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Non-bank sets up $1m flood relief fund By Annie Kane 07 April 2021 A non-bank lender has established a $1-million Flood Disaster Relief Fund to assist its customers affected by the NSW and Queensland floods.  La Trobe Financial has announced that eligible customers whose home has been impacted by the floods in the eastern states will be able t...

Rone (Tyrone Wright, above) got to know his home town on a skateboard - the street sport of the street artist. Hes returned with an exhibition of his huge, ethereal, stop-you-in-your-tracks paintings and installations at the Geelong Gallery. Theres also an explanation of the three faces he painted on the cement silos above nearby Fyansford. The silos have since been demolished, but thats the fate of some street art. Rone in Geelong runs until May 16. See geelonggallery.org.au THE ONE CAFE For c...

The Andrews Labor Government is reminding all Victorians to stay safe when getting away to the water this Easter long weekend. New data has revealed that...

Murray Darling drying dramatically but water reforms not flowing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The Murray Darling Basin faces a dramatically drier future, with data indicating inflows to some major rivers will halve by 2060, as experts warn authorities are failing to keep pace with climate change. Reports released over the past two months by state governments and the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) foun...

Advertisement With overseas plans out of the picture for most part – if not all – of 2021, you might be like most of us, a reportedly growing majority channeling our passion for travelling domestically. ‘Loving Country’ is an invitation for this quest to be more than box-ticking, bucket-listing experience. For a Greek living Down Under the authors’ names are familiar. Bruce Pascoe, for having famously debunked the ‘hunter-gatherer’ myth for Indigenous Australians. In his seminal ...

Outback sailing in the Tiwal © Melinda Henshaw In June of this year Kiwi sailor, Melinda Henshaw, announced she wanted to see the real Australia. It was a challenge I couldnt resist. So we loaded the TIWAL 2 and TIWAL 3 into the Pajero and off we went. In 1830, explorer Charles Sturt managed to get a sailboat far up the Murray and Darling rivers. Now over 120 years later, technology has proven benefits for adventurers. Little did we know it, but these inflatable craft would define ...

THE owners of two irrigated cropping and grazing properties in the Border Rivers region in Queenslands south west are hoping to cash in on Australias booming agricultural sector. Operated by the Grey family, Garrawilla (1723h) and the adjoining Belmore (518ha) in the Barwon River catchment on the Queensland-NSW border are up for auction next month along with their valuable water entitlements. The properties focus on cotton and winter cereals and according to sources Garrawilla is expected to...

Date Time Northern Basin enters new year still in drought Much of the northern Basin is beginning 2021 with little reprieve from its prolonged dry period. This is despite drought-breaking rain in other parts of the Murray–Darling Basin over the past couple of months. The MDBA head of River Management, Andrew Reynolds, said the whole of the Queensland part of the Basin remained drought declared, and northern and far-west regions of New South Wales were still waiting for significant rainfall to...

James Harrison worked as a journalist on various newspapers in Victoria from his arrival there in 1839 until his return to England about 1873, and has left a a remarkable blueprint on the face of the earth. JAMES HARRISON was born in Renton, near Ben Lomond, Scotland, April 17, 1816. He designed and built the plant for the first Australian manufacture of ice 1854; formed the Sydney Ice Company with P. N. Russell 1860; designed a revolutionary refrigerator 1860; work on the refrigeration of ship...

Dark Emu in his introduction to his new book, Loving Country – a guide to sacred Australia, co-authored with Vicky Shukuroglou, an extract of which appears below. Perhaps 2021 can be the year then, to at least start to change that, as, in the face of closures and international border restrictions, we satiate the travel bug by exploring our own backyards more enthusiastically than ever before. Everywhere we go, from Broome to Bass Strait, we can be mindful of the Aboriginal culture there, pas...