THE Federal Government last week formally responded to the Samuel Report, announcing a broad overhauling of our national environmental laws with the release of its ‘Nature Positive Plan’. The response includes the announcement of a new national Environmental Protection Agency…
HOLIDAY season is just around the corner and has an influx of visitors to our area, savouring the many unique features of our area. An important contact point for visitors to tourist areas are Visitor Information Centres (VIC). Advertise with…
AN interactive museum and family fun day was held on Saturday 10 December to celebrate MidCoast Council’s release of its annual Waterway and Catchment Report Card. Water sampling is undertaken every summer across the MidCoast region’s six major catchments. Advertise…
NINETEEN environment volunteers celebrated the end of a very productive 2022 with a Christmas party on the banks of the Myall River in Tea Gardens. It was a chance for them to catch up and share finger food prepared by…
SHEARWATER Estate residents Ian and Deborah Hicks recently woke to find a very rare set of twin kangaroos being cared for by their mother on their Tea Gardens acreage. It is a general fact that kangaroos don’t have twin joeys…
LEARN how to tell a plant from a weed with the Garden Escapees weeds guidebook – free at all MidCoast Council customer service centres and libraries. “Responsible gardening is very important because when weeds escape from your garden, through birds,…
LAST Thursday, the Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety (Staysafe) tabled its report on speed limits and road safety in regional NSW. The Hon. Lou Amato MLC, Committee Chair, acknowledged that more needs to be done to make regional roads…
ATTORNEY General Mark Speakman is urging members of the public and other interested parties to have their say on a review by the independent NSW Law Reform Commission (LRC) of the laws governing serious road crime. Mr Speakman said preliminary…
THE Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association is supporting the re-opening and upgrade of the Tea Gardens pool with the purchase of five new lane ropes, fasteners, and two aluminium storage reels. The new pool equipment, worth around $7,500, replaces…
CALLING all thought-leaders, change-makers, trailblazers and inspired young people – applications are now open for the Y NSW’s 2023 Youth Parliament. Young people in years ten, eleven and twelve (or equivalent age) in all 93 NSW state electorates are invited…