The 50th anniversary of AgQuip has brought back memories for Mullaley farmer Donny Finlay as he remembers the day he purchased his first truck at the very first field day in 1973. Donny was just 26 when he visited AgQuip at Riverside Racecourse where it was held in...
Wee Waa United Football Club hosted a junior disco at the Wee Waa Bowling Club recently, with attendees busting moves on the dance floor and loving the glow sticks and paint. “Our junior disco is becoming an event that not only the kids get excited about but also the...
A Kittyhawk P40 fighter which once languished in New Guinea jungle after crash landing in 1944 during World War II landed at Narrabri airport on Monday. The immaculately restored aircraft, 0riginally built in 1943, is owned by Doug Hamilton and is based at Wangaratta....
By Bush Chaplain Rev Noel Williams Deep in the subconscious DNA workings of being human is the lure of fishing: • of catching a big one (whatever the ‘big one’ might be). • of winning a fight or battle with a sneaky, cunning, evasive, but valuable prize. • of the...
Narrabri Golf Club hosted a Narrabri Lions Club charity day on Sunday. It was well-attended, with 88 players contesting the four-person ambrose event across 22 teams, and it was also well-supported, with the local Lions club thanking the many local people and...
Galloping Gully Polocrosse Club hosted its 2023 carnival on Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13. There were almost 200 players across 32 teams in action during the weekend, and the host club and their cross-town rivals Narrabri Polocrosse Club both excelled. Gully...
Narrabri Netball Association’s 2023 season A-grade competition minor premiership race could be wrapped up on Saturday afternoon if defending champions and the current ladder leaders, the Tourist Tornadoes, earn at least one point at the Bev Burrows Courts. The...
By MARK COULTON, PARKES MP I was thrilled to be part of the ground-breaking ceremony for the Baaka Cultural Centre project last week in Wilcannia. After some setbacks, this $9.5 million project is finally underway and I can't wait to see the old Knox and Downs...
By ROY BUTLER, BARWON MP It has been a big two weeks mostly spent on the road around the electorate. I have been out and about to Cobar, Louth, Wanaaring, Tibooburra, Milparinka, Broken Hill, Wilcannia, Topar, Nyngan, with a couple of brief stops outside the...
Narrabri Public School students Ashlyn Saunders and Lincoln Bourke researched and presented addresses at Victory in the Pacific Day commemoration ceremony at the Narrabri War Memorial on Friday. Kokoda was pivotal battle in Pacific war By Ashlyn Saunders Prior to the...
The legacy of former Narrabri Shire president, the late John Brooks, will be immortalised as part of a new residential estate. Mr Brooks, who served as shire president in 1990, will be honoured through the naming of a street in a housing development on Old Gunnedah...
Grace Cuell is home in Narrabri taking some well-deserved time off after a whirlwind six months, launching her solo project ‘Baby Cool’ and embarking on a European tour. Nationally, she’s known as a dreamy co-frontwoman rocking the big stage with her Brisbane-based...