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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Shannon Schubert
Lisa Chesters has retained the regional Victorian seat of Bendigo for the Labor Party. The ABC is projecting Ms Chesters will hold the seat for a fifth term despite a significant swing towards Nationals candidate Andrew Lethlean. The central Victorian seat, in Labor's hands since 1998, has been on a knife's edge since the Albanese government's landslide victory on Saturday night. Ms Chesters held the seat by an 11.2 per cent margin leading into the election.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles
It's just after 9am in Ho Chi Minh City, and Hywel Rowlands and Tra My Tran are finishing their coffees in the soft morning light of their apartment. There's an easy comfort between them as they settle into the living room. Mr Rowlands, 50, is a town planner from regional Victoria and Ms Tran, 41, is a pharmacist from Vietnam. They met two years ago on an online dating site and have found it hard to separate ever since. But their journey to find love hasn't been straightforward.
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2 weeks ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Daniel Miles |Bec Symons
By Daniel Miles and Bec Symons, ABCOn a regular Wednesday morning in late April, it's easy enough to find a park along Morwell's main street. But this week is no regular week. The regional Victorian town, just shy of two hours' south-east of Melbourne, has found itself at the centre of an international media spotlight as it plays host to the triple-murder mushroom trial.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Daniel Miles |Bec Symons
By Daniel Miles and Bec Symons, ABCOn a regular Wednesday morning in late April, it's easy enough to find a park along Morwell's main street. But this week is no regular week. The regional Victorian town, just shy of two hours' south-east of Melbourne, has found itself at the centre of an international media spotlight as it plays host to the triple-murder mushroom trial.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Bec Symons
On a regular Wednesday morning in late April, it's easy enough to find a park along Morwell's main street. But this week is no regular week. The regional Victorian town, just shy of two hours' south-east of Melbourne, has found itself at the centre of an international media spotlight as it plays host to the triple-murder mushroom trial.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Tyrone Dalton |Madi Chwasta
Australia's bird flu outbreak is continuing to hinder shoppers with egg restrictions in place at major supermarkets across most parts of the country. Experts say the ongoing bird flu outbreak has reduced Australia's egg-laying population, in turn reducing egg availability. Egg stocks dipped further over the traditional summer peak period and it is unclear when supply will return to normal levels.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles
Tim Freedman folds himself into the makeshift band room's sunken leather couch, takes his glasses off and puts his hands to his lips. His wiry brown hair is a shade or two lighter than when The Whitlams dominated triple j's airwaves in the 90s, but the intensity of his furrowed brow remains. He is fresh from a sound check on a small stage in the seaside town of Warrnambool at the aptly named Whalers Hotel.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen
Lightning strikes have started multiple bushfires and destroyed at least three homes across Victoria amid searing heatwave conditions. More than 500,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Victoria and its coastal waters over a 24-hour period from midday Sunday as bushfires forced western Victorian towns to evacuate. Three homes have been destroyed by lightning: one from a direct hit in Taylor's Lakes in Melbourne's north-west, and two others when lightning started a bushfire south of Mildura.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Olivia Sanders |Ashlee Aldridge
The rugged mountain ranges of the Grampians/Gariwerd National Park loom large over Shane Wells's western Victorian property. From the foot of his dam, Mr Wells can normally watch the sunrise just beyond the mountain ranges. But checking the pumps on his farm dam in the early morning light this weekend, Mr Wells noticed a change. "Usually you can see all the mountains with the sun coming up," Mr Wells said.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen |Angus Verley |Syan Vallance
Katelynn Clark felt certain her home would burn to the ground when a raging bushfire hit the edge of her rural property on Monday night. Ms Clark runs a mixed sheep and cropping farm on the northern edge of the Little Desert National Park in western Victoria where a fast-moving blaze this week destroyed more than 63,000 hectares of land.
