06 Nov 09 | BOOZE, drugs and testosterone are a deadly mix. If anybody has any doubts about that all they have to do is to read Justice Jane Matthews’ finding on the death of 32-year-old Bradley Hoye.
05 Nov 09 | WHILE we can appreciate – and sympathise with – the concerns local irrigators have over the draft Peel Valley Water Sharing plan, the fact remains this issue is part of a bigger picture.
05 Nov 09 | CON artist extraordinaire Kevin Rudd is at it again with his latest coup inducing Peter Costello to join him in the “Futures Fund”.
05 Nov 09 | THE result of the sports audit is in and it’s no surprise Tamworth Football Association needs a major overhaul.
05 Nov 09 | DURING the past few months in the Tamworth press we have been treated to a vital debate over creation/evolution issues.
05 Nov 09 | I HAVE been, quite frankly,
surprised at the number of people who have expressed support of my stand on the observance of
Halloween. So if we look back at Halloween, last Saturday night.
04 Nov 09 | TOP marks. That’s all we can say to the news that schools in our region rank among the safest in the state.
03 Nov 09 | THE Tamworth Hospital’s outstanding performance in the NSW Health Awards demonstrates that although the buildings and facilities may be in need of an overhaul, the people who deliver the service are absolutely first class.
03 Nov 09 | THE Tamworth Hospital’s outstanding performance in the NSW Health Awards demonstrates that although the buildings and facilities may be in need of an overhaul, the people who deliver the service are absolutely first class.
02 Nov 09 | HERE’S something you can bank on. The Reserve Bank is going to put interest rates up today.
22 Oct 09 | BERT Newton and Bruce Gyngell now appear to be the last men standing from what was the golden age of Australian television.
19 Oct 09 | MORE than 3000 young people from across the region are facing some of the most nerve-racking weeks of their lives from today.
18 Oct 09 | TENS of thousands of people across our region are living with unnecessary pain.
13 Oct 09 | ONE of the reasons people travel to Australia from all around the world is that we are one of the last continents on earth that offers large tracts of virgin wilderness areas of great beauty and variety.
12 Oct 09 | IS THIS the ultimate in bureaucratic paper shuffling or is it for real? The Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital has just released recommendations stating children under two shouldn’t be allowed to watch television – and that children aged between two and five should only be allowed to watch up to an hour a day.
11 Oct 09 | SO what is the Nobel Prize Committee going to do next year? And, more importantly, what is President Obama going to do to justify the award he so surprisingly received over the weekend?
09 Oct 09 | THE Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, and the Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, really should get together some time.
08 Oct 09 | HATE seems to have become an overused word. A recent survey conducted by Zoo Magazine has placed Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O (no, not the Onassis girl, the silly blonde one) at the head of Australia’s list of “most hated people”.
07 Oct 09 | TAMWORTH Regional Council is rightly spitting chips over the latest State Government cash grab – this time for money for water.
06 Oct 09 | IT’S official. The Reserve Bank is now on a very different page to the Federal Government when it comes to the best way to manage the Australian economy.