EDITOR’S COMMENT: Loving the ‘real’ local life
15.03.17 PERHAPS my years in the public service have made me cynical and easily irritated. I have developed a serious aversion to the intentional abuse of the word ‘local’, especially …
EDITOR’S COMMENT: Get out of the city ?
08.03.2017 The Get Out of the City campaign initiated by Barnaby Joyce and being promoted by our own local MP Mark Coulton to convince parliament of the merits of de-centralising …
EDITOR’S COMMENT: Are we weighing in on the big issues?
01.03.2017 AMID the uproar about the Museum’s facebook page, did anyone notice there are at least four other hot issues on the boil which each have potential to impact on …
EDITOR’S COMMENT: The roar of social media
22.02.17 Things change quickly in this new world of instant global communication.For this week’s editorial column, I had written a piece on social media. It was serviceable but, in talking …
Editorial Comment: LOST MARBLES OR LEAP OF FAITH?
1.2.17 The talk surrounding the newspaper business in recent years has been pretty much along the lines of an inevitable, internet-inflicted, slow and painful death. Which begs the question, why …
Bringing local language back to life
ORIGINALLY from Walgett, Aunty Beth Lane clearly relishes her role in helping to revive the Indigenous languages and culture of communities around western NSW. Aunty Beth is employed through TAFE …
“No Pilliga CSG and no pipeline – that’s a commitment from Labor”
BY Lisa Wheeler THE fight to stop coal seam gas mining in the Pilliga and the gas pipeline is set to become a fight for the electorate of Barwon, with …
Feel free to fly at Coonamble
HOT ON the heels of the Coonamble Ag Field Day, the Coonamble Aero Club’s Fly-in at Coonamble Airport this Sunday 25 March promises to lift the spirits of any would-be …
Tax Office Tracks Tobacco Crop
AN operation by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) last Wednesday 14 March netted a tobacco crop that had been flourishing in the paddocks beside the Castlereagh River a few kilometres …