Armidale Region | Recovery

Join us for a free day of fun! Free BBQ & refreshments, kids entertainment area, RFS & Backtrack demonstrations, horse shoe & boot throwing games and a signed Parramatta Eels jersey prize to be won.

This is a Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund event through the joint Commonwealth & State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

Saturday 26 February 1pm - 4pm Hillgrove Recreation Ground

The Drought Psychologist, based in Armidale, offers free support to individuals, couples and families impacted by drought throughout Rural Hunter New England. Stress, loss and uncertainty can make it difficult to cope, and talking these things through can often help. Fully confidential discussions can be undertaken by phone, Skype, or by a visit to home or farm.

Contact Julian on 6776 9905 or 0407 215 750, or email HNELHD-DroughtPsychologist@health.nsw.gov.au

Julian's brochure can be found under Useful Links.

The NSW Rural Fire Service has announced six Local Government Aras (LGAs) in the New England and Northern areas will commence the Bush Fire Danger Period (BFDP) early, due to prevailing local conditions. The six areas include Armidale Regional, Walcha, Uralla, Glen Innes Severn, Inverell and Tenterfield.

Read more from the NSW Rural Fire Service's release by clicking on the title

A number of workshops have been programmed for the community. Currently the schedule for the workshops is as follows:

2 AUG ARMIDALE

3 AUG GLEN INNES

4 AUG TENTERFIELD

9 AUG KEMPSEY

10 AUG COFFS HARBOUR

11 AUG GRAFTON

12 AUG CASINO

Please note that dates and locations may change due to COVID-19 restrictions and venue availability.

For further information, please click on the links in the documents tab

The section of the Oxley Highway between Mount Seaview and the Gingers Creek Roadhouse has reopened to traffic, with a few sections operating under single lane with alternating flow arrangements, following multiple landslips from sever weather in March 2021.

Read more in documents tab

More than one metre of rain fell in the Mount Seaview area on the Oxley Highway, closing the road between Yarras and Gingers Creek from Friday 19 March. The heavy rain caused significant damage to the highway, with around 70 landslips occurring, 10 of which are major.

For the full update, please click on release found in the the documents tab.

The NSW Government today announced a major new grants package and changes to the Dine & Discover program to help tens of thousands of small businesses and people across NSW impacted by the current COVID-19 restrictions.

Read More in the documents tab

Community groups in the Armidale region have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to $5,000 to support community resilience programs following the Black Summer bushfires, with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall and Mayor Ian Tiley launching the one-off funding program.

Read more here.

The Bush Fire Support Service, offers emergency service workers and their adult family members up to twelve one-on-one psychological mental health care sessions with experts, free of charge via Telehealth. This new service is available to all first responders who helped in the bush fires including firefighters, SES, ambulance, forestry, animal rescue, lifeguards and other Emergency Services Workers and their adult family members. Click here to read more.

Prime Minister, Scott Morrison addressed the media this morning to announce the Government will establish a new national agency to help support local communities respond to large-scale natural disasters and undertake new initiatives to manage the impact of future events and the changing climate.

"The new Agency will help communities rebuild and recover from natural disasters, helping many Australians in their greatest time of need, while strengthening our defences against future major disasters,” the Prime Minister said.

Read the full media release in the documents tab.