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 major award winners from the Cobar Netball Association’s presentations on Saturday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club: A Grade Best & Fairest joint winners—Sosie Barton and Neve Carter (Neve also won the A Grade Sportsmanship award); Club Person of the Year—Joanne Carter; B Grade Best & […]
Cobar Netball Association took a tour group of 47 players, coaches, umpires and helpers to Newcastle last weekend for the club’s first Sister City tour. The Cobar teams kicked off the weekend by participating in a ‘Nettyheads’ netball skills session which was a valuable learning experi-ence. Each team was put […]
After being part of the Cobar community for the past 141 years, the Cobar Masons held their final function in Cobar on Satur-day night. For many years the Freemasonry as an or-ganisation world-wide was shrouded in secrets and mystery but a few years ago, all that start-ed to change and […]
