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  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson
    I was inducted young into the dead parents’ club. It’s a club no one wants to join – but here’s some advice for new members
  • Dingoes in a forest

    ACT moves to protect dingoes after genetic study into animals in Namadgi national park

  • The avian influenza outbreaks in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT have resulted in the destruction of about two million chickens

    Egg shortage: why the avian influenza outbreak has left shoppers and farmers shell-shocked

  • Voters on election day

    If Australians want better local representation, we need to pay councillors more

    Graeme Gibson
  • Calla Wahlquist

    Fury road: a forlorn hope that, for once, Australia would choose the hard path on climate

    Calla Wahlquist
  • Eliza Spencer

    How two vehicle breakdowns showed me the best – and worst – of rural Australia

    Eliza Spencer
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Features

  • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

    ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: Queensland pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

    Neighbours to Kingaroy renewable energy project say vouchers for pub meals and a massage only compensation given for construction noise
  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

  • Mike Casey

    Electrifying the farm: ‘It could add a couple of hundred thousand to our bottom line’

  • ‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

  • This Queensland farmer lost half his sheep in a bloody attack – but was it wild dogs or rogue pets?

  • Farmers who graze sheep under solar panels say it improves productivity. So why don’t we do it more?

  • End of the windmill era: NSW switches to safer, more efficient solar water pumps

  • Shade cloth and poisonous dust: how the red-finned blue-eye was brought back from the brink

  • Why a NSW farmer trapped under a ute called a neighbour, not triple zero, to get to her closest hospital

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The rural network, Victoria

  • Plains Wanderer Sanctuary owner Bill McGillivray on the porch of the old shearers' quarters on his property in Gunbower, Victoria, Australia. 2 July 2024.

    Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign

    Gabrielle Chan
    • Ribbons tied on the fence outside St Patrick’s Cathedral to represent survivors of child sexual abuse by clergy

      Ballarat’s history of sexual abuse is an enduring wound. How can we heal together?

      Dellaram Vreeland
    • Pilgrims wearing fluorescent vests and carrying Palestinian flags

      A Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage walks 45km through central Victoria – in pictures

    • Landcare Facilitator and long-time volunteer Lyn Heenan on the rocky rise above the wetlands on her property in Stoneleigh, Victoria

      Victoria’s Landcare groups have 60,000 volunteers – but will there be funds to support them?

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Opinion

  • ‘Rural crime fiction is flourishing in the hands of several champions of diversity, including Dinuka McKenzie, RWR McDonald and Hayley Scrivener'

    Australian rural crime fiction is booming – it’s time it represented the true diversity of the bush

    Michael Burge
  • Calla Wahlquist

    Barnaby Joyce ditched his RM Williams to protest against green energy … Wait until he finds out about his new boots

    Calla Wahlquist
    • Eliza Spencer

      Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands

      Eliza Spencer
    • Calla Wahlquist

      Cooking with quinces: the art of delayed and slightly disappointed gratification

      Calla Wahlquist
    • Justice John Sackar seen during the closing hearing of the NSW special commission of inquiry into LGBTIQ+ hate crimes

      The ‘ugly’, ignored history of LGBTQ+ hate crimes should not be allowed to fade

      Michael Burge
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Multimedia

  • Woody the runaway sheep brought in for first shearing in three years – video

  • A member of the Spiked Punch team passes the ball as they face opponents Spiked Drinks at the Coota beach volleyball competition.

    Coota beach: the beach volleyball tournament 390km from the coast – in pictures

    More than 1,300 players and 2,500 spectators descended on the regional NSW town of Cootamundra for the 2024 edition of the annual Coota beach volleyball competition. Over 800 tonnes of sand is trucked in and spread along Murray Street to form 10 courts for three days of competition
  • The government is offering grants of up to $50,000 for uninsured homes that were destroyed in the blaze

    Devastated Queensland bushfire survivors recount the moment fire 'roared through' Tara – video

    The government is offering grants of up to $50,000 for uninsured homes that were destroyed in the blaze
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    Catch up on everything rural from our regional reporters and newsrooms, with rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist

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