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Williams Football Club social committee members and Ladies on the Hill organisers Claire Harley and Roisin O Connor.

Ladies on the HillWilliam’s ladies day recognise women part of the footy club

Southern Wheatbelt women flocked to the Williams Town Oval on Sunday for the third annual Ladies on the Hill event for a special Mother’s Day

Hannah Whitehead

Bruce Rock’s Nathan Wayne is Youth Member for Central Wheatbelt and Newtegate’s Trey Westlake, 16, is the Youth Member for Roe, 16, for the Y WA Youth Parliament program 2025. 

YOUTH PARLIAMENTTwo Wheatbelt youths taking on Youth Parliament

Two budding politicians from the Wheatbelt will take their fight to Parliament, joining regional youth from across Western Australia for the 30th Y WA’s Youth Parliament program.

Hannah Whitehead

Family members of Bart the Ram sculptor Andrew Hickson, Liz Gardener, Paul Lewis, Angus Lewis, 17, Paul Gardner, Gwendoline Piesse, Rebecca Lewis, Henry Hickson and Ellie Hickson, 10 months.

Baaart’s BirthdayPremiumWagin’s iconic Bart the Giant Ram turns 40

Wagin’s iconic Bart the Ram celebrated his 40th year in style on Saturday with community members descending on Wetlands Park for the occasion.

Hannah Whitehead

Narrogin’s Youth in Emergency Services cadet group meets every Wednesday to learn skills from Narrogin’s emergency service leaders.

Youth in Emergency ServicesPremiumNarrogin’s YES program teaches teens life saving skills

Narrogin’s State Emergency Service leaders have developed the southern Wheatbelt’s only Youth in Emergency Services cadets program, giving teenagers a unique opportunity to learn practical life-saving skills

Hannah Whitehead

Katanning's Tyrone Roe takes off in the thrilling win over Kukerin-Dumbleyung.

Footy wrap PremiumKatanning snap losing streak as clutch late goal seals win

Katanning Wanderers broke a 15-game losing streak, notching their first win of the 2025 Upper Great Southern Football League competition on Sunday in dramatic fashion.

Cameron Newbold

Manual sorting at Veolia North Bannister Resource Recovery Park.

Recover and recyclePremiumThree compost facilities share $3.6m infrastructure upgrades

The North Bannister compost facility was one of three projects granted a share of the State Government’s $3.6m WasteSorted Organics Infrastructure Grants program to upgrade its services.

Hannah Whitehead

Narrogin and Districts Netball Association round one resulted in big wins for Williams and Wagin.

first winWilliams score thumping win over Pingelly to open 2025 comp

Williams delivered a commanding performance in the opening round of the Narrogin and Districts Netball Association A1 competition on Friday night with a 40-goal victory over Pingelly.

Maddy Petchell

O'Connor candidate Darren Moir campaigning at Mt Lockyer Primary School for the 2025 Federal election.

Federal ElectionPremiumO’Connor Labor candidate clarifies live export stance

O’Connor Labor candidate Darren Moir has clarified his position on the live sheep export ban on Saturday, telling the Advertiser he did not support the ban.

Georgia Campion

O’Connor incumbent Rick Wilson with his wife Tanya at his Albany office at his count party on May 3.

federal election 2025PremiumRick Wilson in good stead to keep O’Connor seat for Liberals

Liberal incumbent Rick Wilson looks set to secure a fifth term in O’Connor with the projected two-party preferred vote putting him ahead of the competition by 27.78 percentage points.

Jacki Elezovich

Lions Club of Narrogin members Arthur Taylor, Carold McDougal, president John Archer, Geoff Mckown and Grey Durell cooking the democracy sausage at the East Narrogin Primary School polls.

Fed ElectionPremiumRegional voters fear Labor re-election will kill ag industry

Voters in the heartland of WA’s sheep industry have said they are “the forgotten people” in politics and are afraid the 2025 Federal election outcome could kill regional towns.

Hannah Whitehead

Front: Erin Aslett and Addy Petricevich. Back: Caitlin Petricevich manning the fundraiser sausage sizzle at Mt Lockyer Primary School during the Federal election.

Federal ElectionPremiumAlbany and Mt Barker go to the polls

Voters from around Albany and Mt Barker flocked to their nearest voting booths on Saturday, braving intermittent rain and winds, to cast their ballot in the 2025 Federal election. 

Georgia Campion

Accessibility WA Inc chief executive Shanthi Collins, chairperson Brian Lange, program co-ordinator Christine Eales, quality assurance and marketing officer Rikarly Ramirez and operations manager Heather Waters at the Accessibility Narrogin community hub.

Wheatbelt accessibilityAccessibility Narrogin opens community hub for clients

A new safe and dedicated space for those with a disability to connect with each other and the community has opened in the Wheatbelt.

Hannah Whitehead

MAIN PIC: New Jerramungup recruit Riley Holden flies for a mark. TOP LEFT: Mitchell Dobson has joined Boddington. BOTTOM LEFT: Ballard family, Jared, Seb, Tristan and Ryan.

Around The Leagues PremiumJerry not Holden back, Eagles load up & Bulls family affair

Jerramungup’s flag ambitions in the Ongerup Football Association receive a big boost, WAFL State player joins an already stacked Boddington team in their title defence and a special moment for the Ballards.

Cameron Newbold

Brookton-Pingelly’s Ryley Conlan tackles Katanning’s Tyrone Roe.

Opening round PremiumPanthers fight off late challenge from Katanning in opener

Last season’s wooden spooners Katanning Wanderers have gone close to upsetting Brookton-Pingelly in the opening round of the new Upper Great Southern Football League season.

Cameron Newbold

Wandering-based Australian Christians Deonne Kingsford is running for the seat of O'Connor in the 2025 Federal election.

Election CandidatePremiumDeonne Kingsford on fighting for a ‘righteous nation’

In the final installment of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down for a chat with Australian Christians candidate Deonne Kingsford.

Georgia Campion

The Wagin War Memorial marked its 100th Anzac Day celebration on Friday.

Lest we forgetPremiumWagin War Memorial celebrates 100 years of remembrance

Wagin’s iconic war memorial celebrated its century anniversary with a dawn service the Wagin RSL president believes to be its best attended yet.

Melissa Sheil

Jill Clarke at the rostrum launching the collaborative war memorial book on Anzac Day.

Book launchPremiumBook launch plays fitting role in Dumbleyung’s Anzac Day

The launch of the collaborative war memorial book Dumbleyung And Districts Those who Served played a fitting role in the town’s Anzac Day remembrances on Friday.

Claire Middleton

The 518 Army cadet Unit Katanning WA attended the Katanning Anzac dawn service at Katanning War Memorial.

Anzac DayPremiumKatanning records high turnout for Anzac Day dawn service

The Katanning community gathered before the sun rose on Friday, adorned in the medals of their relatives and winter wear to fight the cold, for the town’s largest Anzac Day service in years.

Hannah Whitehead

Stacey Gray and her daughter Alexis Gray, 10, lay a wreath at the 2025 Darkan Anzac Service.

ANZAC DAYPremiumTowns across the Great Southern mark Anzac Day with services

Veterans, family members, shires, emergency services, schools and community groups across the Great Southern united on Friday to commemorate Anzac Day.

Hannah Whitehead

Shire of Narrogin chief executive Dale Stewart said the shire’s Temporary/Transient Workforce Accommodation policy is in response to the predicted influx of wind farm project workers.

NEW WORKFORCE HOUSING PremiumTemporary housing policy for thousands of predicted workers

The predicted influx of thousands of workers to a Wheatbelt town has brought a new temporary workforce housing policy for review.

Hannah Whitehead

From left to right: Returned Royal New Zealand Navy veteran Neill Dorset, returned Vietnam veteran Grant Froome, returned 5th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment veteran Gary Young, returned Vietnam veteran Eric Madson, returned Vietnam veteran Pte Peter Mullan, and returned Royal Australian Air Force veteran Sgt David Russell.

Anzac Day ServicePremiumThe Narrogin community commemorates Anzacs

The Narrogin 2025 troop march and Anzac Day service drew a crowd of about 300 to Memorial Park on Friday morning to commemorate the sacrifice of those who’ve served.

Hannah Whitehead

Giz Watson is contesting the Federal seat of O'Connor in the 2025 Federal election on May 3.

Federal ElectionPremiumGiz Watson on shaking up the status quo in the regions

Greens candidate Giz Watson is returning to contest the seat of O’Connor for a third time at the May 3 Federal election with a focus on the “bigger picture”.

Georgia Campion

Coen Jackman, Josh Bootsma and Justin Joyce are among the new faces in the UGSFL, GSFL and OFA.

Around The Leagues PremiumBig names back in GSFL, UGSFL set to launch & a new Bomber

A former AFL and WAFL star back in red and white for new GSFL season, a big recruit for the Narrogin Hawks and a dual WAFL premiership gun switches country teams. Here is our first Around The Leagues for 2025.

Cameron Newbold

Michelle Batt and Logan Batt, 17, laid wreath’s to honour their relatives World War I soldier Hans Hansen and World War II soldier Donald Leeson at the Narrogin Anzac Day dawn service on Friday.

Dawn ServicePremiumNarrogin dawn service commemorates those who served

Crowds gathered at Memorial Park in Narrogin to remember the sacrifice made by their ancestors at the town’s Anzac Day dawn service on Friday.

Hannah Whitehead

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