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Christmas 2025
MOREE Lions Club volunteers are out and about selling scrumptious Christmas cakes and puddings in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Today marks exactly one month until the man in red drops down the chimney – and volunteers Darryl Brady and Will Garrett are getting in early with the perfect treats. Will and Darryl this [...]
Regional Roads
THE Federal Government has backflipped on plans to slash speed limits on regional roads, a proposal that never should have seen the light of day, says Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey. More than 11,000 submissions rejected the proposal. Mr Chaffey said the decision to quietly drop the policy is an admission Labor has failed to [...]
Local Government
LOCAL Government NSW and the Country Mayors Association of NSW today extended a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration between the two bodies and to amplify the voice of local government across the State. LGNSW president Phyllis Miller signed the agreement alongside CMA Chairman Rick Firman during the first day of the 2025 LGNSW Annual [...]
Proposed Pool
MOREE Plains Shire councillors last Thursday voted to note for information Taylor Oval Feasibility report 16.4 concerning the proposed construction of a 50-metre swimming pool complex at Taylor Oval. Director of Planning and Development, Darryl Fitzgerald, told councillors and members of the public in the gallery the purpose of the report was to provide Council [...]
Young Aggies
MORE than $85,000 has been gifted to nine important Moree and district not-for-profit organisations after this year’s hugely successful Young Aggies Ball, held at Moree racecourse in September. More than 500 young aggies from across the district helped raise tens of thousands of dollars through ticket sales, raffles and charity auctions, with proceeds delivered to [...]
Christmas Races
MOREE Race Club is preparing for its biggest social event of the year, with the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races on Saturday, December 20 showcasing a big weekend in Moree. The Christmas race meeting has quickly become the club’s signature event, with thousands of people – young and old – expected to [...]
Recruitment Drive
THE ranks of the NSW Police Force have been bolstered with 13 more officers making the switch from other jurisdictions across Australia and New Zealand, with one joining the New England Police District. Thirteen officers from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory and New Zealand on Friday attested at Sydney Olympic Park as part of [...]
Feature Story
SEVENTY years ago, Moree Municipal Council adopted an ordinance denying Aboriginal people entry to Moree Bore Baths and Moree War Memorial Hall. In part, the ordinance stated “no person, being a full-blooded or half-caste aboriginal native of Australia, or being a person apparently having an admixture of aboriginal blood, shall use or occupy, or be [...]
Lawn Bowls
HE’S been trying for more than 20 years, and this year he did it – for his mum. Phil Hobday has always been one of Moree’s best lawn-bowlers, but winning a Moree Magpies A-grade singles club championship has eluded him. Hobday’s mum, Glenda, passed away in 2018, but she’s never been far away in the [...]
Recognition
MOREE Services Football Club and Moree dietitian Renaye Madden were given Community Recognition Statements in parliament on Thursday by Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan. Mr Moylan recognised the remarkable achievements of the Moree Services Football Club throughout the 2025 season, which saw the club collar a 2-1 grand-final win against Narrabri FC Elevens in [...]
