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Bill O'Chee

Bill O'Chee writes regularly for Fairfax Media.

The suicide rate among war veterans is higher than in the general population.

Veterans face the ultimate indignity

It is hard sitting with a veteran - someone decorated for bravery, no less - when he tells you he has been thinking of taking his life. Gut-wrenching though it was, I wasn't surprised. I had seen this coming for months, and his wife was doing it.

Queensland's Channel Country is a world of colour seen by too few eyes.

Channel Country: The greatest nature show on Earth

In the barely perceptible depressions that make up the Channel Country, nature has come to life in abundance. Weeks of steady rain have flood the plains around the Cooper, stirring life from deep beneath the stony soil, and transforming the landscape.