The Annual Nyngan Community Christmas Event is on this Saturday 6 December at the Nyngan Showgrounds starting at 5:30pm. There will be plenty of stall holders for your Christmas gifts, live music and performances, food, free kids craft, lighting of the Christmas Tree, and of course a visit from Santa. Pop down for a great afternoon out.
On Monday 24th November 2025, Councillor Sam Issa, Grayden Curry, Bogan Shire Council Director of Infrastructure Services and I attended the Local Government NSW Conference held in Penrith. Many of the debate topics were around ‘Green Energy’ effects, in particular solar and wind farms and the impacts of rural areas. Unfortunately, the number of city votes in favour well out voted our rural representatives by at least 60%, which shows our rural voices are not being heard over are city counterparts who are not living with these in their back yards. Another major part of discussion at the Conference, was the lack of housing crisis and a motion was put forward to limit immigration numbers until there is an ease housing availability issues, the motion was overwhelmingly defeated, which is not going to help with the long-term solution.
The Government has announced that that the change to rural road speed limit to 70km has been shelved, finally getting a win for rural Australia.
Australia Day Nominations for the Bogan Shire will be closing on Friday 12th December 2025, be sure to get your nominations in as there are many people within our Shire who make a significant contribution to our community.
On Thursday 27th November Bogan Shire Council held their second last meeting for 2025. During the meeting Councillors selected a tender to install the emergency bore water pipeline to the emergency bore location on the Old Warren Road in Nyngan. At the meeting, Council also discussed a letter they received from Wangaaypuwan Wellness Centre Nyngan, requesting council support to provide temporary accommodation for domestic violence victims in Nyngan for a 12-month period. Council have forwarded the letter of support to the State Government to encourage the appropriate advice to move forward with the request as State Government ultimately decide the motion for such issues.
Crime is on the rise again in the district, please be vigilant and lock up your belongings, they particularly seem to be targeting farms. We shouldn’t have to but lock any harvest vehicles and machines if possible and keep an eye on fuel as they are also siphoning from machines.
Current road and maintenance work throughout the Shire include continued construction of a 5km section of Coffils Lane, continued construction of four flood ways on Okeh Road, commence roadside slashing of the Mitchell Highway and Barrier Highway, commence construction of a section of Pine Street, Girilambone, continuing grading of Gongolgon Road and commencing of resealing sections of various Council roads including Canonba and Colane Roads.
Mayor Glen Neill