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Place-Based Initiatives
LOCAL residents, service providers, government agency representatives, NSW police and Moree Plains Shire councillors attended two public meetings on Thursday programmed to update stakeholders about place-based initiatives rolled out across the Moree Plains shire in the past 12 months. One of the main topics discussed at the open forums, hosted by the Premier’s Department, was [...]
Legal Aid
PEOPLE across the district now have face-to-face access to legal help, with the opening of a permanent Legal Aid NSW office in Moree. Legal Aid NSW has been providing telephone advice and outreach services to the region on a fly-in, fly-out basis but now clients can seek legal help from a dedicated team of local [...]
News
A total of 290 new and refurbished firefighting vehicles have been delivered to NSW Rural Fire Service brigades during the past 12 months. And in a first for New South Wales, the RFS has taken possession of six ultra-large firefighting trucks from specialist vehicle manufacturer Tatra. Weighing up to 26 tonnes and carrying up to [...]
Local Racing
THREE above-average gallopers emerged from a late-winter race meeting at Moree on Tuesday, with Live to Rise, It Stays in Vegas and Super Sioux creating big impressions. Live to Rise, a $600 yearling purchase by Gunnedah owner Shane Croucher, has now won two from four starts for trainer Sally Torrens. The three-year-old filly did plenty [...]
Agriculture
FIVE young rural leaders have been named the successful recipients of the NSW Farmers’ Tertiary Scholarships at its annual conference. Each year, NSW Farmers’ awards five tertiary scholarships to members or their children to support their university or vocational qualification in a field relevant to agriculture, or regional and rural Australia. The 2025 recipients hailed [...]
Agriculture
ON Australian farms, children are often front and centre – in the ute, in the yards, in the workshop and in the moment. But today, as part of National Farm Safety Week, Farmsafe Australia is shining a spotlight on what may be one of the most underdiscussed risks in agriculture: on-farm child safety. Farmsafe chair [...]
Agriculture
SUNDOWN Pastoral Company, owned by David and Danielle Statham, and Hiringa Energy have announced a start for the Good Earth Green Hydrogen and Ammonia project west of Moree. GEGHA has satisfied all development milestones, with construction scheduled to begin in October this year. The GEGHA project, supported by the NSW Government, is an integrated solar [...]
Our Community
FEDERAL Member for Parkes, Jamie Chaffey, encourages community groups and organisations to consider applying for National Australia Day Council funding to host an Australia Day event next year. Each year, the National Australia Day Council offers grants for community groups, government entities and councils to support Australia Day events and encourage community participation. The Australia [...]
Law and Order
THE NSW Government will hold two public meetings in Moree today to provide updates on place-based initiatives that have been rolled out across the shire. The initiatives are aimed at addressing complex issues and shaping solutions to Moree’s ongoing crime problems. Information about funding for after-hours activities, the proposed Moree bail accommodation and support program [...]
Local Racing
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD apprentice Jade Metcalfe celebrated her “30th” in fine style at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel TAB meeting on Tuesday when Mootessa angled between runners at the top of the straight to comfortably win the 1600m Syngenta Australia BM-58 Handicap. Metcalfe, apprenticed to Wayne Nugent at Toowoomba, reduced her claim to one-and-a-half kilos when [...]
