North West staff contacts
Find your local staff contact
- Management
- Travelling stock reserves
- Land management
- Animal biosecurity and welfare
- Invasive species
- Natural Resource Management
- Agriculture services
- Emergency management
- Strategic Services.
Management
- Regional planning and implementation of LLS services
- Management of regional priority issues.
James Hutchinson-Smith | General Manager | 0428 485 985 | Tamworth |
Matthew Davidson | Manager Land Services | 0429 120 007 | Tamworth |
Linden Ross | Manager Performance and Investment | 0417 161 548 | Tamworth |
Travelling stock reserves
- Issue permits for TSR usage including Emergency Permits for floods & fire
- Maintain TSR infrastructure
- Manage TSR biosecurity issues
- Manage TSR compliance issues.
Mal Scott | Team Leader | 0459 835 959 | Narrabri |
Fay Anderson | Ranger - Narrabri | 0427 291 466 | Narrabri |
Jason Harrison | Ranger - Gunnedah, Tamworth & Liverpool Plains | 0448 592 907 | Gunnedah |
Mel Stokman | Ranger - Moree (west) / Walgett | 0487 674 599 | Moree |
Scott Graham | Ranger - Gwydir / Moree (east) | 0439 821348 | Warialda |
Land Management
- Advice on native vegetation management
- Native vegetation notifications, certificates and assessments.
Dennis Boschma | Team Leader | 0429 159 290 | Tamworth |
Hamish Caddy | Senior Land Services Officer | 0400 447 648 | Tamworth |
Col Easton | Senior Land Services Officer | 0409 736 992 | Tamworth |
Laney Davidson | Land Services Officer | 0474 895 238 | Tamworth |
Sally Poole | Land Services Officer | 0409 707 623 | Moree |
Claire Bergin | Senior Land Services Officer | 0429 662 239 | Walgett |
Animal Biosecurity and Welfare
Bob McKinnon | Team Leader | 0428 667 920 | Tamworth |
Veterinarians
- Animal disease surveillance
- State Disease and Chemical residue Programs
- Livestock health advice
- Certification of livestock and livestock product
- State Animal welfare activities.
Judy Ellem | District Veterinarian | 0428 402 482 | Gunnedah |
Heidi Austin | District Veterinarian | 0427 529 548 | Tamworth |
Shaun Slattery | District Veterinarian | 0428 922 607 | Narrabri |
Justine McNally | District Veterinarian | 0428 299 133 | Moree |
Ted Irwin | District Veterinarian | 0427 291 682 | Warialda |
Livestock Biosecurity
- Advice on livestock biosecurity requirements
- Regional National Livestock Identification Scheme compliance.
Amy Sheridan | Senior Biosecurity Officer | 0429 920 124 | Tamworth |
Rick Duggan | Biosecurity Officer | 0407 940 970 | Narrabri |
Invasive species
Pete Dawson | Team Leader | 0427 606 265 | Tamworth |
Pest animals
- Farm pest animal control advice
- Provision of 1080 chemical for pest control
- Group coordination of pest animal control
- Regional pest animal management planning.
Greg Lumber | Biosecurity Officer | 0427 293 892 | Tamworth |
Shane Green | Regional Pest Animal Coordinator | 0428 400 903 | Tamworth |
John Busby | Senior Biosecurity Officer | 0428 299 177 | Narrabri |
Karen Heap | Biosecurity Officer | 0437 563 216 | Tamworth |
Mic Sullivan | Biosecurity Officer | 0417 212 531 | Moree / Walgett |
Tim Daly | Snr Biosecurity Officer | 0428 432 308 | Moree |
Maddie Atkin (Extended Leave) | Biosecurity Officer | 0418 602 393 | Walgett |
David Lindsay | Senior Biosecurity Officer | 0427 291 883 | Warialda |
Weeds
- Regional priority weed planning
- Coordination of the Hudson Pear Control Program
- Regional management of the Weed Action Program.
Hugh Leckie | Regional Weeds Coordinator | 0409 108 700 | Tamworth |
Todd Pallister | Cacti Coordinator | 0457 939 055 | Walgett |
Rachael Turner | Biosecurity Officer - Hudson Pear | 0417 753 170 | Walgett |
Natural Resource Management
Sara Chapman | Team Leader, Land Services (NRM) (Mon-Thur) | 0429 363 380 | Moree |
Projects
- Natural resource management advice
- Natural resource project management
- Community engagement in natural resource management projects.
Craig Pullman | Senior Lands Services Officer | 0428 432 784 | Tamworth |
Wally Hammond | Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Projects | 0419 611 715 | Tamworth |
Angela Baker | Senior Land Services Officer | 0429 368 693 | Gunnedah |
Pippa Jones | Senior land services officer | 0427 454 795 | Remote |
Project Waratah
- Management of state government owned biodiversity offset areas located at Breeza, Barraba and Tambar Springs.
Caleb Doyle | Senior Land Services Officer | 0428 641 858 | Tamworth Agricultural Institute |
Agriculture advice
Kate Pearce | Acting Team Leader | 0429 900 329 | Moree |
Cropping
- Engage and provision of best practice cropping advice.
Bill Manning | Senior Land Services Officer | 0428 607 731 | Gunnedah |
Mixed farming
- Engagement and provision of best practice advice on integrated mixed enterprise production.
George Truman | Senior Land Services Officer | 0427 505 040 | Gunnedah |
Liam Baker | Land Services Officer | 0407 293 782 | Warialda |
Livestock
- Engagement and provision of advice on best practice livestock production.
Naomi Hobson | Senior Land Services Officer | 0407 936 140 | Narrabri |
| Sally Balmain | Land Services Officer - Livestock | 0428 280 809 | Warialda |
Emergency management
- Planning, preparation, response and recovery of natural disaster, animal disease and agricultural plant pest and disease emergencies.
Megan Davies | Emergency Management Coordinator | 0428 710 381 | Narrabri |
Kate Pearce | Plant Biosecurity Officer | 0429 900 329 | Moree |
| Rick Duggan | Emergency Management Coordinator | 0407 940 970 | Narrabri |
Strategic Services
Colin Formann | Team Leader | 0420 978 640 | Gunnedah |
Small Farms Program
- Engagement of land owners of small farms and peri-urban areas in LLS services including biosecurity and natural resource management.
Margo Weekes | Small Farms Coordinator (SS) | Gunnedah |
Aboriginal Communities
- Aboriginal community engagement in cultural awareness, education and enhancement projects.
Luke Raveneau | Aboriginal Communities Officer | 0439 523 735 | Tamworth |