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Sterile fruit fly to be released into wild pest population
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There is hope a release of sterile fruit fly later this year will help curb the pest's population.
Topics: pest-management, pests, fruits, community-development, mildura-3500
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World's first wind towers featuring Indigenous art unveiled in SA
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The Hornsdale wind farm has murals on two towers that tell of the connection the land has to the indigenous people of the region.
Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, community-development, jamestown-5491
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A Big Country: Amazing sculpture down the Lachlan Audio
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Locals living in the Forbes region in the central west of New South Wales have ambitious plans to establish a unique bush sculpture trail in the region. Read more
Topics: rural-tourism, rural-women, volunteers, sculpture, community-development, forbes-2871
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Catalina Museum image
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Catalina on water image
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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David Mark and Dick Udy Audio
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Museum volunteer David Mark and WWII veteran Dick Udy speak about the Lake Boga flying boat base. Read more
Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Catalina taxiing during WWII image
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Catalinas in flight image
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Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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Fall of Singapore puts tiny Mallee town on front line during WWII
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During WWII, a small town in Victoria's Mallee was on the front line in the defence of Australia.
Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, singapore, broome-6725, darwin-0800, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500
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George and Ruby destined for the classroom
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The co-creator of popular children's characters George the Farmer wins South Australia's RIRDC Rural Women's Award.
Topics: rural-youth, rural-women, community-development, adelaide-5000, penola-5277
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Preparation for coal art exhibition image
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Topics: contemporary-art, community-development, community-and-society, morwell-3840
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Artist Hartmut Veit image
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Topics: contemporary-art, community-development, community-and-society, morwell-3840
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Coal footprints image
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Topics: contemporary-art, community-development, community-and-society, morwell-3840
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Heather and Eric Yates image
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Topics: grain, agricultural-prices, community-development, dairy-production, werrimull-3496, edenhope-3318
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Eric Yates on his barley donation Audio
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Eric Yates talks about his donation of barley to a fellow farmer.
Topics: grain, agricultural-prices, community-development, dairy-production, werrimull-3496, edenhope-3318
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Farmer helps out fellow farmer by gifting cattle feed during dairy crisis
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A grain farmer has put aside dealing with low prices for his crops to help out a dairy farmer battling the industry price crisis.
Topics: grain, agricultural-prices, community-development, dairy-production, werrimull-3496, edenhope-3318
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Rural trainer develops new way to train and employ farm workers
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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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Brendan Condon says job agencies need a better understanding of the needs of rural employees, and employers. Audio
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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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Opponents lose legal case against poultry developer
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A long-running legal battle between a poultry developer and residents living near Castlemaine is over, after the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the farm plans.
Topics: poultry-and-egg-production, community-development, regional, baringhup-3463
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Urgent calls for the continuation of Great Artesian Basin water saving program
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AgForce is calling on governments to fund the continuation of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative, a massive water saving program budgeted to June.
Topics: water-management, water-supply, environmental-management, environmental-impact, agricultural-policy, federal---state-issues, rural-tourism, beef-cattle, sheep-production, goat-production, community-development, longreach-4730
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Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, fruit, fruits, weeds, agricultural-chemicals, agricultural-machinery, community-development, farm-labour, merbein-3505
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Robot built on farm to spray weeds autonomously
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Dried fruit growers Malcolm and Stephen Bennet build their own robot to spray weeds.
Topics: fruit, fruits, weeds, agricultural-chemicals, agricultural-machinery, community-development, farm-labour, merbein-3505
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Weed spraying robot prototype image
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Topics: robots-and-artificial-intelligence, fruit, fruits, weeds, agricultural-chemicals, agricultural-machinery, community-development, farm-labour, merbein-3505
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Topics: community-and-society, community-development, tas
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Bush version of Sculpture by the Sea to boost rural community
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A country New South Wales region hit hard by drought and floods installs massive red letters spelling 'amazing' in a stock route, the first installation in a public art project and potentially tourism-boosting sculpture trail.
Topics: sculpture, regional, regional-development, tourism, rural-tourism, volunteers, community-development, community-organisations, forbes-2871, condobolin-2877
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