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The first astronomers: Australia’s Indigenous stargazers

LONG before observatories dotted the land and satellites blinked overhead, the First Peoples of Australia were reading the stars. For over 65,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have looked to the sky – not for abstraction, but for connection, direction, and survival. Theirs is the oldest continuous astronomical tradition on Earth. To these […]

Sport Results

Macksville Country Club Golf

A FULL week of fine winter weather culminated with the Wishbone Ceremonies sponsored monthly Medal and Spoon stroke event. Mick Manning won the Spoon (gross) with a two over par 74 one shot ahead of Mike Simpson. Tony Grebert won the Medal (best net score). In Saturday’s handicap event Darren Pike returned to the winners […]

Community, Government

Pleas to fix Valla Beach intersection fall on ‘deaf ears’

“THE community has seen 20 accidents in 20 months. It’s dangerous and it needs fixing.” The argument to upgrade the Valla Beach intersection is simple, and it is one Oxley MP Michael Kemp has taken to the Minister for Roads Jenny Aitchison and Transport for NSW (TfNSW) for the past 14 months. Yet Tuesday’s State […]

Sport

North Coast Force teams ready for rep games in Gunnedah

AFL North Coast’s best senior players are ready to represent their region this weekend. North Coast Force men’s and women’s teams head to Gunnedah for a big day of representative games. The Force men’s team play their first representative game since 2018, when they take on the North West Blue Heelers. The Force will look […]

Regional

Estimated thousands trapped in Australian farm slavery

A BACKPACKER hoping for a memorable working holiday on an Australian farm finds himself crammed into a house with 17 people, eating dry bread and deprived of sunshine and fresh air. After arriving on a visa from China, the young man had headed to a small town on the NSW coast in 2024 to pick […]

Government, National

Treasurer throws down gauntlet for ‘crucial’ tax reform

THE groundwork has been laid for Australia’s most substantive attempt at tax reform in more than two decades as the treasurer promises to “grasp the nettle” on the thorny issue. Outlining his government’s economic agenda for its second term of parliament, Jim Chalmers threw down the gauntlet to industry, media, civil society and the political […]

Community

Nambucca Valley yarn lovers join global movement

THE Nambucca Valley’s Yarn Lovers Unite! group gathered at Café Eighteen in Nambucca Plaza to commemorate Worldwide Knit in Public Day on Saturday, 14 June. Members enjoyed warm beverages and got to work on knitting and crochet projects. “Quite a few people stopped by to ask us what we were doing or to talk about […]

Local News

Don’t chuck your lithium-ion batteries in the bin, says Coffs FRNSW

Coles Coffs Harbour provides a battery recycling bin in the carpark pedestrian entrance. The battery recycling bin in Woolworths Coffs City. Coffs Harbour’s FRNSW Acting Station Officer Tim George. LITHIUM-ION batteries are the fastest growing fire risk in NSW They power phones, laptops, e-bikes, e-scooters, power tools and even vacuum cleaners. “Lithium batteries make life […]

Government

Farming body welcomes NSW Gov ag funding

Premier Chris Minns with students at Tocal College last Friday. Premier Chris Minns with students at Tocal College last Friday. The state government has committed more than $140 million to the agriculture sector. Photo: DPIRD. THE State Government will invest over $140 million of new funding to “safeguard the future of NSW’s agricultural industry”. On […]

Local News

CWA members join ShoreTrack for a morning of connection and community

FOUR members of the Nambucca Valley Evening Branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) paid a special visit to ShoreTrack to experience firsthand the inspiring work being done with local youth. CWA members Jenny Boys, June Rossington, Julia Sweeney and Marg Duffus were warmly welcomed at the ShoreTrack facility, where they took part in a […]