Bill Brown
Bill Brown is a Cross Media Reporter at ABC South East NSW producing stories for online, radio and TV.
Research finds sheep are spreading fireweed in manure
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An award-winning student has shown that sheep intended to control fireweed by grazing are instead, spreading it via their manure.
Topics: science-awards, science, environment, science-and-technology, sheep-production, livestock, beef-cattle, research, community-and-society, rural, secondary-schools, women-in-agriculture, weeds, bega-2550
Stories of the Tathra wharf in the era of coastal steamers
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Three generations of the Johnson family have known the iconic Tathra wharf since the age of coastal steamers.
Topics: history, sea-transport, regional, tathra-2550
Theatre luminary calls for 'counter-urban' regional arts revolution
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Opera Queensland artistic director Lindy Hume calls for a newly assertive regional arts sector to break through metro-centric perspectives of regional artists being junior partners.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, regional, theatre, performance-art, candelo-2550
Bega neighbourhood embraces a model for sustainable communities
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The principles of permaculture driving a neighbourhood in Bega is still going strong, a decade on.
Topics: sustainable-living, regional, regional-development, alternative-energy, bega-2550
NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro facing voter backlash
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Outraged residents of John Barilaro's seat of Monaro say he will pay the price for supporting the forced amalgamation of the councils in his own electorate.
Topics: local-government, state-parliament, community-and-society, nationals, bombala-2632, cooma-2630, queanbeyan-2620
Historic meeting of Yuin nation agrees to massive native title claim in south-east New South Wales
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Over 500 Aboriginal people have met in Narooma to approve the submission of a native title claim covering 14,000 square kilometres of the south-east of New South Wales coast.
Topics: aboriginal, land-rights, narooma-2546
God leaves town: Rural community's 108yo church to be closed and sold
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This year may be the last time a small rural community celebrates Christmas in their 108-year-old Anglican church.
Topics: anglicans, community-development, religion-and-beliefs, candelo-2550
Lost history of first contact 'up there with Burke and Wills'
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In 1797 the first Europeans to make contact with the Aboriginal people of south-east Australia were shipwrecked sailors.
Topics: history, books-literature, aboriginal, pambula-2549, sydney-2000, flinders-island-7255, tas
Tour de France comes to the Snowy Mountains
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Tour de France champion Chris Froome will join 3,500 amateur riders for the first Tour de France event in Australia.
Topics: cycling, regional, sport, lifestyle-and-leisure, jindabyne-2627, france
Tree-sitters stop logging in south-east NSW forests
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Protesters stop logging operations for a second time in a week in the south-east forests of New South Wales, claiming Forestry Corporation of NSW has breached regulations.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, forestry, environmental-management, cathcart-2632
Remote area firefighters ready at a moment's notice
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The dangerous bushfires you do not hear about are the ones extinguished by specialist firefighters in remote forests, before they can threaten lives and property.
Topics: emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, forests, national-parks, volunteers, moruya-2537
Gweagal warrior prepares legal challenge for return of 'stolen shield'
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The descendant of a Gweagal warrior, whose shield was taken in 1770, prepares for a legal challenge to have it returned by the British Museum.
Topics: aboriginal, library-museum-and-gallery, history, laws, indigenous-culture, bermagui-2546
Rabbits learn to eat gum leaves to survive in alpine areas
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An alpine ecologist finds rabbits are for the first time moving into snow-covered alpine areas by eating gum leaves.
Topics: ecology, animal-behaviour, environmental-impact, pests, jindabyne-2627
Council accused of back-flip over saving heritage hotel
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The community in Eden had thought the local council had saved its heritage hotel from demolition by developers but now a newly elected council is looking at putting it back in the hands of private developers.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, community-organisations, building-and-construction, eden-2551
White pointer shark steals catch from rock-fisherman
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A white pointer has been captured on video tearing the catch off a fisherman's line on the New South Wales far South Coast.
Topics: shark, offbeat, human-interest, moruya-2537
Battle of Long Tan soldiers remember day they earned gallantry medals
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A man recognised for bravery more than 50 years after fighting in the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam recalls the fierce battle.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, history, merimbula-2548
Insurance company needs to pay for coastal storm damage: Minister
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Insurers have an obligation to pay for repairs to a historic wharf at Tathra that was damaged during a severe storm in June, Infrastructure Minister Andrew Constance says.
Topics: climate-change, storm-event, local-government, storm-disaster, tathra-2550
New feature film Life Class takes energy of 1970s and inspires rural filmmaking
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A new Australian feature film shot on the far south coast of New South Wales with cast and crew mostly from the local community spawns a rural filmmaking co-operative.
Topics: comedy-film, short-film, regional, candelo-2550
Australian Senate to consider supporting return of Aboriginal warrior's shield
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The Australian Senate considers joining the NSW Parliament in calling for the return of an Aboriginal warrior's shield used during Cook's first landing in Australia.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-culture, library-museum-and-gallery, history, wallaga-lake-2546
Reserve expansion makes for a very happy Save the Koala Day
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The Kybeyan Nature Reserve west of Cooma will be expanded with the purchase of an additional 1,000 hectares of koala habitat.
Topics: environmental-management, national-parks, cooma-2630
Klaus Moje: A life of skill and creativity
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The international art world is mourning the death of the man described as the father of Australian glass art.
Topics: contemporary-art, people, university-and-further-education, death, tathra-2550, canberra-2600
Getting back the warrior's shield 'stolen by Captain Cook'
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Rodney Kelly is going to England to get back his ancestor's shield, which he says was stolen by Captain Cook on the day Cook first landed at Botany Bay.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-culture, history, wallaga-lake-2546
Leading women's movement activist reflects on a lifetime of change
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Heather O'Connor went into the 1960s as a traditional suburban housewife and emerged as a life-long activist in the women's movement.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, university-and-further-education, bermagui-2546
Meet the first Indigenous Australian to win a Paralympic gold medal
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Losing a forearm as a young teenager did not stop a promising young sportsman from breaking an athletic world record in 1984.
Topics: paralympics, aboriginal, athletics, eden-2551
Scientists say health problems blamed on wi-fi caused by something else
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A woman seeks treatment for stroke-like symptoms she attributes to wi-fi, but scientists say that is not possible and medical practitioners have no treatment path.
Topics: environmental-health, medical-research, bermagui-2546, university-of-wollongong-2522
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