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Compressed Air Light & Power
EVERYTHING is rolling along smoothly – right on schedule, with no hiccups. Road trains are arriving on-farm to be loaded. It’s been a good season, a great season. The place is a hive of activity – then the power fails and everything comes to a grinding, deafening halt. It’s every farmer’s worst nightmare, but Joff [...]
Food and Wine Festival
A classic Moree autumn day turned on perfect weather – and the crowds came in droves. The 2026 edition of Moree on a Plate on Saturday has been named one of the biggest on record in the 22 years the food wine festival has been showcasing produce from the region and beyond. Locals joined visitors [...]
Crime Prevention
MOREE Plains Shire residents are invited to review and comment on a revised Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan aimed at reducing crime, improving safety and addressing underlying social issues affecting the district. Moree Plains Shire Council voted at its April 16 Ordinary Meeting to place the revised plan on public exhibition for 28 days. [...]
Inland Rail
PARKES mayor, Neil Westcott, and his Queensland counterpart, Toowoomba Regional Council mayor, Geoff McDonald, have expressed deep disappointment following the Federal Government’s decision to halt the Inland Rail project. Cr Westcott said terminating the Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail north of Parkes is a shock and profoundly disappointing for the community, and the nation. “For [...]
Regional Health
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has welcomed news that construction has finally started on the Glen Innes Hospital redevelopment. The $50 million redevelopment was announced by the former Coalition Government in 2021 but progress stalled under the Minns Labor Government. Work was then slated to begin in 2025 but it was again delayed. Mr [...]
Food and Wine Festival
MOREE again takes centre stage today, with the 2026 Moree on a Plate Food and Wine Festival returning to town. Now in its 22nd year, the festival at Moree racecourse has become one of regional Australia’s best-known food and wine events, attracting thousands of visitors to Moree to celebrate the region’s agricultural strength, boutique producers [...]
Northern Tablelands
THE Australian Celtic Festival was again held in Glen Innes from last Friday through to Monday. It was the year of Scotland at this year’s festival and it was another superb event with singing, dancing, food, reenactments and more. Congratulations to all the organisers and volunteers who pulled together this fantastic festival. The 2027 Australian [...]
Inland Rail
NARRABRI Shire Council has expressed deep disappointment following the Federal Government’s decision to withdraw funding for the remaining northern sections of the Inland Rail project beyond Parkes, New South Wales. Narrabri Shire mayor Darrell Tiemens said funding for the project was announced nearly 10 years ago in Narrabri. “Billions of dollars have already been committed [...]
Water Security
THE Murray-Darling Basin Authority has marked the close of the formal public consultation period for the Basin Plan Review. More than 2400 submissions have been received from First Nations people, community members, organisations, local, state and national government agencies. Many were shared in the final days of the consultation period which ended on May 1. [...]
Renewables
NSW Farmers’ is calling on the NSW Government to pause plans to fast-track renewable energy projects in regional New South Wales, warning that rushing approvals will deepen community distress, entrench an unfair power imbalance between large developers and landholders, and generate more objections and conflict. NSW Farmers’ Energy Taskforce chair Reg Kidd called the government’s [...]
