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At 1am, Katherine Biggs awakes, her breath forming steam in the unheated animal shed that is her home. With no hot water, she skips a shower and gets ready to make the three-hour drive to Brisbane to sell vegetables at a farmer’s …

  The beautiful rural Hunter Valley region has become a playground where Australia’s deadly Carbon Games are played all year round, local Sue Abbot reports The fog edges to the very seams of dawn and dutifully the morning light retreats to the sidelines to …

Wall sized flat-screen televisions hang dormant while rows of abandoned pokies chatter and flash in a dawn chorus. Blacktown RSL at 7 am is shrouded in darkness and seems an unlikely birthplace for a political campaign. About 40 Rise Up Australia Party …

Baobab trees stand in abundance with lush yellow grass swaying at their trunks. Grey Loerie birds float between trees in the clear blue air while insects faintly hum from the earth. The bushveld: home to the Big Five, a place of enchantment and …

On May 17, Food Revolution Day took over schools, workplaces and households across the world to spread a message: eat good food. It seems simple but it has been one of the hardest messages to convey. An initiative of famous foodie Jamie …

A young woman in a wheelchair slumps over and loses consciousness as people rush to her aid. She is taking part in a half -dozen Lyme awareness events around the country. Mandy Shuker is a Lyme disease sufferer and her condition and …

“CALIPO, CALIIIIIIPO, Coca Coooooola,” shouts the Brazilian backpacker, carrying a small ice box filled with chilled delights. “CAALLLIIIIPO!!” she screams. Lying face down on your towel and doing your best to avoid her eye contact, you become distracted by another sound. A …

Beki Lee, the London 2012 Olympics 20-kilometre walker, swapped her Olympic walking shoes for comfortable joggers when she took part in the 2013 Mount Druitt reconciliation walk held on Saturday, May 18. The 26-year-old local was invited to come home from Canberra …

“Retailers are our friends, and, of course, the factory workers are our partners,” says Riaz Bin Mahmud, the vice-president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). If that’s the case, then most international retailers—who Mahmud believes are accountable for the …

The University of Sydney was recently accused of withdrawing its support to host the Dalai Lama on campus in order to protect financial ties with China. Although the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) will now host a lecture on campus in June, critics argue that …