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It’s a familiar question in Chinese restaurants across regional Australia, and one that fascinated Lin Jie Kong when she discovered the rich culture of Chinese restaurants while travelling across the countryside. So much so, it became the namesake for a six-part ABC TV series featuring herself and Jennifer Wong. These stories have now been immortalised [...]
Recruitment
THE Girls on Fire Australia team will be in Moree on Wednesday, October 30 – and young women are invited to attend the Fire-Up workshop. Girls on Fire works with schools, fire and emergency services, regional towns, and all kinds of youth-related organisations to introduce young people aged 15 to 19 to fire, emergency and [...]
Gone Fishing!
NORTHERN Slopes Landcare and OzFish will host a school holidays family-friendly carp muster in Moree on Sunday, October 13. Registration and sign-in will take place at Jellicoe Park from 6am. Fishing lines need to be in the water and carp-ready by 7am. Early registrations to streamline the process and avoid any delays on the day [...]
Moree Lions
THE Jellicoe Park band rotunda and surrounding gardens and pathways are undergoing a major facelift, thanks to Moree Lions Club. In recent weeks, Lions Club members were busy repainting the rotunda in the club’s traditional navy blue and yellow colours. The original rotunda was built in the early 1930s and officially opened in 1935. The [...]
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A LOT of things matter to Natalee Cook, especially beauty. Beauty also mattered to Nadia Payot, who more than a century ago developed a beauty brand that has stood the test of time. Natalee’s iconic skin and beauty salon, Beauty Matters, was established in Moree in 1993, and a relationship with the Payot brand was [...]
100 years
THE final layer of asphalt has been laid forming the playing surface and vibrant line markings have been completed at the new, multi-purpose courts at Mungindi to this weekend celebrate 100 years of tennis in Mungindi. Tennis has long been a regular social gathering for the community from tournaments like the Murphy and Bingham Cup [...]
Guumali Youth Project
MEMBERS of the public are invited to watch the NRL grand-final on the big screen at Jellicoe Park on Sunday night as part of the Guumali Youth Project, a NSW Police initiative in partnership with Regional NSW and the NSW Government. The free, under-the-stars live broadcast of the Penrith Panthers and Melbourne Storm showdown will [...]
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FOR many years, Moree Services Club has been known as “The Home of Sport” – and the description still rings true today. The term was coined 50-odd years ago and, during the 1980s especially, was used every weekend on radio station 2VM’s Saturday morning sports digest program when Moree Services Club legend Rex Kelly was [...]
Be Prepared
EVERY four years, more than 10,000 Scouts from across Australia and the world meet for an unforgettable ten-day camp – the Australian Jamboree – and enjoy incredible activities, new challenges and endless opportunities. To ensure north-west regional Scouts are properly prepared for the 2025 event, a four-day pre-jamboree camp last weekend opened the school holidays [...]
Thank-you Moree
THIRTEEN Year 10 students and three staff members from Trinity Catholic College in Lismore travelled across the ranges last month to spend a week in Gamilaroi Country – the second time a group of Trinity students have visited the Moree district this year. The group was welcomed to Gamilaroi country by Sharon Cooke at the [...]
