Broken Hill Times

Nominate hero for Oz Day award

IT’S time to recognise worthy community members by nominating them for an Australia Day Award. Member for Parkes Jamie Chaffey has called on the Parkes electorate to make sure outstanding community members are recognised.“The Federal Electorate of...

28 Jul 2025

Arts & Entertainment

What’s On in Broken Hill?

Big Sky Tour: Performance 6.30pm, Broken Hill Civic Centre SYO’s Big Sky Tour culminates in spectacular fashion with the Big Sky Gala at the Broken Hill Civic Centre on Friday 4 July at 7:00pm. Live Music: Chrissie Murphy & Highway...

03 Jul 2025

News

More needed to lessen Aboriginal lead levels

A LEADING Aboriginal health organisation is calling for urgent government intervention after new data revealed disproportionately high lead levels in Aboriginal children in Broken Hill. Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation has renewed its appeal...

28 Jul 2025

Arts & Entertainment

Art made at research station

FOWLERS Gap research station housed artists from throughout the country for the last week, who’d travelled to the region to undertake a multimedia arts workshop with artist Ash Frost and local potter Lyndy Marshall. Frost has hosted the workshop...

28 Jul 2025

Business

The ghosts of Milparinka

MILPARINKA, a town established during the gold-rush of the 1880s, experienced a short lived heyday before being abandoned, left to fall in decay and becoming another Outback ghost town. But it’s a ghost town for more than just its lack of human...

28 Jul 2025

News

Still flying high

A GROUP of former Qantas apprentices from the 1978 intake, affectionately known as “33J”, have proven that true mateship and a shared love of adventure only get stronger with time. Now in their sixties, the crew and their partners mark the...

27 Jul 2025

Video

News

Murray Darling Basin Authority and NSW Government act on water concern

THE Murray Darling Basin Authority and New South Wales Government are working together to monitor and manage water quality in the Menindee Lakes and the lower Darling-Baaka ahead of summer. Concerns about water quality including dissolved...

19 Dec 2024

Community

Scenic sculptures tell a story

ONCE, many years ago, I walked with my four-month-old in a pram up to the Sculptures. It was last weekend when I thought how hard could it be to do that with an almost five-year-old and a two-year-old?The Living Desert State Park is located about...

27 Jul 2025

Community

Speaking up for fairness

DISABILITY Advocacy can help anyone in need and ensure they are treated with fairness. Disability Advocacy NSW supports people with disability to get a fair go and be fully included in the community. Broken Hill’s disability advocate Caryn Ferguson...

27 Jul 2025

Native gardening workshop

AS part of Marnpi Festival, Slag Heap Projects and Landcare Broken Hill are partnering to continue the revitalization of Oxide Street with a native gardening workshop to be held this Sunday (July 27).The free workshop will see attendees learn the...

26 Jul 2025

Business

‘A way of life’: The legacy of Peak Hill

FOR Luke and Lorraine Kuerschner, life on the land isn’t a story, it’s simply the way things are. The Kuerschners, who run a station called Peak Hill in far western New South Wales, carry the weight and pride of a legacy that stretches back over...

25 Jul 2025

Sport

Golf

Golf notes

South Broken Hill Golf Club Wednesday, July 16 – 9-hole Stableford: K. Bettison 17 pts c/b, R. Thomas 17 pts, W. Kitchen 16 pts. Friday, July 18 – 9-hole Par: J. Miani +1, R. Thomas -2, W. Kitchen -3. NTP: B. Gillespie 178cmSaturday, July 19...

26 Jul 2025

Football

Looking back on landmark victory

THE North Football Club will this weekend celebrate the premiership heroes of their 1975 flag winning team at their annual past player’s function. The side ended a 10-year premiership drought for the Bulldogs and is regarded as one of the greatest...

26 Jul 2025

Football

Cats’ small man a Silver City success

ALONG with Essendon defender Dean Solomon, the only other known Broken Hill export to play in a VFL/AFL premiership is Geelong small man Robert Walter ‘Bob’ Troughton. Born on June 17, 1904, he played with the Geelong in the tough VFL days, during...

26 Jul 2025

Football

South to keep rolling on

FOR me this contest is tantalising. Central really need to win or simply stay in the contest just to simply install belief moving forward. However, South to me don’t look like slowing down; they seem to just getting...

25 Jul 2025

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Opinion

Restoring power to Broken Hill and the Far West

THE outage experienced in October 2024 highlighted the energy challenges Broken Hill and the Far West face, with one transmission line supporting 13,000 customers. Frustration amplified in the community when the...

28 Apr 2025

Letters to the editor

Keep being smart

THIS Summer we reflect on a milestone in our state’s fight against skin cancer. January marks a decade since Victoria banned commercial solariums -- a landmark decision that has undoubtedly saved countless lives. Before the ban, solariums were...

02 Feb 2025

Letters to the editor

Federal election looms

G’DAY folks,Here we are nearly at the end of January, another year under way, and already things are starting to pick up pace after the festive season. I hope that everybody had a chance to get some down time, although I know that for some people...

31 Jan 2025

Letters to the editor

Speak up, just not for the Greens

AS A country person I get frustrated and dismayed at uneducated city influence which is adversely impacting not only our rural lifestyle, but also the cost of living for everyone. Greens policies are reducing the ability of our farmers to grow...

01 Feb 2025

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