About a decade ago, Dean Lynch and a group of locals around Cooma, a pretty town at the base of the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, noticed a change in their community.
Young people who had traditionally fled country towns for big-city universities were saying they wanted to study locally.
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Tom Burton has held senior editorial and publishing roles with The Mandarin, The Sydney Morning Herald and as Canberra bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. He has won three Walkley awards. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.burton@afr.com