The rubbery Vic-SA border dispute that took 70 years to solve

Gregor Heard
August 20 2020 - 8:00am
The grand old railway station at Serviceton, in far western Victoria, was once meant to be right on the border with SA, but is now over 2km from today's boundary between the states.
The grand old railway station at Serviceton, in far western Victoria, was once meant to be right on the border with SA, but is now over 2km from today's boundary between the states.

The pain currently being felt by isolated communities along the Victoria / South Australia border in the wake of South Australia's hardline stance on entries from the Garden State is only exacerbated by the different interpretations of the border over the years.

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Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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