CWA Cobar Branch president Colleen Boucher attended the CWA’s State Conference last week at Royal Randwick in Sydney which celebrated 100 years of CWA. Among the guest speakers at the conference were former pro surfer Lane Beachley and Shane Fitzsimmons, the Commissioner of Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary Emergency Management. The CWA, which has a reputation for being a hard-hitting lobby group, passed a number of motions at the conference including: calling for urgent action on the quality of health services for rural and regional communities; advocating for the mandatory establishment of specialist domestic violence operative teams in all police districts; calling for increased funding to establish and operate women’s refuges; and advocating for improved obstetric services in rural areas. ▪ Photo contributed
CWA Cobar Branch president Colleen Boucher attended the CWA’s State Conference last week at Royal Randwick in Sydney which celebrated 100 years of CWA. Among the guest speakers at the conference were former pro surfer Lane Beachley and Shane Fitzsimmons, the Commissioner of Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary Emergency Management. The CWA, which has a reputation for being a hard-hitting lobby group, passed a number of motions at the conference including: calling for urgent action on the quality of health services for rural and regional communities; advocating for the mandatory establishment of specialist domestic violence operative teams in all police districts; calling for increased funding to establish and operate women’s refuges; and advocating for improved obstetric services in rural areas. ▪ Photo contributed
The Cobar Roosters well and truly beat the Narromine Jets 60-16 in their Christie & Hood Castlereagh First Grade match at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Saturday. It was a bit of a surprising result as the game had been touted as being a ‘match of the round’, with the […]
The Cobar TAFE Connected Learning Centre held an Educational Expo yesterday with industry specialists and staff on hand to demonstrate their mobile training units, Virtual Reality (VR) training equipment and also provide information on the range of courses they can offer Cobar students and businesses. Pictured above are some students […]
Aboriginal stakeholders, landholders and Western Local Land Services (Western LLS) have been working together to pro-tect Aboriginal cultural heritage values in the Euabalong area prior to undertaking substantial weed control works. The weed control works, which were pri-marily to remove African boxthorn, mesquite and cactus, came about through the 2021-22 […]
