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Country areas are losing ‘The Right to Know’!

There is a high degree of unfortunate irony in the current campaign by Australia’s media heavyweights to preserve freedom of speech and the public’s ‘right to know’ in the face of continuing encroachment by governments and their agencies into the reporting of matters...

Topical 29/10/19

China will reportedly lift coal imports, already at 250.57 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2019, by more than 10 per cent this year.

Topical 29/10/19

One of Australia’s most successful business and investment players notes in a newspaper interview it is cheaper to set up and manufacture in the US and import products into Australia than to make them here. Why? “Our energy costs are three times more in Australia.”...

Topical 29/10/19

A recent ABC radio interview with legendary Hollywood cowboy Hopalong Cassidy’s biographer, Dr Derrham Groves, drew forth some interesting comments from the author. “Hopalong Cassidy (Hollywood actor Williams Boyd) visited Australia in 1954,” said Dr Groves. “He was a...

Thumbs Up 29/10/19

Thumbs up to the new bike/walking tracks in Narrabri. We start on to the track at the Violet Street bridge, go through the hospital then over to the West. They’ve sealed everywhere. It’s a great ride.

Thumbs Up 29/10/19

I have just been to the Narrabri Lawn Cemetery to place some flowers and it looks amazing - large healthy trees, tidy, green lawns and so colourful.

Thumbs down 29/10/2019

Thumbs down to the council - a large tree branch has fallen down diagonally opposite the council chambers and I contacted council a week ago to let them know as it is potentially dangerous, but it is still there.

Mixed netball comp continues with the round two matches

Mixed netball comp continues with the round two matches

Round two of the Narrabri Netball Association’s twilight competitions were held on Thursday night. The association’s three pools of open competitions highlighted the night. In Pool A The Smarties clipped the Eagles wings by winning 24-7, How I Net Your Mother scored a...

It’s a thumbs up from swimmers as pool opens

It’s a thumbs up from swimmers as pool opens

It might be a stretch to say Narrabri Shire Council has ‘backflipped’ on changes to the operating hours of the Wee Waa Memorial Pool but there has definitely been some movement, and it’s a welcome relief for early morning swimmers like Marjory Drummond. “I had a good...