
Australia Day 2025


Veterans take the prizes
Australia Day ambassador Paul Featherstone presented the Yabbies Veterans team of Bill Fugar, Bob Clark, Scott Toomey and John de Bruin with their Cobar Quids prizes as winners of the Yabbies Business House Handicapped Relay on Sunday. The team swam to within 0.47 seconds of their nominated time. The Maintenance […]

Welcome to Country explained at Aust Day ceremony
Local resident Leonie McCosker delivered the traditional Welcome to Country speech as part of the 2025 Australia Day celebrations on Sunday. Leonie welcomed the crowd on behalf of the traditional custodians of the land, the Wongaibon people of the Ngiyampaa Nation. “Traditionally these are my ancestors’ lands,” Leonie said. She […]

Cobar’s newest Australian Citizen
Cobar’s newest Australian citizen Felicity Dempsey has swapped the ‘Emerald Isle’ and will now call Australia (and Cobar home) after she officially became an Australian citizen during Sunday’s Australia Day celebrations. Felicity came to Australia from Ireland 10 years ago and was working at the Tilpa Pub when she […]

Celebrating our achievements as Aussies
Local author and historian John Collins earned the community’s top gong when he was named the Citizen of the Year at the Australia Day awards celebrations at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Sunday. John is a very community minded person who has donated his time and skills […]

Paul’s someone you’d want on your side
Cobar’s 2025 Australia Day Ambassador Paul Featherstone BM ASM is no stranger to trouble and is definitely someone you’d want on your side. Paul is a Senior Instructor For NSW Ambulance’s Special Casualty Access Team (SCAT). He’s spent the past 35 years perfecting skills in the recovery and care of […]