Photo Caption (L-R): John Harrison – Head Engineer, State Member for the Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall, Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton and Stuart Dearden – Project Manager pictured onsite today – stage one of upgrades are complete on the Newell Highway upgrade from Mungle Back Creek to Boggabilla. The Newell Highway upgrade from Mungle…
DetailsI ask the Minister for Health to wait for 30 seconds. Today is one of those rare days when we get to recognise someone from my electorate in the parliament. In the gallery today we have Kelly Foran, who has started a website called Friendly Faces Helping Hands that helps people in a time of medical crisis…
DetailsFederal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said seven community projects across his electorate will share in nearly $1.5 million of Government funding under the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal’s Tackling Tough Times Together program. Mr Coulton said the projects represent a $230,000 funding injection for communities at Boggabri, Condobolin, Dunedoo, Mungery, Narrabri, Mungindi and…
DetailsLocal Councils across the Parkes electorate are set to receive a major boost in funding towards local roads and streets thanks to extra revenue that will be raised through fuel excise indexation over the next decade. $1.105 billion extra funding will be made available to councils across Australia for vital road upgrades through the…
DetailsA former Narrabri resident has been awarded a prestigious 2020 Fulbright Scholarship, presented at a gala dinner in Parliament House today. Guy Coleman, a weed control scientist, was congratulated by Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, who said the award was a credit to Mr Coleman’s contribution to local agricultural research. “I was thrilled to…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (right) and Narromine Shire Council Mayor Craig Davies at Narromine Airport, which is undergoing a number of upgrades thanks to more than $800,000 in funding from the previous two rounds of the Regional Airports Program. Regional airports or aerodromes across the Parkes electorate can now apply for…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton pictured with members of the Warren Pastoral and Agricultural Association. The Warren Show was one of the lucky shows in the Parkes electorate that was able to go ahead last year. Agricultural show societies and field day organisations in the Parkes electorate are being encouraged to apply…
DetailsParkes electorate residents in financial crisis will have access to new emergency support as a result of funding from the Coalition Government. Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said the funding will support community organisations that service his electorate including the Salvation Army, Anglican Community Services, St Vincent De Paul, Centacare New England North West and…
DetailsPhoto caption: Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (second from left) pictured with Broken Hill City Council Outreach Project Officer Jeannette Thompson, Mayor Tom Kennedy, Community Development Officer Dionne Devlin, Archives Collection Coordinator Eileen Wright and Librarian Tracy Fraser at the Broken Hill Library, where the oral history project will take place. The stories of…
DetailsAnother 200 pages of World War 1 history, recording the efforts of men and women from the Moree district who fought between 1916 and 1918, will be published thanks to the Australian Government’s Saluting Their Service commemorative grants programme. Parkes MP, Mark Coulton, said Moree and District Historical Society will be granted $4,500 to publish…
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