THE recent release of the National Skills Commission’s Skills Priority List showed a “significant tightening in the Australian labour market”, with the lowest unemployment rate in decades, and shortages facing most parts of the agriculture industry. NSW Farmers workplace relations…
MID NORTH COAST beachgoers are being reminded of important visitors on our shores this spring as several threatened shorebird species lay their eggs on local beaches. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Ranger Britt Anderson said every single chick…
COFFS Harbour Quota, the not-for-profit service club, is presenting a ‘Cavalcade of Fashion and History’, with the theme, The Art of Fashion: 1920s Evening Gowns, on Saturday 15 October 2022. This is a social fundraiser making a donation to Pete’s…
PARAMEDICS, police officers, teachers and other public sector workers on the Mid North Coast will be supported to spend more precious time with their young babies, with major changes to NSW public service parental leave entitlements now in effect. Every…
AROUND 1,000 children along the Coffs Coast have returned to their local beaches this month as Nippers season gets underway. The Nippers surf life saving program for kids aged five to fourteen will run most Sundays from October until the…
SMART St. Films is pleased to announce the October 14 and 15 cinema release of the fully restored legendary documentary feature NINGLA-ANA at Majestic cinemas Kempsey, Sawtell and Nambucca. On January 25 1972 Prime Minister William McMahon declared that under…
THE next International Women’s Day (IWD) Breakfast will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 and nominations for the 2023 IWD Coffs Coast Woman of the Year Award are still open. Shelley Lowe, who won in 2019, said, “With huge…
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FUNDING Fundamentals is a free workshop hosted by Six Degrees on Friday 21 October, in partnership with City of Coffs Harbour (COCH). The main thrust of the workshop is learning the skills to give yourself the best chance of gaining…
COFFS Harbour optometrist Jason Kimberly is encouraging local women to get their eyes tested after the company he works for, Specsavers, has released data from its latest research revealing women can tend to skip eye appointments and wait for eye…