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Nationals promise funding for Bourke Sporting Complex and growing children’s services

15/04/2025 by The Coonamble Times

PHOTO: Bourke Mayor Lachland Ford, Jamie and Judy Chaffey, BDCS General Manager Prue Ritchie, staff, and children. Photo: supplied.

This week Bourke welcomed an election promise of $1.1 million, with the bulk towards the Bourke and District Children’s Servies (BDCS) and the remainder to the Renshaw Sporting Complex. 

Nationals Candidate Jamie Chaffey visited Bourke on Wednesday 9 April for the announcement. 

Around $1 million will provide the BDCS with a shed that can house two buses, a mobile resource truck, staff bathrooms, laundry, a toy wash facility, and a centralised storage area…

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