Mildura Airport seem to have confirmed on FB that the ILS will go ahead on 09.
There has been much confusion with the way they have described it as being installed “on the Adelaide end” but it seems clear now the ILS will be 09 with the installation of the localiser on the other end.
As Cogwheel previously pointed out it is fairly obvious that without extending the runway the Glide Slope Antenna would be within or too close to the 18/36 flight strip if the ILS was on 27
Seems like an enormous stuff up by MAPL that they have kept quiet until the funding was passed.
Any advantage of reduced visibility minima will be lost when landing into the sun on misty mornings and training aircraft will be going in the opposite direction to most of the inbound RPT.