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  • Fresh produce is seen in a supermarket

    Urban food bowls: Brisbane should consume 30% more local food by 2032 Olympics, advocates say

    Sustainable food experts want to revive fragile supply chains by using the games to ‘catalyse conservation’
  • Sheep grazing at the Warwick solar farm outside Warwick, Queensland

    Inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia – Full Story podcast

  • A fresh blanket of snow at Guthega buries plants and trees during a blizzard in the NSW Snowy Mountains

    Antarctic blast brings damaging winds and alpine blizzards to Victoria and NSW and possible snow in Queensland

  • Men playing tennis on a sunny day

    Rally together: what playing country tennis has taught me about social cohesion

    Michael Burge
  • 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
  • Dingoes in a forest

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

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Features

  • Goats in the sunset

    Goats of gold: Australia’s feral goat problem has become a $235m export trade

    Australia is the world’s largest exporter of goat meat despite accounting for just 0.4% of total global production – and it’s mostly from wild herds
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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The rural network, Victoria

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Regional Australians are five times more likely to die in road accidents – so what are we doing about it?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Bat spreadeagled on a table

    Wildlife Victoria’s Travelling Veterinary Services team – in pictures

    • 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
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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

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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  • A windmill in the red hue of a sunset in Australia

    Sign up for Guardian Australia’s email about regional affairs

    Catch up on everything rural from our regional reporters and newsrooms, with rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist

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