Backing NSW musicians with huge funding round

MOREE musician Shaun Mills has applauded a package of grants offered by the NSW Government to help foster growth and job opportunities in the music industry. Funding worth $9.3 million will support bands on national and international tours, as well as help with studio recording, promotion and industry development. Mills, lead singer with Moree indie [...]

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Time to apply for an Australia Day event grants

FEDERAL Member for Parkes, Jamie Chaffey, encourages community groups and organisations to consider applying for National Australia Day Council funding to host an Australia Day event next year. Each year, the National Australia Day Council offers grants for community groups, government entities and councils to support Australia Day events and encourage community participation. The Australia [...]

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Stories from the Plains available this week

A new edition of Stories from the Plains will be published this week, with editor Adam Mitchell saying there is one important change to the free, quarterly journal enriched with local and regional history – its name. The local studies journal, previously published as Stories of our Town, has been rebadged Stories from the Plains [...]

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Croppa Creek Store hosts Kicking Cancer’s A55 across Australia

AN incredible journey across Australia to raise much-needed funds for cancer research and support made a pitstop at Croppa Creek this week, en route to Byron Bay on the New South Wales north coast. The Kicking Cancer’s A55 Across Australia tour began six weeks ago from Australia’s most western point – Steep Point in the [...]

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Gil Bennet’s Gem Collection on display in new home

TAMWORTH Regional Council has officially reopened the extraordinary Gil Bennet Rocks, Gems and Minerals Collection at its new location in Nundle. The relocation, at 8 Innes Street, marks an exciting new chapter for the collection, which showcases more than 1300 specimens collected by the late Gilmour (Gil) Thomas Bennet. The Nundle Visitor Information Outlet was [...]

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Sally Poole named Athletes’ Athlete at 2025 Queensland Triathlon Awards

YALLAROI’s Sally Poole has been named Athletes’ Athlete at the 2025 Queensland Triathlon Awards, held at the Garden Room, Victoria Park, Brisbane earlier this month. Sally, a land services officer with Local Land Services in Moree, has competed at local, regional, national and world championship levels in the past 10 years. The Queensland Triathlon Awards [...]

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Moree Caledonian Pipes and Drums launch pie drive to help cover running costs

THE Moree Caledonian Pipes and Drums band is recognised as the most isolated town pipe band in Australia – but that hasn’t stopped this dedicated group from competing against the best in New South Wales and Queensland in recent months. THE Celtic spirit in Moree is alive and well, and going from strength to strength, [...]

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Coonamble and Gilgandra part of ABS Census Test next month

THE Australian Bureau of Statistics will conduct a large-scale Census Test in August as part of its preparation for the 2026 Census. Households in Coonamble and Gilgandra in central-western New South Wales have been selected to take part. About 60,000 households have been selected from towns and cities in several states, including Rockhampton, Gladstone and [...]

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Pallamallawa Public School fundraisers to install new playground equipment

THERE are 13 families with 21 children – and between them, they’re on the hunt for $28,000. Staff, families, students and supporters of Pallamallawa Public School have been brainstorming ideas to raise enough capital to install new playground equipment at the school. It’s a fundraiser done the old-fashioned way, where everyone in the village chips [...]

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Rising Sun Film Society presents Mozart’s Sister July 20

THE life of Maria Anna Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right, is a musical-true-crime story exploring the lost talent of Mozart’s sister who disappeared from the history books. Mozart’s Sister, from director-producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau in collaboration with producer Rebecca Barry, delves into how Maria Anna Mozart was [...]

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