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DAILY TELEGRAPH AUGUST 15, 2024. EMBARGOED FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BUSH SUMMIT, PLEASE CONTACT PIC EDITOR NICOLA AMOROS BEFORE PUBLISHINGHereford farmer Nelson Carlow on his Terramungamine farm with wife Susan and their daughter Ellie, 5, and dog Molly Mop. Picture: Jonathan Ng
Bush Summit

Time to listen to heart of Australia

Today’s Bush Summit is a call to arms in the fight for our prosperity and a future that strengthens and benefits us all – no matter where we live in this great wide land, writes Daily Telegraph editor Ben English.

Bush Summit
Madison Ford from Wellington has won a scholarship to study physiotherapy in Orange. Picture: Supplied

Country students boosted by grants

Leaving a remote or regional area means students have to travel long distances, pay rent, bills and all their living expenses which can limit the opportunity of further education to the few who can afford it.

NSW
(FILES) This photograph taken on February 13, 2023 shows wind turbines in a wind farm in Fuendejalon, with the Moncayo mount in background, Zaragoza province, northern Spain. Boosted by the rise of artificial intelligence, data centre projects are multiplying in Aragon, a Spanish region at the forefront of renewable energies leading to a boom encouraged by the authorities, who are hoping for major economic spin-offs. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)

Giant wind, solar farms proposed for NSW town

A dramatic expansion of controversial renewable energy zones into country NSW has been met with outrage from the communities who will see high voltage transmission lines snaking across their land.

QLD News
Cairns Regional Council has begun survey work to install a pedestrian bridge, then a temporary vehicle bridge with a 10 tonne limit, over the upper reaches of the Mulgrave River in the Goldsborough Valley, after the 25 metres of the permanent concrete Fisheries Bridge causeway was washed away by severe flooding after Tropical Cyclone Jasper. Picture: Brendan Radke

Extreme weather marrs rural dream

The idyllic picture of life in the regions is marred by more intense and frequent extreme weather which is impacting the affordability and availability of insurance says insurance boss.

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Local Sanctuary Point resident Digby Hughes speaking to Chief Inspector Nick Hallett about getting the areas neighbourhood watch up and running. Jane Dempster/The Daily Telegraph.

Cops move to the bush to combat crime

In the past 12 months more than 100 police officers have transferred to communities hit hardest by the regional crime wave, as part of a paid incentive scheme.

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