Forget Byron Bay, Bright has been quietly grappling with the double-edged sword of its own record-breaking popularity. This is the country town where you can have your pick of 600-plus holiday homes, but the new butcher was forced to live in his van.
He lived in the gutters of Sydney and alone in the forests of NSW, a friendless vagrant who seemed beyond help. Now Dr Gregory P. Smith, OAM, has found love, esteem, and a ‘wonderful place called contentment’.
A bid by locals to force the controversial HumeLink power lines to be built underground has received a boost as three electricity experts rule that it’s viable.
In rural pockets in the shadows of the Snowy Mountains, farmers are mounting a fierce campaign against new overhead power lines. Who will pay the most for the clean energy transition?
Stolen Generations, family violence, child removal – Kerrynne Liddle understands the traumas in Indigenous communities because she has witnessed them first-hand.
Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle understands the key issues facing Indigenous Australians because she’s lived them too. But the voice, she says, is not the answer.
See whale sharks, dragons and a world of underwater wonders as you cruise in five-star comfort around the Indonesian islands.
Moe, Caleb and Memphis Lainson are part of a dwindling number of children adopted in Australia: Moe was one of 208 adoptions in 2021-22, a record low.
She was a seven-year-old Indigenous girl with special needs, settled and happy in her foster home. So why did child protection workers try to rip her away?
Magistrate Tracy Sheedy has called the treatment of 7yo Lucinda ‘unfathomable’. She’s not alone.
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