Governor-General David Hurley today announced the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List, which includes Moree Corrective Services senior officer Marty van Vegchel, Wee Waa volunteer Julie Dowleans and Goondiwindi mayor Lawrence Springborg. In all, the 2020 Honours List recognised 933 Australians. Mr van Vegchel, an officer with Corrective...
BUSINESSES in the Goondiwindi region that require a Food Business Licence will have their fees for the 2020 calendar year refunded or waived by Goondiwindi Regional Council as part of a COVID-19 recovery package. Mayor Lawrence Springborg made the announcement in Inglewood on Friday. The refund will...
The Northern Tablelands electorate has maintained its coronavirus-free status this week. We have not seen a new COVID-19 case in the region for more than a month. The challenge for us all, as we head into a well-deserved long-weekend with reduced COVID-19 travel restrictions, is how do...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP and Minister for Agriculture Adam Marshall has on Thursday slammed the Commonwealth Government, following the decision to withdraw funding from its Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate scheme (EWIR), leaving hundreds of expectant farmers across the State high and dry. The EWIR is a Commonwealth...
NSW Farmers’ welcomes the move to review the route of Inland Rail through the Condamine floodplain in Queensland, and continues to call for a similar review in NSW. The review, ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, is in response to warnings the route will exacerbate...
THE largest road project the region has seen in living memory, the $203 million rebuild of the Newell Highway from Mungle Back Creek to Boggabilla, is powering ahead, and reached a key milestone last week. Jointly funded by the Commonwealth and NSW Governments, Federal Member for...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has declared competition tennis will return to Mungindi, announcing a $208,780 grant from the State Government for the replacement of two of the town’s dilapidated courts. The news follows a $140,715 upgrade of sports facilities in the border community in the...
LOCAL gyms, yoga, indoor pools and dance studios can re-open within a fortnight and junior community sport can resume across NSW from 1 July, as more COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall announced on Tuesday. Mr Marshall thanked the community for its...
For the first time since March, the Northern Tablelands electorate is officially COVID-19 free. All ten of our confirmed cases have moved into the recovered category, which is an outstanding achievement and one we should all be proud of. I want to take this opportunity to extend...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP and Minister for Agriculture Adam Marshall has this week urged the region’s bushfire-affected forestry businesses, horticulturists and beekeepers to apply for assistance through the State Government’s new $140 million Bushfire Industry Recovery Package. Mr Marshall said targeted grants were now available to help...