There was a long list of 23 nominees for this year’s Australia Day sporting awards with Christine Brown collecting the Service to Sport award, Sarah Morley was the Sports Person of the Year and Ethan McLeod, the Young Sports Person. Chris Brown has dedicated many years of her life to […]
John de Bruin was named Citizen of the Year for 2018 at this year’s Australia Day awards ceremony held on Saturday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. Locals and visitors descended on the pool in hot conditions to see awards handed out to the Young Citizen of the Year—Hannah Kriz; […]
The Bossie Mitchell Services to the Community award has received the most nominations in this year’s Australia Day awards with 14 names put forward to the judging panel. The ‘Community Event of the Year’ category also polled well this year with nine local events including the Running On Empty Festival, […]
Hannah Carroll, Chrissy Gilligan and John Collins were the recipients of this year’s Australia Day sports awards. Teenager Hannah Carroll won the Kerrigungi award which recognises representative sporting achievements. Last year Hannah represented Cobar in a number of sports including netball and athletics. Hannah won the NSW Discus State Championship […]
The Cobar community came out to support the nominees of this year’s Australia Day Awards which were presented in a ceremony at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Friday. Colleen Boucher was awarded the Bossie Mitchell Services to the Community Award. She had some tough competition with 15 nominations in […]
Cobar’s 2018 Australia Day Ambassador is John Kundereri Moriarty AM, who has overcome adversity to achieve great success in multiple fields. Mr Moriarty is a life-long advocate for Aboriginal equality, reconciliation and cultural preservation. He is co-founder and co-chairman of The Nangala Project, a not-for-profit initiative which creates sustainable opportunities […]
Locals who have given freely of their time and skills to make Cobar a better community to live in have been honoured with Australia Day awards. At this year’s Australia Day awards ceremony on Thursday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool, locals heard about the work that Citizen of the […]
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