Access up-to-date information on road closures, floods, fires, and other weather emergencies affecting the Parkes Shire.
In 2025 Parkes Shire Council received a NSW Government grant to initiate projects aimed at strengthening social cohesion. In Parkes Shire, this means strengthening the bonds that already exist in our communities to ensure that everyone, wherever they’re from and however long they have been here, feels welcome, can make connections and experience a real sense of belonging. In this way, we can build a resilient community to withstand future challenges together.
The Red Dots are public markers celebrating connection and place across the Shire. Inspired by gold beneath our soils and the art of Kintsugi, they highlight welcoming community spaces and link via QR codes to ways to get involved and explore locations across Parkes, Peak Hill, Trundle, Tullamore and Bogan Gate.
In a Living Library, you can borrow a person instead of a book!