NAIDOC Week celebrations began on Monday 6 July with a flag raising ceremony on Town Green in Port Macquarie. As the rain fell, Jikyha Dungay-Vitnell, from Wauchope High School, played didgeridoo. Elder Uncle Bill O’Brien welcomed local mob and community members to Birpai country. For five decades NAIDOC Week (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance […]
Members of Marine Rescue Camden Haven carry out a flare awareness demonstration. Photo: Supplied by Marine Rescue Camden Haven.
ACCORDING to statistics tabled by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, 4174 marine incident reports were logged in Australian waters in 2025, with the most common incident types including collisions, groundings, and propulsion or systems failures. In the event of an emergency on the water, distress flares are used as visual distress signals to attract attention […]
Greeting former London firefighter Stephen Aslin (centre) in Macksville this week were Macksville Fire Fighters Matt Haworth, Nathan Keen and Brett Brigger.
AN extraordinary journey of remembrance and human kindness rolled into Macksville on Monday afternoon when former London firefighter Stephen Aslin stopped at Macksville to be treated to some Nambucca Valley hospitality. Aslin pulled up at the Macksville Fire Station during his remarkable 48,280 kilometre charity cycling expedition around the world. The former firefighter is undertaking […]
Members of the executive committee of Camden Haven Chamber of Commerce
THE world’s first documented Chamber of Commerce was recorded in Marseilles, France in 1599, established by the city council as a way for traders to band together against common threats, establish trade policies, and exert influence on government. More than 400 years later Camden Haven Chamber of Commerce is expanding on those early ideals with […]
Children show their gratitude for a new tractor used in their community to support around 100,000 displaced people in Myanmar. @Tin Nu.
COMMUNITY generosity from the Mid North Coast, Camden Haven and Kendall is helping improve the lives of thousands of internally displaced people near the Burma-Thai border. Tin Nu has thanked the Mid North Coast Refugee Support Group (MNCRSG) and local supporters after fundraising efforts contributed to the purchase of a tractor for people forced from […]
Rusty Muscle Collective performing in the Glasshouse forecourt.
A DECADE after ArtWalk first set the streets of Port Macquarie alight with art, music and activity an estimated 30,000 people turned out to make the 10th anniversary event potentially the biggest ever. Chris Erdaide, community events officer for Port Macquarie Hastings Council and event organiser for ArtWalk, said it was amazing to see so […]
FOUNDING Hastings Community Radio presenter Marcia Wells recorded 40 years on the Mid Coast airwaves during a 2wayfm presenters meeting on 30 May. Ms Wells’ career kicked off with broadcasting from a caravan at Pappinbarra in1986 and playing her favourite Australian country music from vinyl records on turntables. She is a veteran of many moves […]
EACH year, 3307 lives are lost to suicide in Australia. Now in its 10th year, The Push Up Challenge is on 3 June to 26 June. Participants will do 3037 push ups in 24 days to honour the lives lost, raise funds for charities, and generate conversational change around the challenges faced by people experiencing […]
Town Team Movement Ltd received an FRRR grant funded by the Future Drought Fund to build community resilience to drought in WA’s Wheatbelt Central region.
MORE than $3,000,000 in grants is now available to empower eligible agriculture-dependent communities to prepare for drought by building and maintaining their social resilience. This is the second round of funding to be delivered by the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) through the Future Drought Fund’s (FDF) Communities Program, which is funded by […]
Corey Tutt OAM and artist Ben Williams at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney. Photo: supplied.
Corey Tutt OAM and artist Ben Williams at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney. Photo: supplied. Promoting Come Home, Bigibila in Melbourne. Photo: Corey Tutt. COREY Tutt OAM has been in a whirl of media interviews, school visits and book store appearances since he and Aboriginal artist Ben Williams won Book of the Year […]
