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The dams are rising RAINFALL over the last month is giving a lot of people reason to be happy despite everything going on around them with the pandemic. The amount of rain we have had is causing some of our rivers to swell to flood levels in part and is having great impact on the levels of our dams. Eildon is still only at 62 .9% of capacity but is the highest it has been this time of the year for the last few years. Other storages in the system including Waranga Basin and Goulburn Weir are running between 75 percent and 86 percent capacity. Continued Page 10

AN AUSTRALIAN SUCCESS STORY IN OUR HOUR OF NEED... Med-Con machine operator, Sandra Nitschke, at one of the mask making machines, at Lemnos Shepparton East. Photo: Steve Hutcheson

Australian business treated as disposable as their products By Sarah Knight WHEN the pandemic hit in early 2020, Goulburn Valley-based manufacturer, Med-Con was the only producer of surgical masks in the entire country. The business quickly responded to the federal government’s urgent plea to produce 60 million masks by November 2020. For Med-Con this meant hiring and training more than 100

new staff, purchasing 10 new machines, and enlisting the help of the Australian Defence Force; all of which the business achieved – successfully fulfilling the request, within weeks of the target date. Operating 24/7, the business was producing three million masks a week says CEO, Steve Csiszar - that’s 50 percent more than the annual production figure of two million, every week. Continued Page 10


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