🕺💃LACING UP THE DANCING SHOES FOR A GREAT CAUSE🤩
My wife Ilona and I will be hitting the dance floor in March as part of Cancer Council NSW's Stars of the Coffs Coast event.
While my beautiful wife is the picture of grace as a trained dancer, I have two left feet... So, this'll be interesting 😆
But it's all worth it to raise some money for such an important cause.
If you'd like to donate, please click here: bit.ly/4kofw6t
#cancercouncilnsw #starsofthecoffscoast #dancingforcancer #pleasedonate
Pat, I asked some questions about your BILL TO STOP DESECRATION OF THE ANF on the relevant 30 Jan and 02 Feb posts. Without answers, how do you expect anyone to lobby their Federal Member? A Social Media profile for politicians has to be near mandatory these days and must be a game changer in becoming recognised within and beyond your electorate and as for Community Engagement...ok I will stop there I think.
He tore up the dance floor at Kempsey RSL and Buddy’s back-in-the-day. They will be a force to be reckoned with!
Well done Pat and Ilona. Great cause. Ron having been through two cancer battles is always appreciative of those that help. Big supporters. Thanks pat Pat. 🙏💕
That’s great Pat. One of our previous gym owners Jackie won this contest and we were there to support her in the final. Hope we can do the same for you Pat! Good luck! 👍❤️🕺🏻
Goodman ya mate, just pretend those Twinkle toes are back on the Rugby field 💪🏽
Thats great but....don't break her 😂 tootsies..
You’ll be okay Pat just remember One two three lol
I LOVE THIS! Such a great cause and you guys make an amazing team, so i’m sure you will smash the dance moves too!
Have fun and enjoy every minute. Just do what Ilona tells you.
Oh this is the best! Looking forward to your fundraiser, I hope we can make it! 🙏 💃
Good on you Pat just follow your wife you will do well
FUN! Can’t wait 🕺
Yes!! Good on you both, love it 💖
Good luck Pat hope you ace it. Lovexto see Moffe on dancing for Cancer
Good for you Pat. I will be cheering you and Ilona all the way. Thank you for your support.
Good luck to you both.
Thanks for joining us! We are thrilled to have you on board. 🪩⭐🕺
Welcome Pat Conaghan MP ! ⭐️ Glad to have you on the journey and good luck!
Have a fabulous time, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourselves 💃🕺
Lucky you are absolutely fabulous Ilona Kovach Conaghan
If you can dance like you could swim you got it Patrick just relax and follow you beautiful wife you will be a star 🌟
Twinkle toes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Good Luck to you both.
You got this good luck
INFORMATION SESSION ON LABOR’S NEW GUN LAWS
To all registered firearms owners (or as I like to say “the good, honest, law abiding gun owners!”), we are holding an information session on Labor’s changes to gun ownership.
Where: 83 Amber Way, Kundabung
When: 5pm, Tuesday 17 February 2026
Hope to see you there.
Hello Pat, Thank you for ensuring this is happening. Unfortunately, some of us cannot get there. Will there be a recording available after the session?
Aussies taking it up the 🍑 as usual 🤦♂️
Why do the registered firearms owners have to find out via guest speakers/ online groups/ media releases.....l thought that the reason you include your email/ postal address on your licence details, is to receive information.....?
Maybe you guys could make the trip up water fall way and do one up in Dorrigo
The thing is don’t serender them you will need them
Is there a way of linking in to hear this please
Is the department of firearms and registration going to be there ... ?? It's a different story depending on who you talk to on the phone
Central QLD 2 gunshops i have spoken have both said pretty much 6months at most after new gunlaws a introduced they will have to close their doors.
Can you do one in Coffs harbour as well?
WA got done first was shit
Instead of having meetings we should be taking them to court
I know I am just an urban woman, but why on earth would anyone need to have more than 4 guns for 'recreational' use or more than 10 for farmers or professionals( am guessing culling pests). You can only use one at a time. I understand different guns are for different purposes, but really??
Might be nice to have alot more of these around the state
Wayne Pearce, pity we won’t be here
Greg Johnson Gday Gregory mate well you be home next few days I would like to catch up old mate have a yeah 
Byron
Daniel Edwards
Communist state with no freedom
According to a minister today at an ACTA shooting event nothing is going to change in Victoria as the ex police minister thinks our states gun laws are more than adequate…
Honestly there are thousands out there who have huns and Havnt got a clue on dismantling or maintenance and some don’t even know how to load. Yes yes take the guns off those fkwits
People who hate firearms making firearms laws, yeah that's going to go well
Pat Conaghan MP It is beyond my comprehension that the blinkered and selfish self interest ignores tighter control over dealers, storage and volume of firearms which will prevent the number of dv and suicide. Evidence-based studies show that tighter legislation directly impacts rates of homicide, suicide and domestic violence. Supporters argue that the safety of the community must take precedence over individual desires to own large numbers of high powered weapons. With tightening of mandatory safe storage inspections, gun club memberships, and stricter licensing reduce the risk of weapons falling into the wrong hands . These meetings are putting the cart before the horse with knee jerk reactions on hearsay. Hopefully what information is available will be presented in an unbiased manner. As an ex copper you must be aware of deaths in domestic violence and suicide from a firearm, licensed or otherwise.
When do we get a letter in the mail?They know what we have.
So what is this going to achieve???
Just ignore the changes as a group ask for free legal aid as we all recognize as indigenous and firearms is in our culture and religion insists we go target shooting every Sunday.
I took the chance today to remind the relevant Ministers of the immediate need to fund the Waterfall Way solution.
The solutions are there, we just need the money to get it done and stop the consistent isolation of our Plateau communities.
#FixOurRoads #regionalcommunitiesmatter #waterfallway
I’d like to see the upgrade of eastern dorrigo way. At the moment this road is being used by many trucks, particularly the milk trucks delivering milk to Norco.
Thank you Pat, and thank you for reminding them that they have brushed the solution under the mat too long.
Build a new road like the one out over the ocean bypassing the old coast rd south of sydney & bypass the trouble spots
Good to know. The whole road system linking the tablelands to the coast needs urgent attention. The Armidale/Grafton & Armidale Kempsey Rds are in dire straits & cannot be managed by councils. Thunderbolts Way another example. The Waterfall Way needs an alternate route off the mountain. The Oxley & Gwydir Highways have continual problems. These are all in Nationals territory. Please take the lead & get all the state & Federal members involved & working to fix this.
Good on you Pat! Well said, we definitely need a way forward for these communities
Oh good I thought the Nationals had taken their bat and ball and gone home. The pitch could have been improved by making it a Coalition effort.
Maybe ask the Afghanistan government to fund the works I believe there cashed up with Australian tax payers money
Cunningham hwy is a great example of how to fix waterfall way. It's still undergoing construction.
There absolutely needs to be an alternative for the plateau for when the Mountain road is out of action. But this landslip is in the valley, and is disrupting valley residents as well. A second connection from Dorrigo to the coast is not the whole solution. Gordonville cutting needs serious stabilisation works, or to be bypassed.
Thank you Pat! I have noticed so many anxious people up here in Dorrigo, not being able to get to work and the effect of loosing wages due to the closure, the school children who travel to Coffs Harbour have to depend on parents/friends etc to get to their classes and then witnessing a large bus travelling on the detour route makes them question "why are we being overlooked ?". Dorrigo residents and those from further afield certainly deserve better than this from the Labor State and Federal Governments. Please keep the pressure on them. In closing my rant, I must question why our Premier and our Prime Minister don't appear to have the courage to even visit the Plateau.
Thanks for tabling our community concerns at the federal level. This is a repost of a comment I made earlier on the state members post. I think it makes the case for some serious introspection as to what has gone so wrong over the last 20 years in government with the process of getting the job done. I’m curious as to why a country like Japan, a highly geologically unstable country can carry out repairs to damage significantly worse than waterfall way in a matter of days. 2 cases worth looking at. 1 -The Tokyo sinkhole 30m wide 15m deep surrounded by high rise structures repaired and open to traffic in 7 days. Included major repairs to multiple underground infrastructure services. 2 -150m long subsidence and land slip of a major highway after a magnitude 9 earthquake. 100 % repaired in 6 days. Both are 1st world countries. Both have the required equipment, technology and skills. The cost of labour in Japan is about 40% lower than Australia, but cost really is not the chat here. I think the elephant in the room is the bloated bureaucracies that have no motivation to perform and not serious consequences for a failure to perform. It is unreasonable to expect the community to accept the position of the government on this matter when there are clear examples it can be done better in a comparable situation. The efficiency of government has been in a state of decline for decades, and safety is the main scapegoat used to excuse it. There is no reason these jobs can’t be done in a safe and efficient manner as is readily demonstrated in other parts of the world. It’s simply not good enough.
In the meantime .. and… so there is always an alternative ..how about urgent attention to the other road… every one is feeling desperate
Keep at them Pat. So many livelihoods depend on that Highway. Don't forget permanent upgrade for Summerville Road.
Fix the road through Boggy Creek!
Thank you for telling it how it really is.👍
Is the government going to compensate the losses for businesses for loss of trades?
It's hard to get any funding when the NP receives the majority votes and Labor is in government.
An election is on the horizon! The constituents are pissed off, This problem affects more than one electorate!🤔
Thank you Pat, we need a road that will be safe for our communities between the coast and the new England area and beyond.
Hope that goes better than our efforts in Port Macquarie for the Wrights Road roundabout
Good to see you finally working on something that will benefit the community and not simply annoy the government.
The costs to the local communities must be exorbitant. Just for me to make a one off trip to move my furniture is costing me an extra $1000 by having to divert through Grafton. How are small companies surviving this on a regular basis?
Well said Pat but the coffers are empty. Like you said the minister over the years promised to fix the problem but it never gets the attention it needs Best of luck but there are thousands of miles of roads in this state that need fixing and unfortunately they aren’t in the Sydney area
Yes well done Pat
Good luck with that request, while Labor is in government nothing will happen....as it's not a Labor loving seat....
Question time was designed to allow for questions to be asked of the Government and its Ministers from all sides of the floor.
Questions that constituents wanted to hear the answers to.
But today, Labor chose to use the last Question of the day to ask about internal processes.
That’s how much this Government cares about YOUR questions and concerns.
This was Labor’s biggest burning issue of the day, so important to them they saved it for last!
Questionable priorities from an unaccountable Government taking this country’s eco#Laborfailsr#wrongprioritesl#CanberraBubblee#questiontimefail #QuestionTimeFail
Somewhere out there a tree is working hard to provide the Labour Party with oxygen I think they owe that tree an apology
When was the last time a question in Question Time was actually answered.
Good on you Pat! Give it to them 👏👏👌
Don't take the foot off!
Give that man a cigar.
Dave Waterfield Bev Waterfield . This confirms our thoughts on our governments priorities.
Take it to them Pat, good and hard!
Sounds like there was an audience of one, Pat’s parrot in the background. Are you going to switch to One Nation Pat? Reading the room on your facebook page it seems that is where your constituents want you to go.
Well said mate Too bad the liberals are so weak and so aligned with labour. The sooner Nat’s align with one nation we might have a real opposition
I have never watched a Question Time, where an actual question was answered !!! So now I don't watch, for fear I will eventually throw a brick at my TV.!!!!!
Labour Front bench at work !
Pat on you! You need to jump on the selling off of defence property to fund more wasteful spending by Labor. Once these properties have been sold off there is no getting them back. Look at all the government assets sold off by successive governments.
Good on ya, Pat.
You said it, bud!
Any person ( not a politician) who failed at their job like the Treasurer has, would have been moved. And to be fair, the person above him should be moved as well!
Parliament is only kindergarten playtime now.
Rip it up them Pat!
💯% correct Pat 👍👍
Pat who?
Great work Pat... someone's got to try to make them see the facts.
Great words Pat , right to the point of truth
Can't we take a vote of no confidence to the Governor General and doesn't she have to act on it ?
Well said Pat, ✅✅🇦🇺🇦🇺
At least Australia has some good politicians not many but there is hope.
Thank you Pat. Give them heaps.👍👍
CELEBRATING LOCAL STORIES: CONGRATULATIONS, JACK AND HUNTER!
Cowper was well represented in Parliament this week at ABC's Heywire Regional Youth Summit by local legends Jack and Hunter.
Heywire is a lived experience storytelling competition run by the ABC, which calls for stories of personal experience from young people aged between 16-22 years in regional, rural and remote Australia.
Jack from Coffs Harbour wrote about the loss of his mother, his wider school community's reaction when he made the decision to stop hiding his sexuality and his determination to become school captain and lead by example because, in his words "no matter where you come from, or what you've been through, you are worthy of being seen, heard and celebrated."
Hunter from Port Macquarie wrote about his inspiring and hard working single mother and their experiences with homelessness. He talks about unhelpful and often untrue stereotypes and how his experiences have "shaped the way I see people doing it tough" and inspired him to get involved in youth and community programs.
Congratulations to you both, great to see impressive young people from Cowper achieve national recognition!
Congratulations.
Congratulations Jack- very proud of you!!
Congratulations to these young men. It just goes to show that when we stereo type young people as being useless and lazy we can be so wrong good on your young fellas. ✔️
Congratulations Jack and Hunter! You should be so proud. The future is bright! ⭐️⭐️
Congratulations young men. Well deserved. I wish you well in your future endeavours.
Well done
Lovely to see recognition. Well done boys. 👏👏
Congratulations to you both. Good to see the future in good hands
Congratulations to you both 👏👏👏👏👏
Congratulations
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Congratulations to you both 👍
💜💜💜
Toni……there he is again 😂😂😂😂
Go Jack 🙌
Go Jack!
As expected, the RBA saw the data and lifted rates by 0.25%. Again. The 13th time since this Government came into power.
It’s the only tool that the RBA have at their disposal to attempt to negate the damage that Labor has done since being elected.
It shouldn’t be the RBA’s responsibility to make the hard calls and it shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of the 30% of Australians with a mortgage. Or the 30% who rent and now face knock-on rental increases.
When will the Treasurer and Prime Minister take accountability?
Are you one of the many Federal MP's who own real estate in Canberra then claim $300 a day for accommodation and expenses?
Spot the Aussie in Australia
There both snakes 🐍
Front row seats at the tennis…No worries grrrr
Would you have proposed something different?
But he can relate
Should only be giving a wage based on their performance
The head clown and the ringmaster.
I loave these 2 useless
Lets all get behind One Nation
The ON polling is looking good & I hear they're hiring 👍
And laughing about it.
Employment is up according to AIRBUS he forgot to mention it's mostly public sector
One nation all the ,
One Nation all the way!
Time for new party One nation
they laughing all the way to bank.
One nation will shatter this communist party next election.
Go Pauline.👍
The young ones !!!
Funny isn’t it 😡
GO Pauline One Nation
Magoo and Bucky Beever.
Good on ya albo, wanka
