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Women in Sport
NEW South Wales sporting organisations can apply for a share of $500,000 funding for innovative initiatives that will increase participation in sport by women and girls, on and off the field as part of the Play Her Way innovation program. The Play Her Way women’s sport strategy is a four-year plan to facilitate opportunities for [...]
2026 Moree Show
BUSH poet Murray Hartin has written some incredible poetry over the years, and his recollections of the Moree Show as a kid, really hits the mark. It was a time when sideshow alley spielers would yell “push your way in, and push your way over,” and “headless, topless and alive! How does she eat? How [...]
Spa Capital
TAYLOR Oval, the proposed site for a 50-metre swimming pool complex, may have once shared land used for burials at an area known as Pioneer Cemetery. There is also evidence that at least four people were buried at or near Taylor Oval in the mid- to late-1800s. Sisters Maud and Fanny Kirkby, daughters of district [...]
History
ON a bright, sunny Saturday morning in 1888, Alf Merritt stepped out from the verandah of the Royal Hotel in Warialda and strolled nonchalantly down Hope Street. He peered skyward. It was a beautiful day. Merritt was on his way to Lawson and Campbell’s General Store, just up the road. He was pretty sure Messrs [...]
Northern Tablelands
New equipment for Inverell Junior Rugby Club Funding was secured for Inverell Junior Rugby Club to purchase new line-marking equipment through the Local Sport Grant Program. The club has nearly 200 registered boys and girls playing rugby this season. The new equipment will take pressure off the hardworking volunteers who put their hand up to [...]
Our Community
NOMINATIONS for the 2026 New England-Northern Inland Volunteer of the Year are now open. The Awards, part of the NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards, are one the largest celebrations of volunteering across the country. Last year’s New England-Northern Inland Volunteer of the Year was Moree flood responder and SES emergency volunteer Kamala Wheeler, who [...]
Artesian Capital
MOREE Plains Shire Council mayor Susannah Pearse, along with fellow councillors and general manager Natalia Cowley, had the pleasure of cutting the ribbon at the Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre on Thursday to celebrate the re-opening of Moree’s world-famous artesian hot pools. “Today is an incredibly exciting day for our community,” Cr Pearse said. “Witnessing the [...]
2026 Moree Show
THE 2026 Moree Show springs into action today, with an incredible line-up of entertainment for young and old across two big days. Headlining events is the Moree Show rodeo, an ABCRA-affiliated event, scheduled to jump from the chutes at 6pm tonight. The new-look, junior-novice rodeo offers top prize money for emerging stars, as well as [...]
Bush Racing
QUIRINDI trainer Geoff O’Brien makes a rare visit to Warialda tomorrow with three runners – and he says all three will run well. “I’ve only been to Warialda a few times with runners and maybe won a maiden there,” he said. O’Brien starts versatile mare Akauwheo in the 1400m Anipro Warialda Cup, with in-form apprentice [...]
Buyback Failure
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey says the Albanese Government’s national gun buyback scheme has failed to clear its first hurdle, with the majority of states and territories refusing to sign up before the March 2026 deadline. Mr Chaffey says state and territory governments saw the reforms for what they were – changes with far-reaching [...]
