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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister – When the Bush Pays for the City’s Silence

5 June 20255 July 2025

Glen Innes Severn Mayor Margot Davis has written an open letter to the PM calling for urgent action to fix the shortage of funding for councils, and end the hateful online abuse that results from the SRV process.

Local, Solutions

Why regional communities need local news to be told

11 April 202511 April 2025

Provision of local news is critical to healthy and engaged regional communities. It is vital local news coverage is supported as traditional outlets cut back.

Local

Need for Public Transport in northern New England

1 April 20259 April 2025

Siri Gamage calls on federal election candidates to advocate for better public transport, and restoring train services north of Armidale.

Local, Think

Clocked In, Checked Out – The Rise of Toxic Workplaces

13 March 202523 March 2025

Toxic workplaces are on the rise, often dismissed as “just the way things are.” Change starts with conversation. It’s time to speak up.

Local, Politics

The burden of being a non-key seat

9 March 202528 March 2025

RK Crosby says our region gets ignored not because we’re a safe seat, but because we’re a non-key seat.

Local, Politics

Councillor evicted, GM gone, Mayor targeted

7 December 20245 March 2025

An Extraordinary General Meeting of Moree Plains Shire Council has seen Councillor Kelly James being evicted from the meeting, and ended with the announcement that General Manager Kelvin Tytherleigh will be leaving the role in a matter of weeks.

Editorial, Local

An apology to the voters of the Northern Tablelands

29 August 20245 March 2025

If we had called Brendan Moylan out sooner, pushed back harder, then perhaps he would not have put that statement out today.

Editorial, Local, Solutions

Let’s start pulling the Armidale Secondary College problem apart so we can work towards solutions

24 September 202330 June 2025

**Content warning** Cliques, gaslighting, corruption, construction issues, incompetence, system failure. It’s a heavy list of issues causing so much pain at ASC.

Editorial, Local, Politics

Disrespect of Widders shows need for The Voice

31 May 20235 March 2025

There is really something quite extraordinary about the collusion between Armidale Regional Council members to vote down a motion to recognise Indigenous owners of the land on signs as you enter the LGA.