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Celebration of NAIDOC Week in Gunnedah

What a wonderful week of activities we’ve had in the Gunnedah Shire in celebration of NAIDOC Week. I am thankful to the Red Chief Local Aboriginal Land Council for inviting me to participate in the NAIDOC Unity Street March last week. It was fantastic to see so many schools, organisations and individuals come together for this important community event, which was the first on a long list of activities. The presence of so many youth embodied the 2025 theme of ‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy’. Locals also came together on Friday for this year’s NAIDOC Week Art Exhibition […]

Jul 10, 2025

Community expects helipad to be available

By Member for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson. Rural communities like Gunnedah deserve and expect to have fair and equitable access to the same services as our city cousins. That includes the Gunnedah Hospital helipad. A hospital helipad is an essential part of rapid emergency medical responses for patients who are critically ill or injured. If someone has a serious injury, that required a transfer, then time is critical, and they deserve to be transferred as quickly as possible. We should not be put at a disadvantage just because we choose to live in regional NSW. But that appears to be happening, […]

Jul 3, 2025

Keepit a ‘line in the sand’ on water security

The two deeply flawed options clinging to life to secure Tamworth’s water supply are outdated and short-sighted. They must be abandoned immediately in favour of the one option that gives Tamworth what it needs without draining the life from downstream communities. The Tamworth Inter-Valley Pipelines and Off-River Storages project, with pipelines pumping water to the city from Namoi Valley’s Keepit or Split Rock dams, is not just absurd and impractical – it’s deeply unfair to those who farm and depend on water downstream, and the communities which rely on them for their local economic sustainability and viability. Modelling confirms that […]

Jun 26, 2025

Ag the victim of its own evolution

Perusing a weekend newspaper recently (lap of luxury, I know!), this Topical columnist was reading a feature story about leaders in the Australian agricultural sector. Within the story, a bonafide banana farmer on the NSW north coast had some pertinent commentary about the state of agricultural affairs in this country. This Aussie farmer with immigrant family heritage succinctly described how agriculture had become the victim of its own evolution. He said the advancements of technology and equipment, means there’s now less people growing food. Problem is that means less votes too. “Governments take the agricultural sector for granted. When you […]

Jun 26, 2025

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