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Sharon
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Fair Trading to hold consumer rights roundtable in Dubbo

Want to know your rights as a consumer, small business owner or trader? Dubbo is the next stop on the NSW Fair Trading road-trip across the state, and you have the chance to attend a consumer rights roundtable hosted by the agency locally. The...

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Sharon Bonthuys

13 hours ago

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Not to be missed: Dubbo Women’s Festival, March 7

By Sharon Bonthuys With myriad events being held around the region right now celebrating International Women’s Day later this week, the Dubbo Women’s Festival returns to the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Community Art Centre this Friday...

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Narromine Star

07 Mar 2025

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Dubbo remembers: 70th anniversary of 1955 flood

An anniversary quietly ticks over this week as the region remembers and reflects on a major natural disaster that swept across central and northern NSW, and gave birth to what we now know and appreciate as the State Emergency Service. In late...

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Sharon Bonthuys

05 Mar 2025

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MP Mark Coulton warns against melanoma

Just days before the Melanoma March to be held in Dubbo this Saturday, March 8, retiring Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has used his own personal experience with the disease to warn constituents about the importance of being sun-safe. “I...

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Narromine Star

02 Mar 2025

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Love notes and sweet treats at Church Street Café

Church Street Café went all-out for Valentine’s Day recently, offering patrons the opportunity to write love notes to their “crushes” and tempting them with sweet treats. Some patrons took up the pen provided and wrote love notes to special...

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Sharon Bonthuys

28 Feb 2025

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Dubbo couple share IVF journey in “Big Miracles” program

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Sharon Bonthuys

23 Feb 2025

Dubbo Photo News

Friends sought for third annual Gilgandra Film Festival

By Sharon Bonthuys Film festival devotees across the region will be thrilled to learn the third annual Gilgandra Film Festival will return to the region in early May. The Friends of the Gilgandra Film Festival invite those with an interest in film...

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Sharon Bonthuys

22 Feb 2025

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ICAC visits Dubbo

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) returned to Dubbo last week, 11 years after its last official visit. The visit was part of the ICAC rural and regional outreach program, which commenced in 2001. ICAC last visited Dubbo in...

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Sharon Bonthuys

21 Feb 2025

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Dubbo author Val Clark wins Australia Day cultural award

“I’d been nominated before and didn’t get it,” she told Dubbo Photo News

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Sharon Bonthuys

15 Feb 2025

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Men’s Shed seek to donate wheelchair to deserving local

In a wonderful act of Pay-It-Forward, the Dubbo Community Men’s Shed Inc would like to gift a state-of-the-art motorised wheelchair to a deserving person in the Dubbo region. The hardworking community volunteers received the donated Permobil...

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Sharon Bonthuys

13 Feb 2025

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NRWC lobbies on early education and care as election approaches

The National Rural Women’s Coalition (NRWC) is tasking all sides of politics to deliver on policies investing in childhood early education and care in the lead up to the federal election, following Labor’s announcement of a $1 billion fund to...

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Sharon Bonthuys

10 Feb 2025

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Safety upgrades to improve Mitchell Highway towards Narromine

Regular travellers on the Mitchell Highway between Dubbo and Narromine will need to factor delays into their travel over the next few months as a new safety upgrade takes place. The roadworks impact a 2.2-kilometre stretch between Minore and...

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Sharon Bonthuys

07 Feb 2025

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Improving disaster response with Dubbo Regional Airport upgrade

As devastating bushfires recently raged in California and Australia sweltered through another hot summer, recent news that Dubbo Regional Airport will soon have the capacity to land and support large airborne firefighting resources locally, was...

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Sharon Bonthuys

25 Jan 2025