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The rural network

October 2024

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

    The rural network
    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
  • Gabrielle Chan

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

    Gabrielle Chan
    Four years after the pandemic-led spike in regional migration, people in cities are still looking to the bush – but they won’t stay if the conditions aren’t right

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

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

    • The rural network, Victoria
      Single parents bear the brunt of the rental crisis in regional Victoria

September 2024

  • Stephanie Trethewey patting a dog in a field of cows

    The rural network, Victoria
    Isolated, overwhelmed and hours from a psychologist: regional Australia facing a perinatal health crisis

  • Close up of bars of chocolate

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

  • Nationals leader David Littleproud speaks at a farmer’s rally in Canberra in September 2024

    The rural network, Victoria
    Victorian Farmers Federation splits from national body over Keep the Sheep rally

  • Gabrielle Chan

    The rural network, Victoria
    With agriculture at a sharp fork in the road, Australia needs savvy farm leaders

    Gabrielle Chan

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Cheap, local and in season: why Victorians are shopping at the farm gate

  • The rural network, Victoria
    A lot of good people there: Henty Machinery Field Days 2024 – in pictures

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Expanding Victoria’s largest goldmine could affect nearby houses and contaminate groundwater, locals say

  • The rural network
    Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge

    Calla Wahlquist

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Tuesday’s rally for Australian farmers lists seven priorities – but the biggest two are nowhere to be seen

    Gabrielle Chan

  • The rural network, Victoria
    ‘It’s inevitable’: Australian beekeepers brace for national spread of varroa mite

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Slaughterhouse video taken by ‘extreme’ animal activists amounts to ‘ongoing trespass’, federal court told

  • ‘Just die’: NSW farm manager jailed over domestic violence assault

August 2024

  • 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

    The rural network, Victoria
    Family who run Bathurst’s only Vietnamese restaurant fight to keep hope alive as they face deportation

    City rallies behind Thi Huế Dao in an 11th-hour plea to immigration minister Tony Burke for permission to stay in Australia
  • Gabrielle Chan

    The rural network, Victoria
    The struggle to tell rural Australian stories has never been harder – or more essential

    Gabrielle Chan
    Local media have been stretched ever thinner as the money to train and staff publications disappears. Now many towns have no reliable news source
  • Mehran Mahdavi at the pistachio tree nursery at Robinvale, Victoria, in the 1980s.

    The rural network, Victoria
    Growing Australia: how a refugee from Iran helped expand the pistachio industry

    Mehran Mahdavi is among the many migrants whose skills and knowledge transformed our horticulture industry – and taste buds
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