ROADS are firmly in the spotlight for Gunnedah Shire Council, which will soon call on the state government to increase funding. The council will submit a motion seeking action at Local Government NSW’s annual conference later this year. As part of its push, the council will request LGNSW to call on the government to double ongoing recurrent funding from the Fixing Local Road and Regional Roads Programs to provide stability and certainty to councils to enable long-term planning and resourcing to occur with respect to roads. As an alternative measure, the state government could also amend rate pegging restrictions to […]

MOST farmers and landholders across the North West are complying with the state’s pesticide laws, according to a targeted compliance campaign by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA), although some sprayers have been warned to improve their record-keeping. The campaign assessed pesticide users across the local government areas of Moree, Narrabri, Walgett, Warren, Liverpool Plains, Gunnedah, Warrumbungle Shire, Coonabarabran and Gilgandra. The inspections resulted in 19 advisory letters and eight formal warnings being issued to landholders and sprayers found to have minor breaches of the Pesticides Act. NSW EPA director of operations Julian Thompson said officers reviewed almost 170 spray […]