Tag: Boggabilla 2409
Child protection report urges community leadership
An inquiry into the New South Wales child protection system has found intervention into Boggabilla and Toomelah will not be successful until community leaders want the lives of their children to change.[MORE]
Dept 'trying to stop schoolkids abusing others'
Authorities say they are trying to protect children allegedly being sexually assaulted by older students in NSW schools.[MORE]
Children 'sexually abusing classmates' in remote NSW
Children are sexually abusing their younger classmates in remote NSW schools, inquiry hears.[MORE]
Aboriginal women live in fear, inquiry hears
A State Government inquiry has been told Aboriginal women in northern New South Wales live in fear of their men.[MORE]
Child protection inquiry begins second hearings
The special commission of inquiry into child protection services in New South Wales will start its second round of hearings at Toomelah and Boggabilla today.[MORE]
Upgrade planned for Indigenous water, sewerage infrastructure
Indigenous communities in north-west New South Wales and the New England are expected to benefit from a State Government plan to modernise water and sewerage infrastructure in remote Aboriginal communities.[MORE]
Community knowledge of child protection plan 'zero'
The head of the New South Wales Child Protection Inquiry has questioned why a new strategy to protect children in an Aboriginal community in the north-west of New South Wales appears to be a mystery to local people.[MORE]
MP urges formal inquiry into truck driver paedophilia claims
The federal MP for New England says allegations of paedophilia involving truck drivers and young girls at Moree and Boggabilla should be subject of a formal inquiry.[MORE]
Emerson hints intervention could extend to NSW
The Commonwealth intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory could be extended to other states, after claims of a child prostitution ring operating in New South Wales.[MORE]
New allegations emerge in Boggabilla sex scandal
There are fresh allegations of child abuse in the north-west New South Wales town of Boggabilla.[MORE]
Calls to extend intervention amid truckie sex claims
Brendan Nelson says truckie sex trade claims are evidence the NT intervention needs to be extended.[MORE]
Police probe truckie child sex claims
New South Wales Police investigating Lateline claims of child sexual assault by outback truck drivers.[MORE]
Truckies 'target Aboriginal girls for sex'
Aboriginal teenage girls from north-west New South Wales have spoken out about being targeted by truck drivers offering cash for sex.[MORE]
Truckies 'target Aboriginal girls for paid sex'
Aboriginal women accuse truck drivers of paying girls as young as 8 for sex.[MORE]
'White flight' report offensive: Gorman
The regional director of the New South Wales Department of Education has rejected the findings of a report suggesting some public schools are being shunned by Anglo-European parents on racial grounds.[MORE]
Fuel tanker threatens to explode on hwy
There are fears a fuel tanker burning on the Newell Highway, in north-west New South Wales, could explode.[MORE]
Truck smash victims all from Queensland
Police say three people killed in yesterday's head-on truck crash in north-western New South Wales, including a father and son, were all from Queensland.[MORE]
Boy rescued, dad killed in highway smash
Passers-by rescued an 11-year-old boy from a truck accident that killed his father on the New South Wales North Coast this morning, as another boy was incinerated in a second truck smash.[MORE]
Boy, driver incinerated in truck smash
Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, died in two separate truck crashes on highways in country New South Wales early this morning.[MORE]
Boggabilla to get $100,000 facelift
Moree Plains Shire Council is to spend more than $100,000 to improve the appearance of Boggabilla.[MORE]
Divers continue search for missing swimmer
Police divers from Sydney will today resume the search for a 40-year-old man from Boggabilla, in northern New South Wales, who disappeared on Tuesday night.[MORE]
Search on for missing swimmer
Police have not given up hope that a man who disappeared last night while attempting to swim the MacIntyre River at Boggabilla, in northern New South Wales, made it to the other side.[MORE]
Indigenous women to join 'yarning circle'
Indigenous women from six groups in southern Queensland will take part in a 'yarning circle' at a workshop in northern New South Wales this week.[MORE]
Boy recovering after river accident
A five-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after he was submerged for up to five minutes in the Macintyre River in northern New South Wales.[MORE]
High winds batter Boggabilla
Parts of the north-west NSW region were buffeted by strong winds and hail overnight, but have escaped major damage.[MORE]
