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Early voting now open

FOR those unable to vote on election day, early voting centres are now open. Early voting centres began opening on Tuesday, April 22, and are only to be used by those who cannot make it to a voting center on election day, Saturday, May 3. These early...

25 Apr 2025
Politics

Ballot order, candidate list locked in

THE order of candidates as they appear on the House of Representatives ballot paper, and the 10 candidates for the Parkes region are locked in and ready for the Federal Election in less than two weeks’ time. The reason why the ballot paper (the...

25 Apr 2025
Politics

LNP pledge $600K to Broken Hill

THE Nationals pledged to restart the cancelled Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program and spend more than $55.678 million on the Parkes electorate and almost $680,000 to Broken Hill through the program. The LRCI Program allocates funding...

17 Apr 2025
Politics

Libertarians want tailored options

THIS election the Libertarian Party has elected Sally Edwards, a farmer from the Warrumbungle region, as its candidate for Parkes, with the new candidate aiming to “protect the regions from being walked all over by government without their...

17 Apr 2025
Politics

Chaffey on homestretch

THE National Party of Australia’s Parkes candidate Jamie Chaffey said he is confident in the late stages of his campaign, citing his early-on blitz of the region which included door knocking the entire town. Mr Chaffey has visited Broken Hill four...

17 Apr 2025
Politics

Opal miners meet with polies

OPAL miners and landholder’s representative groups met with the Minister for Natural Resources Courtney Houssos and Member for Barwon Roy Butler this week to discuss the future of opal mining, rehabilitation requirements and compensation...

12 Apr 2025
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Coalition pledges $10M to airport

REPRESENTATIVES from The Nationals travelled to Broken Hill this week, holding a press conference on Tuesday, April 8, to announce that, if elected, the Coalition Government will commit $10 million to the Broken Hill Airport. Leader of The Nationals...

11 Apr 2025
Politics

Nationals urged to support struggling airline

THE Labor Party’s candidate for Parkes, Nathan Fell, and Labor Member of the Legislative Council for Barwon, Stephen Lawrence, toured Broken Hill on Friday, April 4, to circulate a petition urging the Nationals to match support for Rex...

11 Apr 2025
Politics

Coulton bids farewell

MEMBER for Parkes, Mark Coulton, officially stepped down after the announcement of the Federal Election.“My time as the 1,029th member elected to the Australian Parliament and as the Federal Member for Parkes has now officially come to an end,”...

07 Apr 2025
Politics

Labor announces Parkes candidate

THE Australian Labor Party has finally announced its candidate for Parkes, Broken Hill local Nathan Fell, a month out from the Federal Election. The announcement followed rising pressure from the community to reveal a candidate as...

04 Apr 2025
Politics

Questions over Turley’s LGNSW role

A LOCAL Councillor’s new role within Local Government NSW has come under fire after Broken Hill City Council resigned from the association. Last year, the municipality withdrew from the peak lobby group after concerns regional and...

21 Mar 2025
Politics

Parkes MP has final hurrah in town

OUTGOING Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton, said another goodbye to the community of Broken Hill on Thursday, February 20, with a Civic Reception held at the Broken Hill City Art Gallery. The celebration marked the MP’s pending retirement and last trip...

01 Mar 2025
Politics

Minns cites city’s power outage in parliament

NSW PREMIER Chris Minns has cited the October 2024 Broken Hill power outages during a tense Parliamentary question time discussion regarding the privatisation of the state’s energy network. In the question time held on Wednesday, February 19, Mr...

28 Feb 2025
News

New chair for local Nationals

BROKEN Hill National Party branch has a new chair with Clyde Thomson taking the reins from Peter Bevan. Mr Thomson worked for the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s South Eastern Section, which is based in Broken Hill for 40 years. He said he was grateful...

15 Feb 2025
News

NSW councils push for PFAS funds

LOBBY group Local Government New South Wales is seeking extra funding for municipalities in that state to monitor the levels of “forever chemicals” in local water supplies. At the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

14 Feb 2025
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City to share in $5.1m for health worker housing

BROKEN Hill and Tibooburra are expected to host a portion of 120 new dwellings for health workers in Far West New South Wales. The NSW Government has committed $5.1 million for the homes which are designed to help attract, recruit and retain more...

07 Feb 2025
Letters to the editor

Federal election looms

G’DAY folks,Here we are nearly at the end of January, another year under way, and already things are starting to pick up pace after the festive season. I hope that everybody had a chance to get some down time, although I know that for some people...

31 Jan 2025