Moree
Last weekend, a five-year-old broke into a house to steal a car
A youth crime crisis in some areas of regional Australia is fuelling long-standing tension between Indigenous residents, the wider community and police.
- by Jordan Baker
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Courts
Police bashed children, hid body camera footage, court told
Veteran police are facing trial for punching, hitting and swearing at teens. Their defence argues their actions should be judged on “the agony of the moment”, not hindsight.
- by Jordan Baker
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NSW weather
Evacuation orders issued in Moree, Sydney warned of Hawkesbury-Nepean flooding
Western Sydney residents are being warned of rising waters in the flood-prone Hawkesbury-Nepean as flooding continues across inland NSW.
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Hospitals in crisis
‘Google these towns’: Urgent plea for nurses across 14 regional hospitals
Severe shortages across regional NSW has prompted health officials to offer up to $500 a week in bonus payments to lure nurses to hospitals, including Tamworth, Tenterfield, Moree and Armidale.
- by Lucy Carroll and Carrie Fellner
‘Harder than you think’: Unhappy campers count down to Queensland border reopening
At about 4pm each afternoon, happy hour arrives at Moree Showground. It’s the highlight of the day for a group of otherwise unhappy campers.
- by Jenny Noyes
The tiny border town cut off by Queensland, where there’s only one shop and no cash
The unvaccinated outnumber the vaccinated in Boggabilla and Toomelah, where only the fully jabbed are allowed over the border to shop for the bare essentials.
- by Jenny Noyes
Ninety-eight per cent of COVID-19 patients in Moree outbreak are Aboriginal
And the vast majority with the virus are young: 90 per cent are under 40, and 43 per cent are under 20.
- by Jenny Noyes
A tale of two shires and the vaccination divide near the Queensland border
Queensland’s most vaccinated town has so far crushed its new COVID-19 outbreak. In its southern neighbour, cases have climbed by 78 in just five days.
- by Zach Hope
NSW nears a 90 per cent vaccination rate as COVID spreads to vulnerable regions
The mayor of Moree, where another 15 COVID-19 cases were recorded on Friday, says the town feels like it has been abandoned by the state government.
- by Cameron Gooley and Mary Ward
Queensland tightens travel rules amid growing cross-border cluster
Queensland authorities are managing a cluster of COVID-19 cases in the southern border town, linked to an outbreak of more than 30 infections.
- by Matt Dennien
‘Really disturbing’: Regional infections drive spike in NSW COVID numbers
Infections in parts of the Hunter New England region which previously had little to no COVID-19 have driven a spike in NSW’s cases on Thursday.
- by Mary Ward
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