State Member for Barwon Roy Butler has been hosting Independent Member for Wagga Wagga Dr Joe McGirr on a tour across the electorate and they called into Cobar yesterday. Mr Butler has been introducing Dr McGirr to people involved in delivering medical services across the region. Dr McGirr has a Rural Health Action Plan which is a roadmap for reversing the decline of regional health care. As the Chair of the Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Remote, Rural and Regional Health, which reviewed the progress of the implementation of the recommendations of the Rural Health Inquiry, he has been tasked to look at some of the specific challenges facing medical and hospital administrators in Barwon.
State Member for Barwon Roy Butler has been hosting Independent Member for Wagga Wagga Dr Joe McGirr on a tour across the electorate and they called into Cobar yesterday. Mr Butler has been introducing Dr McGirr to people involved in delivering medical services across the region. Dr McGirr has a Rural Health Action Plan which is a roadmap for reversing the decline of regional health care. As the Chair of the Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Remote, Rural and Regional Health, which reviewed the progress of the implementation of the recommendations of the Rural Health Inquiry, he has been tasked to look at some of the specific challenges facing medical and hospital administrators in Barwon.
For more than a decade, businessman Darran Wells has been right behind one of Cobar’s biggest annual events, the Cobar Races, continuing a family connection to both business and horseracing that stretches back generations. The business itself, Wells Ventilation, was established by Darran’s father, Allan Wells, in Railway Parade almost […]
Dear editor, The Investigations Unit at the Australian Conservation Foundation has noticed huge amounts of clearing in the Cobar peneplain in the last few years, including at Jillian Prince’s property in Lachlan Downs (as reported in The Cobar Weekly on 18 March). We called Jillian after we spotted clearing of […]
Cobar’s mayor, Jarrod Marsden, who has been acting as the interim chair of the Western Division of Councils, was formally elected to the top job last week when the group met in Cobar for their annual general meeting. The annual meeting provides a platform for Local Government representatives to hear […]
