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50th anniversary Tamworth Country Music Festival kicks off after January COVID hiatus

The long-awaited 50th anniversary of the Tamworth Country Music Festival finally begins today, three months later than planned, after it was disrupted by the summer wave of the Omicron variant.

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How Tamworth Country Music Festival, Golden Guitars grew from humble beginnings to be coveted gold

As Tamworth celebrates its 50th country music festival, the late Slim Dusty still holds the joint record for 38 Golden Guitars. But it was his wife Joy McKean who won the very first award in 1973 for writing one of his most iconic songs.

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Colonial and nationalist myths are recast in Yumna Kassab's Australiana

Yumna Kassab’s Australiana: A Novel is mostly set in an unnamed regional town, likely Tamworth, in northern NSW and in other nearby locations like Barraba, Uralla and the Pilliga. It tells of the lives of ordinary people, their relationships with the land and homes in which they dwell, the objects…

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Erika Sorby show opens at Blackstone

Emerging artist Erika Sorby opens her show, Women and Wine, at Blackstone Gallery this weekend. The exhibit presents a series of original, contemporary oil paintings that encompasses female sensuality, flattering decor and wine. The exhibition launch is from 3 to 6pm on Saturday, April 9. The show features about 50…

Newcastle Herald

‘Desperate for staff’: the NDIS crisis afflicting regional Australians

Regional areas are suffering from a lack of providers for people with complex disabilities while behavioural therapists are also ‘swamped’

The Guardian - AU

Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce 'not interested' in calls for transparency about new Dungowan Dam

Tamworth councillors, including two former Nationals heavyweights, want more detail on the proposed new Dungowan Dam, but Barnaby Joyce says he just wants the project built.

ABC News

Tamworth turns sod on city's first university campus, set to be built by 2023

The campus has been planned for almost 10 years, but some are now concerned about its potential to affect Armidale's population.

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Here Are The Official Best Towns In Australia For 2022, And I’ll See You In Tassie I Guess

Time to deplete that annual leave.

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Huge cannabis crop harvested at Tamworth with custom machine

Sprawling across 180 hectares, one of eastern Australia's largest industrial cannabis crops has been harvested for the first time and cutting it has been no small feat.

ABC News

How Launceston took out a top travel gong in the eclectic Town of The Year awards

Launceston has been crowned as the best Australian town to visit for 2022, with other eclectic and perhaps unexpected choices rounding out the top 10.

The New Daily

Electronics firm Box expands into larger Tamworth base

Company will relocate later this year into new hub which is seven times larger than its existing site in Birmingham

Birmingham Post

Featured Jobs: KEO, WestWords, Building Guild, The Fashion Institute, Scratch, Laundry Bar

KEO is seeking a new mid to senior-level Creative Designer to join KEO full-time in Tamworth and North West NSW, Newcastle & Hunter Region. Due to solid growth, Keo are looking for an experienced designer to contribute to the team and design department. You will be designing a wide variety…

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Small-town butchers thrive as supply shortages hit Australian supermarkets

Paddock-to-plate business model helps small butchers pick up new customers amid Covid disruptions

The Guardian - AU

Long live Wanita the Australian queen of honky tonk

Newcastle director Matthew Walker's new film explores the enigma that is Wanita.

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Dungowan dam doubles in projected costs, has no business case, no environmental approval yet is ‘moving ahead’

Barnaby Joyce visited existing dam ‘to announce real progress on this important piece of water infrastructure’

Birmingham Post

US giant buys out Tamworth adhesive firm Apollo

HB Fuller has acquired Staffordshire outfit which this year celebrates its half century of business

The Guardian - AU

Elvis v Tamworth: the battle for the hottest dates on Australia’s country calendar

Parkes Elvis celebrations all shook up as country music festival steps on its blue suede shoes in Covid-induced clash

The Independent UK

Indoor ski centre law change bid gathers pace after boy’s ‘avoidable’ death

Louis Watkiss, 12, died after a collision on the slopes of the SnowDome in Tamworth in September 2021.

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