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Jike Jones, Bruce Olver's premiership coach Wilf Dickison, Bruce’s sister Tina Gibson and Ararat Football Netball Club president David Hosking, gathered for Jike to present the Ararat Rats with a jumper Bruce gave him following the 1975 Wimmera Football League grand final.

A jumper, a memory, and a homecoming

ON grand final day in 1975, when Ararat stunned fancied premiership favourite Stawell to claim the Wimmera Football League flag, a young man named Bruce Olver played his part in a

3 January, 2026

Technical issues left thousands of Telstra customers without reliable mobile service over the weekend in Stawell. Story, photo by Henry Dalkin.

Stawell News

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A jumper, a memory, and a homecoming

Telstra mobile outage hits Stawell region

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Merry Christmas

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Police leadership change for Western Division

Warning against leaving dogs in vehicles

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