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Jackson Marx

23/7/2025 added to staff subscription as an author

Bring out your worms

Jack MarxWHILE other farmers in the Far West have been doing it tough this winter, the farm at Broken Hill PCYC is expanding. Already knee-deep in goat and chicken husbandry, children’s activity co-ordinator Ali Baiton has decided to have a crack...

23 Aug 2025

News

More water for thirsty Bashers

IN expectation of the swarm of recreational vehicles that will descend upon Broken Hill for the Mundi Mundi Bash next week, Broken Hill City Council has opened additional spots where people can fetch clean water and relieve themselves of the...

16 Aug 2025

Arts & Entertainment

Creatures feature in exhibition

ANN Mitchell has been a Carmelite nun for more than 50 years, and an artist for even longer. “I used to draw when I was a kid,” she said. “I drew cats and dogs from cartoons and Corn Flakes packets, copying photographs or pictures...

15 Aug 2025

News

Sydney FC scores with the kids

THE fields of Norm Fox Oval were abuzz on Wednesday night when the Sydney Football Club paid a visit. Hundreds of local kids aged six to 17 engaged in a round robin tournament under the watchful eye of Sydney FC A-league players and staff. The event...

15 Aug 2025

Health

Diabetes workshop at the Demo

REGISTRATIONS are now open for Diabetes Education Workshop in Broken Hill next week. The free workshop is designed to strengthen the clinical and educational skills of health professionals supporting patients living with diabetes. The event...

09 Aug 2025

News

Photo prize worth a shot

AMATEUR photographers are encouraged to enter the Life and Light Photography Competition, an annual prize curated by Western Landcare NSW. The competition is open to amateur and semi-professional photographers and must feature pictures of the...

04 Aug 2025

News

Nurturing the Outback mindset

LIFE in Broken Hill has always been tough, with the isolation, unforgiving climate and work opportunities that ebb and flow. Some leave for greener pastures, but others, regrettably, take more drastic steps. The Outback Mind Foundation is a charity...

03 Aug 2025

News

Bushys mine is a town gem

TUCKED away on the edge of Broken Hill, on the extreme west of Allendale Street, is White’s Mineral and Mining Museum, a rustic wonderland to which words can do no justice. A simulated mine, constructed with original timbers from the old Zinc...

03 Aug 2025

Arts & Entertainment

Actors wanted, no talent required

HE was billed as “Man in Cap”, an extra with no speaking lines who darted across the screen in the 1980 film, The First Deadly Sin. It was an inauspicious beginning that propelled Bruce Willis to the top of the heap in Hollywood. You...

02 Aug 2025

News

Chicken gets drunk, becomes hooligan

A BROKEN Hill chicken has never been the same since getting drunk weeks ago, according to its owners. Pamela Wright and John Andrews run Mulberry Vale Bush Cabins off Menindee Road, just south of Broken Hill. One evening in the middle of July, they...

01 Aug 2025

News

Tech grants up for grabs

GRANTS are now available for any organisation that can help with “connectivity literacy” in Broken Hill and the Far West. The grants are offered by Regional Tech Hub, a government-funded organisation whose mission is to improve phone and internet...

31 Jul 2025

Farming & Environment

Salt off the earth

IT recently occurred to Jill McNamara that her property is about the same size as Gaza.“Gaza is 90000 acres, and we’re on 85000 acres,” she said. “So Gaza is about one paddock bigger than our property, and millions of people live there...

18 Jul 2025