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Local elections
AFTER a week of pre-polling, the final chance for residents across the Moree Plains to decide who leads the shire for the next four years has arrived. There are 15 candidates to fill nine seats at the Moree Plains Shire Council’s Max Centre bunker, and voters have until 6pm today to decide who that nine [...]
Local Government
LOCAL Government NSW has welcomed the release of the Councillor Conduct Framework Discussion Paper, announced last week by Minister for Local Government Ron Hoenig. LGNSW president Darriea Turley said the local government sector had been anticipating the release of the framework and supported any move that would ensure the highest standards of integrity and probity [...]
Opinion
Opinion by Adam Marshall Robert B Johnson once famously and succinctly described what most of us observe in our personal and professional lives – that people tend to fall into two distinct groups: those who are disengaged from the world around them and those who are active participants, trying to shape the future. This led [...]
Local elections
Name: Pete Mailler. Age: 53. Status: Married with four children. Current or past employment if now retired or otherwise: Grain and cattle producer. How long have you lived in the Moree shire: I was born in Moree. What part of the shire do you live? I live and farm on a property between Boggabilla and [...]
Local elections
Name: Debbie Williams. Age: 61. Status: Married to Richard. We have three children, Kahla, Matthew and Jake. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: Self-employed at our stock and station agency, Williams Stock & Property Moree. How long have you lived in the Moree shire? All my life. I was born here. What part of [...]
Local elections
Name: Stephen John Ritchie. Age: 73. Status: I have three children, Joshua, Jeremy and Amy. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: Retired builder. What part of the shire do you live? Moree. How long did you sit as a councillor on MPSC? I was a sitting councillor for five years and three months, including [...]
Local elections
Name: Frederick Ronald McGrady. Age: 71. Status: Married to Pat for 53 years. We raised our three sons, Richard, Fred and Linden, in Moree. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: I have lived in Moree since 1967 and started work as a railway station porter at the Moree Railway Station. I completed a welder’s [...]
Local elections
Name: Brooke Sauer. Age: 45. Status: Married to Josh. We have two children, Augustus and Penelope. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: I work in our vibrant agriculture sector, currently employed and head of research and development at PURE Grain, where I am in charge of our 435ha trial farm, investigating sustainable farming practices [...]
Local elections
Name: Susannah Pearse. Age: 41. Status: Married to Oscar. We have three children, Gregory, Eleanor and Josephine. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: Together with my husband Oscar, we run a sixth generation farming business between Moree and Pallamallawa. I have also held roles managing economic development and communications for Moree Plains Shire Council, [...]
Local elections
Name: Michael Raymond Ivanov. Age: 64. Status: Married to Leanne. We have three children, Stephen, Lisa and Sarah, and two grandson, Raiden and Archie. Current or past employment, retired or otherwise: Cleaner and part-time scrap metal dealer. What part of the shire do you live? Ashley. How long did you sit as a councillor on [...]
