Lofty the Clydesdale
A 25-year-old university student is trying to raise $50,000 to take her Clydesdale Lofty to the World Championships in the US later this year.
View ArticleWriters share their tips on researching family history
Colonial Australia was the land of opportunity, the workingman's paradise. Helen Laidlaw's book 'The Gardener's Gamble' explores Australia's social history through the lives of her ancestors, the...
View ArticleLivestock guardian dogs proving their worth
Livestock guardian dogs such as the Maremma have been around for thousands of years, but their popularity in rural Australia has surged over the last few decades.
View ArticleRural women get a good return
There's a group of rural women, across Australia, who are reaching out to women across the ocean struggling with poverty and attempting to improve their standard of living.
View ArticleAll Women: Regional role models program to inspire young women to greatness
A social media campaign which shows all Australian women that they are extraordinary.
View ArticleCrafty ladies commemorate the Anzac tradition with hand-embroidered postcards
The Anzac Commemoration Postcards Exhibition features 90 hand-embroidered postcards compiled by the ladies from NSW Embroiderers' Guild. The travelling exhibition includes embroidered replicas of...
View ArticleDomestic violence victims given fresh hope after completing support program...
A unique mentoring program helping victims of domestic violence gain new skills is being hailed a success.
View ArticleBiodynamic winemaking brings together cosmic calendars and cow horns filled...
Filling cow horns with fresh manure and burying them for six months sounds bizarre, but what is dug up becomes the basis of biodynamic farming.
View ArticleBeef Australia 2018: Industry uses virtual reality to address consumer...
The growing demand for transparency and ethically, socially and environmentally sustainable food is one of the hot topics at Beef Australia 2018.
View ArticleWomen in mining: Dig the changing face of Australia's mining industry
A global miner is continuing to front up to gender equality at its Hunter Valley coalface with a fifth generation of graduates.
View ArticleChristmas tree growers offered hope after rain
Recent rain in regional NSW raises the hopes of many Christmas tree farmers, greening up their land and facilitating new growth on stock.
View ArticleAll-women rockers with a bass-playing septuagenarian Which Witch still just...
Fame has not interested this band across their three decades as much as encouraging women to play music, dance and have fun.
View ArticleHoney producers hand-feed bees during drought to save hives, with sting...
Beekeepers in New South Wales are hand-feeding their hives as the drought cripples the bees' ability to make honey, with a shortage expected to sting consumers at the checkout.
View ArticleTuna on the menu all year round with industry breakthrough
SA's tuna industry is a lucrative one, but its potential has been limited by its seasonal nature. A new freezing technique, however, could help to change that.
View ArticleBreeding cows sent to slaughter as drought forces cattle properties to run dry
Generations of Australia's prime breeding cows are heading to slaughterhouses as a lack of water and feed sees more producers opt to "cash in and get out".
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