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Vanessa Croll is a multi-platform journalist and writer with more than 10 years of experience across all styles of reporting and storytelling within News Corp Australia publications.

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Vanessa Croll

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Wind farm debate: Regions weigh up co-investment scheme

As the renewable energy landscape continually evolves, Squadron Energy’s co-investment program raises the question for regional Australia: should they embrace wind for local development?

Bush Summit

Little Big Dairy: a sustainable farm-to-bottle revolution

In the face of declining milk production across Australia, this family run dairy near Dubbo is revolutionising the industry with eco-friendly solutions.

National

Four-year-old Anthony Schiller was six months old when he had a liver transplant which has allowed him to grow up as a normal, healthy little boy who even competed in the World Transplant Games in April, the youngest competitor to do so. Photo with mum Louise and dad Cameron. 19th July 2023. Picture: Brett Hartwig

‘So glad to be alive’: transplant recipients thank donors

A liver transplant at nine months changed Anthony Schiller’s life, allowing him to walk, then run, then become the youngest competitor at this year’s World Transplant Games.

Illness

ATTN DO NOT RUN BEFORE July 23Ã.. Sonya Leeding holds a photo of her late husband, Detective Senior Constable Damian Leeding, It's for a story, running July 23, looking at the fact just over half of Australian families are saying ÃyesÃ to their loved ones becoming organ donors when asked. Sonya consented to her Damian becoming an organ donor and he was able to donate both kidneys.

Question fewer Aussies are saying ‘yes’ to

Australia’s organ donation consent rate has plunged in recent years. Here, families who’ve said ‘yes’ share how their tragic losses had lifesaving outcomes for others.

National

Why fewer families are saying ‘yes’ to organ donation

Australia’s organ donation consent rate has plunged in recent years. Here, families who’ve said ‘yes’ share how their tragic losses had lifesaving outcomes for others.

Lifestyle

Matt Preston (L) poses for a photo with Christ Church Community Centre volunteer Josie Alexander during Coles SecondBite Winter Appeal launch at Christ Church Community Centre in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia on July104th 2023. Photo by Martin Keep/Coles

Aussie food relief need grows

SecondBite food ambassador Matt Preston is calling on Aussies to support those doing it tough as the need for food relief services has grown.

National

MEDICAL RESCUE.Queensland export business success story Medical Rescue in Burleigh Heads. Medical Rescue staff Ashley Reid, Clayton Dragona and Robyn Munoz.Picture: Nigel Hallett

Gold Coast-based Medical Rescue to take off globally

Gold Coast-based Medical Rescue is expanding overseas, while continuing to recruit locally, to extend high-quality healthcare services globally in response to rising demand.

National

Ian and Simone Carson, founders of community charity SecondBite which rescues food to feed Australians in need - Photo Supplied

Five million Aussies struggle to afford basic food needs

A food insecurity crisis is gripping the country with one in five Australians, including working families, struggling to afford basic food needs. Find out how a mere $2 donation can make a huge impact.

National

WEEKEND TELEGRAPH 1ST JUNE 2023Pictured at St AndrewÃs Cathedral Gawura School in Sydney is Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke and Hip Hop artist Rhyan Clapham (DOBBY).They are all involved in Busking For Change, a new annual fundraising activity developed by Indigenous Literacy Foundation Ambassador Josh Pyke to engage primary students in a joyful multi-literacy activity incorporating song, music, movement and language. Students learn a song in Indigenous Kriol as well as English and raise money before performing. The goal is to recruit 100 schools and raise $100,000 to support remote communities access and create books in native languages they speak at home.Picture: Richard Dobson

Busking For Change: Help preserve Indigenous languages

Renowned First Nations musicians have joined singer Josh Pyke in his plight to get schools Busking For Change, a fundraiser aimed at preserving ‘severely endangered’ Indigenous languages.

Business

Brisbane-based manufacturer Plungie is at the forefront of pool construction innovation. Following expansion into the US market – opening a manufacturing facility in Texas – and existing export agreements in place with New Zealand, Plungie announced plans to operate in Canada and Europe. Picture: Supplied

‘Game-changing’ Brisbane pool manufacturer goes global

Brisbane-based pool manufacturer Plungie expands into US market, and has sights on Canada and Europe with game-changing prefabricated pools.

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