Editorial Comment: Tickle your rats
20.04.17 RATS and mice are again a topic of conversation in the kitchens, cafes and bars of our district. After a big grain and grass growing season in 2016, they’ve …
Tell me again why daylight savings is good for us?
29.03.17 IN 2017, is there still the divide between city and country on the issue of daylight savings or is it now just a matter of personal preference? If there’s …
Youth Crime Report Card: Could Do Better
22.03.17 WITH all the talk lately of community priorities and plans, it is hard not to think about local crime and the involvement of our young people. It is a …
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 …