Wage rise could be a bitter pill
PHOTO: Coonamble accountant Geoff Secombe says the recent wage increase could impede the economy, rather than strengthen it. OVER 2.5 million Australian workers, including those in NSW are set to …
Shearers of the future: training the next generation
• PHOTO: Some of the young local attendees of the three-day Wool Handling course in Gulargambone with their instructors. Image: Coonamble High School. COONAMBLE Shire councillors and educators from across …
The business of art
• PHOTO: Arts Law Centre staff John Waight (left) and Roxanne Lorenz (right) with Maddi Ward, Jamie Lea Trindall and Kevin (Sooty) Welsh at the Outback Arts Gallery last week. …
Castlereagh Connection sells out at EP launch
PHOTO: David Jones Sr, Braydon Dodd, Travis Jones and David Jones Jr shortly before their gig at the bowling club. (This is a 2021 news story) LOCAL family band Castlereagh …
Baradine grazier retires on a high
PHOTO: Denis Todd with one of his award-winning Border Leicester ewes that won first prize in the shorn ewe section. (This is a 2021 news story) A WELL-KNOWN local stud …
Gulargambone preschool
• PHOTO: Teddy, Ellis & Harry with their puppets. Term 2 Week 7Week 7 has been full of learning, play and fun! The children have been very busy digging huge …
Show Society’s Young Woman Competition
• PHOTO: Coonamble Show’s 2022 Young Woman Alexandra Hamblin and Junior Young Woman Mia Nalder. MEMBER for Parkes Mark Coulton sashed the Coonamble Show Society's 2022 Young Woman at the …
Tiny Tots on Show
• PHOTO: Some would say the mothers are often more excited than the kids and that definitely seemed the case for James Wrench (Runner up) and Dustin Bruce (Champion)in the …