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April Shepherd

Melbourne

Senior Editor at Infrastructure Magazine

April | Melbourne | feminist | vegan | lover | editor/writer/journalist 🌟 Check out my Linkedin for recent work or Instagram @april97__

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  • 1 day ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

    FOUNDATION Broken Hill has announced which local students will be receiving funds from its extended 2025 Training Grant program. The program aims to help students pursuing study in disciplines critical to the Broken Hill community, with grants open to mature-age and high school graduate students. Valued at $1,000, the funds are designed to help the students with their studies and aims to ease th...

  • 2 days ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

    THE Barkindji Baaka Dance Group is currently fundraising to buy a new bus, with big plans to take the Wilcannia-based troupe on tour. The group was founded 20 years ago by Barkandji/Malyangapa man Uncle Owen Whyman, who grew up on the banks of the Baaka (Darling River). Whyman said the group was created after he had a dream. “In my dreaming I knew how to do dances and I played the didgeridoo,...

  • 2 days ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

    THE Y’s Men Club Broken Hill, with help from one of Transgrid's Community Partnerships Program grant funding, have bought three new mobility scooters for the community. Transgrid’s CPP funding project is accessible for communities throughout New South Wales where the company operates and offers grants for not-for-profit organisations. Broken Hill Y's Men’s Club is lead by President Geoff W...

  • 3 days ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

    TWO local musicians are working together to put Broken Hill on the heavy metal map, hoping to bring the music festival, Metal to the Max, back and better than ever. Last year the event went ahead against all odds, organised by a team of metalhead locals such as Tomo Jovanovic from Firestorm, and with help from the local arts community. “We sort of pushed it through last year and just made it h...

  • 3 days ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

    A JURY has heard the details of a 2023 stabbing that caused the amputation of a local man’s leg during a trial this week in Broken Hill District Court. The altercation happened on June 20, 2023, following a fight between the accused Kyle Henderson and his mother Jenny Henderson, which resulted in Kyle stabbing his brother Dwayne Henderson. As part of the case the jury was told Kyle, his partne...

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April Shepherd
April Shepherd @april_writes_
29 Mar 22

RT @CouncilMagAus: The Federal Government has announced a $500 million extension of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program in…

April Shepherd
April Shepherd @april_writes_
12 Nov 20

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INTERVIEW: Pure Narco - An unlikely friendship & journey of redemption https://t.co/rgm23XAr6X via @TrueCrimeWeekly

April Shepherd
April Shepherd @april_writes_
14 Sep 20

RT @JulianBurnside: Enjoying the lockdown? I just got an email from a refugee who was locked up on Manus for 8 years, and has now spent 8 m…