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  • Pig handlers battle it out at the Sydney Royal Easter Show - video

    Pig handlers, including seven year old Asher Blenkiron, compete at the Sydney Royal Easter Show
  • Pig Handling Competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Monday April 14, 2025. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Asher Blenkiron, seven years old, loves showing her family’s pigs from their Keyneton stud in South Australia. She is competing in the Under 13s Pig Handling competition. This is her second year competing.

    Lab coats, red boards and oiled bodies: inside the world of junior pig showing

  • Composite for Anywhere but Canberra series on John Sparrow from the Lower Murray region in South Australia.

    The South Australian retired farmer: ‘I only vote because I’ve got to’

  • WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL 2025. WODONGA - VICTORIA The Guardian | Australia New schools being built in regional Victoria due to mass regional migration, and how they're going in without consultation with families and communities. Man with two primary school-aged children standing in front of a primary school building

    ‘It just leaves us without anything’: why was Wodonga left reeling by sudden primary school closure?

  • Group of cattle stand together.

    US-Australia beef: what you need to know about tariffs and the meat trade war

  • Outgoing race director Steve Charlton AKA ‘Animal’ strikes a pose in his trademark uniform – white underpants

    Of tinkerers and dreamers: striving to be the fastest on the salt on Lake Gairdner

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The rural network, Victoria

  • Woman sitting on chair with white and black dog lying on her lap

    Commonwealth championship sheepdog trials - in pictures

    More than 300 pairs of dogs and handlers entered the Commonwealth championship sheepdog trials in Port Fairy, Victoria, vying for the title of Australian dog of the yearSign up for the Rural Network email newsletter
  • Sissy Austin running in the bush

    Sissy Austin was attacked while running. Now she wants to help women and gender-diverse people take back the track

  • Robyn Drayton at home

    ‘I’ll see you in a year’: the Australian women over 60 hitting the road solo

  • Life in the ashes: Lisa lost her Grampians home to a bushfire. Ten months later, it almost burned again

  • Allanah lost her son when she was 22 weeks pregnant. Now she’s helping others through the grief of stillbirth

  • Self-esteem and dignity: how giving girls well-fitting bras encourages them to play sport

Opinion

  • Kelpies sleep in the sun

    We moved to the country to give our rescued working dogs a better life

    Michael Burge
  • Kimberley region WA

    To win the bush, Australian politics needs to embrace its ‘curves’

    Nick Rodway

    Features

    • Delacombe primary school student

      ‘Amazing progress’: how regional schools are breaking the language barrier and helping students thrive

    • Karst Kruen with red gum trees he planted in 2021

      ‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

      • Backburning at night on Gilberton Station, 450km west of Townsville, Queensland, Australia

        Surviving the summer on Queensland’s remote cattle properties: ‘We never give up on fires’

      • Eve, a single mum living in Bendigo with her son Ollie

        Single parents bear the brunt of the rental crisis in regional Victoria

    Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

    • Riley Swanson, 19, watching over the herd at first light.

      ‘I lost my phone in the first week’: a new generation of drovers in outback Queensland

      Bill Little has been droving for 40 years across thousands of kilometres of stock routes. Now he’s showing new hands the ropes
    • Close up of bars of chocolate

      Bitter sweets: chocolate to cost more for Australians as cocoa prices hit 50-year peak

    • Calla Wahlquist

      Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge

      Calla Wahlquist
    • Bees gather on the outside of a wooden hive

      ‘It’s inevitable’: Australian beekeepers brace for national spread of varroa mite

    • Calla Wahlquist

      In my war against pigeons, all I have is a broom. But the ‘rats of the sky’ remain unflappable

      Calla Wahlquist
    • ‘It’s not until we hit the Hunter Valley with its duplicated tracks that the Xplorer achieves a constant speed, and we pulled into Sydney’s Central station just before 5pm.’

      Regional trains in NSW are old, slow and half-empty – but I still enjoy the ride

      Michael Burge
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    Multimedia

    • Sheep grazing at the Warwick solar farm outside Warwick, Queensland

      Inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia – Full Story podcast

    • Pilgrims wearing fluorescent vests and carrying Palestinian flags

      A Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage walks 45km through central Victoria – in pictures

      Walkers journey from Daylesford to Ballarat – the distance roughly the same length as the Palestinian territory
    • Woody the merino sheep – found wandering the streets of a small NSW town – has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding just over 10kg of wool after three years on the run
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      Woody the runaway sheep brought in for first shearing in three years – video

      Woody the merino sheep – found wandering the streets of a small NSW town – has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding just over 10kg of wool after three years on the run
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    Newsletter

    • A windmill in the red hue of a sunset in Australia

      Sign up for Guardian Australia’s email about regional affairs

      Catch up on everything rural from our regional reporters and newsrooms, with rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist

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