Taree Talks Back

This week the Herald has run a series on race relations, Across the Race Divide, focusing on the North Coast town of Taree. Five community members give their verdict. Leonie McGuire, manager, Manning District Emergency Accommodation: ``What (the series) portrayed is very real, but there's a f

Working To Get Away From The Welfare Mindset

Aborigines in the Taree district can't afford to wait for the Government to solve their problems, writes Sharon Verghis. WALKING the edges of a turtle-shaped clearing on a ribbon of land south of Taree, John Clarke sees a powerful black future rising out of the dry red soil. The land he walk