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EOFY
THE Australian Taxation Office is warning taxpayers not to lodge their tax returns until income statements are marked ‘tax ready’ and data has been pre-filled by the ATO. Last year, 142,000 people who lodged in the first 2 weeks of July had to lodge amendments, or had their returns investigated and amended by the ATO [...]
State Pennants
THE boys certainly have the bowls, and they’ll do their home town proud when Moree Services Club Magpies pennants team contests the BCiB State Fours Grade 4 Pennants Final at Wagga Wagga this weekend. The competition is held over three days – Friday through to Sunday – and has drawn bowlers from across New South [...]
Local Government
MOREE Plains Shire mayor Susannah Pearse, Cr Dominique Hodgkinson and general manager Natalia Cowley this week joined local government representatives from around Australia for the 2025 National General Assembly in Canberra. Cr Pearse spoke to two notices of motion, and both were successfully carried. The first requested the Federal Government recognise the strategic national importance [...]
Cultural Heritage
NAIDOC Week will be celebrated across Australia next month, with a full catalogue of programs and events scheduled for Moree and the wider district. The year’s theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy, aims to showcase the achievements of the past as well as the path that lays ahead. A Naidoc Week opening service [...]
Education and Arts
NEARLY 100 people attended a special concert in the Uniting Church Hall in Moree earlier this month when 22 young people from Xavier Drama Moree and one brave mother graced the stage with poetry and mime. Moree tutor Nora Carrigan said the concert was held after the shock cancellation of the Narrabri Speech and Drama [...]
Regional Tourism
BINGARA will come alive next month when the iconic Orange Festival launches on July 4-5. The festival was first held in 1998 to showcase the importance of Bingara’s orange trees, however the first orange-picking day was held in 1960. In the early 1950s, orange trees were planted in Bingara as a living memorial to the [...]
Group 4
IT’S no coincidence the round nine clash between Moree Boars and Gunnedah Bulldogs at Boughton Oval on Sunday features the Bernie Briggs Cup. Moree Boars Rugby League Football Club will remember the man known universally as “9”, who rewrote the record books time and time again in the 1970s and 1980s. The big day of [...]
Regional News
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has welcomed the confirmation of ongoing Government support for vital maternity care, family care centres and vaccination programs in regional and rural New South Wales. Women and their babies will benefit with $26.8 million of an $83 million maternity package dedicated to maintaining seven Tresillian regional care centres, including [...]
Police News
A man has died after a two-vehicle crash on the Newell Highway near Boggabilla. At about 4pm on Tuesday, emergency services were called to the Newell Highway, Boggabilla, following reports a truck, and a car towing a caravan, had collided. The driver of the car – a 79-year-old man – died at the scene. The [...]
State Budget
MOREE Hospital upgrades, work on the Special Activation Precinct, and work on other major projects and programs across the Northern Tablelands will continue after Treasurer Daniel Mookhey today handed down the 2025-26 NSW Budget. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has secured approximately $252 million in additional funding for the electorate as part of the [...]
