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Peta Bradley wearing the racing suit she wore at the World Ice Swimming Championships, on her property in Armatree, NSW.

Peta trains in a frozen cattle trough. She just became a swimming world champion

Hailing from a tiny town in regional NSW, Peta Bradley is an unlikely ice swimming champion. She says the pain is what motivates her.

  • Frances Howe

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Exterior of the Guildford Family Hotel in Guildford, country Victoria.

10 of Victoria’s best regional pubs worth planning a road trip around

What’s even better than a long pub lunch? A long pub lunch in the country! These venues are the real deal, with food, drinks and settings worth planning a trip around.

  • Richard Cornish
Jo Lyle competing in the Women’s World Mineral Water Drinking Championship.

Mineral water skolling, gumboot throwing, sausage eating … It’s Glenlyon’s big day out

Quirky, traditional Glenlyon Sports Day has been a New Year’s Day tradition for more than 100 years.

  • Carolyn Webb
The program has subsidies about 400,000 tickets.

Opposition calls for review of capped airfares program as Karratha flights boom

The program has ballooned in cost from $19 million to more than $100 million over three years.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook, population hits 3 million, main picture. Picture: WAtoday/Cameron Myles

Cook’s vision for the future: WA’s big regional towns are about to get bigger

WA Premier Roger Cook envisioned large regional centres like Bunbury, Port Hedland, Karratha, Albany and Geraldton could eventually develop into major regional hubs.

  • Hamish Hastie
Indigo Shire tourism manager Susannah Doyle

Victorian towns install EV chargers to lure in drivers experiencing ‘range anxiety’

Some councils in tourism hotspots plan to install chargers for electric vehicles in the hope of attracting a growing demographic of tourists.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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Dr Lorraine Gordon, chair of the Regional Voices Fund.

Fundraising group takes teal movement to regional Australia

The Regional Voices Fund says it is “on the same page” as Climate 200, the group that catapulted six independent MPs into parliament in 2022.

  • Brook Turner
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It’s nearly time to put clocks forward an hour. Where did daylight saving come from?

An insect expert first suggested daylight saving in 1895. Since then, it has caught on across the world. What effect does it have on us?

  • Rachael Houlihan and Anthony Segaert
Nimmitabel’s Andrew Thaler and some of the women who have spoken out against him.

Andrew Thaler has called female council workers fat, dumb and useless. Now he’s been elected a councillor

Serial pest Andrew Thaler has been elected to a council that has banned him from meetings because he is considered a threat to staff safety.

  • Jordan Baker
LNP leader Deb Frecklington walks along The Strand in Townsville with her local candidates

The state seats where votes may be worth more – or less

Major party campaigns are gearing up for key stops across Queensland’s 93 electorates before October 26. But some seats aren’t like the others.

  • Matt Dennien

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