Further changes to student visa work conditions will help boost frontline health efforts to tackle coronavirus, says Member for Riverina and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack. International students studying relevant medical courses will be exempt from the usual 40-hour per fortnight work limit if they are...
THE Australian Government yesterday launched the new voluntary coronavirus app, COVIDSafe, an important public health initiative to help keep individuals, their families and the community safe from further spread of coronavirus through early notification of possible exposure. Within 24 hours, more than one million Australians had...
IT was an Anzac Day like no other. But this year’s special day of remembrance and gratitude will be remembered as one of observance, ingenuity and indomitable spirit. It is 104 years since 2000 soldiers from Australian and New Zealand marched through the London CBD and wounded...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall on Friday urged the community to make the most of a new drive-through COVID-19 testing service at Armidale Hospital from Monday, as health authorities increase the level of local testing. Mr Marshall said Armidale had been identified for its low testing...
RETURNED serviceman Eric Carrigan says that while Anzac Day will be like no other in its 100-year history, he encourages the people of Moree to pause and remember past and current armed services personnel from both sides of the ditch who have fought and are...
MOREE Boars are delighted to be back in the Group 4 fold and are ready to play. However, the Boars will only take the field if it’s safe to do so and have the okay from health authorities as well as the NSWRL. Moree Boars club president...
As of today, April 23, there are now just four current confirmed COVID-19 cases within the Northern Tablelands – two in Armidale, one in Inverell and one from Moree, although this person has been in Tamworth Hospital since testing positive. Pleasingly, in the past 24 hours,...
It’s one of the largest ever silo murals in Australia, but visitors will have to wait to see the newly completed GrainCorp Silos at Yelarbon. Mayor of the Goondiwindi region, Lawrence Springborg, has urged people not to drive to see the artwork until after COVID-19 restrictions...
THE festival may be cancelled, but the show must go on. That’s the message from incoming Moree on a Plate Festival president, Chloe Hayes, whose maiden tenure was abruptly cut short due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. “While it’s disappointing to have to cancel my first festival...
LEADERS from all tiers of government are urging Australians to invoke the Anzac spirit like never before and stand proudly at the head of driveways on Saturday morning and salute past and present armed services personnel who have fought and are still fighting for this...