There’s another type of COVID baby boom at Dubbo’s Taronga Western Plains Zoo with the successful hatching of critically endangered Regent Honeyeater chicks after another successful year of captive breeding. The zoo’s brand-new holding aviary and ongoing captive breeding program, supported by the Morrison Government’s $200 million investment in bushfire recovery for wildlife and habitat,…
DetailsPhoto caption: Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley and Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton received a tour of the Australian Recycled Plastics facility in Narrabri from Operations Manager Terrence Duncan and owner operator Dale Smith. Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley today joined Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton in Narrabri highlighting the important role…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (third from left) and Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley (third from right) announced $1 million in funding for the North West Local Land Services to undertake a range of projects to help protect Gunnedah’s koala population. They are pictured with local landholder Elise Palzer and her son…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton and Broken Hill City Council Mayor Darriea Turley AM test out the new footpath in Patton Street. Footpaths across Broken Hill are now much safer and more accessible, thanks to a multi-million-dollar Federal Government investment which is creating jobs and boosting the local economy. Federal Member for…
DetailsCaption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton today met with stakeholders and members of the Alcohol and Other Drug Detox and Rehabilitation Facility steering committee, including Inspector Tom Aylett from the Barrier Police, Broken Hill City Council’s Dionne Devlin, Western Primary Health Network’s Andrew Coe, Helene Fox from Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation, Andrew House…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton met with Broken Hill Mayor Darriea Turley AM to discuss plans to build the new library and cultural precinct thanks to $8.7 million in funding through the Federal Government’s Building Better Regions Fund. The Broken Hill community can look forward to benefitting from a brand new library…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton and Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Barnaby Joyce today announced the new $150 million Remote Roads Upgrade Pilot Program in Moree. Critical rural and regional road links will be made safer and more productive thanks to a new $150 million Remote…
DetailsPhoto caption: Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (third from right) and Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (second from right) were joined by Pacific National Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Thomson, ARTC Inland Rail Interim Chief Executive Rebecca Pickering, GrainCorp CEO Robert Spurway and Trans4m Rail Project Director Jon Holmes at GrainCorp Moree to mark the…
DetailsTraffic lights will be switched on at Baird Street next week, completing the $40 million Newell-Mitchell highway intersection upgrade ahead of schedule and under budget. Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said this marked the final piece in the puzzle of the 18-month upgrade to the four-lane Newell-Mitchell highways intersection to improve road safety and…
DetailsCommunity groups in the Parkes electorate can now apply for up to $750,000 in grants for initiatives that encourage more people to sign up to become organ and tissue donors. Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said grants of between $10,000 and $50,000 are available to help drive community awareness about the importance of donation,…
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