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
As part of their school holidays activities, the kids and their supervisors at COOSH (Cobar Out of School Hours) service paid a visit to the Cobar Museum last Thursday. The kids took part in a scavenger hunt finding pictures of people and objects both inside the museum and also in […]
Cobar Public School held their end of year presentations yesterday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. Among the award winners were Noah Armstrong and Lauren O’Sullivan who collected the school’s AECG (Aboriginal Education Consultative Group) 2022 Awards for Recognition of an Indigenous Students Achievement in Sport. ▪ Photo contributed
Cobar Catholic Church priest, Fr Paul Finucane was welcomed as a NSW Police Chaplain at an investiture service at the Cobar Police Station last Wednesday. Central North Police District Superintendent Timothy Chinn said he was pleased to be able to welcome Fr Paul to the NSW Police “Blue Family” in […]
