The 24-year-old was stabbed, kicked, then punched in the face.
Emergency services arrived at the scene on Duff Street shortly after 7.30pm.
The man was treated for stab wounds to the head and shoulder before being taken to the Walgett Multipurpose Centre.
He was then airlifted to Dubbo Base Hospital and has since been transferred to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown.
Police are investigating the crime scene and are appealing anyone with information to contact Walgett Police.
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The last time the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee – the panel of chief health officers that has steered the country through COVID-19 – met face-to-face was almost exactly a year ago in February 2020 to hammer out a plan for dealing with the looming pandemic.
Soon, the states’ top doctors will meet in person again, most likely in Canberra, to detail the next phase: the planned six-month rollout of multiple COVID-19 vaccines and “what that will mean in terms of how we handle outbreaks”.
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Certainty is something Australians crave after a year of restrictions, snap lockdowns and border closures that have varied wildly between states and haven’t always appealed to common sense.
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