Regional coverage
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 [...]
NSW Legal Aid
LEGAL Aid NSW clients will soon be able to access information easier about their cases with a $1.6 million investment in a new digital one-stop-shop for the legal provider. The new platform will provide clients with real-time updates, access to correspondence and easy document uploads, as well as information about preparing for court appearances and [...]
Anti-Corruption
THE NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) will visit Moree next week as part of its rural and regional outreach program to share anti-corruption initiatives and training across New South Wales. Workshops and visits across the Hunter New England region include Armidale, Coonamble, Glen Innes Severn, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth and Gunnedah. The visit, to be [...]
Remembrance Day
TRANSPORT for NSW will honour veterans and serving personnel in the Australian Defence Force with free public transport on Remembrance Day. On Monday, November 11, Australians across the country will take the opportunity to stop and remember, honouring the memory of the men and women who have served and are currently serving. Those in uniform, [...]
Agriculture
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has spoken out in Parliament in support of the use of paraquat in modern farming practises. Mr Coulton, speaking in support of a motion moved by his Nationals colleague, Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster, said farmers throughout the Parkes electorate rely on paraquat to be able to farm [...]
Regional News
FAR West New South Wales residents and businesses impacted by power outages will be able to claim for financial assistance from today, November 7. The district was last week reconnected to the power grid more than two weeks after being cut off when storms brought down electricity transmission towers on October 17. Impacted area include [...]
Community
A PILOT program supporting survivors of domestic violence has commenced in Moree. Supporting Recovery, a partnership between Anglicare, Healthwise and Moree Family Support, is being rolled out across the New England north-west and aims to support persons who have experienced domestic violence and are no longer in crisis, but are moving forward. Supporting Recovery in [...]
