Amelia Bernasconi

New South Wales

Breakfast host + @ABCRural reporter with ABC Upper Hunter via @ABCNews New England, Gippsland + @NBNNews. 🎤🌸 [email protected] 📧 https://t.co/1c87Lf0KAI

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Articles

Not just a paddock ornament: interest grows in unique Babydoll sheep breed

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

We know Australia rode on the sheep's back - but it wasn't on this breed. They're not known for their fleece, apparently the meat is quite tasty... but the iconic feature of Babydoll sheep is their teddy bear-like face. They are much more than paddock ornaments though, with interest from orchardists, B&B operators and even for animal therapy.
Olympians, actors, models help raise $1m for KIDS Foundation and trauma survivors

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Courtney Yeandle

Olympians, actors, models and horse racing royalty have saddled up for the 2025 Tour d'Horse, raising more than $1 million for the KIDS Foundation. The foundation supports children with traumatic injuries from things like car accidents, house fires, abuse and neglect. Ambassador Spencer Connelly says the foundation has helped build his confidence after he suffered severe burns to more than a third of his body.
Bickham coal walks away from long-held Hunter Valley mining licence

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Amelia Bernasconi

The company behind a controversial New South Wales Upper Hunter coal project has told the ABC it will walk away from the site almost 30 years after first looking to mine in the region. The Bickham Coal proposal divided the small communities of Scone, Blandford, and Murrurundi during the early 2000s in a dispute dubbed "coal versus foals".
Mega Hunter Valley coal mine granted short-term extension of life

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Courtney Yeandle

One of New South Wales's largest coal mines has been given a lifeline by the state government, two months before it was due to close. Hunter Valley Operations' mining approvals for HVO North, between Singleton and Muswellbrook, were due to expire by the end of June. The Yancoal-Glencore joint venture mine has been given an 18-month time extension while it continues its bid to mine out to 2050.
Breaking: Australian beef singled out as Donald Trump outlines latest tariffs

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

US President Donald Trump has singled out Australian beef as he outlined his latest round of tariffs. Australia will be subject to a baseline 10 per cent reciprocal tariff and, while signalling big impacts on Australian beef, the president is yet to detail just how large the tariff will be. "Australia bans — and they're wonderful people, and wonderful everything — but they ban American beef. "Yet we imported $[US]3 billion [$4.8 billion] of Australian beef from them just last year alone.
Farmers say inquiry into live sheep export ban impact on NSW a disappointment

Mar 27, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Lara Webster |Michael Condon |Cara Jeffery

A NSW parliamentary inquiry heard fears that sheep prices for Australia's eastern state producers could drop heavily as live export was being phased out. The report handed down this week made only one recommendation — monitoring industry trends. NSW Farmers says it will continue to push for more action to address the impacts. Farming groups have slammed the findings of a NSW government inquiry into the impact of the live sheep export ban on the state after it delivered just one recommendation.
Muswellbrook's historic Oak milk factory set to become a rum distillery

Mar 22, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Courtney Yeandle

Move over gin, distillers say rum is next in line for a resurgence. The number of Australian spirit makers has exploded from around 30 in 2013 to more than 700 today. Around half of those are in regional areas, and the latest addition to the list is at Muswellbrook in the NSW Hunter Valley, in the town's former milk factory. Steve McGarry is the chief executive of the Sydney Rum Distillery, which is in the process of transforming the 1940s-built former Oak milk factory into a rum distillery.
Shearing sheep with blades and country town overtaken by dog show

Mar 2, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

Charlie Dunn is only 13 years old but he has already found his passion in life and has been hard at it for the past eight years. Growing up on his family's farm at Culcairn, in southern New South Wales, Charlie started shearing sheep when he just was five years old, with his first pair of blade shears. The skills of a butcher might not seem the stuff of competitive sport. But, stakes were high in Tasmania recently where Australia's best apprentice butchers competed for the national title.
NSW Forestry Corporation overstated timber harvest data over three years

Feb 6, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Lara Webster

The embattled Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is under fire for overstating logging data by almost 30 per cent over the past three years. Public data shows amendments to sustainability reports that drastically reduced the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021. The data shows FCNSW, which recorded a loss of $29 million in the 2022-23 financial year, retrospectively reduced yields from public native forests in NSW by 28 per cent.
Muswellbrook mum shares homeschooling experience

Jan 28, 2025 | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

Back to school preparations are in full swing in many households, but a record number of Australian children will not be returning to the classroom next week. An estimated 45,000 students were homeschooled across the country last year, and while it can be a more affordable option, experts believe changing attitudes around education and parenting are more likely behind the boom.