What's On - July 2025

JULY 2025

What’s On

IN OUR REGION

HATFIELD Meat Masterclass Want to learn a new skill or sharpen an old one?

Join us for a fun and interactive day featuring expert demonstrations in butchery..

Hatfield Recreation Hall, Hatfield, NSW

Butchery demo & Q&A with Mal Cimino, Meats on Market Balranald Half side of Beef, a full Sheep & half side of Pork Tea & Coffee provided by Salvation Army Rural Chaplain’s Smoko & Lunch provided by Hatfield Recreation Reserve Support Services & Agricultural related services present For registrations contact, Claire Butler 0409 206 871 To express your interest in future Meat Masterclass events contact our Landcare Coordinator, Danielle Connolly on 0467 050 122.

Sunday 6th July (10am start)

Landcare Broken Hill National Tree Day - Native Garden Workshop Celebrate National Tree Day 28th July Australia with Landcare Broken Hill by getting your hands dirty and learning how to create a native garden suited to our arid region.

This practical workshop will cover how to plan, plant, and care for local native species in your own garden.

Join us lakeside at Imperial Lakes on Saturday 27 July for an afternoon of knowledgesharing and community connection.

Imperial Lakes Nature Park, Broken Hill NSW

Event details and ticket links will be announced soon.

Keep an eye on our socials

Saturday 27th July

BACK BETTER THAN EVER Western Landcare’s Life & Light Photo Competition will soon make its return, with entries opening on July 1st 2025.

Our famed region wide competition for amateur photographers promises to be better than ever, with absolutely amazing prizes up for grabs.

We are enormously grateful to our new partner and this year’s major sponsor, Aurelia Metals, as well as Cobar Shire Council & Western Local Land Services.

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Keep an eye on our socials and website for more information. www.lifeandlight.com.au

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

Photo: Heads Down, Bums Up by Jane Jones.

Life & Light Entrant 2023

12th July Daylight - 4pm Wentworth Angling Club Fishing Competition, Fort Courage, Wentworth

12 - 13th July

WESTERN LOCAL LAND SERVICES

Balranald Pony Club Camp, Balranald Pony Club

FREE feed and water testing - NOW AVAILABLE!

26th July 4pm Homebush Rec Club AGM Homebush Rodeo, Rodeo Grounds

25th July Schools Tree Day

27th July National Tree Day

Feed testing covering pasture, hay and grain helps you plan accurate feed budgets, check nutritional value and avoid wasting money on poor-quality products. Water testing ensures your stock stay healthy - especially important as quality can shift quickly in dry conditions.

Testing is free. Water tests incur postage costs or drop off at any Western LLS office.

For more information contact Courtney Lallard (Broken Hill) on 0499 924 501 or Christine Plummer (Buronga) on 0408 241 200.

‘BRUNCH WITH FRIENDS’

30 - 31st August Wentworth Show, Wentworth Showgrounds For more details including entries HERE

at Australian Inland Botanic Gardens 23rd August 9:30am to 1pm More information HERE

Photo: Nviro Media

REGIONAL LANDCARE COORDINATOR REPORT Western Landcare NSW (WLNSW) welcomed Winter to the Western Region through a variety of memorable meetings and events that you can read about in the June 2025 Western Landcare Life Newsletter.

Western Landcare’s inaugural Community Conversation Camp held at Kinchega National Park on the weekend of June 14 and 15 lead to exciting connections and important collaborations being formed. The topic on the table was Biodiversity & Conservation: What’s happening in Far West NSW? Thanks to funding from Landcare NSW (LNSW) and Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT), we were able to host this important pilot project to explore camping as an alternate information delivery platform for the Western region community. With many services reporting ‘engagement fatigue’ due to the long-distances landholders must travel to attend natural resource management (NRM) meetings, this event explored a ‘back to basics’ approach to modern day attendance – discuss land, on land.

Photo: Andrew Hull

Photo: Mel Gates

Landholders, land managers and a variety of landcaring stakeholders joined our team for constructive conservation conversations around the campfire and across a 50-seat table over delicious bush tucker meals created by David Doyle and his Wontanella team. With heated Kinchega dining areas and Shearers’ Quarters, you’d be forgiven for calling this a ‘glamp’, rather than a camp.

WLNSW is exploring a new way forward. Members will soon receive an email containing a Strategic Plan draft, our new Constitution, and Minutes from the recent 2024 AGM along with a Notice of AGM to be held in Cobar later in the year.

The WLNSW Strategic Plan draft was re-written in response to external factors that are rapidly changing local landscapes and impacting communities across 40% of NSW. The United Nations 30x30 targets are trickling down to the Western region so we encourage you all to keep up to date HERE and keep this important community conservation conversation going…

We look forward to seeing you around the next campfire!

Stay warm.

Mel

Photo: Nviro Media

Want to find out about our future events, projects or how to join Western Landcare NSW? Reach out to your Local Landcare Coordinator, HERE.

NAIDOC WEEK Photo: Ancestral Lines, Jeremy Morgan Worrall, NAIDOC Poster 2025

7th July

Dareton Opening Day CHAC Clinic, 51 Sturt Place, Dareton

9th July

Community Day Dareton Public School, School Road, Dareton

7th, 9, 11th July

Scratch Board Craft Sessions Broken Hill City Library, 40 Blende Street, Broken Hill

8 July

Morning Tea/Lunch 146 Chloride St , Broken Hill

11th July

The Pound Yard, Anson Street Bourke RSVP: Maureen BatesMcKay 0447 297 291

National NAIDOC Committee on this years theme As we enter 2025, NAIDOC Week marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honoring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience. The 2025 theme, "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy," celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the legacy of our ancestors.

The NAIDOC journey began as a movement for recognition and rights, sparked‘BRUNCH

by Indigenous communities who saw a future builtWITH on justice and equality. Over the decades, it has grown into a powerful FRIENDS’ national celebration, a testament to the enduring at strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Australian Inland Botanic As we commemorate this 50-year legacy,Gardens we also look

forward, honouring the next generation who will carry the torch, shaping the future with courage, insight, and 23rd August deep respect for our roots.

9:30am to 1pm Guided by the wisdom of our Elders and the groundwork More information laid by our forebears, each NAIDOC Week reinforces our HERE vision for an Australia where Indigenous voices are not only heard but lead the way.