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Moree Arts
BANK Art Museum Moree last Thursday announced Gab Lewis as the winner of the seventh BAMM Biennale Portrait Prize. The prize, recognised nationally, is valued at $7500 and awarded for excellence in portrait painting. Located in north-western New South Wales, BAMM has been a cultural hub for the region for more than 35 years, with [...]
Agriculture
JACOB Booby and Blake Palmer from Narrabri and Grace Griffiths from Goondiwindi have been named 2025 Cotton Research and Development Corporation Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year Award finalists. Cotton Australia made the announcement last week, with the winner to be named at the Cotton Collective in Toowoomba in August. The finalists include [...]
Agriculture
AN upcoming conference aims to join the dots between land and genuine solutions to climate change. The conference, which aims to build groundbreaking alliances between farmers, agribusiness and researchers interested in land-based solutions to climate change, will be held at the University of New England on June 18-19. The Down to Earth conference will survey [...]
Agriculture
THE Australian Beef Sustainability Framework has welcomed the announcement from the European Commission that Australia is considered a low risk under its upcoming European Union Deforestation Regulation. Chair of the ABSF Steering Group, Patrick Hutchinson, said this was well-deserved recognition of the industry’s efforts with vegetation management. “This is a positive reflection of industry’s strong [...]
The Golden Triangle
IN 1936, Mallawa Amateur Picnic Race Club president Charles Jardine, a former amateur Australian heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Games representative turned western districts sheep grazier, won the opening race as an owner at Mallawa with Spear Loch. On Saturday, his 91-year-old daughter, Dorothy Wiseman, arrived unheralded at the Mallawa races to relive the memories [...]
Police News
A couple have been injured after they were confronted by two masked intruders who broke into their East Narrabri home early Sunday. At about 3.20am on Sunday, June 8, a 29-year-old woman and 30-year-old man were awoken by a flashing light inside their Barwan Street home. When they went to investigate the light source, they [...]
King’s Birthday
ARMIDALE’S Cyril ‘Jimmy’ Tanner and Jan Lemon from Glen Innes have received a Medal of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours List while Gwydir Shire’s long-serving general manager, Max Eastcott – who retires in July after 24 years’ service – has been awarded a Public Service Medal. Mr Tanner received an OAM [...]
Postie Safety
AUSTRALIA Post will equip mail delivery employees with citronella spray as dangerous dogs continue to present safety risks to team members nationwide – with Moree listed as a major hotspot. The decision follows an alarming number of dog-related incidents in the past six months, with more than 44 postal workers a week falling victim to [...]
Rising Sun 2025
WITH Billy Connelly in a starring role, What We Did On Our Holiday can only be good. What We Did on Our Holiday is a 2014 British black comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, best-known for their television work on shows like Not The Nine O’clock News, Drop The Dead Donkey [...]
The Golden Triangle
TWELVE months ago, Arthur Pollock won the 1200m class 3 handicap at Mallawa on tough old gelding Pahang for Dubbo trainer Connie Greig – the first leg of a winning double for the Scone jockey. This year, he again teamed up with Pahang and Greig to win the 1400m B&W Rural Titan Ag Mallawa Cup, [...]
