REGIONAL Arts Australia is launching a “transformative” new funding initiative with $2.4 million dollars in support from Minderoo Foundation. The program offers multi-year grants of $160,000 to support independent artists living and working in regional communities across Australia. “Practice in Community” will deliver two funding rounds for independent artists working in Community Arts and Cultural […]

COST-OF-LIVING pressures and the impact on access to basic needs like health services is one of the key issues emerging from the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW Annual Women’s Survey. The survey is now in its second year and is currently open to all women in communities across the state. “Last year’s survey really […]

SCULPTURE on the Farm members, local sculptors, and representatives of Dungog Early Literacy came together at noon on Thursday, 25 September to celebrate a $300 donation to the local literacy program. The presentation was hosted by Dungog Early Literacy chairperson Anne Higgins and her volunteer team, who welcomed the support from the community arts organisation. […]

Brigade members Maurice Kellner, Jake Davies and son Jock, Lyn Everingham, Treasurer Robyn Keller, President Barry McDonald, Ryan Perceval, Senior Deputy Captain Glenn Keller and Captain Jo McDonald. Jamie Marquet (grandson of founding member), Brigade captain Jo McDonald and Maurice Kellner (grandson of founding member) cut the celebratory cake. THE Wallarobba Rural Fire Brigade celebrated […]

PICTURE this: you’re 23 years old, and while most of your peers are still navigating university or working out what to do with their lives, you’ve already chosen your destiny. Not fame, not fortune – but Mars. That’s the life of Alyssa Carson, a young American who has devoted almost every waking hour to one […]

THE newly-formed Dungog Common Advisory Group (DCAG), also known as “Dungog Voice”, is calling on locals to have their say on the future of the Dungog Common through a limited-time community survey. The DCAG was created to provide a direct line of communication between community members and Dungog Community Projects (DCP), the Crown Land Manager […]

NEW laws will be proposed by the Greens in the NSW Parliament in October that would make people responsible for keeping their cat safely at home and give councils the discretion to regulate and enforce cat containment measures in priority areas. Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson said, “The failure of the […]