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Rural Health
ALARMING data from the Bureau of Health Information’s Healthcare Quarterly report has revealed what is already known, according to Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan – the New South Wales health system is buckling under pressure. The October to December, 2025 report revealed an alarming trend of the number of people leaving emergency departments before [...]
Law and Order
A man will face court today after a police officer was allegedly assaulted in Moree yesterday. The officers suffered lacerations to his arms and back. Police will allege that at about 4.20pm yesterday, March 23, an off-duty police officer was in a grocery store on Balo Street, Moree, when he observed a man stealing items [...]
Regal Visit
THE Governor of New South Wales, Margaret Beazley, said meeting a student from Moree Secondary College at Government House last year gave her more reason to visit the black-soil plains. Her Excellency and her husband, Dennis Wilson, enjoyed and extended visit to the Moree district, where they visited schools, community organisations, agriculture industry stakeholders and [...]
Education
STUDENT leaders from Moree Christian School and Moree Secondary College last week visited the NSW Parliament and Government House as part of the NSW Secondary School Student Leadership Program. The program invites school captains and student leaders from across New South Wales to visit the Parliament of NSW to develop leadership skills. Isabelle Kelly and [...]
Environment
THE Murray-Darling Basin Authority is urging everyone across the Basin to speak up as public consultation for the Basin Plan Review reaches its halfway mark. Hundreds of conversations have already taken place in towns and communities across the Basin, and councils, community groups and industry bodies are well underway with their submissions. MDBA chief executive [...]
Parkes Electorate
There is one thing everyone is talking about, not only in Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, Narrabri and Forbes, not only across the electorate of Parkes, but across all of Australia, and that is the access and cost of fuel. Regional Australia is hurting over the rapid and massive hike in fuel prices and matters are [...]
Emergency Services
RURAL firefighters in New South Wales are responding faster and safer as a result of new technology which is helping detect fires earlier, improve situational awareness and strengthen communications in remote areas. AI-powered camera systems, thermal-imaging drones and expanded satellite connectivity are transforming how emergency services detect, assess and manage bush fires – giving crews [...]
Agriculture
THE Young Farmers Business Program will officially kick off at the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Thursday, April 2, helping NSW farmers set up for the opportunities and challenges ahead in the State’s agricultural industry. The programs starts with the Young Farmer Exchange, a free three-hour event hosted by NSW Farmers Young Farmers Committee, in [...]
Operation Soteria
POLICE have charged ten people following a three-day, high-visibility operation focused on preventing and disrupting crime in Tamworth. Between Thursday March 19 and Saturday March 21, officers attached to Oxley Police District – assisted by officers attached to Operation Soteria, Western Region Operations Support Group, Youth Command, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command and the Dog [...]
Regal Visit
THE next time state pollies invite the NSW Governor, Her Excellency Margaret Beazley, to their Macquarie Street premises, they better be on their best behaviour. Her Excellency and her husband, Dennis Wilson, were in Moree last week for a three-day tour of the region, and called into Chalky’s Boxing Gym to catch up with one [...]
