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Labor drafting Murray-Darling Basin Plan changes to deliver extra environmental water
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The Federal Opposition is drafting Murray-Darling Basin Plan amendments, to guarantee delivery an extra 450 gigalitres of water for the environment.
Topics: murray-darling-basin, agricultural-policy, water, agribusiness, water-management, irrigation, fruit, rice, vegetables, dairy-production, parliament-house-2600, wagga-wagga-2650, renmark-5341, leeton-2705, hay-2711, coleambally-2707, deniliquin-2710, brewarrina-2839, bourke-2840, warren-2824, griffith-2680, mildura-3500, murray-bridge-5253, swan-hill-3585, wodonga-3690, albury-2640
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Mercury passes 41 on hot, humid Sunday in sweaty Sydney
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Sydneysiders swelter through another sizzling summer's day, with Parramatta and Penrith among the hot spots.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, bourke-2840, wilcannia-2836, penrith-2750, parramatta-2150, campbelltown-2560, moree-2400
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B-Town Warriors dancers image
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Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, hip-hop, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-protocols, bourke-2840
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Toby Finlayson, Julie Knight and Shirlee Rowland talk about the B-Town Warriors Audio
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Desert Pea Media founder Toby Finlayson, Bourke High School student Julie Knight and teacher Shirlee Rowland speak about the B-Town Warriors and their hip hop song People of the Red Sunset.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, hip-hop, indigenous-music, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, byron-bay-2481, bourke-2840
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Hip hop engages Indigenous teens in social change
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Indigenous teenagers from across Australia use hip hop to bring attention to social issues affecting their communities.
Topics: music, hip-hop, indigenous-music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, byron-bay-2481, bourke-2840, walgett-2832, collarenebri-2833, thursday-island-4875
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The NSW town where it gets so hot the roads melt
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Welcome to Bourke, where 2,000 of Australia's toughest people battle melting roads and exploding thermometers under the scorching summer sun.
Topics: weather, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, bourke-2840
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Northern basin towns get economic relief from buybacks
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Warren mayor Rex Wilson welcomes funds to counter Murray-Darling Basin Plan buyback economic pain.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, community-development, warren-2824, bourke-2840
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Temperatures to push past 45C in western NSW
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Temperatures are expected to soar past 45 degrees Celsius in parts of western New South Wales this week, as another heatwave sweeps across the state.
Topics: weather, human-interest, wilcannia-2836, bourke-2840, ivanhoe-2878, menindee-2879, brewarrina-2839, cobar-2835, condobolin-2877, wee-waa-2388, lake-cargelligo-2672, dubbo-2830, orange-2800, nsw
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New leadership on iconic rural paper image
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Topics: rural-media, rural-tourism, print-media, bourke-2840
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New blood flows in veins of Bourke newspaper, The Western Herald
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The Western Herald has brought news from 'the back of Bourke' since 1887 and its new editor says newspapers still have a role in the future of the bush.
Topics: print-media, community-development, rural-media, rural, community-and-society, history, work, bourke-2840, tamworth-2340, dubbo-2830
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MP supports councils’ bid to drop out of proposed far west NSW reforms
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The future of a proposed shake-up of councils in far west New South Wales is uncertain, with calls for a return to the drawing board.
Topics: local-government, regional, regional-development, broken-hill-2880, bourke-2840, wilcannia-2836, brewarrina-2839, walgett-2832, balranald-2715, wentworth-2648, cobar-2835
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A family workforce image
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Topics: pest-management, women-in-agriculture, bourke-2840
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Setting the trap image
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Topics: pest-management, bourke-2840
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Sharing the lore of trapping image
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Topics: pest-management, women-in-agriculture, bourke-2840
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Preparing the traps image
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Topics: pest-management, bourke-2840
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Paul Billsborough says women make great trappers
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A new wave of workers is being drafted to fight the growing problem of wild dog predation on Australian livestock.
Topics: pest-management, dog, women-in-agriculture, animal-welfare, adult-education, bourke-2840
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Red meat producers biggest winners in $2.1 billion carbon abatement contracts
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Landholders with sheep and cattle secure two-thirds of the contracts from the billions of dollars contracted so far by the Federal Government's Emission Reduction Fund.
Topics: beef-cattle, climate-change, greenhouse-gas, sydney-2000, darwin-0800, bourke-2840, weipa-4874, cairns-4870
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Temps cracking 40C forecast for Queensland, NSW (photos)
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Severe-to-extreme heatwave conditions are forecast for central and southern Queensland and northern NSW this weekend, with temperatures forecast to crack 40 degrees Celsius in some parts.
Topics: weather, brisbane-4000, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, moree-2400, bourke-2840, lismore-2480, qld, nsw
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Essential Energy 'can now sack 600 NSW workers'
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Electricity distributor Essential Energy now has the power to forcibly cut 600 jobs from regional NSW communities after a key ruling by the Fair Work Commission, a union says.
Topics: industrial-relations, electricity-energy-and-utilities, wagga-wagga-2650, broken-hill-2880, port-macquarie-2444, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, bourke-2840, lismore-2480, newcastle-2300, griffith-2680, wollongong-2500, bega-2550, orange-2800
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Remote animal rescue group saves 151 dogs from death row
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An animal rescue program unique to the western region is responsible for a vast drop in dog euthanasia rates in two remote western New South Wales communities.
Topics: rural, animal-welfare, animals, human-interest, miscellaneous-animal-production, cobar-2835, bourke-2840, broken-hill-2880
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Graziers working with their landscape image
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Topics: pasture, livestock, bourke-2840
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WLLS yabby image
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Topics: deserts, bourke-2840
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Bird's eye view of flooding channels image
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Topics: environment, water, bourke-2840, wanaaring-2840
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Balancing act: The rangelands of the future
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There is a growing international push for a focus on the vulnerable and valuable rangelands of the world.
Topics: pasture, livestock, rainfall, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, bourke-2840, wanaaring-2840, enngonia-2840
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