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Cowra hosted Triple J's One Night Stand Concert on 20 April 2007 with Silverchair leading a lineup of Behind Crimson Eyes, Midnight Juggernauts, and Funktrust, supported by Unearthed competition winners Flatline Drama.
In April 2006, the local abattoir retrenched 29 workers and rehired them the next day at a lower rate. This was just days after the Federal Government's industrial relations reforms, WorkChoices, were put in place, and the action attracted national media attention as one of the first employer actions under this new legislation. The workers were later reinstated at the old rate after pressure from all sides of Australian politics and media. This abattoir later closed down in August 2006. It was reopened in March 2007 and is now operated by Breakout River Meats and produces beef, lamb, pork, goat and horse meat.
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