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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | David Claughton |Cath McAloon
Kindergarten student Ella Deicke is settling into a tiny school in rural NSW where her mum is a teacher and her grandmother manages the office. Native grains fill jars, they spread across the floor and are at the top of everyone's mind at the Native Grains Harvest festival near Narrabri, in north-west NSW.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | David Claughton |Cath McAloon
When Jim Weimar was offered a promotion to become a police sergeant in a tiny rural town in central Queensland, a colleague told him he would be "mad" not to go. The self-confessed city slicker from Ipswich knew very little about Theodore, a cotton and cattle farming town with a population of 450. So he decided to drive there with his young family and have a look.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | David Claughton |Cath McAloon
Kakadu is known for its breathtaking scenery and unique wildlife, but few may be aware that the national park is also a pantry full of native food. Kakadu restaurant dishes up 'totally underrated' Indigenous ingredientsFrom childhood shearing shed to retirement house. That's the project Jenny Keogh has taken on - converting the shearing shed from her family property into a house for her and her husband to live in for their retirement.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
When a Facebook group of nearly 2 million Google Earth enthusiasts homed in on a satellite image of an odd garden in northern Tasmania, they uncovered 'Thanks for noticing': Secret garden spotted on Google Earth 25 years after being built. Whether they're treating dogs or dairy cows, rural vets have their work cut out for them. But as the industry battles staff shortages, one clinic is helping young vets build a career - and life - in rural Victoria.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
Since the Regent Honeyeater Project kicked off in the 1990s, tens of thousands of volunteers have Farmers, conservationists cheer after 750,000 trees planted to help save threatened native bird. It's an ambitious and expensive task, trying to bring back once thriving oyster beds, that filtered the water of Queensland's Noosa river and provided crucial habitat for marine life like fish and crabs.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
Women make up only seven per cent of Australia's civil aviation industry, but that's never bothered Olivia Anderson. The 24 year old pilot spends her days chasing cattle from the air in WA's remote Kimberley region. And she's just won a prestigious award for it.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
On the south coast of New South Wales, Urs Buhlman set out to capture the rugged process commercial fishers go through to put food on our plates and found a proud industry with a future under threat. Photographer captures the 'dangerous' work of commercial fishing rarely seen up closeFrom six original settling families to making up a quarter of the town's population, here is why Punjabi Sikhs made the country town of Woolgoolga, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, home. And why they stayed.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
After 25 years, there's a changing of the guard on Gabo Island, as 'I had this dream': Sandy lives alone on a remote island for half the year and life couldn't be better, in a tradition spanning 160 years. Researchers say a project putting hollow logs into south-east Queensland's Mary River is Mary River cod log trial an 'absolute dream come true' with endangered species already moving in.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
For the many Pacific Islanders who come to Australia to pick fruit, one of the hardest things, besides being away from their family, is missing out on their local church services. A farm near Katherine in the Northern Territory has come up with a solution and every Sunday during the mango season, its holds a service for its workers, who are mostly from Vanuatu, where religion plays a big part in their lives.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Cath McAloon |Clint Jasper
Bands like the How desert reggae has emerged as the soundtrack to Australia's Red Centre in some of Australia's most isolated communities. For many of us agriculture shows represent a fun day out with animals, show bags, and maybe a ride or two, but for farmersWhat agricultural shows mean to farming communities during tough seasons. First generation farmers face a steep learning curve.
