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Border News
THE Inglewood community celebrated the grand re-opening of the refurbished Casa Mia independent living aged-care facility at the weekend, with five newly refurbished independent living units ensuring more vulnerable elderly people have the opportunity to remain in Inglewood. Queensland Minister for Housing, Sam O’Connor, joined Goondiwindi Regional Council mayor Lawrence Springborg to officially open the [...]
Health Services
REGIONAL communities across New South Wales are set to benefit from new Key Health Worker Accommodation which hopes to attract more paramedics to the bush. The $200million program supports more than 20 projects across rural, regional and remote NSW. Funding will secure approximately 120 dwellings across regional NSW, which includes the building of new accommodation, [...]
Youth Crime
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan last week in parliament implored Premier Chris Minns to change the laws pertaining to youth crime in New South Wales. Under common law in New South Wales, a 13-year-old can commit numerous break-and-enter offences, be charged by the police, only to have the charges dismissed under doli incapax. “When [...]
Regional Crime
A man has died and a second man is under police guard in Tamworth Base Hospital following a stand-off with police in Tamworth overnight. Emergency services were called to a home unit on Goonoo Goonoo Road, Tamworth, at about 4.30pm Saturday, February 22, following reports of a concern for welfare. On arrival, officers attached to [...]
Our Community
A new initiative in the Moree area for people with spinal cord injury or neurological disabilities will be launched at an informal meet-and-greet at Moree Services Club on Sunday, March 2. Spinal Cord Injuries Australia is forming local community networks for people with spinal cord injury or neurological disabilities, their families, parents, friends and carers [...]
Regional News
THE countdown is on to Narrabri Shire’s 2025 CREATE Festival – with less than a week until opening night. And in a first for CREATE, this year’s festival will include a special art exhibition from Moree’s Yaama Ganu Gallery, featuring the incredible talents of artists from Aboriginal communities across Australia. This rich collection of works [...]
Northern Tablelands
THERE will be $1 million spent in Armidale and Moree to upgrade hospital and health facilities. The funding comes from the NSW Government’s Regional Health Works Program and there will be five projects: $250,000 to upgrade Armidale Hospital’s staff accommodation for junior medical officers; $250,000 to be spent on upgrading Armidale Hospital’s off-site staff accommodation [...]
Mental Health
THE community is invited to get involved with the new Tamworth Mental Health Unit with Gamilaroi woman Amy Hammond running a series of butterfly weaving workshops for artwork that will feature in the new unit. Ms Hammond, from the Moree and Wellington communities of New South Wales and now based in Tamworth, is one of [...]
Rural Health
RURAL, regional and remote Australians are dying at higher rates than their urban counterparts, with avoidable deaths in the regions nearly four times higher, according to new data released by the National Rural Health Alliance. The Rural Health in Australia Snapshot 2025 paints a grim picture of health inequities between rural and metropolitan areas. The [...]
New Site
MOREE Plains Shire Council has undertaken a strategic review of the Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre redevelopment, with plans to establish a new 50-metre pool complex on the Taylor Oval site. Council said in a media release, the time has come for a new home for Moree’s 50-metre pool. Moree Plains mayor, Susannah Pearse, said the [...]
