Local People in the news
Lorna Brennan: In profile
I’m the local facilitator of the Buninyong School as Community Centre. I’ve been here for the last 13 years. Before...
Ray reflects on time well served
After 55 years of service to Legacy, Dubbo’s Ray Winslow was humbled to receive the Pride of Australia Editor’s Award…
Joey’s struggle and message of hope
Joe Williams has had voices in his head telling him to commit suicide every day since the age of 11…
Welcome Leon, Dubbo’s first Sister City baby!
It’s a love story that’s made for the big screens, where two people from different backgrounds fall head over heels…
Opinion & Analysis
Yvette Aubusson-Foley | 12.04.2018
It’s a matter of urgency
Why someone wouldn’t slow down in their car while passing an active emergency, as a demonstration of common sense if...
Greg Smart | 05.04.2018
Cricket – It’s business as usual at Australia’s national sport
Ask me to name two things about professional cricket, and two grand illusions come to mind. Firstly, the mass hallucination that...
Donna Falconer | 28.09.2017
The business of charities
National charities are businesses. As hard as it is to accept it just has to be. I have a lot of conversations...
Yvette Aubusson-Foley | 24.08.2017
How to stop Time in the Spring
Do you ever have days where you’re 100 per cent certain you can feel the Earth spinning on its axis?...
Love is a many splendid thing until you want marriage equality
Our oldest son and his girlfriend are engaged. The word “soulmates” popped up in conversation occasionally. They are two very special people, the whole greater than the sum of the parts. The…
Feeding the machine on Earth Overshoot Day
If you caught the ABC’s 4-Corners report, ‘Trashed’ this week, you’ll have seen a tip of the iceberg; a hardly surprising, corrupt tip, of the waste industry. I wonder should we…
Sport
Macquarie's soccer gold at the end of the rainbow
Fine sunny conditions heralded the start of a fabulous finale at the Lady Cutler Fields on Sunday. Winners were spread...
Ryan chasing three in a row at Boot
Champion Dubbo jockey Greg Ryan is chasing a record-breaking win in Sunday’s Wellington Boot. If successful, Ryan will become the first…
The Blytons love to race
Mark Blyton and two of his offspring, Marshall and Jamison, have a unique place in NSW motor racing. All three…
Rugby dreams realised in Papua New Guinea
Playing sport in another country is often the trip of a lifetime for many sportspeople, but a recent journey to…