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Thumbs up 22/1/26

Thumbs up to our 2025 HSC students. I was pleased to read about their success in the first Courier back for the year. Well done!

Thumbs down 22/1/26

Thumbs down to the hooligan doing burnouts on the Violet Street bridge. And to the hoons who roar down Violet Street at night. Have some respect for the people who live nearby.

Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO has passed away. Dame Marie Bashir served as Governor of New South Wales from 2001 to 2014 and was the first woman to be appointed to the role. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988 for her...

Topical 22/1/26

A correspondent tells Topical there is an official term for those people aged 110-years-old and older ... supercentenarian. Australia is believed to have at least 10 supercentenarians living. The oldest is Ken Weeks, of Grafton, who celebrated his 112th birthday in...

Topical 22/1/26

A Topical correspondent made some interesting observations about rainfall in Narrabri after The Courier published its annual rainfall chart and historical data. “It’s interesting to see January has historically been Narrabri’s wettest month since 1871, when The...

Australia Day to be celebrated across shire

Narrabri Shire Council is reminding residents that Australia Day will be celebrated on Monday, January 26, with a full program of events taking place across Narrabri, Boggabri and Wee Waa. This year’s Australia Day ambassador is Professor Veena Sahajwalla AO, an...

Member for Barwon gives update after meeting with HNELHD

Member for Barwon Roy Butler’s office said he had a meeting with Hunter New England Local Health District regarding the Wee Waa Health Service Implementation Plan early last week. Mr Butler’s office provided the below update: Recruitment progress - Four new staff...

From Narrabri to Deputy Chief Judge of the District Court

The capacity of the District Court of NSW has been bolstered with the appointment of two Deputy Chief Judges, including a former Narrabri student. Judge Stephen Hanley SC, who completed his primary schooling at St Francis Xavier’s, joined Christopher O’Brien AM in...

Gun law concern across Parkes: Jamie Chaffey

Federal Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey has told parliament calls and letters from concerned constituents have come from across the electorate in relation to changes to gun laws. Mr Chaffey acknowledged that the Bondi Beach terrorism attack was the worst on the...

Professor Veena Sahajwalla AO the shire Australia Day ambassador

Narrabri Shire will welcome Professor Veena Sahajwalla AO next week as its Australia Day ambassador. Veena is an internationally acclaimed materials scientist, engineer and inventor who is revolutionising recycling science. As founding director of the UNSW Sustainable...

Rescue helicopter deployed twice

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was tasked to Narrabri Hospital twice in almost a week. On Thursday, January 8, the service conducted an inter-hospital transfer from the Narrabri Hospital to the Port Macquarie Base Hospital. A woman aged in her 70s, suffering a serious...

The day they opened the Violet Street bridge

No-one really expected the clatter of hooves, or the flashing sword of a latter-day Captain de Groote ... but everyone seemed to be talking about the possibility. There they were, 39 men and women, two boys perched in a tree, and Alderman Jock Cameron’s faithful dog,...