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Social Media
GOVERNMENT eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is calling on parents, carers and young people in regional and rural communities to visit eSafety and access resources designed to help them handle social media age restrictions, which are now in effect. Developed collaboratively with Australia’s leading mental health and support organisations, the resources explain what is changing, [...]
Christmas Races
AWARD-winning Australian country music star Max Jackson headlines the December 20 Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races after-party, just weeks ahead of her ground-breaking third appearance as official ambassador of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Jackson, a proud bushie, Coonamble born and raised, is a three-times Golden Guitar winner and was crowned Golden [...]
Christmas Millions
A Tamworth man has been jolted wide awake by the eye-popping revelation he won $15 million in last night’s Oz Lotto draw. The New South Wales player held one of the two division one winning entries nationally in Oz Lotto, with each division one winning entry pocketed $15 million. The stunned winner joked he might [...]
Sport
AROUND this time last year, Moree Motorcycle Club was struggling to get half-a-dozen kids interested in slipping on a helmet and protective riding gear and learning the Motocross craft at Boolooroo Raceway. As a result, earlier this year a new program was devised by club president Matt Anderson, his wife Renee and their son Max [...]
Christmas Fare
NICK Whitehouse is back in the house. Michelin Star-rated chef Nick Whitehouse returns to Maslina Bar and Grill in Moree for two weeks only, and will be back at the hotplate from tomorrow, Monday, December 8. Mr Whitehouse helped launch the opening of Maslina in 2019. He was back in town in October this year, [...]
Mosquito-Borne Diseases
WITH the arrival of summer, NSW Health urges people to protect themselves from mosquito bites after earlier than expected detections of two mosquito-borne viruses that can cause brain swelling. Moree Plains is one of 60 LGAs west of the diving range with high Japanese encephalitis virus concerns, along with Narrabri, Inverell, Gwydir and Walgett shires. [...]
Our Community
STAFF at Moree Public School have been recognised at two major events in recent weeks, winning three awards for services to the New South Wales education system. Principal Sharyn Cox received the NSW Primary Principals’ Association award at a special ceremony at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney in late October. Two days later, deputy principal Lindy [...]
Cake Drive
MOREE Lions Club is celebrating one of its biggest Christmas cake drives in history – if not the biggest – with cakes and puddings selling like, well, hotcakes. Lions’ volunteers Darryl Brady and Will Garrett have been selling cakes and puddings at Moree’s big three – Brooker Trading Co, Café Omega and 61 Balo – [...]
Our Community
BANK Art Museum Moree has won a major award at the Museum and Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards, held at University of Sydney’s The Refectory last week. BAMM scooped the Engagement Projects Award for Team Trampoline, developed by BAMM with artist Meg Wilson, and facilitated by BAMM’s Cate Gaston. Ms Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist and [...]
Mental Health
FORMER Melbourne Storm and South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL star Greg Inglis will be in Moree next week to deliver a series of engaging mental health programs as part of his ground-breaking Goanna Academy advocacy group. Inglis will be in Moree for two days, after Moree Plains Shire Council’s Community Development Team successfully obtained an Alcohol [...]
