Hannah Walsh

4 days ago | abc.net.au | Hannah Walsh

Adam Ballard is somewhat of a local celebrity in his small outback Queensland town. The Longreach local goes everywhere with a smile, helps the local footy and race clubs, and is a rodeo fanatic. "People know Adam and we have no idea who they are, but we are Adam's mum and dad," Paula Ballard said. Adam was born with Williams Syndrome, an intellectual disability that requires consistent care.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Hannah Walsh |Grace Nakamura

There are two genres of music people love to hate — opera and country. Under a kaleidoscope of stars in outback Queensland the two styles have merged and found a surprising audience. "Slim Dusty and Puccini, who would have thought," Melbourne opera fanatic Rosey Boyd said. Country songs are said to be made up of "loving, drinking, fighting and cussing" — similarly inspired themes that feature in opera, according to Opera Queensland.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Hannah Walsh

In the land of boom and bust, an ancient landscape of sand dunes and river channels is transforming. Record-breaking floods has parts of the Channel Country in south-west Queensland springing to life, a haven for flora and fauna across thousands of kilometres of inland waterways. It's a silver lining of devastating flooding across the outback where it's estimated 13 million hectares of country went underwater.

1 month ago | which.co.uk | Hannah Walsh

Aldi was the UK's cheapest supermarket again in April, beating Lidl's loyalty prices by just 69p. We compared the prices of 79 popular grocery items and found that both Aldi and Lidl (with and without loyalty prices) were cheaper than shopping at Asda or Tesco with a Clubcard. Read on to find out where was priciest, plus how the supermarkets compared for a much bigger list of 200 products.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Hannah Walsh |Julia Andre

They call it the Mulga Lands — part of Australia's vast outback. Amid the arid country broken up by ancient river systems sits Adavale, a Queensland town that sits closer to the South Australian border than Brisbane.  Zoey and Kiya Cowley also call it home. The inseparable sisters hang off what remains of their trampoline, a skeleton in their boneyard of a back garden. A month ago, record-breaking flooding ripped through their tiny town of 27.