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Our Community
BANK Art Museum Moree has won a major award at the Museum and Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards, held at University of Sydney’s The Refectory last week. BAMM scooped the Engagement Projects Award for Team Trampoline, developed by BAMM with artist Meg Wilson, and facilitated by BAMM’s Cate Gaston. Ms Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist and [...]
Mental Health
FORMER Melbourne Storm and South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL star Greg Inglis will be in Moree next week to deliver a series of engaging mental health programs as part of his ground-breaking Goanna Academy advocacy group. Inglis will be in Moree for two days, after Moree Plains Shire Council’s Community Development Team successfully obtained an Alcohol [...]
Moree To Paris
WHEN people in Moree talk about the local velodrome, the conversation always turns to the Sutton brothers. Always. Gary and Shane Sutton cut their teeth at the Moree track, down the southern end of the perfectly-named Endeavour Lane. Cycling royalty returned home last week, when Gary Sutton rode into town for a few days to [...]
Regional Health
THE University of New England has been selected as one of 10 universities nationwide to receive additional Commonwealth supported medical places, in a major win for regional health workforce education. UNE will receive 10 additional places annually from 2026, with the potential for further expansion from 2028. The university was chosen through a competitive process [...]
Our Community
MOREE SES volunteer Kam Wheeler has been named 2025 NSW Adult Volunteer of the Year at a special gala event in Sydney today. Ms Wheeler is a leading Moree SES rescuer, trainer and leader with more than 40 years’ experience across the north-western region of New South Wales. She is the Mehi Cluster support officer, [...]
Texas Cup
Moree galloper Shut Eye, owned by the Our Next New Horse Syndicate, is off to the Texas Cup on Saturday, December 13 – and we’re organising a bus trip to make a real day of it. We have a driver organised and syndicate members Mark and Nat Cook have kindly loaned us their bus for [...]
Agriculture
The Australian Cotton Ginning Association has awarded life membership to Moree’s Melvyn Kong and service-to-the-industry awards to Rowena’s Neil Towns and former Wathagar Gin manager Mike Murray during its annual general meeting last month, reports Grain Central. Richard Millyard, formerly with Lummus Australia in Moree, also received life membership. Since starting out at Auscott in [...]
Agriculture
A series of NSW Farmers’ roadshows will return to the north-west this month to assist the farming community with telecommunication issues, including one at Moree on Wednesday, December 10. The Moree roadshow will be held at Moree Masonic Hall between 6pm and 8pm. Roadshows will also be held at Uralla, Mullaley and Loomberah over the [...]
Regional News
INVERELL Shire Council has announced a more than $2 million budget surplus following the completion of the Inverell Aquatic Centre redevelopment, with $2.3 million to be reallocated. The redevelopment, which commenced with the demolition of the previous facility in May 2023 and reached practical completion in September 2025, represents one of Council’s most significant infrastructure [...]
Christmas 2025
THE beauty of Beauty Matters in Moree at Christmas time is that Natalee Cook and her team make the task of choosing gifts so much easier. And this yuletide season, Moree’s foremost beauty therapy and treatment salon has affordable gift vouchers specialising in beauty products from industry leader, Payot, as well as a few new [...]
