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Agriculture
APPLICATIONS have opened for the 2026 intake for the Australia Future Cotton Leaders Program, the cotton industry’s premier leadership development initiative. Participants in 2024 included Moree’s Kate Lumber, Sarah Vivers from Weemelah, Rowena’s Prue Byrnes, Georgie Flick, Grace Griffiths and Greg Pearce from Goondiwindi, Jacob Booby, Jack O’Neill and Sam Carberry from Narrabri and George [...]
Police Chase
A man and woman will face court today charged after a pursuit in Moree overnight. At about 7.40pm yesterday, officers attached to New England Police District attempted to stop an allegedly stolen car on James Street, Moree. The vehicle allegedly failed to stop. However, police lost sight of the vehicle which continued onto a dirt [...]
Anniversary Celebrations
IN the mid-1970s, well-known Moree car traders Les and Pam Hill shifted gears. They started in the motor dealership game in the very early 1960s, selling Ford cars and related products from their Hill Fitzsimmons Frome Street headquarters, formerly the Southside Service Station. By the early 1970s, they were selling Audis and Volkswagens, but let [...]
Regional News
WHIDDON Narrabri resident Elaine Jones will this week celebrate her 103rd birthday – a remarkable milestone reflecting a life of service, family and community engagement to the district. Incredibly, this centenarian who has given so much to the community, only stopped volunteering with Narrabri Meals on Wheels five years ago – she hung up the [...]
Health and Education
HEALTHY Harold is on a mission to spread healthy habits, and it’s about time Harold had a new set of wheels to keep the journey rolling, says Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson. Mr Anderson said Life Education’s Healthy Harold has been teaching kids health habits for more than 40 years, with generations of locals having [...]
Fundraiser
BRITTANY Mather’s close, family ties to Moree and Garah brought her back home recently to support and thank Moree Women’s Shed for supporting her Dance for Cancer fundraiser next month. Brittany has been selected as one of six ‘stars’ in this year’s Byron Bay Dance for Cancer Gala, at the Byron Theatre on November 8. [...]
Regional History
THE 80th anniversary of the game-changing Gabo wheat variety will be celebrated on Wednesday in Gunnedah. The celebration, Seeds of Legacy, will be hosted by Gunnedah Shire Council and The University of Sydney’s Institute of Agriculture. The October 22 event will include the launch of a new book, The Story of Gabo, written by Dr [...]
Agriculture
QUEENSLAND farmer Hamish McIntyre has been elected president of the National Farmers’ Federation. Elected by NFF members as the organisation’s 15th president, Mr McIntyre takes the reins from outgoing president and Victorian farmer David ‘DJ’ Jochinke. Mr McIntyre runs a family-owned, irrigated and dryland farming, cattle breeding, beef feedlot and broiler chicken meat business in [...]
Mega Markets
THERE’S a reason they’re called the Mega Markets – and visitors, tourists and stall-holders new to the district will find out why when the Pally Bush Markets take over Pallamallawa tomorrow. What started as a small market day in a small village east of Moree has become a mega monster. Col Pring, who helped establish [...]
Northern Tablelands
NSW Parliament resumed this week for the first week of October sittings. I delivered Community Recognition Statements on Walcha CWA, Sapphire Speed Shear, Inverell’s Josh Cathie, Mungindi Cotton Growers Association, Warialda Cultural Community Centre, Bingara Westpac Helicopter Support Group, Moree’s Kamala Wheeler, Walcha’s Lacey Newton, and the Bundarra Garden Festival. This week I tabled Questions [...]
