Bronwyn Herbert
Bronwyn Herbert is a reporter based in Lismore, New South Wales
Native plants add distinct flavours to Byron gin
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A rainforest regeneration project, where more than 35,000 native trees have been planted, has created its own pantry for making gin.
Topics: bush-tucker, food-and-beverage, agricultural-crops, byron-bay-2481, bangalow-2479, lismore-2480
Animal neglect charge for Lismore stud owner after starving ponies found
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The owner of a pony stud based in Lismore has been found guilty of animal neglect after two horses in her care were found in extremely poor health.
Topics: animal-welfare, animal-nutrition, lismore-2480
Bad year for Coffs Harbour banana growers
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Dry conditions, a natural disaster and poor market prices combined to make 2016 a shocker for the Coffs Harbour banana region on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Topics: bananas, drought, agricultural-prices, coffs-harbour-2450
Rice monopoly remains until 2022
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Ricegrowers from the developing rice industry in northern New South Wales say it's irrational and unviable for them to not be able to mill and market their own rice for the lucrative export markets.
Topics: rice, agricultural-marketing, lismore-2480, griffith-2680
Despite golden times for macadamia industry, one processor calls in administrators
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Despite three strong years of growth and consecutive record macadamia crops, north coast nut company Macaz has stopped processing and is in voluntary administration.
Topics: agricultural-prices, alstonville-2477
Horses provide life-saving snake antivenom for pets
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Former racehorses are the unlikely heroes helping to create antivenom for snake bite treatments for pets.
Topics: animal-science, horse-racing, alstonville-2477
Farmer's plunge into cut flowers pays dividends
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Trial and error leads to a booming export business for a Macleay Valley farmer.
Topics: flowers, kempsey-2440
Beekeepers struck in hit-and-run in NSW
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A 54-year-old remains in a serious condition in hospital after three beekeepers were knocked to the ground in a hit-and-run incident while tending to hives.
Topics: beekeeping, crime, law-crime-and-justice, jackadgery-2460
Gold Coast cane farmers to truck cane to NSW as 'disaster' season continues
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Cane farmers north of the Gold Coast will send their cane to a New South Wales mill for crushing after a fire at the Rocky Point Sugar Mill.
Topics: agricultural-crops, sugar, surfers-paradise-4217
North coast chefs brew bone broth success
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A so-called 'super food' with a host of healthy benefits, producers of bone broth are seeing an exponential growth in sales.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-processing, beef-cattle, ballina-2478, casino-2470
Indigenous teen makes global impact when 'trust experiment' goes viral
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Indigenous student Jasirah Bin Hitam is an internet sensation after filming a "trust experiment" that has been viewed more than 6 million times.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, internet-culture, multiculturalism, cottesloe-6011, dampier-peninsula-6725
David Helfgott uses music to help autistic children
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Renowned Australian pianist David Helfgott is asked to choose soothing classical music as part of an innovative research project to help reduce stress levels in children with autism.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, music, classical, autism-spectrum-disorder, adolescent-health, child-health-and-behaviour, perth-6000, australia
Warnings of rural financial crisis as farmers take on ANZ
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Australian farmers are taking on the banks and sounding alarm bells that the country is in the midst of a rural financial crisis.
Topics: rural, business-economics-and-finance, banking, agribusiness, australia
Family of FIFO worker who suicided backs inquiry push
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The family of a fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) worker who took his own life has backed calls for an inquiry into a spate of suicides involving workers on resources projects in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
In the past 12 months, nine workers have taken their own lives while living away from home and the West Australian Government is considering a parliamentary inquiry.
The family of mining supervisor Steven Migas, 36, who took his own life last November, wants an investigation into the FIFO suicides and the impact of stress on the job.
"It's too late for us, we've already lost our brother, we aren't getting anything out of this, we just want other families not to go through what we have gone through, and that's it," his brother John told 7.30.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, mining-industry, mental-health, health, wa, broome-6725
Relief offer a 'slap in face' for struggling WA farmers
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For farmers, Anzac Day marks the unofficial start of the seeding season, when paddocks are ploughed and crops planted.
Topics: wheat, agricultural-crops, rural, business-economics-and-finance, states-and-territories, suicide, depression, australia, wa, nungarin-6490
Outrage over treatment of teens held in men's jail
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The detention of more than 140 teenagers in a men's prison in Perth has raised concerns of breaches of law and human rights conventions.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, perth-6000, wa
Fortescue accused of rigging land rights deal
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Andrew Forrest's mining company, Fortescue Metals Group, is accused of rigging a meeting with Indigenous stakeholders to win the rights to mine $100 billion of iron ore in the Pilbara.
Topics: indigenous-protocols, native-title, mining-industry, karratha-6714
Indigenous program targets mining worker shortages
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A new program is helping change lives for disadvantaged Indigenous Australians by connecting them with mining and construction jobs in the west.
Topics: mining-industry, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, work, business-economics-and-finance, kempsey-2440, nsw, australia, port-hedland-6721, wa
Australian PlantBank to safeguard diversity
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The largest seed bank in the southern hemisphere is being constructed in Sydney's south-west to help prevent a loss to the planet's diversity of flora.
Topics: biological-diversity, environment, climate-change, conservation, mount-annan-2567, nsw, australia
India goes bananas for GM fruit
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Australian scientists have genetically modified bananas so the fruit is not only full of vitamins but also rich with iron.
Topics: genetically-modified-food, bananas, diet-and-nutrition, queensland-university-of-technology-4000, india, australia
Report backs universal dental scheme
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A yet-to-be-released report handed to the Federal Government is understood to validate calls for a national dental healthcare scheme.
Southern Ocean bearing brunt of marine warming
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New research shows the Southern Ocean is storing more heat than any other ocean in the world.
Topics: climate-change, environment, oceans-and-reefs, tas, australia, antarctica
Australia second best place to live: UN (video)
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Australia is the second best place in the world to live according to the United Nations, with Norway taking the title by a fraction in the annual Human Development Index (HDI).
Topics: population-and-demographics, human-interest, lifestyle, australia, norway
Call for massive Antarctic marine reserves
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A new coalition of environmental and conservation groups is calling for a massive area surrounding Antarctica to be protected in marine reserves.
Topics: conservation, environment, oceans-and-reefs, antarctica, australia
The Dish celebrates 50th birthday
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It was 50 years ago that the giant radio telescope known by Australians as The Dish started operating in a sheep paddock in central western New South Wales.
Topics: astronomy-space, parkes-2870
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