ABC winners at 2024 Rural Press Club of Victoria Awards ABC journalists reporting on floods, fires, homelessness and a cold case disappearance were among the winners at the Victorian Rural Press Club’s Rural and Regional Journalism and Photography Awards. "The series ultimately helped bring new information forward about a cold case disappearance and was responsible for encouraging police to reopen …
Corey Brazendale was still working at a small agricultural supplies store when one of the oldest farmers on the island shuffled in. King Island farmer Peter Bowling amid the wild hops on his farm. Found off the north-west tip of Tasmania and dubbed "shipwreck island" due to its unforgiving winds, King Island once formed a land bridge to Victoria. When …
Longtime King Island resident Robert Jordan recently returned from Melbourne, but there was nothing fun about his time on the mainland. "The people of King Island are a bit flummoxed by it as to why they wouldn't take up a pretty simple suggestion," she said. At a time when Tasmania's strained healthcare system has seen hospitals plead for people to …
The president of the Charlton Country Women's Association, Janet Stafford, attempts to be matter-of-fact when talking about her central Victorian home town. An unusual friendship There are plenty of ways to understand Charlton, the self-described Friendly Town home to about 1,000 people, but the OK Motels festival might provide one of the best entry points. There was a free-form, freewheeling …