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Jude Keogh's tin cameras look like antiques dusted off from your grandma’s shelf. What were once food containers have been transformed into the simplest of photographic tools - pinhole cameras.
Artist and photographer Lorena Carrington has read to her two daughters since they were babies. As they grew older, Lorena got increasingly frustrated with the typical fairy tales and movies on off...
Happy World Bee day! A rather delicate artificial insemination procedure may hold the key to saving Australia's future bee populations from their biggest threat — the varroa mite.
In a celebration of birthing, motherhood and the miracle of human life, a team of 20 dedicated women in regional Victoria has been working together to knit a giant placenta.
When Australia Post told David Wilson and Kyle Moser to take the rainbow flag down from their Cobargo office, the town decided to fly the rainbow for them.
How do you tell the world you’re having a baby? Most people take out a classified ad or do a social media update. Rodney Broom, a hay producer in Bridgewater, Central Victoria, is not most people. ...
In days past the 'smithy' was one of the pivotal people in the community. His work kept towns running buy supplying wheels, tools, machinery and just about everything made out of iron or steel.
Welcome to Larrimah, blink and you would miss it. This tiny town in the Australian outback is a crime scene. Local man Paddy Moriarty and his dog Kellie vanished in December 2017. Police are invest...
What motivation would anyone would have to harm Paddy Moriarty or his dog? Little is known about the Irish-born pensioner apart from the stories he told over beers at the Pink Panther pub each afte...
Feuds over meat pies and rival tourism ventures swirl around Larrimah. Residents that live within a few blocks don't speak. Hatreds run deep. Is there any link between these disagreements and Paddy...
A year on from the vanishing of Paddy Moriarty and his dog, is Larrimah falling apart? The Pink Panther pub goes up for sale along with its pet saltwater crocodile “Sneeky Sam”. An inquest reveals ...