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WA shutterbug Georgina Steytler’s stunning picture of wasps playing in the Goomalling mud has won the prestigeous Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. The shot shows industrious wasps, turning mud into balls to create egg chambers for their nests.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is seeking expressions of interest for casual employees. There is a wide range of paid temporary roles available, from supervisory to administrative or logistics roles. You can choose to work before, on or after election day or throughout the whole election period.

Shire of Goomalling was recognised for the successful youth event #GoomaTownFest in the 2018 Children’s Environment and Health Local Government Policy Awards ceremony, winning the category “Young People Making a Difference in Communities” for the second consecutive year.

Saturday 14 April we celebrated Youth Week WA with a series of activities to challenge, inspire and invoke a sense of euphoria that can only be felt when you’re getting messy. 64 young tributes entered the Hunger Maze, sacrificing themselves willingly to the onslaught of paint and goo.

GO Sustainable is a medium term project to transition Council facilities to renewable energy reducing power drawn from the grid. Council will carry out transition to solar pv systems over the next five years, targeting the highest consuming sites first.

Our OpShop's quarterly newsletter details its funding allocations through grant requests, its new opening times and its dedicated volunteers.

The Shire of Goomalling was very excited to receive a Local Government Children’s Environment and Health Policy Award in the category 'Young People Making a Difference in Communities'.

The renovations to the Goomalling Emergency Department are now complete.

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Several interesting workshops are coming up during the months of July and August, on topics including sheep management, lamb survival, deep ripping machinery, soil management and more. Read on for dates, locations and info.

Avongro Inc is trialing the effect on native timber crops on saline land, when pre-treated with Frankia, a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that lives in symbiosis with some plants letting them grow in soils that are saline, low in nutrients, have extreme pH or even heavy metal pollution.

The Shire of Goomalling's Age Friendly Community Plan (AFCP) has been finalised and was adopted by Council on 15 June 2016. Our AFCP was funded by Department of Local Government and Communities Age-Friendly Community Local Government Grant Program.

nbn has now successfully launched its wholesale broadband satellite service Sky Muster™, helping to bridge the digital divide by enabling fast broadband access for rural, regional and remote Australians.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) begins the state-wide search for Field Officers for the 2016 Census of Population and Housing on Tuesday 9 August 2016. Applications close 29 May 2016.

On 15 March 2016 Professor Tim Flannery of the Climate Council wrote "New data released yesterday revealed that global temperatures surged in the last two months to temperature targets we didn't expect to breach until 2100."

Sport and Recreation Minister Mia Davies announced the 12 month ActiveSmart program to be rolled out across 12 local government areas in the Wheatbelt: Beverley, Dowerin, Goomalling, Koorda, Merredin, Moora, Narrogin, Northam, Toodyay, Wyalkatchem and York.

The time has come around again for the annual community Red Card for Rabbits and Foxes events. Wheatbelt NRM is offering funding to groups wanting to run fox shoot events under the Red Card for Rabbits and Foxes program.

While many Australians may have heard about the nbn™ network, a common question is – what exactly is it? All questions answered - what, who why, how and when. Plus some of the key milestones and developments relating to the nbn rollout are highlighted.

December 2015 Ordinary Council Meeting it was proposed and accepted in principal to extend the recreation ground at the Northern end and reduce the road reserve to South to accommodate extra parking and create a unified recreation precinct encompassing the sports facilities, town hall and Gumnuts. Comments from the community are invited and are to be submitted by Friday 11 March 2015, 12noon.

Comments from the community are invited in regards to the proposed Industrial Development and are to be submitted by Friday 12 February 2015, 12noon.

About 45 people attended the picnic which was one of over 2,300 events around the world in the lead up to the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference where world leaders are aiming for a legally binding and universal agreement on climate action from all nations on Earth.

To improve road safety at Goomalling-Toodyay / Bejoording-Irish Town Roads intersection final works are now commencing to widen Bejoording Road.

There are several community groups you can get involved with and have an active contribution to the future of our town, or you can nominate yourself to become a Shire Councillor - NOMINATIONS CLOSE 10 SEPTEMBER 2015.

The Shire of Goomalling is very grateful to the St John Ambulance Sub Centre for their recent donation of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) which will be available at the Shire office for public use.

Please read this media release on the introduction of warning signs by Kidsafe Victoria and be reminded of the danger of leaving children unattended in cars, especially during the upcoming hotter season!

The life stories of the Noongar community in Goomalling has inspired the town’s youth to record a hip hop music track in their honour. The song "Turn Back Time" was created as part of "Goomalling Yarns" project by CAN WA and the Shire of Goomalling to