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
Ella Kilmartin, Lara Stephens and Bailey Robinson enjoyed watching all the action at the Cobar Rough Stock Rodeo on Saturday. Ella and Lara also competed in the Junior Barrel event with Ella placing third and Lara was 5th.
A local commemorative service for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was held at Drummond Park on Monday afternoon led by local Greg Martin. Mr Martin said he thought it only fitting that the Cobar community have the opportunity to be able to pay their respects to the Queen. Addressing the […]
Cobar will get to experience live profes-sional wrestling tomorrow night at the Co-bar Services Club. And for those lucky ones who have ring-side seats for the All-Star Wrestling Australia Winter Warfare show, they’ll get to see the wrestling action up real close. All-Star Wrestling Australia promoter, Mitch Christen, said Cobar’s […]
