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Northern Tablelands
The Minns Labor Government rejected the NSW Opposition’s amendments to address doli Incapax in the Children (Criminal Proceedings) and Young Offenders Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. The amendments would have strengthened laws for repeat youth offenders, bringing doli Incapax in line with the Queensland model. The Bill in its current form is a good start but [...]
Border News
GOONDIWINDI this year recognises 100 years of the border-town’s iconic Water Towers. Since the first tower rose on McLean Street in 1925, the concrete giants have watched over Goondiwindi through growth, drought, floods and a whole lot of community spirit. A second tower was built in 1938, and together they’ve become part of the town’s [...]
Kyla-Belle
IT’S showtime for thousands of public school students from across New South Wales today, including Moree Secondary College’s Kyla-Belle Roberts. Students will sing, dance, sing, play, flip and hang from the ceiling at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena for the 2025 Schools Spectacular today and tomorrow. Known as the world’s largest amateur variety show, Schools Spectacular [...]
Christmas Cheer
WHEN 20 or 30 schoolkids perform in front of 120 seniors, magic happens – Christmas magic. Students of Moree Public School Choir, from Year 1 through to Year 6, closed the 2025 Seniors Christmas lunch at Moree Services Club on Wednesday to rousing applause from more than 120 guests who sang along to a repertoire [...]
Lawn Bowls
MOREE Magpies Bowling Club held its championships presentation and Christmas party at Moree Services Club on Saturday, showcased by the unveiling of two new pennant scoreboards and three bench seats donated by well-known Moree families. Pennant scoreboards dedicated to Darcy and Glenda Hobday, and Allan Kite were donated by the Hobday and Kite families on Saturday. [...]
State Politics
IT’S often been said a week is a long time in politics. Inverell High School captain Josh Cathie got more than he bargained for last week after heading to Macquarie Street for work experience at Parliament House under the watchful eye of Member for Northern Tablelands, Brendan Moylan. During an historic week in state politics, [...]
Regional Tourism
ARMIDALE is set to witness an unforgettable sight in 2026, as Patricia Piccinini’s iconic Skywhales – two monumental hot-air balloon sculptures – grace the skies during the city’s Autumn Festival. In a major cultural coup, Armidale has been selected as part of the National Gallery of Australia’s Skywhales Across Australia tour, bringing this extraordinary experience [...]
Christmas 2025
MOREE Lions Club volunteers are out and about selling scrumptious Christmas cakes and puddings in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Today marks exactly one month until the man in red drops down the chimney – and volunteers Darryl Brady and Will Garrett are getting in early with the perfect treats. Will and Darryl this [...]
Young Aggies
MORE than $85,000 has been gifted to nine important Moree and district not-for-profit organisations after this year’s hugely successful Young Aggies Ball, held at Moree racecourse in September. More than 500 young aggies from across the district helped raise tens of thousands of dollars through ticket sales, raffles and charity auctions, with proceeds delivered to [...]
Recognition
MOREE Services Football Club and Moree dietitian Renaye Madden were given Community Recognition Statements in parliament on Thursday by Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan. Mr Moylan recognised the remarkable achievements of the Moree Services Football Club throughout the 2025 season, which saw the club collar a 2-1 grand-final win against Narrabri FC Elevens in [...]
