Over 50 people turned out to the Coonamble Bowling Club on 20 November to celebrate a year of student achievement for Indigenous girls at the local National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) awards.
NASCA leaders Michaela Kelly, Jasmine Haycock and Kiarna Smith supported 63 girls at Coonamble High School throughout 2025 with educational, cultural, sport and life skills activities.
Cooking workshops, where the girls were taught to whip up home-made meals like butter chicken and curried sausages, were popular.
"We normally ask the girls what would they like to cook and we . . .
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