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Mobile Coverage
TELSTRA will next month conduct maintenance on its mobile site servicing Mungindi. Maintenance work means a reduction in Telstra mobile coverage for short periods, with mobile services in the area temporarily affected while the upgrade works are underway. The bordertown site will need to be switched off on Wednesday, March 11 for eight hours. A [...]
Water Resources
NORTHERN Basin irrigators will be banned from floodplain capturing after the NSW Government increased the Menindee Lakes storage trigger from 195 gigalitres up to 250 gigalitres – a downstream rule is being used to narrow upstream users’ access. The announcement came without consultation with irrigators, nor has it included any form of compensation for those [...]
Social Media
A comprehensive study of Australia’s world-first social media minimum age requirement to understand how the new obligation on platforms is working in practice – and what impact it is having on children, young people and families – will be undertaken by eSafety. The study will assess how the minimum age is being implemented, examine both [...]
Freedom Ride
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: On February 13, 1965, a group of 29 students from the University of Sydney – Student Action for Aborigines – embarked on a 15-day bus journey across New South Wales and southern Queensland, with a purpose to expose the appalling living conditions of Aboriginal people and the systemic racism and discrimination they suffered. [...]
Agriculture
ELDERS Limited advises it has entered into an agreement with Australian Meat Group to sell 100 per cent of shares held in Killara Feedlot, about 13 kilometres north-east of Quirindi, for total consideration of approximately $195.8 million. Killara operates as an integrated grain-fed and grass-fed beef production facility in the Liverpool Plains region of New [...]
Western Challenge
FORMER NRL star Dean Whare knows what it’s like to grow up with domestic violence. Whare, 36, is in Moree with fellow former NRL player, 38-year-old Joseph ‘Sefa’ Paulo, as part of the Voice Against Violence information workshops being rolled out across Australia. Supported by the NSW Government and the NRL, the Voice Against Violence [...]
Western Challenge
JOCK’s Hire not only supply tools and equipment to contractors, builders, event organisers and do-it-yourself homeowners in Moree and the wider district. The equipment hire company, owned by Todd Mitchell, also strongly supports community events and grassroots organisations across the Moree Plains. For more than two decades, Jock’s Hire has been supplying a comprehensive range [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ says plans to pollute rural and regional communities with Sydney’s rubbish should be immediately rejected. The proposed Parkes Incinerator would burn 700,000 tonnes of Sydney’s red-bin rubbish each year if approved, and NSW Farmers’ vice-president, Rebecca Reardon, said it was totally unacceptable to force any regional community to be the dumping ground for [...]
Wellbeing
WOMEN in eight regions across New South Wales, including Wee Waa, Walcha and Manilla, will have access to practical wellbeing and self-care training with the launch of free women’s wellbeing workshops ahead of NSW Women’s Week. The NSW Government is supporting regional and rural women’s mental health with this partnership with Rural Adversity Mental Health [...]
Regional News
RSL NSW has the road for the 2026 Listening Tour, with stopovers in Tamworth today and Inverell tomorrow. The tour gives members across New South Wales the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the state’s largest veterans’ charity. The Inverell leg will take place at the Inverell RSM Club at 10.30am tomorrow. As [...]
