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AFTER months of anticipation, the new multi-million dollar Inverell Aquatic Centre will open its doors to the public this week. Hines Construction handed over the facility to Council last Friday after reaching practical completion, with plans to open the facility to the public on Thursday, February 27. The facility was officially granted World Aquatics Accreditation [...]
Gomeroi Markets
THE Gomeroi Nations Markets at Jellicoe Park on Sunday closed the curtain on a culturally significant week in Moree. The local community came together during the week to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride. On Saturday, nearly 4000 people lined Boughton Oval to watch the ABCARE Greater Western Challenge, won by Cabbage [...]
Regional News
A new $2.5 million state-of-the-art Lung Health Mobile Clinic has been unveiled and will soon provide lung health checks to thousands of people across New South Wales. The lung bus program provides free lung screening checks to more than 5000 workers annually in regional New South Wales, including Tamworth. Lung health checks can be lifesaving [...]
Our Community
A new initiative in the Moree area for people with spinal cord injury or neurological disabilities will be launched at an informal meet-and-greet at Moree Services Club on Sunday, March 2. Spinal Cord Injuries Australia is forming local community networks for people with spinal cord injury or neurological disabilities, their families, parents, friends and carers [...]
Regional News
THE countdown is on to Narrabri Shire’s 2025 CREATE Festival – with less than a week until opening night. And in a first for CREATE, this year’s festival will include a special art exhibition from Moree’s Yaama Ganu Gallery, featuring the incredible talents of artists from Aboriginal communities across Australia. This rich collection of works [...]
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 [...]
Our Community
RISING Sun Film Society in Moree has launched its 2025 program, and again cinema-goers are in for treat, with movies from around the world headlined. The society, now in its 20th year, screens movies at the Moree RSL Regional Military Museum on Balo Street – opposite Moree fire station – on the third Sunday of [...]
Our Community
BANK Art Museum Moree last week launched its 2025 program, with more than 100 guests attending an outdoor twilight function for a sneak preview of what’s on the easel for the year ahead. There was a summer-vibe in the air as BAMM director Rosie Dennis shared highlights for 2025. “It’s a jam-packed program of exhibitions, [...]
Our Community
AUSTRALIA’s most loved national fun run and walk, the Mother’s Day Classic, is primed for another record-breaking year, with organisers announcing a renewed commitment to funding research to reduce deaths and improve survival for breast and ovarian cancer. Launching the 2025 event, Mother’s Day Classic Foundation CEO Zara Lawless welcomed new principal partner, AIA Australia, [...]
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 [...]
