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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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Volunteers all aboard

THE Sulphide Street Railway and Historical Museum is desperate for volunteers. Popular with tourists, the museum is housed in the original 1905 station that serviced the Silverton Tramway system, and features locomotives, engines and carriages that...

28 Jul 2025
Community

Nominate hero for Oz Day award

IT’S time to recognise worthy community members by nominating them for an Australia Day Award. Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey has called on the Parkes electorate to make sure outstanding community members are recognised.“The Federal Electorate of...

28 Jul 2025
News

More needed to lessen Aboriginal lead levels

A LEADING Aboriginal health organisation is calling for urgent government intervention after new data revealed disproportionately high lead levels in Aboriginal children in Broken Hill. Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation has renewed its appeal...

28 Jul 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Art made at research station

FOWLERS Gap research station housed artists from throughout the country for the last week, who’d travelled to the region to undertake a multimedia arts workshop with artist Ash Frost and local potter Lyndy Marshall. Frost has hosted the workshop...

28 Jul 2025
Business

The ghosts of Milparinka

MILPARINKA, a town established during the gold-rush of the 1880s, experienced a short lived heyday before being abandoned, left to fall in decay and becoming another Outback ghost town. But it’s a ghost town for more than just its lack of human...

28 Jul 2025
News

Still flying high

A GROUP of former Qantas apprentices from the 1978 intake, affectionately known as “33J”, have proven that true mateship and a shared love of adventure only get stronger with time. Now in their sixties, the crew and their partners mark the...

27 Jul 2025
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Scenic sculptures tell a story

ONCE, many years ago, I walked with my four-month-old in a pram up to the Sculptures. It was last weekend when I thought how hard could it be to do that with an almost five-year-old and a two-year-old?The Living Desert State Park is located about...

27 Jul 2025
Community

Speaking up for fairness

DISABILITY Advocacy can help anyone in need and ensure they are treated with fairness. Disability Advocacy NSW supports people with disability to get a fair go and be fully included in the community. Broken Hill’s disability advocate Caryn Ferguson...

27 Jul 2025
Farming & Environment

Native gardening workshop

AS part of Marnpi Festival, Slag Heap Projects and Landcare Broken Hill are partnering to continue the revitalization of Oxide Street with a native gardening workshop to be held this Sunday (July 27).The free workshop will see attendees learn the...

26 Jul 2025
Business

‘A way of life’: The legacy of Peak Hill

FOR Luke and Lorraine Kuerschner, life on the land isn’t a story, it’s simply the way things are. The Kuerschners, who run a station called Peak Hill in far western New South Wales, carry the weight and pride of a legacy that stretches back over...

25 Jul 2025
Business

Retirees revive gold rush town

IN the tiny, historic town of Milparinka two hours north of Broken Hill, volunteers run most of the facilities in town. The information centre, courthouse, and other historic buildings, are looked after by a rotating roster of volunteers, who travel...

25 Jul 2025
Business

Outback brew with a view

SEVENTY kilometres from Tibooburra, along a dirt road in far western New South Wales, travellers are greeted by an unexpected sight: a converted caravan sitting on a clay pan, serving coffee in the heart of the Outback. This is the Nest Golden Egg...

25 Jul 2025
Arts & Entertainment

The face of art

ARTIST Patty Bover used to think she was bad at art. That was until 13 years ago, when she signed up for a course teaching a style of portraiture called “whimsical faces”.Only then did Bover realise that art is whatever the artist says it...

25 Jul 2025
Sport

Double up day pigeon races

Barrier & Broken Hill Pigeon Racing Week 3THE Barrier & Broken Hill Homing Club held the third weekend of racing of our thirteen week season on Saturday, July 19. This is the start of our double up racing (two races on the same day).In the...

25 Jul 2025
Sport

Del Mar domination

SUNDAY July 20 saw an 8 race program at the Newmarket Raceway. The first three races on the night went to the Del Mar chasers who were bred locally by local owner breeder Craig Tester. The whole litter are racing in great form, and at only 19 months...

25 Jul 2025
Business

Yoga, wellness and joy flights

IN remote north-western New South Wales, on a half a million acre cattle station, Kyla Catherine Dolen practices yoga balanced atop the tyre of her bush plane. Health and wellness might not often be considered synonymous with station life, but Ms...

25 Jul 2025
Health

Lung bus rolls into town

THERE was no room to breathe as the Lung Health Bus came into town, and it wasn’t due to the state-of-the-art facilities. It was due to the free health clinic being completely booked out during their visit here. The free lung screening checks can be...

25 Jul 2025