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2022 Macksville High School Year 12 formal | photos

Stunning young women, handsome young men - and a celebration of friends, family and the passage of time at the Macksville High School Year 12 formal. Enjoy the photo gallery.

Alisha Wadling and Mila Bodycote. Year 12 Macksville High School formal on the banks of the Nambucca River, November 10, 2022. Picture: Chris Knight
Alisha Wadling and Mila Bodycote. Year 12 Macksville High School formal on the banks of the Nambucca River, November 10, 2022. Picture: Chris Knight

The Macksville High School Year 12 formal photos by the riverbank of the mighty Nambucca were writ large of everything that makes up this mighty town.

Honest, forthright and decent to the core.

And just a little inspiring for a settlement which has given rise to the likes of actor Bryan Brown, NRL legend Greg Inglis and the late and great Test cricketer Phillip Hughes.

But Thursday evening (November 10) - three years on from the Black Spring firestorm which scarred the Nambucca Valley - was not about what had been and who was once.

It’s a fresh chapter of the graduates of Macksville High - stunning, hopeful, resilient young women and men who’ve had to deal with Covid-enforced lockdowns and remote learning through their senior school years.

And they’ve done themselves proud - rocking the 2447 postcode in a way those who stepped before would be proud.

Not that the excitement on River Street wasn’t without its tangles.

The wind swirled some of the coiffes annoyingly, while a few bemoaned the number of demanded photos by family and friends.

But all smiled, complied, and did their best to please - except the recalcitrant “I’m just the old aunt”, who refused to front an iPhone shoot.

It was the Macksville way that the leaders of the future gathered willingly for group snaps, and became circumspect for individual shots.

Enjoy the gallery, as this was their moment to shine.

And that they did.

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