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Printed Edition 27 MAY 2026
Lyne MP Alison Penfold outside Parliament with Giggle for Girls founder Sall Grover and Nationals Leader Matt Canavan, after introducing her bid to change the Sex Discrimination Act. Photo: Supplied by Office of Alison Penford MP.
Lyne MP’s bid to amend legal definition of ‘woman’ and ‘man’
Lyne MP Alison Penfold outside Parliament with Giggle for Girls founder Sall Grover and Nationals Leader Matt Canavan, after introducing her bid to change the Sex Discrimination Act. Photo: Supplied by Office of Alison Penford MP. Alison Penfold showing a copy of her Private Member’s Bill to her followers on social media. MEMBER for Lyne […]
Peter Sterling at a Hawks training session earlier this year. Photo: Northern Hawks Facebook.
Hall of Fame honours for rugby league greats Sterlo and Cordner
Peter Sterling at a Hawks training session earlier this year. Photo: Northern Hawks Facebook. Peter Sterling and Hawks Head of Pathways Garth Brennan at a training session earlier this year. Photo: Northern Hawks Facebook. CORLETTE sporting identity Peter Sterling has been inducted into the NSW Rugby League Hall of Fame. The legendary Parramatta half back […]
Jaguars roll into Gloucester and Dungog along Mountain Rally route
Peter and Marlene Grant with the 1953 XK120 Jaguar. Jaguars lined up outside the Gloucester Rec Centre. DRIVERS travelling along the Bucketts Way on the morning of 22 May may have passed a unique convoy of Jaguar cars. Every second year the Jaguar Drivers’ Club of Australia (JDCA) holds its Mountain Rally, and this time […]
Magpies are Australia’s most-seen bird according to the latest national count. Photo: Kim Duggan.
Magpies ‘swoop’ into top spot in national bird count
THE results of the 12th national bird count are in, with the Australian Magpie taking out top spot. The Aussie Bird Count was held last October and saw a record breaking five million birds counted over one week. Organiser, Birdlife Australia, said 64,000 citizen scientists took part in the event. Half of all surveys included […]
An endangered Manning River Turtle being released into the Barrington River by Aussie Ark in February. Photo: Aussie Ark.
Turtles, fish bounce back after devastating Mid North Coast floods
NEW research indicates Manning River turtles are being recorded at pre-flood numbers, twelve months after one of the region’s worst floods on record. Waterways in the Hunter and Mid North Coast were battered in the floods of May 2025, with serious concerns held about the long-term effects on fish and animals living in the rivers, […]
Private landholders’ key role in the future of koalas
THE Koala Friendly Carbon Initiative is keen to hear from local landholders interested in having koala habitat trees planted on their properties. The initiative is a collaboration between the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and carbon farming service provider, Climate Friendly, supported by the NSW Government and HP Inc. This first-of-its-kind carbon farming […]
Vehicles queueing at the Bucketts Way/Pacific Highway intersection in early 2026.
Crash fears realised at Bucketts Way/Pacific Highway intersection
A SERIOUS accident on Friday 15 May has brought safety issues at the Bucketts Way/Pacific Highway intersection into sharp focus once more. In April, News Of The Area reported on the strong concerns held by former Roads and Traffic Authority senior engineer Gordon Chirgwin about the dangerous state of the intersection. “I believe that the […]