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25.01.2022 The Australian Government has extended the Emergency Bushfire Response in Primary Industries Grants until December 2020. The Special Disaster Grant eligibility ...guidelines have been expanded to allow more of our state’s primary producers to access the assistance. If you are an eligible primary producer, you could receive a grant of up to $75,000and applying is now easier. The changes include: extending the closing date until December 2020. requiring more than 50% of business income to come from primary production and/or production of goods from your produce (eg wine). extending the timeframe for reaching the 50% income threshold from three to eight years for primary producers with long lead times. allowing the forestry industry to demonstrate meeting 50% income threshold when trees are harvested. removing the $100,000 off-farm income threshold (noting you will still need to demonstrate that you earn at least 50% of your income from primary production) removing the requirement to be registered for Goods and Services Tax (GST). These changes will make it easier for you to access critical support to meet immediate needs not covered under existing insurance policies. To find out more and submit an application, visit https://www.raa.nsw.gov.au//special-disaster-grant-bushfir.
24.01.2022 Did you know we have moved?! This years sale will be held at our brand new sale complex at ‘Kombali’ Narrabri!! We can’t wait to welcome you there for both our Inspection Day (18/06/21) and Sale Day (09/07/21). #herefords #pollherefords #bullsale #heifers
24.01.2022 Breaking - a further $100m has been put on the table by the NSW Government for farmers to claim a $10,000 rebate for zinc phosphide poisons. With ongoing questi...ons about Bromadiolone, it’s approval and potential risks this is a good move. The Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) wil be administering the program. Details to follow. Thanks to NSW Farmers and Country Women's Association (CWA) of NSW for their continued advocacy.
24.01.2022 This morning Narrabri Fire and Rescue were responded to reports of a persons trapped motor vehicle accident approximately 55kms south of Narrabri on the Newell ...Highway. Our crews provided fire protection for the duration of the incident in addition to assisting volunteers from the NSW VRA in extricating the male patient from the vehicle who was severely trapped by compression. The Newell Highway was closed for a period of time to allow the Westpac Rescue Helicopter to land onsite so the patient could be airlifted to hospital. Great work by all agency’s involved in the incident. #narrabrifire #rescue
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23.01.2022 QUEENS BIRTHDAY HONORS - PROF SABINA KNIGHT The Director of the Murtupuni Centre for Rural & Remote Health, James Cook University is among the almost 1200 Au...stralians to be recognised in today's Queen's Birthday Honours. Professor Sabina Knight has been appointed as Member of the Order (AM) for significant service to rural and remote health, nursing and education. She is also one of 63 Australians mentioned in the COVID-19 Honour Roll, to recognised for their contribution in support of Australia's response to the COVID-19.
22.01.2022 Mungindi CBD is alight
21.01.2022 Ladies Bowls report 27th & 29th August 2020. Results of the ladies club pairs that were played on Saturday. Debbie Gleeson and Lorraine Scott had a very close w...in over Ronnie Dewar and Berice Eather. Gleeson and Scott were leading 20-13 with two ends to go when Dewar & Eather scored 6 on the second last end making the score 20-19 in favour of Gleeson-Scott. Gleeson and Scott then scored 2 on the last end to take the game 22-19. Kay Carolan and Rhonda Welchman won 12 of their 18 ends to defeat Gloria Campey and Cindy Neil 27-12. Marie Redman and Beryl Regan had a close game against Heather Caton and Cecile. Caton and Cecile won 10 ends to 8 but were down 15-5 on the 11th end. Caton and Cecile then scored 10 points to Redman and Regan’s 3 on the last 6 ends to only lose by 3 points with the final score being 18-15 to Redman and Regan. Janet Coleman and Gail Panton received a forfeit from Kay Parker and Sue Solomon. The Trophy day on Thursday seen three games of triples and a game of pairs played. The overall winners on the day were Glennis Godden, Ronnie Dewar and Sue Solomon, they defeated Olwyn Campey, Heather Caton and Helen Woodward with a score of 21 points. 10 points for a win and they won 11 of the 18 ends played. Second went to Trish Allison, Di Chessels and Val Falkiner who defeated Lesley Anderson, Jan Etheridge and Yvonne Hardman. Falkiner’s team scored 20 points with 10 for a win and 10 ends. Third place was tied with Pat Sheils, Dawn Armstrong and Beryl Regan defeating Caroline Tomlinson, Berice Eather and Cecile scoring 10 points for a win plus 9 ends. Gloria Campey and Kay Carolan also scored 10 points for a win and won 9 ends against Janet Coleman and Lyn Tuckey. Matches set down for Thursday 3rd September. Club Pairs. Val Falkiner and Helen Woodward v Kay Carolan and Rhonda Welchman. Saturday 5th September. Club Pairs. Debbie Gleeson and Lorraine Scott v Dawn Armstrong and Eva Sadler. Marie Redman and Beryl Regan v winner of Thursday’s match. Social bowls is also played on Thursday. See more
20.01.2022 Unfortunately, despite best efforts the Wee Waa High School has seen an escalation in what is understood to be allergic reaction after rainfall several weeks ag...o. There are currently ongoing investigations into the cause of illness in students and staff at Wee Waa High School. I have kept in regular contact with the Department and the Minister regarding the situation. The decision has been made to move all students, teaching and administrative staff to the Wee Waa Public school site and joint locate until the situation at the high school is fully resolved . A working group of staff and parents will be meeting for the first time on Monday to oversee the transfer and establish the most effective and efficient way to ensure that students and staff can return to face-to-face learning while remaining safe from harm. I will be in communication with parent representatives after Monday’s meeting.
19.01.2022 We made it!!! Only took 6 hrs 40 mins!!
18.01.2022 Today a very kind patient brought flowers and chocolates to thank the Pathology and Radiology teams for the work they do. Both teams were humbled by the recognition #teamworkmakesthedreamwork
18.01.2022 Great news for Narrabri and the payoff for several years of effort by Councillors and Staff. Altho...ugh Narrabri missed the Special Activation Precinct, today the Council has been funded to the tune of $16.8 million for headworks, electricity connection, a rail siding and the development of the Culgoora Road Council owned site. My congratulations also to the Deputy Premier John Barilaro on his attendance and announcement today. In March this year I wrote to the Deputy Premier - an excerpt from that letter is below - this followed a number of meetings with the Narrabri Council, and letters back and forth between myself and the Deputy Premier about support for Narrabri (starting in October last year). I look forward to project fast tracking being extended to this project.
16.01.2022 1. Don’t miss out on your FREE screening mammogram. BreastScreen NSW is leaving Wee Waa soon! 2. The BreastScreen NSW mobile screening unit is curre...ntly at the Wee Waa hospital on Alma Street. 3. Women of Wee Waa aged 40 years and over are encouraged to take this opportunity to have their free breast screen. 4. Women in NSW have a 1 in 7 risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime and 9 out of 10 women who develop breast cancer do not have a family history. 5. BreastScreen NSW offers a free, high quality service for the early detection of breast cancer. Breast screening can pick up breast cancer before it can be seen or felt and when treatment is most likely to be successful. Early detection saves lives. 6. Women should have regular screening mammograms every two years once is not enough! 7. Take advantage of this free service while the mobile unit visits Wee Waa. 8. Simply call 13 20 50 or book online https://book.breastscreen.nsw.gov.au/
16.01.2022 Great to bring my NSW Nationals colleagues Dugald Saunders MP and Gurmesh Singh - MP to #WeeWaa today to meet with local irrigators and members of the local com...munity to discuss a variety of issues. Thank you to Wee Waa Hot Bread and Roxanne at the Wee Waa Newsagency and Gift Shop for your hospitality it’s always appreciated.
13.01.2022 Congratulations and welcome to our new show president, Gary Hibbens
12.01.2022 'Clive' It certainly wasn't love at first sight. I met Greta when I was about thirteen years old. We were staying at the same boarding house in Narrabri while ...we where going to high school in there. I came from Baan Baa at the time and she came from Yarrie Lake. The boarding house had a lot of railway workers and anyway, we were both doing our homework at the table one night and we had a bit of a scrap over a bottle of writing pen ink and the ink bottle got knocked over. Greta got the blame for it. I had knocked it over myself and didn’t own up to it. That was a pretty sore point with Greta for a long time so we didn’t get off to a great start. We had one teacher at Narrabri High School and boy, she had a good pair of props on her. She was in her first year out of teacher's collage. She was walking through the class one day and one of the blokes said to her, By gee, Miss, you've got a decent pair of props. He wasn't roused on, all she could do was turn the other way and laugh. I'll always remember that. We met up again years later again after we left school. Greta was keen on dancing I was too so would see each other at local dances. Spring Plains, Yarrie Lake and all the bush dances plus a few in Narrabri. Dancing for romance, I suppose you could call it. About three years later we got engaged and were married in1958 when I was twenty one. We had three children. Deirdre, Glen and Scott. All through life we were both interested in the same thing, helping others. Greta was in the Red Cross and later on we both helped with the Riding for the Disabled in Narrabri. I was born in Moree before the family moved to Millie, just west of Bellata. The father had the post office out there. Opposite the Millie monument there was a Cobb & Co stopover & a wine shanty years ago. Dad being the postmaster transferred later on over to Bellata when I was very young. My brother disappeared one day out at Millie and they put together a search party to look for him. He was a bit over a year old and was still crawling at the time and he couldn't be seen because he had crawled under the roly poly weed, only about a quarter of a mile away and the Fox Terrier who was with him was spotted jumping over the roly poly weed. And that's how he was found after going missing for about ten hours. I grew up in Bellata where my grandfather had a butcher shop and general store. I went to primary school there and I remember there was these two kids who rode five or six kilometres to school. They were the Noy kids and they were so small they couldn't saddle the pony themselves. I was a bigger fella so when they came to school riding in their Dickie saddle, a long double saddle with two seats and two sets of stirrups, I used to go out and saddle the horse for them. I think they've still got that saddle. When a was about eight or nine I started doing the thirty mile Boggy Creek mail run on horseback. I'd do that twice a week and had an agreement that I wouldn't be marked absent from school on those days. I had two horses for the run. One horse would do an eight mile run before swapping over to the second horse for the rest of the run and the next day we'd change the horses around. I did that for many years. We moved down to Baan Baa when my father got the job of postmaster down there. We were down there for many years. I was a mechanic in the garage there, just over the railway line. I used to ride my bike up to Mauls Creek to go rabbit trapping during school holidays. I got a message while up there one day that I'd got the job as an apprentice mechanic back in Baan Baa. So I was riding home and when I got to the Harparary Bridge and the river had risen up over it. Anyway, one of the boys who lived on a farm near the bridge was a pretty good swimmer and he somehow got myself and my bike through the river. I used to play football for Baan Baa. There was no bus in those days so when we played away teams and had to travel we'd all jump on the back of a three ton truck. The mums & dads and everyone else would sit in the back of the truck. We'd go out to Gwabigar, Pilliga and all those places. We'd spend an hour at the local pub after the game and then all go home again on the back of the truck. When we played on the Bellata ground no one wanted to get tackled because it was full of cat head burrs. I think we just about invented passing the football around quickly so we could avoid having a body full of nasty cat heads. We moved back to Bellata for a few years while I worked on a property as a mechanic then moved to Spring Plains in 1967. When we had floods out there, after the river broke we had about sevens days warning to move stock to high ground and get supplies before we'd get cut off. We had a camp on some high ground where we put all our stock. It had a silo full of oats for drought times, not floods. Anyway, we got trapped there for about eight weeks by the flood and slept in the silo. Thirty people put in a hundred pound each and that's how we got the Wee Waa Pony Club off the ground in 1967. There's two rows of horse stalls there at the show ground and we all went out to Pilliga Scrub to get the posts for building around the place. Doug Maxwell was always the first to help with everything that went on around the place. He only had the one leg but he'd drive the truck and do anything else he could. There was lots of regular helpers. Ian Maxwell, John Collett, Arthur and Jack Gallagher, Billy Reynolds, Lee Hunt, Walter Dickinson, Crowbar Reynolds, Max Galagher and a lot of other men and women who all put in a lot of work and time to get the pony club up and running and keep it going year after year. Greta and I have seen three generations grow up through the pony club. We were at the first camp and in all the years since then we never missed a pony club event. Ma and Pa, they'd call us.
11.01.2022 Huge congratulations to Tihana Williams of Year 10 who has been awarded a 2021 School Based Traineeship in administration at Narrabri hospital through Hunter New England Health.
09.01.2022 Men’s bowls report Saturday and Sunday 29th & 30th August 2020. Saturday morning Major singles Cameron Yates defeated Paul Crutcher. The score was 11 all after ...17 ends. Yates then won 7 of the next 10 ends to take the lead with the score 24-14. Yates went on to win the game after 35 ends 31-18. Kevin Baguley received a forfeit from Peter Williams. In the afternoon matches. In the major singles Kevin Baguley defeated Kevin Hulbert 31-16. Cameron Yates and Trinity Kelly had a very close game. Kelly was leading 22-17 after 26 ends. Yates then scored 9 points to 5 over the next 6 ends to have the score 27-26 in favour of Kelly. Kelly then went on to score 4 points to one over the last few ends to take the game 31-27. In the minor singles. Steve Daskey defeated Bruce Tomlinson 31-11 over 23 ends. Nick Scott and Rob Wolters played 36 ends. Scott was leading 12-4 after 13 ends but Wolters played great bowls to have the score at 22 all after 25 ends. The score was 27 all after 31 ends. Scott then won 5 of the last 6 ends to take the game 31-28. Sunday morning there were two Major pairs games played. Justin Green and Norm Walford defeated Nick and Larry Scott. The score was 13-12 to Green & Walford on the 14th end and they went on to score 11 points to 3 over the next 7 ends to win the game 24-15. Cameron Yates and Sam Pryor defeated Bob Ireland and Paul Crutcher. The score was 17-15 to Yates-Pryor on the 19th end they then scored 3 in the last 2 ends to take the game 20-15. Trinity Kelly and Kevin Baguley received a forfeit from Kevin & Paul Hulbert. Matches programmed for Saturday 5th September. 9am. Major pairs. Rob Wolters and Tony Redman v Cameron Yates and Sam Pryor. Minor Pairs. Wayne Hetherington and Steve Daskey v Anthony Welchman and Terry Wilson. 1pm. Major Singles: Larry Scott v Kevin Baguley marker Kevin Hulbert. David Dewar v Trinity Kelly marker Preston Clark. See more
08.01.2022 In a move likely to disappoint gas lobbyists, major insurer Suncorp has just announced that it will immediately stop any insuring and financing of new and addit...ional oil and gas production and exploration projects! It will phase out all oil and gas production and exploration underwriting exposure by 2025. This leaves QBE as the only Australia-based insurer willing to insure dirty and dangerous oil and gas projects including coal seam gas fracking and tar sands. While there are significant gaps in Suncorp’s updated policy (it doesn’t mention oil and gas pipelines nor gas-fired power stations), Suncorp’s acknowledgement that oil and gas production and exploration cannot expand if we’re to achieve the Paris Agreement’s climate goals puts it ahead of most other major insurance companies worldwide. Get all the details and take action here: https://www.marketforces.org.au/suncorp-out-of-oil-and-gas/
06.01.2022 'Jeff ' Her smile and her eyes grabbed me. They really stood out in the audience. I met Tenneille at a gig we had at the Broadbeach Tavern on the May Day long ...weekend in 2009. We were setting up before the show and I had a chance to go to the rest room before we had to start the show so I spotted her as I was walking through this group that was having a ball of a time. On the way back this group was playing a game of some sort and she ran into me by accident. We started the gig and during our first break Tenneille came up to me to say hello, a little embarrassed about running into me and not realising I was in the band. I had to start the next set and asked her if she'd mind grabbing me a glass of water, which she did. We chatted again after the next set and, yeh, that's how we met! We now have two sons. Frank is four years old and John is two. My aunty started me on piano when I was about six or so. I got up to grade three and started to do performance exams and stuff and I didn’t really like that much so I stopped doing piano. I thought I'd do the guitar and went to a music teacher and picked up the guitar left handed. He struggled with me for about three months trying to teach me left handed guitar but it got way too hard. Cath Sumpter started me on drums when I was about ten. She was a student at Wee Waa High and was also in a band. She gave me two or three lessons. The first few years I had a drum kit in the bedroom and mum was pretty patient with me. For years now I've had a drum kit set up in the old shearing shed. It's a bit dusty and a bit out of tune but I can get on there any time and have a belt or a practice. When I first got to Brisbane, it must have been about 2010, we started the band, 'Collins Class'. I've been with the boys for ten years now. One time we were doing a cover show up on the Gold Coast when I passed out while I was drumming and singing. We'd did a long week's work, three nights of gigs and with four hour shows. On the Sunday evening we were gigging along pretty well doing a Jets song and it had a big scream in it. I did the scream a bit bigger, louder and longer because we had a big, lively audience. There was a pause in the music and everything started to go black then my sticks went up in the air and I was falling backwards on the chair. Everything was in a kind of slow motion. Screaming too long, drumming too long. I regathered myself and caught my sticks before the pause was finished. I remember looking over at the other guys and seeing the look on their faces. I was always hanging around mum while she was cooking when I was growing up and she is a very accomplished cook and cake decorator. Her good food is what started me off. There was a moment when I was in Sydney when I walked into a function by accident. I ended up at the back of the house following the smell of beautiful food. There was a heap of little old Italian Nonnas doing all the dishes while there was entertainment going on at the function and I thought to myself, I could maybe be an entertainer and a chef. We were doing a very high profile dinner for a high profile people at a high tech facility and it was a high profile chef I was working for. Very exclusive. There was one chef per each person dining. I was in charge of the pithiviers which are a little French pastry. An ornate little pastry. I was told to bake them at a certain temperature, to be ready at a certain time and held on a paper towel for so long. So I've gone to fridge and put the three trays in the oven and the time came to serve them out. I plated them up and they looked beautiful. But, we were one pastry short. Just one. So we had twenty chefs running around the kitchen looking for pithiviers in every single oven. I couldn't work it out. The head chef had to explain to the two guests that were served half each with the excuse that I had dropped one taking it out of the oven. I got copped with the blame. But, we got by. At the end of the day we were cleaning down and right on the top of the fridge and out of sight, we found a full tray of pithiviers. I was raised here on the farm and now work it with help from the family. I got back here probably three or four years before dad passed away which was really lucky because I got to spend that time with him. When I first left school I worked here on the farm for about four years. Dad and my grandfather, Buster, pretty much taught me everything I know about farming. Buster loved grain and cereals. He loved cropping anything and everything but he had a real niche for wheat and cereal crops. With everything I've ever done in my life, the recent drought was the hardest thing I've ever had to get through and we're still not quite out of the woods yet. I used to commute five or six days a week from the Gold coast to Brisbane and back again. At least three hours travel a day, regular. Or someone had an accident or something else and it turned into a five hour turn around travel time. I don't miss any of that. There's really something about being able to walk out your door and be at your work. For as long as I can physically do it, I'll be farming. I feel blessed to have the lifestyle we have and it gives a sense of satisfaction when you've broken into a sweat and skinned a few knuckles.
06.01.2022 Like Cactus? Not this one. Hudson Pear is a very real threat to our environment and agriculture. The limbs break off into finger length sections that can trav...el with water, animals or vehicles and re establish wherever they drop. They can remain viable indefinitely with ambient moisture. Current controls include the cochineal bug, and spraying. It’s one nasty thing. Adam Marshall and Matt Kean have thrown their support behind eradication of the Hudson Pear, for that I am appreciative, but we have much more to do. Thanks to the amazing volunteers who spray this plant on their own time. True story - I once accidentally inhaled a fibre of a spike.... was stuck in my throat (uncomfortably) for weeks. Avoid. Eradicate. #cactus #lightningridge #grawon #opal #opalcountry
04.01.2022 TIME HOP TUESDAY It was fantastic to have a visit from Martyn today. They haven’t changed that much, have they?
04.01.2022 Along with most people I was stunned at the decision by the ANZ Bank to close the Wee Waa Branch. Im sure this has been a highly profitable branch for the ANZ o...ver many decades. This is a commercial decision that ignores the loyalty of the Wee Waa community to this bank and the profits generated from them; people have the right to be angry over the closure. Any bank loyal to your community deserves your loyalty. If there are local options for banking who are standing by your community, consider giving them your business.
04.01.2022 GOOD NEWS - NEW EXEMPTIONS FOR AG WORKERS People covered by the exemption include people who are: 1. Queensland residents who need to re-enter Queensland after ...travelling to New South Wales to perform essential agribusiness services for the agriculture supply chain or farming activities; or 2. Queensland residents who need to re-enter Queensland after entering New South Wales to access or provide timely veterinary services, or to provide care for livestock; or 3. New South Wales residents who need to enter Queensland to perform essential agribusiness services for the agriculture supply chain or farming activities; or 4. New South Wales residents who need to access Queensland to access or provide timely veterinary services, or to provide care for livestock. If you fall within the farmer and agribusiness worker class exemption you will need to provide the following information on arrival in Queensland: 1. A copy of the Chief Health Officer class exemption letter (Download here: https://www.daf.qld.gov.au//Class-exemption-farmers_new.pdf) 2. Evidence of your identity, confirming place of residence 3. Evidence you are an agribusiness essential worker, for example a letter of employment, business contract, evidence of property ownership or lease, evidence of agistment arrangements. You do not need to complete an electronic Queensland Border Declaration Pass, however upon arrival you may need to complete a written Queensland Border Declaration Pass. When working under the farmer and agribusiness worker class exemption: Queensland residents must remain isolated, to the extent reasonably practicable, from the general public at the agribusiness or farm until the person returns to Queensland New South Wales residents must remain isolated, to the extent reasonably practicable, from the general public at the agribusiness or farm until the person departs Queensland or for 14 days, whichever period is shorter; and only remain in Queensland for the time necessary to perform the essential agribusiness or farming activities. More information: https://www.business.qld.gov.au//border-restrictions-agric
03.01.2022 Ladies bowls report 29th and 31st October 2020. Lorraine Scott, Debbie Gleeson, Ronnie Dewar (sub) Sue Solomon and Denise Wall are the club four champions for 2...020. Scott’s team defeated Pat Sheils, Jan Etheridge, Lyn Tuckey and Beryl Regan in the final. Regan’s team led for the whole match with the score being 20-18 in their favour with one end to play. Scott’s team scored 4 points on the last end to win the game 22-20. The last social game for the year was played last Thursday as a trophy day. The winners on the day were Leslie Price, Marie Redman and Rhonda Welchman who defeated Caroline Tomlinson, Jan Etheridge and Beryl Regan 12 ends to 6. Runner ups: Carol Demamiel, Heather Caton and Di Chessels who defeated Glennis Godden, Pat Sheils and Helen Woodward 11 ends to 7 with a margin of 17. Third: Olwyn Campey, Cecile and Val Falkiner who defeated Leslie Anderson, Janet Coleman and Lyn Tuckey 11 ends to 7 with a margin of 16. In the three bowls pairs game Berice Eather and Mary Wheeler defeated Gloria Campey and Lyn Wedesweiler 9 ends all. If any lady would like to organise a roll up or social game of bowls during the summer months you are welcome to do so. See more
03.01.2022 Our new BBQ trailer was unveiled yesterday and the first sausage sandwich was served Deputy Premier, John Barilaro who provided the initial $16,000 to fund the ...trailer’s construction. Designed by our Club President and manufactured locally, a grant from FRRR of $9,000 saw the the trailer almost reach completion. A further grant of $6,000 received yesterday from the Deputy Premier will fund the purchase of a generator and fridges and assist with a cool room that will enable our Club to have the ability to not only cater and fundraisers locally, but to also assist with catering for the RFS when fighting fires. Our new bbq trailer has greatly enhanced our capacity to support our community. Thank you to the Deputy Premier and the FRRR for making this possible.
