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Hundreds of landholders register for the 2017 national release of the new strain of deadly K5 rabbit virus.
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| UpdatedThe regional New South Wales city of Orange has made a name for itself as a food and wine destination — but now politicians are swelling the visitor numbers as a by-election looms.
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Chinese Australians living in regional New South Wales hope to increase cross-cultural understanding and business opportunities through tea ceremonies and tai chi classes.
Topics: multiculturalism, regional, orange-2800
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The State Government announces a pilot road safety course will be rolled out across New South Wales to curb the number of road deaths.
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Two women from central-west NSW embark on a year-long project to change perceptions about what farmers look like — and it's not an old guy with a pitchfork.
Topics: rural-media, rural-women, community-development, social-media, photography, books-literature, eugowra-2806, orange-2800
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A stolen World War II service book will be sent to relatives of its former owner thanks to a family history buff, police and Facebook.
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| UpdatedA parliamentary inquiry hears that health chiefs are uncertain whether the total number of patients affected by low dosing of chemotherapy in western New South Wales will ever be known.
Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800, bathurst-2795, sydney-2000
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The dream of getting mainland cherries on planes to China is getting closer to reality as Chinese investors come on board to help get export restrictions lifted.
Topics: trade, fruits, agribusiness, pest-management, orange-2800
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| UpdatedAn Australian study reveals people using methamphetamines in rural areas tend to be employed, unlike their city counterparts.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, university-and-further-education, unemployment, community-and-society, youth, orange-2800, lismore-2480, kingaroy-4610, sydney-2000
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The State Government is accused of covering up the full extent of low-dosing of chemotherapy patients in the NSW central west.
Topics: cancer, orange-2800, bathurst-2795
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An Australian conservation biologist trials a unique approach to protecting livestock from lions in Botswana.
Topics: beef-cattle, livestock-welfare, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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A company ramps up plans for a proposed 122-turbine wind farm in southern NSW, saying it could be a game changer for the local economy.
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The NSW Department of Primary Industries is working on a website to encourage more people to visit farms on their holidays.
Topics: community-development, rural-tourism, travel-and-tourism, tourism, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, orange-2800
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A $14.5 million research hub, Legumes for Sustainable Agriculture, is established with government, industry and university backing.
Topics: grain, research, sydney-2000, goondiwindi-4390, orange-2800, the-university-of-sydney-2006
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Thousands of hectares of grain crops in New South Wales have been decimated in a freak hail storm.
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Australia's cherry production is expected to halve this year due to cold weather and prolonged wet conditions.
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