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| UpdatedHere is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, community-and-society, regional, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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Topics: drought, rural, livestock-welfare, livestock, sheep-production, beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, women-in-agriculture, blackall-4472
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| UpdatedFive-year-old Charlie Dunn has been learning to shear since he was 2. Shearing teachers say there's growing interest from young people wanting to join the industry, but some are a little younger than others.
Topics: sheep-production, rural, rural-youth, regional, culcairn-2660
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Topics: rural-youth, rural, canberra-2600
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Young regional Australians pitch their ideas for change at the Heywire Regional Youth Summit in Canberra.
Topics: rural-youth, rural, canberra-2600
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Topics: rural, agricultural-crops
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The Tasmanian Government is supporting industry calls to lift the ban on the sale of hemp-derived food products in Australia.
Topics: agricultural-crops, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, rural, tas
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| UpdatedApple growers across Australia face a tough year in the marketplace as Western Australia's supply goes into overdrive.
Topics: agricultural-crops, rural, fruit, kirup-6251, batlow-2730
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An analyst predicts canola prices will remain strong, but agronomists warn against being hasty with planting.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, grain, wa, narrogin-6312, australia
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Professional Northern Territory crocodile catcher Roger Matthews speaks fondly of his 31-year-old life-saving hunting knife.
Topics: rural, pests, pest-management, humpty-doo-0836
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, family, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, small-business, livestock, immigration, livestock-welfare, rural, agricultural-crops, grain, rupanyup-3388
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, family, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, small-business, livestock, immigration, livestock-welfare, rural, agricultural-crops, grain, rupanyup-3388
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, family, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, small-business, livestock, immigration, livestock-welfare, rural, agricultural-crops, grain, rupanyup-3388
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, family, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, small-business, livestock, immigration, livestock-welfare, rural, agricultural-crops, grain, rupanyup-3388
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Silo art, immigrants and a new shopping precinct are all part of Rupanyup's plans for economic revival.
Topics: family-and-children, family, small-business, immigration, rural, rupanyup-3388
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| UpdatedThe Department of Agriculture is accused of "dropping the ball", with revelations that high numbers of diseased prawns are being sold in Australia.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, rural, pest-management, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600, surfers-paradise-4217
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| UpdatedState and Federal ministers are asked to consider changing legislations after Federal Court ruling on Indigenous Land Agreements questions mining, gas, ports, infrastructure and national park legality.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, coal, rural, rail-transport, sea-transport, national-parks, native-title, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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A Queensland labour contractor says employment programs need to be more flexible if they want to tackle the shortage of worker in rural industries.
Topics: rural, regional-development, education-industry, unemployment, rural-youth, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-policy, mount-isa-4825, maryborough-4650, boulia-4829
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Trainer Brendan Condon says more flexible agricultural training programs are needed to combat farm worker shortages.
Topics: rural, regional-development, education-industry, unemployment, rural-youth, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-policy, maryborough-4650, boulia-4829, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedThe Queanbeyan-Palerang Council opposes a planned wind farm near Tarago, south of Goulburn, because of perceived impact on residents.
Topics: wind-energy, alternative-energy, environment, rural, regional-development, tarago-2580, queanbeyan-2620, nsw, act, canberra-2600, australia, goulburn-2580
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| UpdatedA tiny plastic farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green overalls does his bit to raise awareness of Australian agriculture.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, human-interest, offbeat, primary, education, information-and-communication, internet-culture, social-media, tocumwal-2714, nsw