Media Release FEDERAL Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton remains confident that planning for the iconic Inland Rail project will remain a priority for the Federal Government following meetings he attended in Canberra last week. [caption id="attachment_4819" align="alignleft" width="620"] Inland Rail Implementation Group chair John Anderson with Mark Coulton...
CHRIS Roberts is a big man with a big heart – and he’s lost family and friends through cancer too many times. “Both my brother Les and uncle, Keith Wright passed away from cancer, so it’s good to be able to donate something to a cause...
Media Release NSW public schools will see a 45 per cent boost in counsellors and psychologists to help improve students’ wellbeing. The first of 236 additional counselling and psychologist positions in NSW schools have been filled as part of the NSW Government’s $167 million Supported Students, Successful...
CHLOE McDermott is an aspiring young artist from Perth suburb Cottlesloe who has already produced a vast body of work. Tiger is Chloe’s first signed piece, and the first to be put up for public sale. And that’s not surprising, given that Chloe only recently reached double...
EMERGING Moree photographer Heidi Morris, a true outback girl with wanderlust in her eyes, has captured some truly amazing images of rural Australia during her brief career, especially when working on cattle stations in western Queensland in 2014 and 2015. She also captured the hearts of...
Media Release MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has announced that site investigation work has started this week for a major $4 million upgrade of the Newell Highway between Mungle Back Creek and Boggabilla. Mr Marshall said Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) has engaged Arcadis Australia Pacific...
Words, images: Bill Poulos THERE is a lot happening in an unassuming backroom tucked away behind Moree Plains Gallery in downtown Moree. The artists’ studio, strewn with paint pots, brushes, easels and plenty of laughter and inspiration goes largely unnoticed as pedestrians stroll by on Heber and...
MOTHERHOOD and raising two young kids put Kristy Gray’s artistic talents on hold for quite a few years, but as her two daughters Georgie and Abbie grew older – they’re now 16 and 13 – she decided to return to the easel. And judging by the...
Media Release MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has today announced a grant of $8,521 to improve fish habitat along the Gwydir River at Pallamallawa, as part of the NSW Government’s Habitat Action Grants Program. [caption id="attachment_4808" align="alignleft" width="580"] Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall, Moree Plains Shire...
MURRAY Hugh Hartin an artist? Many might say he’s of the bovine kind, but Murray Hartin is indeed an artist, an artist of the written word as well as the spoken word. For years he has made audiences laugh, cry and visualise the spoken word with his...