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Jan 3, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
Parents-to-be Peta Mackay and Michael 'Dickie' Absalom are finally on the home straight of a gruelling fertility journey that has culminated in a high-risk pregnancy. And if that was not stressful enough, they live on a remote property that is a 2,000-kilometre round trip from their medical specialists in Adelaide.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
In the red soil of her outback garden, a heavily pregnant Sammy Anderson lovingly tends to an oasis of neatly planted tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis. The expectant mum is 32 weeks pregnant in a desert town where the average maximum temperature at this time of year is 33 degrees Celsius, but nothing will stop Sammy from getting out in her garden.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
In April this year, the Barrier Truth newspaper closed its doors after almost 130 years of serving the Broken Hill community. The city held its breath and could finally exhale in September when Mildura-based publisher ENG Media announced the Broken Hill Times would launch the following month. April Shepherd was camping in regional Tasmania with her kelpie Stella when she received a call asking if she would be interested in a reporter's role with the new Broken Hill Times.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
Far west New South Wales has been reconnected to the power grid more than two weeks after being cut off. The region from central NSW to near the Queensland border was on generators before there was a brief blackout to get the network back on Thursday night. An outage of about 25 minutes was all it took. Essential Energy operations manager Mark Summers said Transgrid made the call on Thursday afternoon.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor |Lily McCure
Farmers are diversifying their revenue across the country, with one grazier in far west NSW hosting a music festival at his station. The bash is growing in importance to the economy in Broken Hill. With its fourth instalment beginning on Thursday, 14,000 people are expected to head out to Belmont Station. The last thing you might expect to see on the dusty red plains of Far West New South Wales is a music festival.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
A quartet of donkeys in Silverton, NSW are proving to be a tourism drawcard. But the owners of the donkeys have had to start placing signs around town, discouraging people from feeding the animals. The donkeys are not the only attraction in the town of about 50 people, which was also a filming location for some of movies in the Mad Max franchise.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
Jenny, Deggy, Jack and Jill are donkeys known to attract tourists to Silverton where they wander the main common. Donkeys have been a part of the outback town since at least the 1950s. Donkey owner Patsy Price says travellers should not feed the donkeys as it can be bad for their health. Donkeys have roamed the streets for as long as many Silverton residents can remember. Locals in the tiny outback town don't usually bat an eyelid when they pass Jack, Jill, Deggy or Jenny conducting their business.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Caroline Horn |Coquohalla Connor
Seventy WWI soldiers reburied at Fromelles after the discovery of a mass grave in 2008 are yet to be identified. The Fromelles Association is trying to find relatives of missing soldiers so their remains can be identified via DNA testing. The association is appealing for help across South Australia and Broken Hill to identify relatives of five of the soldiers.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor
Far West NSW is classed as a childcare desert, with childcare simply not an option for many families. An expert says this will have flow-on effects to superannuation balances. The federal government will pay superannuation during maternity and paternity leave from July 1, 2025. When Sarah Vlatko became pregnant with her first child nearly two years ago, she and her husband hadn't taken much notice of warnings from other parents about the childcare shortage.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Coquohalla Connor |Andrew Schmidt
In short: Emus are known to become aggressive and attack dogs during nesting season. Ruby Buchanan was walking her kelpies in far west NSW when a mob of four set upon her. What's next? A ranger is reminding dog walkers to keep their distance from emus as their numbers bounce back after years of drought. Within a minute of arriving at what appeared to be a peaceful bush track with her dogs, Ruby Buchanan realised she had made a mistake.
