Scholarship success for Coffs language teacher

A teacher at Coffs Harbour’s Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School has been awarded a prestigious Aboriginal Languages Education Scholarship. Nationals Member for Coffs Harbour, Gurmesh Singh, has congratulated language teacher Blake Cusack on her outstanding achievement. “This important scholarship program aims to contribute to the growth of Aboriginal languages by supporting recipients just like Blake to…

Aussie talent must shine on streaming services

The NSW Nationals are calling on the Federal Government to back the NSW screen industry by implementing Australian content quotas. The call follows the success of the Australian Children’s Content Summit in Coffs Harbour, where concerns were raised over major platforms not supporting local industry. The Nationals are calling for quotas of up to 20…

Lithgow locals guaranteed a future, jobs saved with nuclear

Nationals Leader, David Littleproud, and Nationals’ candidate for Calare, Sam Farraway, are touring through Lithgow and other parts of the Central West, outlining the benefits nuclear energy will bring to the region. Mr Littleproud said it is clear local businesses are struggling with Labor’s soaring energy prices because Labor’s ideology and all-renewables approach isn’t working.…

Fly our flag and fly it with pride!

Today, September 3, is Australian National Flag Day. Proclaimed as a national day in 1996, it’s a celebration of the first time our flag was flown on September 3, 1901, at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, which was the site of Australia’s first Parliament. It was on that day that Prime Minister Edmund Barton…