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Regional News
THIRTY-ONE young people are getting a headstart in their tertiary pursuits, thanks to the Gunnedah Community Scholarship Fund. The successful recipients were announced at a presentation in The Civic on Wednesday. GCSF chair, councillor Linda Newell, said it was wonderful to meet so many motivated students and help them on their way towards careers in [...]
Strike Force Doberta
POLICE are following through on numerous lines of inquiry into three murders that have taken place at Lake Cargelligo in central-western New South Wales. Strike Force Doberta has been established to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident. NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Andy Holland said the suspect, 37-year-old Julian Ingram, is still at large. Police have [...]
Strike Force Doberta
UPDATED: Specialist police conduct a large-scale search to locate man after four people were shot –three killed – at Lake Cargelligo in the states central west yesterday. Officers from Central West Police District attended and located two people – a 25-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man – in a vehicle suffering gunshot wounds. They were [...]
Homicide Investigation
THREE people are dead following a shooting Thursday afternoon at Lake Cargelligo in central-western New South Wales, about 240km south of Cobar. Emergency services were called to Walker Street, near Yelkin Street, Lake Cargelligo, following reports of a shooting. Officers attached to Central West Police District attended the scene. Three people – two women and [...]
Fatal Crash
TWO people have died following a crash near Narrabri overnight. At about 1.15am today, Friday, January 23, emergency services were called to the Newell Highway, near Dog Fence Road, about 30km south of Narrabri, after reports a car and a B-double had collided before catching alight. As at 3.30am, the Newell Highway was closed in [...]
Federal Politics
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey has issued a statement regarding his resignation from the coalition’s shadow frontbench late yesterday. Along with Mr Chaffey, party leader David Littleproud, deputy leader Kevin Hogan, senators Bridget McKenzie, Ross Cadell and Susan McDonald and Darren Chester, Andrew Hastie, Pat Conaghan, Sam Birrell, Anne Webster and Andrew Willcox lodged [...]
Flight Training
THEY are technically too big to land at Moree Regional Airport, with local residents treated to an aerial spectacular Wednesday afternoon when one of the Australian Defence Force’s behemoths, a C-17 Globemaster III, underwent touch-and-go operations. The Globemaster also performed ‘missed approaches’, where the pilot safely aborts a landing attempt and increases altitude to circle [...]
Weather
RESIDENTS across north-western New South Wales are bracing for a heatwave of epic proportions, with temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees for at least one week from Sunday, January 25. In Moree, a top of 45 degrees is forecast for Wednesday, January 28 with the thermometer on Australia Day, January 26, expected to reach 43 [...]
Coalition Split
IN an unprecedented falling-out in federal politics, the entire National Party frontbench resigned from Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley’s shadow cabinet on Wednesday night following a bitter dispute over Labor’s hate crimes legislation. The dramatic exodus has plunged the Coalition into its deepest internal crisis since the federal election last year, when the Nationals briefly [...]
Parkes Electorate
MEMBER for Parkes, Jamie Chaffey, said the passing of new gun laws this week without any meaningful consultation and minimal debate is yet another example of the Labor Government’s disrespect for regional Australians. In his speech to Parliament this week on the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill Mr Chaffey said [...]
