Gunnedah Shire Council has called on the state government to establish a rigorous air monitoring system in the region’s coal basin.
The call comes as the number of coal mining developments in the area continues to grow.
A new million dollar research project will look into Aboriginal Health.
Professor Roger Smith and his Tamworth team will study the origins of diabetes and kidney disease in indigenous children and their mothers.
Nationals Leader, Warren Truss, has taken the opposition’s anti-carbon tax message to the Australian National Field Days.
He says agriculture will be hit hard, despite being exempt from the tax.
And Armidale cricketer Hannah Laurie will get the chance of a lifetime this Sunday when she takes her place in the Invitational 11 which takes on a team of cricket legends.
The ACA Masters side icludes former test players.
