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Share Tinker, tailor, and a heritage pharmacy in NSW Hockey’s Accommodation at the old Chemist shop, Millthorpe.  Located between Orange and Blayney about 3.5 hours north-west of Sydney, the tiny National Trust-classified town of Millthorpe has quaint down to a “t”. From the 1870s railway station to the 1877 Commercial Hotel and the 1882 flour mill, Millthorpe is a step back in time. For those keen on a fully immersive heritage experience, there’s Hockey’s Accommodation at The Old Chemist, founded by F.W. Hockey in the early 20th century. This elegant three-room dwelling is a stone...

Share on Twitter When Cindy Bohan and Trevor Salvado set out on their weekend bushwalk in Bright, Victoria, they didn’t expect to go missing.  Their story, however, is not uncommon.  Though some people lost in the bush may get found and others not at all, hiking is the second most common cause of death in a national park after drowning.  “We were following the markers and then they disappeared,” Cindy told The Feed. The base at Mt Buller The Feed “If you bushwalk, you can often be a couple of meters apart from one another, but in this situation, I used to have to say t...

Save Share In early 2019, Neville Walsh, a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, was sifting through clippings, seed pods and blurry botanical photos sent by mail from a plant enthusiast at Cobungra, in the Victorian high country, when he spotted a few “genuinely rare species”. He decided to visit the property, owned by octogenarians Anne and Jim U’Ren, and found himself scrambling down a steep gully to the banks of a silvered creek where he noticed a curious wattle. “I thought, ‘Bloody hell, what’s this?’” he recalls. Tim Entwisle and Neville...

Police investigate after man fatally shot during hunting trip to Victoria's alpine region © Provided by ABC NEWS Police are investigating after a man was fatally shot while deer hunting in the Alpine National Park. (Supplied: Parks Victoria) Police are continuing to investigate after a 37-year-old man from West Gippsland died from a gunshot wound during a hunting trip in the Alpine National Park on Saturday morning. The incident occurred on McCready Track at Rose River near Mount Buffalo about 9.30am. "It's believed a group of people were hunting when one of the hunters sustained a fatal g...

Taungurung Aboriginal corporation's Victorian land agreement in doubt after court ruling FriFriday 19 updated FriFriday 19 The 2018 Taungurung agreement covers land spanning central and Alpine districts of Victoria. ( Share Print text only Cancel A Victorian Aboriginal corporation is fighting to salvage its $34 million settlement with the government, after the Federal Court found significant legal errors occurred during the registration of the land deal which underpins it. Key points: Objectors claim the agreement interferes with their sovereign rights as separate Aboriginal nations The Taung...