Last week, the Productivity Commission released its three-yearly assessment of the National Water Initiative. Of special relevance is the Initiative’s reliance on the water market to manage our water and rivers.
Month: September 2021
Ambos say the Day is every day
Ambulance NSW says it’s important to still check on friends even though R U OK? Day is over.
When bullies and dongs ruled The Hill
errilyn ‘Merry’ Pedergnana makes a favourite sweet for her husband, Reg, and claims that quandong pie is a good lockdown treat because it is time-consuming to make.
30 questions to the Health Minister
NSW Minister Brad Hazzard visited Wilcannia yesterday. The media was not alerted. It seems an ideal time to ask 30 questions of the Health Minister that are crucial to the health and safety of the people of Broken Hill and the Far West. We’ll make sure he gets his paper.
It’s raining Cats and Dogs
The final four teams of the 2021 AFL Premiership season are locked in and will do battle this weekend in the Preliminary Finals, for a spot in the Grand Final. After the Cats and the Bulldogs were victorious in the Semis, they, as well as the Demons and the Power, are all that remain in the hunt for the 2021 Premiership.
Barretts line up for All Blacks in Perth
The All Blacks have made five changes to their Bledisloe Cup-winning line-up for the third Test at Perth’s Optus Stadium on Sunday.
Australia’s cases soar as jab deal struck
Australia will receive four million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses from Britain as the nation grapples with record infection numbers.
Clarion call to Far West poets
The judge of the Silver Tree Poetry Competition, Les Wicks, has chanced upon the literary muse in Broken Hill.
Swifts stand tall over Giants
The NSW Swifts proved the better team on the day of the 2021 Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final, defeating the Giants by four points, earning the title of champions.
Local author’s book a call to arms
Anika Molesworth was 12 years old when her family moved from Melbourne to a sheep farm just outside Broken Hill. Rather than the distressing wrench some children feel at leaving an old life behind, young Anika was bedazzled. “Everything I had known up till that point was city life,” she says. “Then, up here, […]