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Regional News
A new $2.5 million state-of-the-art Lung Health Mobile Clinic has been unveiled and will soon provide lung health checks to thousands of people across New South Wales. The lung bus program provides free lung screening checks to more than 5000 workers annually in regional New South Wales, including Tamworth. Lung health checks can be lifesaving [...]
Border News
THE Inglewood community celebrated the grand re-opening of the refurbished Casa Mia independent living aged-care facility at the weekend, with five newly refurbished independent living units ensuring more vulnerable elderly people have the opportunity to remain in Inglewood. Queensland Minister for Housing, Sam O’Connor, joined Goondiwindi Regional Council mayor Lawrence Springborg to officially open the [...]
Health Services
REGIONAL communities across New South Wales are set to benefit from new Key Health Worker Accommodation which hopes to attract more paramedics to the bush. The $200million program supports more than 20 projects across rural, regional and remote NSW. Funding will secure approximately 120 dwellings across regional NSW, which includes the building of new accommodation, [...]
Regional Crime
A man has died and a second man is under police guard in Tamworth Base Hospital following a stand-off with police in Tamworth overnight. Emergency services were called to a home unit on Goonoo Goonoo Road, Tamworth, at about 4.30pm Saturday, February 22, following reports of a concern for welfare. On arrival, officers attached to [...]
Regional News
THE countdown is on to Narrabri Shire’s 2025 CREATE Festival – with less than a week until opening night. And in a first for CREATE, this year’s festival will include a special art exhibition from Moree’s Yaama Ganu Gallery, featuring the incredible talents of artists from Aboriginal communities across Australia. This rich collection of works [...]
Mental Health
THE community is invited to get involved with the new Tamworth Mental Health Unit with Gamilaroi woman Amy Hammond running a series of butterfly weaving workshops for artwork that will feature in the new unit. Ms Hammond, from the Moree and Wellington communities of New South Wales and now based in Tamworth, is one of [...]
Rural Health
RURAL, regional and remote Australians are dying at higher rates than their urban counterparts, with avoidable deaths in the regions nearly four times higher, according to new data released by the National Rural Health Alliance. The Rural Health in Australia Snapshot 2025 paints a grim picture of health inequities between rural and metropolitan areas. The [...]
Regional News
GUNNEDAH Shire has recognised its strong connection with Sister City Kolomotu’a, in the Kingdom of Tonga, with a new street name. The roadway that runs along the Namoi River from Maitland Street has been named Kolomotu’a Drive in a gesture of respect for Gunnedah’s friends in Kolomotu’a. Gunnedah Shire mayor, Colleen Fuller, said the Shire’s [...]
Freedom Ride
THE State Government has marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride with the announcement of funding to complete a community pavilion in Walgett and a new program to commemorate significant steps along the Freedom Ride route. Minister for Heritage Penny Sharpe and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty David Harris were in Walgett [...]
Rural Health
HEART of Australia, an innovative mobile health service, has teamed up with leading biopharmaceutical company, Pfizer Australia, to expand its GP Education Program with the aim of improving healthcare delivery in rural and remote parts of Australia. Small rural towns have almost 60 per cent fewer health professionals than major cities. However, rural GPs are [...]
