night, gliding down the Murray River i