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The horse listener: a life spent teaching kids to ride

Children who learn to ride and care for horses often turn into upstanding adults, according to a rural pony club legend.

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Stephanie Gardiner

09 Jun 2025

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Of mice and Macca’s: art’s new meaning in old materials

An emerging rural artist uses second-hand, found and discarded materials to vividly explore tensions between production, consumerism and the environment.

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Stephanie Gardiner

08 Jun 2025

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Food system’s billions of ‘hidden costs’ a sick outlook

The hidden costs to health and the environment from Australia’s food system could exceed $250 b

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AAP Newswire

02 Jun 2025

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Bless your cotton jocks: town’s cheeky bid to retailers

A marketing campaign is highlighting the absurdity of being unable to buy a decent supply of socks and jocks in one of Australia’s leading cotton regions.

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Stephanie Gardiner

28 May 2025

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A ripper race to find Australia’s hardest-working dog

The trusting bond between a farmer and a canine is central to farm life, with a national competition set to find the nation’s top dog.

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Stephanie Gardiner

27 May 2025

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Sorry Day healing for stolen generations survivors

Stolen generations survivors are being honoured on National Sorry Day, which offers a chance for further healing despite the lingering impact of past policies.

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Keira Jenkins

25 May 2025

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‘This is really scary’: farmers battle historic drought

While parts of Australia battle floods, farmers in the nation’s south are selling off stock, abandoning crops and pleading for help as drought deepens.

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Stephanie Gardiner

25 May 2025

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Fashion spinning new yarns from a sheep’s head to tail

Wool from the head, legs, belly and bottom of a sheep is generally considered to be of little value, but a new project is spinning it into gold.

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Stephanie Gardiner

25 May 2025

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Coalition to chart path forward as family feud cooled

A watered-down nuclear policy is set to underpin a fragile truce between the Liberal and National parties as they work towards a formal reunion.

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Dominic Giannini

24 May 2025

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‘Swagging it’: tractor fanatics to trek across outback

It will take a fortnight for 10 tractor drivers to make the trip from Bourke to Birdsville going 23km/h, a long and slow journey for a good cause.

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Stephanie Gardiner

17 May 2025

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15,385 complaints against telco companies a symptom of cost-of-living crisis

Telcos are failing to offer sufficient help to customers struggling to pay their bills, as the telecommunications watchdog receives a spike in complaints.

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William Ton

15 May 2025

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Why rural women still face barriers to abortion access

Abortion access will improve under changes allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe drugs but other barriers remain for women in rural and regional areas.

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Jack Gramenz

15 May 2025

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Coonabarabran community gathers to mourn tragic deaths of two boys

Mourners have remembered the lives of two young boys found dead in a small rural community as their maternal grandmother awaits serious charges.

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Jack Gramenz

09 May 2025