The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Agriculture
NEW England-based primary producers have the opportunity to expand their knowledge, free of charge, at a practical workshop designed to help provide financial skills key to managing a farming business. Hosted by the NSW Rabo Client Council, the Financial Skills Workshop – which is open to all farmers, not just Rabobank clients – will be [...]
Road Safety
THE Queensland Police Service is urging motorists to take greater care on the roads following a tragic week, with five lives lost in six days. These lives lost are a powerful reminder of the devastating impact that road trauma has on individuals, families and communities across the state. Vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and [...]
Border News
GOONDIWINDI Regional Council has endorsed its largest capital works project to repair and reinforce critical sections of the Goondiwindi levee, following significant erosion after recent floods. At this week’s Ordinary Council Meeting, Council committed to a nearly $70 million levee restoration project jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments after significant erosion was identified. [...]
Membership Drive
MOREE RSL Sub-Branch has started 2026 with a committee reshuffle and renewed calls for affiliate and auxiliary members. Newly-elected president Jeff Biddle said the Moree sub-branch is a voluntary group made up of past serving members of the Australian defence forces as well as auxiliary and affiliate members. “Our veterans have full membership of the [...]
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 [...]
