Regional Australia
They are the Potato Festival’s best dressed. Think Fashions on the Field – but itchier
It’s harvest time in Thorpdale, but the town chips in to celebrate the humble spud with custom-made clothes, a potato-picking race and a speed-eating mash competition.
- Carolyn Webb
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Sarah rode 5500 kilometres on horseback for her parents. This is what she learnt
After losing her mother to gastrointestinal cancer, Sarah Wheeler rode for nine months, talking to people she met along the way about grief.
- Nick Newling
Norma is almost 90. She just bought a beloved general store in regional Victoria
The heart of the town of Guildford will beat again when the century-old store reopens this weekend.
- Carolyn Webb
A country town’s ‘little treasure’ gets a new lease of life
“It was never going to fall down on my watch,” says Alison Wren of the picturesque 115-year-old church in Victoria’s north-east that she has restored.
- Carolyn Webb
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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