Regional coverage
Community Funding
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan is encouraging sporting clubs and recreation facilities from across the region to apply for the Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program. The program is aimed at providing a grant of up to $3000 for clubs and facilities across New South Wales to purchase Automated External Defibrillators. Mr Moylan said it [...]
Our Community
IT was proven conclusively at the weekend the hugely successful Run the Plains festival is here to stay after organisers received 800 registrations – double the number recorded at last year’s inaugural event. Hundreds of visitors joined hundreds of locals to take part in running events designed for all ages and abilities, over varying distances [...]
Police Memorial
POLICE officers and their families will gather at services around the country today to mark National Police Remembrance Day. This year is expected to be a particularly sombre occasion following the shooting deaths of two police officers in Victoria last month, and the murder of a Tasmanian police officer in June. Acting NSW Police Commissioner [...]
Regional News
NEW designs for weirs and fishways in western New South Wales are being reviewed, with the state government aware the Collarenebri, Walgett, Louth and Tilpa communities are strongly opposed to any reduction in local weir heights. The $56.8 million Fish Passage: Reconnecting the Northern Basin Project aims to improve native fish migration and boost river [...]
Youth Crime
QUEENSLAND is delivering three new post-detention intensive rehabilitation programs for young offenders, in a key initiative to help make the state safer. Staying on Track offers up to 12 months of rehabilitation for youths exiting detention, including at least six months’ intensive support to reintegrate them into the community and prevent them falling back into [...]
Small Business Month
WITH Small Business Month about to launch in October, a recent Business NSW survey shows small businesses across New South Wales are being squeezed by rising costs, worker shortages and compliance pressures. Meanwhile, the state government has axed Business Connect, a vital support service for small businesses, on the eve of month-long celebrations. The NSW [...]
Racing Legacy
IN 1999, Nyngan racehorse trainer Rodney Robb bought a brand-new Isuzu horse truck and started driving to race meetings across Australia. During the next 25 years, Robb clocked one-and-a-half-million miles in the Isuzu – but it’s how he got the cash to buy the truck in the first place that makes for a better yarn. [...]
RBIA
AN alliance of regional banks and community organisations has provided Treasury with a detailed plan to ensure the sustainability of essential face-to- face regional bank branches, amid a continued crisis of branch closures across Australia. The Regional Banking Investment Alliance said the modest and easily implementable plan involves an industry community service obligation which, links [...]
Regional Crime
MEMBER for Dubbo and leader of the NSW Nationals, Dugald Saunders, said the stabbing of a 41-year-old man at a park in Dubbo on Tuesday is yet another example of how Labor’s weak bail laws are failing regional communities. Police have since arrested four youths over the incident – one of them was on bail [...]
Education
A $140,000 gift from the Country Women’s Association Armidale Branch to the University of New England has established a new medical scholarship for women from regional, rural and remote communities. The endowed fund will support the CWA of NSW Armidale Branch Medical Scholarship, providing $5,000 each year to a female student in their 3rd, 4th [...]
