Education coverage
Our Community
MOREE businesses have again opened their collective hearts and generously donated more than 50 raffle prizes worth thousands of dollars to be drawn at Moree Public School’s Supporting the Now, Paving the Future Long Lunch at Moree racecourse on Saturday. School P&C Association president Casey O’Hara is overwhelmed by the response. “We have had a [...]
Junior Sport
JUNIOR cricketers from across the plains proudly represented Moree Junior Cricket Club at the NSWPSSA Girls Cricket Championships at the Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex at Tuggerah last week. The central coast championships, an annual event, brings together teams from across New South Wales, and includes representatives from each PSSA zone. Also competing [...]
Education
THE State Government aims to improve education outcomes for all students as ambitious academic, HSC attainment and school attendance targets are introduced to public schools to lift outcomes for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. However, the NSW Teachers Federation says that while the government has revealed key performance targets, the most critical target needed [...]
Mental Health
THE community is invited to get involved with the new Tamworth Mental Health Unit with Gamilaroi woman Amy Hammond running a series of butterfly weaving workshops for artwork that will feature in the new unit. Ms Hammond, from the Moree and Wellington communities of New South Wales and now based in Tamworth, is one of [...]
Freedom Ride
BEING Dutch didn’t help. In 1965, university student Machteld Hali joined an activist group called Student Action for Aborigines and went on a history-defining bus journey across outback New South Wales. The 15-day trip changed her life forever – as well as the lives of tens of thousands of indigenous people around Australia. Machteld was [...]
Freedom Ride
MOREE Plains Shire Council has partnered with Moree Local Aboriginal Lands Council and community representatives to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride. Gathering from 9:30am on Wednesday, February 19 at Moree War Memorial Hall, the entire community is invited to march through the CBD to Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre. Once there, Elders [...]
Education
MOREE Christian School this year has for the first time welcomed students to Year 11 – an increase in student roll-call numbers that will see the school sit its first High School Certificate in 2026. The Stage 6 extension to Year 11 – and Year 12 next year – has been on the table for [...]
Dr Hunter Scholarships
HealthWISE and Gwydir Cotton Growers Association have awarded three students – two from Moree and one from Bingara – with $22,000 to support their university studies, strengthening the push to bring health professionals back to the bush. For two decades, the Dr William Hunter Scholarship and a variety of Gwydir CGA scholarships have helped health [...]
Our Community
MOREE Country Universities Centre welcomed 2025 with an open day at its Auburn Street headquarters on Tuesday. The Moree hub, an affiliate of the Country Universities Centre network, is a dedicated learning and study space designed by regional people, for regional people. The centre gives students the option to study online, and stay and work [...]
Anzac Memorial
Up to 20 students from across New South Wales will be selected to participate in the annual Premier’s Anzac Memorial Scholarship study tour that will visit historic sites relating to Australia’s military history in the Republic of Korea and Singapore. Tour locations in the Republic of Korea include the site of the Battle of Kapyong, [...]
