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S Scott. It is with a great deal of pride and satisfaction that I share with your readers the celebration of 50 years of Yanchep Netball Club. This year marks our club as one of the oldest if not the oldest in the area.

Nadene Jericho, Coonalpyn & District A & H Society Inc Perfect weather on October 19th drew a crowd of almost 700 people to Coonalpyn for...

Alexandra P & A Association With Springtime well and truly here, the thoughts of many throughout the Murrindindi and Mansfield Shires turn to their local...

Dungog Agricultural & Horticultural Society Dungog Show is having its 129th show this year and we are celebrating the timber industry. Friday 8th and Saturday 9th...

Sale and District Agricultural Society This year’s Sale Show will be held from the 1st to the 3rd November 2024 at the Sale Showgrounds. This year...

Daylesford & District Agricultural Society Inc Come and celebrate on Saturday 23rd November 2024. The gates open at 9am and tickets will be available at...

Millicent A H & P Society Inc.

Whip cracking fun at the Clunes Show! Clunes and District Agricultural Society Inc Mark your calendars for the annual Clunes Spring Show, to be held on...

Penola, in South Australia's Limestone Coast, has been named the 2024 Agricultural Town of the Year, in recognition of its dedication to agriculture, agricultural education and community. The announcement was made at the Regional Showcase Awards held at Beresford House in McLaren Vale.

The motion was described by Mrs McArthur as “cloaked in care but shrouded in deception”, emphasising the disingenuous aim to improve transparency while actually seeking to close the industry ... Whether it's greyhound racing, flat racing, jumps racing, or equestrian racing—even pony clubs have races—this is just the short edge of the wedge.

A cross-section of the nation’s leading minds have converged in Ballarat, to discuss the goal of creating a healthy and resilient future for Australia’s forests and share knowledge and ideas to ensure forests can provide a wide range of benefits for generations to come. Approximately 300 scientists, researchers, forestry professionals and foresters will gather at Forestry Australia’s National Symposium…

Amidst changes to regulations and community engagement requirements, the Queensland Government is seeking feedback on its approach to renewable energy projects ... From over 1,000 conversations during the REZ readiness assessment for the anticipated Callide Renewable Energy Zone in Central Queensland, locals showed that regional communities want greater engagement, accessible advice, real choices, clearer information...

Kybybolite Football Club’s Noel Black is South Australia’s Community Sports Photographer of the Year. Black, commonly known as Blackie, was bestowed with the award at the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Community Volunteers Awards ... in the William Magarey Room at Adelaide Oval, with more than 300 attendees.

Mark Thiele. SAL are both excited and proud of the achievement of one of our young livestock agents, Josh Pahl, in winning the SA leg of the National Young Livestock Auctioneers award. Josh was selected as the SA winner from 3 very good young auctioneers from SA and interestingly all 4 of the finalists come from the SE of the state.

A local businessman is calling for more police presence in the town, particularly at night. Multicultural grocery store BWD Trading on McRae Street was broken into last Friday night—twice in two months, sustaining alleged losses and damage of about $30,000.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has completed a timber testing trial investigating the best ways to implement technologies verifying claims of species and harvest origin of regulated timber and timber products ... Deputy Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Policy Matt Lowe said globally, it has been estimated that about 15-30 per cent of all wood traded is a product of illegal logging and illicit wood.

The Nationals Member for Mildura, Jade Benham, says with regional Victoria’s dangerously below par ambulance response times, it is essential people make submissions to the parliamentary inquiry into the performance, workplace culture, and procurement practices of Ambulance Victoria. Ms Benham says with the Victorian health system in crisis, our overworked and undermanned ambos are reaching breaking point.

On the 11th of October, members of the Rimfire discipline in conjunction with Clifton State High School hosted an interschool shoot. The event saw 60 students from 9 different schools across both the Southern and Darling Downs competing for bragging rights.

The Australian Lot Feeders’ Association (ALFA) presented David Brown with the ALFA Outstanding service to the Australia Lot Feeding Sector Award, at the BeefEx Conference held in Brisbane last week. Dr David Brown owns and operates the West Talgai Feedlot near Allora.

Ian Riley. One of the best things about the museum, other than the exhibits, is the people you meet there. I have always been a history tragic, but on my last visit to the museum, I met Michelle Ross. Michelle has a YouTube channel with 9,000 followers and a website called Goldfields Guide ...

...$12.7 million of taxpayers’ money was spent operating the Howard Springs Accommodation Village for two months to cater for flood evacuees last year. The total bill for cleaning and repairs was $1.3 million for the two-month period in March and April last year. This included $469,000 replacing windows, $277,000 for handyman services, $174,000 on plumbing, and $89,000 on mattresses.