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The rural network, Australia

  • Backburning at night on Gilberton Station, 450km west of Townsville, Queensland, Australia

    Surviving the summer on Queensland’s remote cattle properties: ‘We never give up on fires’

    Queensland is facing an increased risk of fire this summer but in regional areas firefighting is a job for volunteers
  • More than 2,000 people attended the unveiling of the big red tractor in Carnamah, Western Australia

    ‘Where’d you find tyres that size?’ Giant red tractor is Australia’s newest Big Thing

  • Riley Swanson, 19, watching over the herd at first light.

    ‘I lost my phone in the first week’: a new generation of drovers in outback Queensland

  • Eve, a single mum living in Bendigo with her son Ollie

    Single parents bear the brunt of the rental crisis in regional Victoria

  • Stephanie Trethewey patting a dog in a field of cows

    Isolated, overwhelmed and hours from a psychologist: regional Australia facing a perinatal health crisis

  • Close up of bars of chocolate

    Bitter sweets: chocolate to cost more for Australians as cocoa prices hit 50-year peak

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The rural network, Victoria

  • Bees gather on the outside of a wooden hive

    ‘It’s inevitable’: Australian beekeepers brace for national spread of varroa mite

    Varroa destructor mites were introduced to Australia two years ago and are expected to kill most wild European honeybees in the next five years
  • Goats in a pen

    Slaughterhouse video taken by ‘extreme’ animal activists amounts to ‘ongoing trespass’, federal court told

  • Husband and wife Thanh Hoa Nguyễn and Thi Huế Thi Huế Dao works with her husband Thanh Hoa Nguyễn in the kitchen of the Anam Vietnamese restaurant in Bathurst

    Family who run Bathurst’s only Vietnamese restaurant fight to keep hope alive as they face deportation

  • Growing Australia: how a refugee from Iran helped expand the pistachio industry

Opinion

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Good coffee, breweries and dog washes: what makes a regional Australian town attractive to treechangers?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Gabrielle Chan

    Australia’s airline duopoly won’t keep planes in regional skies

    Gabrielle Chan
    • Gabrielle Chan

      Stop the clocks: the cows aren’t confused by daylight saving, but I am

      Gabrielle Chan
    • Calla Wahlquist

      Hearing is believing in the power of the kookaburras’ raucous chorus

      Calla Wahlquist
    • Calla Wahlquist

      For years I only ate animals whose names I knew and it made perfect sense

      Calla Wahlquist
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Features

  • A large grey bird being held by man in a rain-proof jacket

    ‘When, not if’: H5N1 bird flu outbreak could reach Australia this spring, experts warn

  • Larry Wilson with his banana plantation on Lord Howe Island

    They’re 600km off the coast, but farmers on Lord Howe Island say ‘we can’t compete with Woolworths’

    • Farmer and environmentalist Neville Oddie beside a dam whose bank has been revegetated after withdrawing livetock from the paddock

      ‘It doesn’t need to be one or the other’: balancing brolgas and windfarms in Victoria

    • Jamie Woods, chair of the Nari Nari Tribal Council and land manager of Gayini, sailing a small boat.

      ‘Destiny in our hands’: the Indigenous Australians joining the renewable energy transition

Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

  • Calla Wahlquist

    Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge

    Calla Wahlquist
    Cultural protection order has been framed as a push to curry favour with inner-city seats, ignoring grassroots campaigns from Indigenous and non-Indigenous locals
  • Calla Wahlquist

    In my war against pigeons, all I have is a broom. But the ‘rats of the sky’ remain unflappable

    Calla Wahlquist
  • ‘It’s not until we hit the Hunter Valley with its duplicated tracks that the Xplorer achieves a constant speed, and we pulled into Sydney’s Central station just before 5pm.’

    Regional trains in NSW are old, slow and half-empty – but I still enjoy the ride

    Michael Burge
  • The trial at Kerwee Feedlot involved feeding a commercial Asparagopsis supplement in the form of an infused canola oil over 200 days

    Feeding seaweed supplement to cattle halved methane emissions in Australian feedlot, study finds

  • A 'save the river' sign by the Belubula River downstream of the mine site in Blayney village, NSW

    Rare order given to protect Wiradjuri sacred site from goldmine tailings dam

  • MacIntyre windfarm, the largest operating windfarm in Australia

    ‘No one understands local issues better’: rural councils call for greater role in renewable energy transition

Multimedia

  • Alex Harman, 10, from Levendale in Tasmania, with a Precision stud alpaca at the Bendigo showgrounds

    Fleece de résistance: the Australian alpaca national show – in pictures

  • Sheep grazing at the Warwick solar farm outside Warwick, Queensland

    Inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia – Full Story podcast

    Warwick-based rural and regional reporter Aston Brown speaks to Matilda Boseley about why there is a growing mistrust in some communities over the renewable energy rollout
  • Pilgrims wearing fluorescent vests and carrying Palestinian flags

    A Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage walks 45km through central Victoria – in pictures

    Walkers journey from Daylesford to Ballarat – the distance roughly the same length as the Palestinian territory
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    Catch up on everything rural from our regional reporters and newsrooms, with rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist

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