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Regional News
ORGANISATIONS in north-western and far-western New South Wales are encouraged to apply for Return to Work Pathways Program funding being offered by the State Government. The 2024-2025 Return to Work Pathways Program is open to organisations to fund tailored projects aimed at supporting women experiencing barriers to employment to become job-ready. Minister for Women Jodie [...]
Birthday Bash
LIONS roared long and proud at Moree Services Club on Saturday afternoon as Moree Lions Club celebrated 70 years’ active service to the town and district. Local Lions icon Barrie Brooks, 86, held back tears when district governor Yvie Kearns proudly awarded him a certificate of appreciation for 54 years’ involvement with the Moree club. [...]
Moree Plains
MAYOR Susannah Pearse and Moree Plains Shire Council general manager Kelvin Tytherleigh last week met with Premier Chris Minns, Minister for Police Yasmin Catley and Deputy Commissioner Paul Pisanos to discuss ongoing crime problems in Moree. The meetings came after a spate of crime across the district in recent weeks, committed by adults as well [...]
Northern Tablelands
We are halfway through the November sittings. This week, I delivered 12 Community Recognition Statements to recognise and congratulate outstanding achievements by people and organisations across the Northern Tablelands. They included: Oliver Overton, New England Conservatorium of Music (New England Sings), Moree Lions Club, Bindaree Food Group, Charlie Ward, Kentucky Community Spirit, Thunderbolt Festival, Thomas [...]
Regional News
MORE than 40 new Queensland Police Service officers were sworn in during a twilight ceremony at the QPS Academy in Oxley on Thursday, with at least one officer transferred to Goondiwindi. Nearly all recruits will be deployed outside Brisbane to support regional communities. Commissioner of Police, Steve Gollschewski, said it was an honour to welcome [...]
National Ag Day
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Mark Coulton and The Nationals candidate for Parkes Jamie Chaffey are pledging to fix 10 “terrible” Labor policies that are harming agriculture in the Parkes electorate on National Agriculture Day. Mr Coulton said today is a timely reminder of the important role the agriculture industry plays, providing fresh food and fibre [...]
Strike Action
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has doubled down his support of healthcare workers as thousands of nurses across New South Wales – including Moree – walked off the job on Wednesday as part of planned industrial action in a pay dispute. The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association continue to press the Minns Labor Government [...]
Consumer
CHOICE has announced the much-anticipated winners of this year’s Shonky Awards, recognising the worst of the worst products and services from the past year and high on the list is Meta, for failing to protect Aussies from scams. Winners include the Acerpure Clean Lite stick vacuum, for being the worst stick vacuum CHOICE has ever [...]
Parkes Electorate
Last week the Coalition introduced the Food and Grocery (Mandatory) Code of Conduct Bill 2024 to restore fairness for consumers, families, suppliers and farmers. Our plan is to make the Code of Conduct mandatory for supermarkets with an annual turnover of at least $5 billion, enforce high penalties for breaches of the Code, give the [...]
Pally Premiere
Would you like to spend your weekend riding a dirt bike up and down steep rocky mountains and being slapped in the face with lantana, or swinging a six-metre bullock whip that looks like a large brown snake and threatens to take out your eye if you make one wrong move? What about jumping on [...]
