The construction of Tamworth’s Banksia Mental Health is well underway, with the bones of the building completed and only the internal fit-out left to do.

Tom Plevey
Senior correspondent and Editor of New England Times
Hospitals in ‘state of crisis’
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What to do with Ray Walsh House?
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Tamworth’s Taste festival kicks off
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